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The 1st n. ]. Cav.

To THE EDITOR: In looking over your valu-
able paper i notice that the greater part of the
articles and "reminiscences are from Western
troops. Now, i cannot see why some of your
contributions do not hail from jersey soldiers,
for l am sure the soldiers from this State bore
a conspicuous part in many of the battles of
the Army of the Potomac The regiment to
which j belonged (the 1st N. J. Cav) was or
gained in 1861 as an independent organization
under Col. VIM. Halsted, but the regiment was
not filled until early in 1862, when Col Hal
sted resigned and Col. Percy Wyndham took
command The State now recognized the
regiment, granting State pay, and we were
known as the LIST n. j. Cav. With Col.
Wyndham and Lieut. Col Karge the regiment
made rapid progress in drill, and above all.
every man was made to know his place and
keep it. In April, 1862, we were brigaded
under command of Geo. d. Bayard, one of the
best commanders the brigade ever had, in the
division of Gen. Gregg. Bayard was killed at
Fredericksburg. / very much doubt if there
was another cavalry regiment in the Army of
the Potomac that did as much scouting in Vir-
ginla as ours did. II seemed that we were
always in motion. Our first active duty was
with Fremont in the Shenandoah Valley in
pursuit of Jackson. Well, we found hm-not
exactly to our satisfaction, our regiment losing
its colors, Colonel and number of men-at
Harrisonburg on the 9Th of June and the next
day tried Jackson at Cross Keys, with no better
results than the day before. We then fell back
down the valley, and took post along the
Rapidan and helped to hold the rebels from
crossing Gen. Banks, not having force enough,
had to fall back, and we were in at the begin
ming of the second Bull Run, Cedar Mountain
being the opening battle of that long series of
bloody fights that finally ended with the Union
army being forced back to Washington. l
claim that the cavalry arm Of the service rem
dered important aid all through this series of
battles, and had it not been for our cavalry at
Cedar Mountain, Banks would have been
routed long before noon On that day. Our
regiment took a prominent position at the
battle of Brandy Station, losing a good many
men and making the second charge that was
made, going clean round the headquarters of
the rebel commander Stuart before returning
to the Union lines. Then, again. look at the
brilliant doings of our cavalry during the Get
tysburg campaign. Gems. Gregg and Fitzpatrick
did much to harass the enemy and destroy and
capture Lees wagon trains. Our brigade was
composed of the 1st N. j., LIST Mass, 10th N. Y,
LIST X. j. and the brave LIST Pa. Cav. The first
and last named regiments entered the service
together and were always together, both regi-
ments being mustered out at the same time.
With one exception our regiment lost more
men than any other from this State.-WARREN
c. HURsH, Co. G, list n. j. Cav, Layton, N. ].
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STILL ASoTHER-THE 18th IND.

To THE EDITOR: There has already been q
good deal said about the battle at Port Gibson.
l only wish to correct some errors about the
capture of that battery at Magnolia Church.
] notice that two or three regiments claim the
honor, and one article said Hovey's men were
Oh the reserve. l just want to say right here,
that if they were on the reserve it was surely
not long, for we were ordered forward Just
about daylight. We marched out, some with
their coffee in their cups; some had drank
theirs, while others that had not been quick
enough had 10 pour theirs out, and the writer
was one of those unfucky ones We marched
across the guileys and through the canebrakes,
and just before we got to the church, as we
were pulling up the steep hillside by holding
to cane and other shrubbery, some of the boys
said: /" Look at that black bear!" i turned
my head aud saw the cane shaking, but did not
see the bear. When we got to the top of the
hill we were close to the church. Our regiment
went to the left of the house, and the 29th
Wis. to the right. The house was fenced with
plank. l recollect how the bullets from the
rebel guns made the splinters fly from off the
planks as We passed. We were then within
about so or 100 yards Of the Johnnies, and one
piece of that battery right in front of us. They
limbered up and a man got on the lead horse
and started TO get out. Our Captain IN r.
Ruchle) shouted to US: "Shoot one of them
swing horses and it was not q minute till
all six of as nice iron-gray horses as ever saw
lay in pile on the ground. Several regiments
claim the honor of taking that battery, and
believe the most of them deserve part of it.
but the boys of the 18th Ind. want their share
of it-JoHS x. HoLBRooK, Co. E. 18th Ind.
Rondo Conway Co., Ark
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VIM. o. Rice, 18th Wis. battery. Osseo, Wis,
says he was at the battle of AllatoOna, and that
it was Edward Fullington who carried the am
muntion to the west fort.
II. II. McCulloch, 1922 Eighteenth street,
Louisville, KY, writes a pleasant letter, in
which he speaks in very kindly terms of THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE. He says he enlisted in
the 7th Ind. when but 13 years old, sharing in
the fortunes of that regiment in the mountains
of West Virginia, ON with Shields and Kimball
to Winchester, and thence with Che Army of
Virginia to the disastrous second Manassas;
after that through all the ccesses and reverses
OF the Army of the Potomac to the end. If
anybody can present better record at that
age, let him speak up.
G. N. Barrett, Port Allegany, Pa, who was
member of the Twelfth Corps, says that while
the writings of Gen. Howard and Carleton"
are very correct, he detects an error of fact in
one of the latter's articles. He thinks Rockers
army arrived at Charlottesville April %, in
stead of the 2Sth and referring to "Carleton's"
statement that the outposts of the Twelfth
Corps were attacked and driven in, he says:
off it is fact, they must have been very far
out, far enough to be out of hearing, for the
writer did not hear a shot fired in front of the
Twelfth Corps until May 2, except when we
were out on reconnaissance, and were not
driven in then by long way. / have never
seen anything in print from any of the Twelfth
Corps boys, and wish some of them would
write"
9. H. Chase, Sergeant of Co. F, 14th Me-,
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ASafequard.

