The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-07-05

soldiers carry off the cake There was another
| family from the same county we were that con-
families of three to five. Our commands were the
Twelfth Illinois, Forty-fift Illinois and Ninety
sixth Illinois, and any one familiar with the history
| of those regiments knows that they were where
| they belonged every time.
EreEsn DAWSON,
MAQUoKErA, Iowa. Late Co. d, 18Th III. Vet Inf
Seeing an account in your valuable paper Of five
brothers who served in the war, wish 70 state that
had father, and six uncles my mothers side
in company II, Seventh West Virginia cavalry This
company was raised at Peytona, W. Va after
the rebels had raised one two companies in the
same section, My father and uncles had to hide
until the Union forces took possession of the
Kanawha Valley. was too small to go with my
father but after he left Us concluded 20 go to
anyhow and so when General Cox left the valley
to go east ran off with the Twelfth Ohio, and
went with them from Charleston, W. Va. to
Washington, ID. g. l WAS with the regiment at the
battles of South Mountain and Antietam. WAS
| only thirteen years old when 1 left home. / knew
q great many of the Twelfth Ohio, and many no
doubt remember me. We lived at The picket post
at the ferry at Charleston. ! should like to hear
from some of the old boys, and especially from
jacob Wikel, of company-i, as he was the man
ran away with. There IS - Post here to which my
father belongs would like TO join too, but can
not as did not fill the full measure of n soldier
though tried all could to. WV. ]. WATTS,
Bryant, Fulton Co., Ill.
noticed letter from Amos Bliss Warren Mass
in THE TRIBUNE of June I4th giving an account
OF five brothers who enlisted he being noble
L.
brothers who served during the war-one in the
Nineteenth Indiana regiment one in the Sixteenth
Illinois, one in the Seventeenth Illinois, one in the
Ore Hundred and Twelfth Pennsylvania and the
fifth in the One Hundred and Sixteenth Pennzylva-
MIA All participated in of the hardest-fcught
battles of the war. such Fort DoneIson, Pitts
burg Landing. Stone River. Chickamauga. Atlanta
campaign, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Cold Harbor,
&c., and, strange to say only OF the five was
wounded, although the clothes of all were
less perforated. One brother at Chiekamaugs had
eleven bullet-holes in his hat and clothes After all
dangers had been slIrnounted, the war ended and
the Union saved, they all came home alive
BUTLER, Pa. NEWTON BLACK.
/ have noticed several statements in your paper
lately regarding the number of boys who went
from one family to the war. Ny father and mother
raised SIX boys who were regularly enlisted sol
diers to help put down that horrible shareholders
rebellion / the oldest but not the first to
enlist had little family which at first thought
l could not leave, but when old Father Abraham
called for 800, 900 more thought he meant me- and
went, and am not sorry, either The following
are our names and regiments: VIM W. Raser, Co.
a, Twenty-eighth Iowa infantry Cyrus 5 RaSer.
Fourth Illinois cavalry; john j. Raser, Third Iowa
infantry; George w. Raser. Illinois infantry;
Benz. T. Raser Ninth Illinois cavalry; Willis w
Raser, Ninth Illinois cavalry all Of Genesee, Ill,
Our father is dead, but we boys are all living
yet, except one. who sleeps in soldiers grave at
Memphis Tenn VIM. W. RAsER.
CHAPMAN, NEB. Co. A, 18th Iowa Infantry.
want to say to Amos Bliss, Warren, Mass, that
I belonged TO family of six boys, ali Of whom
served in the army, and all in Illinois regiments
The oldest enlisted September 1852, orderly
sergeant, company Il. One Hundred and Sixteenth
infantry; next tTnyselfl June l5 1861 as sergeant
company A. Twenty first infantry, and re-enlisted
January. 1864 in company a. Second cavalry: the
third, in July 1851, in the Second light artillery;
the fourth in August. 1852 in the NInety-ffth in
fantry; the fifth in August 1851 in the Eighth
airy and the sixth and last in 1851 in the Eighth
. cavalry The oldest died at Vieksburg during the
siege. and the youngest was wounded IN a sSirnisn
with MO55y's gueTrillaS sometime IN the winter OF
1854. 3. The rest got through without wounds. If
any family can show better record let hear
from them. c. DIsBRow
Adutant Clay Center Post, No. IS, Dept of Kan.
/ notice in THE TRIBUNE of June 18th q letter
from Amos Bliss. of Massachusetts who claims that
out of family of six boys five We're in the army.
number, but can show better one. 1 belong to
a family OF six boys, and all six in the
My father also wanted to 60 but hewas crippled
that they would not enlist him. Three of US were
In company q, Forty-sixth o. V. v. L., one in
Eighty-eighth o. v. l., one in Tenth o. V c. and
one in Ninth Indiana V. vi l will further say
| that all of US got through safe with but q few
/ scratches. OF all the papers that read THE
TRIBsSE is the best love it because it is the SOL
dier's friend A. MULLEN.
VAN VERT, o.
saw in your paper of the 18th OF June the case
of family thGt sent FIVE to the late war and
/ that There were seven of us and we were all in
! the war Two were IN the Thirteenth Indiana,
[ two IN the Seventeenth. in the Twenty-thir
one IN the Forty NINTH and one IN the One Hun
/ bred and Forty-fourt The one who was IA the
Seventeenth killed ut YickSburg; the ouein the
Thirteenth Was missing after the battle Rich
nIond, Va, fifteen days before his three years