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384 Harvard Memorial Biographies.
His most intimate army companion wrote thus of him:" Having been his military associate for the first four months of
his service in this campaign, and living alone with him in daily companionship in the circumscribed limits allotted to soldiers when serving in the field, I had the best opportunity to observe and to form a
correct judgment of those qualities, the possession of which in him
commanded my respect, admiration, and esteem.
" Correct in his habits, conscientious and just in his dealings with
all, - adding to the advantages of his education a natural ability, a
good, clear common sense, and the thoughts and judgment of a man
far beyond his years, - cool, kind-hearted, and brave, - genial and
cheerful in his companionship, considerate of the faults of his associates, - I do not feel that my partiality has over-estimated Horace
Sargent Dunn."