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s are excelled by no others Massachusetts has sent. If it shall be necessary to send them immediately into the field, it is the desire of Maggi to be assigned to Sigel, and of Wells to Banks; and I should like to have their wishes gratified. Both these regiments would have gone a week ago, but for the delay in giving them their terwards brevetted major-general, and is now a lieutenant-colonel in the regular army. Fifth, Albert C. Maggi, an Italian, about forty years old, now with General Sigel, saw fourteen years service abroad; was a major in Italy; fought under Garibaldi in South America, as well as in Italy; enlisted in the spring of 1861, at New ee months expired, he, as lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-first, led it in the battle of Roanoke Island, and, resigning, took the Thirty-third Regiment. If General Sigel should require any additional brigadier, I cannot imagine a better one for foreign troops, or, since he speaks good English, even for native troops; and his li