The National tribune., 1883-10-25
THE QUESTION SQUAD.
Veterans Who Want to Hear from Their Old Com.
radeS.

rades.
Comrade Waldon Kelly Twenty-sixth o. " "
T. Osborn, Mo-, wants some comrade of Haskeli's
brigade to write up the part that the brigade took
at Stone River. He adds :" / have distinct recol-
lection that the brigade was on that part of the
line between the cedars and the river from about
O'Clock a. M, December 81 1862 until 8 or a. M
New Years morning. The Third Kentucky,
Twenty-sixth Ohio, Fifty-eighth Indiana. and One
OF men ever stood ON said line performed their.
part better. Well do remember the language of
General Roseerans on that occasion. We we're
being relieved about or p. M for the purpose of
replenishng our ammunition, and while the charge
was being made, during a pause in the strife
Rosey came riding along the line and said, in our
hearing. TO the regiment that was relieving US
Do as well as the regiment you relieve-that is all
we ask of you
Concerning statement recently printed in TIE
TRIBUNE, from which it would be inferred that
there were school-houses in the South before
the war, Comrade X. +. Woody, Posten, Fannin
county, Ga, writes that he raised in the
South, and consequently received the scanty edu-
cation which he possesses IN of its district
or commoI-school houses, and that it was III of
these houses that he took refuge teacher
twenty years ago when treason was blackest and
secession hottest. and after the conseript law had
been enacted and threatened to baptize all who
remained loyal to the United States in the poison
Gus stream of treason. Fortunately, Connrade
Woody was resident of loyal district, tcaled
afterwards by the reb5 Torytown and Lincoln
town. and consequently the Baldheaded Lin
eelnite, )" as the rebs termed Comrade Woody was
his profession and became lieutenant In the Fed
eral army
Comrade Geo. NJ. Keller, Anthony, Kan, writes
us as follows: am making series cf oil paintings
OF scenes IN The late war, and wish some OF the
comrades of the Eighth Wisconsin to furnish some
facts in relatior TO their famous eagle Old
Abe" lst What species was he? I'd. What was
his color? Sd. On what kind of perch was he car
ried? 4th. Did he take the place of a regimental
banner? 5th. Did the flag of the regiment bear
any inscriptions; If so. what were they?
Comrade w. D Thompson, late first lieutenant
Ninety-seventh " l.. Minneapolis KAN asks
whether any one of Wagner's regiments at the
battle of Stone River moved to the right of the
railroad and pike and was placed in position by
Generai Rosecrans In person on low piece of
ground in the front line, and did 1t not remain
there until the line was readjusted to receive
Breckenridge's attack? II 80, what troops did it
have to its left and between il and the railroad?
Comrade w. II. Wall, company E, Eighth In
diana cavalry, who enlisted originally at Clarks-
vile, Hamilton county, Ind in 1861 in company
Il, Thrty,nnth Indiana infantry, Colonel Harrison
commander, and was with the regiment when it
was mounted and reorganized cavalry under
Colonel Jones, wants eomrade Eicher some
member of the Eighth TO furnish the address of
Colonel Jones, If he is still living.
Comrade A. NJ. Saryey. company n. Fiftv-sev-
enth Pennsylvania infantry, sligo, Pa, who was
wounded at Auburn's Mill, on the way from Gull
pepper u H. to Centervilie, October, 1868, during q
sklrmish, IN which he was the only member of his
regiment hurt, would like to know who was then
surgeon OF his regiment DR.. Lyman being at that
time division surgeon.
Comrade ]. FL. Goddard battery +, First o. " A.
Ravcnna, o., would like to hear from some MEM
Der of the Eleventh Corps in regard to the battle
OF Observation-Disclosures the Third division was
hanked by Stonewall Jackson corps, on the I'd of
May, and driven back into the nea of the Twelfth
Corps, and who was to blame for its (the Third 81
defeat?
Comrade w A. Sluder, Evansville, Ind, would
like some comrade who lives in Idaho, the eastern
part OF Oregon, or Wyoming Territory to give him
some information regarding their farming expert
ences there
Comrade j. Averill, Fifty-ffth Illinois, would
IKE 70 near from some member Of company G,
Sixth New York infantry. His brother was in that
company, and Is supposed to have been wounded
and to have subsequently died In the service.
| II comrade r. Il. Riley formerly executive Off
Ger OF the u, 8. 8. Essex is still living he will
please send his address to the Editor OF THE TRIB-
uNE When last heard from he resided in st. Louis
Comrade j. w. Schenl, Gallipolis, Ohio, would
| like some comrade to write an account of the
operations of the Thirty-third o. v. l., Army oi
the Cumberland.
A. A. Mckinney, Stanford, KY, wants some
comrade to write up the capture OF Fort Lee by the
Seventy-seyenth Illinois and an Iowa regiment at
Vicksburg.
Conrade Michael Myers. company A. Eighty
ninth Ohio volunteers. Hartford, Kan would like
70 near lrom sorne member of that regiment
comrade John n. Stewart, Of Mazshaeld, Ohio,