“Petition” for relief from duty at Fort Schuyler, where the officers have served “Seventeen Months” with “not the least Prospect of our being called to any other Employ than Hard Labour, which has been our Constant Exercise, since we arrived.” Request “an Opportunity of serving with the Grand Army, or taking the Feild in some other Place,” as they are “Anxious to have an equal opportunity with our Bretheren, to Improve in Knowledge & acquire Honor.”