The fatal rapi,;ity with which slight
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into the graveSt nlalatlies of the throat
and lungs, is q consideration which should
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hand, as household remedy, bottle OF
AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL.
Nothing else gives such immediate relief
and works so sure u cure i'm all affections.
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The same opinion is expressed By the
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ILL.,, who says
81 have never found, In thirty-fve years Of
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Promoted to Chnplain.

d. H. Bishop, Washburn, ILL.,: Private David
White, of Co. l, 10Th ILL.,, was promoted to the
Chaplaincy of his regiment to succeed the Rev.
Samuel Martin, who resigned at or near Knox
vile, Tenn, in the Fall of 1868.
S. w. Taylor, Harveyville, Pa: Private VIM.
III. Gavitt, of the SD Pa, was commissioned
Chaplain of his own regiment on the 9th of
February, 1864, vice John III. Drumm, re-
signed.
Jno. A. Cusead, Co. E, 174th Ohio, Omaha,
Neb.: Chaplain George, of my own regiment,
was promoted from private to the Chaplaincy
ut one Jump.
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A Corinth "Reminiscences.

To THE EDITOR: My TRIBUNE of Nov. Is
was worth years subscription to me, when I
read the letter of inquiry written by my old
comrade of 20 years ago, John Heintzleman, of
Belleville, Ill, Battery X, LIST Mo. Light Art.
The guerrilla Major, with Others, owned tam
merry and boot and shoe factory, seven miles
from Corinth, Miss. Our regiment (the 5Sth
ILL., marched out there in August, 1862, camped
near the tannery, and called it Camp Mont
gomery. Our officers made us guard their
property, and at night the Butternuts would
dig up their shotguns and squirrel rifles and
shoot our pickets On the I'd of October, 1862,
ewere ordered into COrinth leaving our wagon
train, baggage, and even knapsacks guarded by
the mulepunchers and few convalescents.
The Major gathered his men, mounted them,
and charged upon our camp, but the handful
of teamsters and sick men peppered them from
behind stumps and trees. Several were
wounded, and some of their horses killed. The
Major himself was left dead in our camp. The
boys buried him near where he fell, with his
right hand sticking out, as the boys said,
reaching for his land warrant" On his per-
son was found muster-roll with the names of
rs men, several of whom we took in. / was
transferred soon after to Battery X, list Mo.
Light Art.-JoHN w. CORNISH, Bayard, Iowa.
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Original" apple tree had been demolished the
soldiers of both armies weat to cutting up trees
in the same vicinity as souvenirs of the sur
render; and. surely, one tree was about as valu-
able as another for this purpose, as the sur
render did not occur under any particular tree.
Thousands of soldiers homes in North and
South contain a memento of Appomattox.-
and whether apple or locust tree is unirlpor-
tant, SO that it received its nourishment and
growth on that memorable field where the
armies were concentrated on that day which
marked the close of the Titanic struggle. C.
HARRIS, Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac,
Venango Pa
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THAT LOCUST TREE

To THE EDITOR: In your paper of Nov. 20
/ notice a communication from Comrade Nc
Gahey, claiming that the tree heretofore spoken
of as an apple tree, near the spot of the surren-
der of Gen. Lee, was, instead, locust tree.
Now, am of the opinion that the comrade is
correct, as, in my collection of war relics, l
have piece of the tree given me by Capt j.
w. B. Wright, who had it sawed off for him
then and there, and being judge of wood,
should say it was locust; certainly not apple.
At first l doubted its: genuineness, as it was
not apple, but he insisted it was from the cele-
DRAFTED tree, and the comrades statement agrees
with hiss. c. WRIGHT, 29th Mass, Boston,
Mass.
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Casey's Division ut Fair Oaks.

To THE EDITOR: Comrade VIM. Deacon, of
the S7th N. Y, in THE TRIBUNE of Nov. 49, in
speaking of the efficiency OF the Third Corps,
gets clear of his eggs on the straw. Hear what
he says: "When Casey's Division was driven
from their camp kettles at Seven Pines, the
Third Corps went to the front on double-quick
and recaptured the abandoned line before
Casey's bean soup had time to COOL" Comrade
Deacon's article will no doubt be read by hun
dreds of ex-soldiers who know that such was not
the case Caseys Division of about 5000 undis-
ciplined troops occupied position one mile be-
yond Seven Pines on the Williamsburg road,
and four and half miles from Richmond.
Naglee's Brigade was stationed on the right of
the line, Wessels's and Palmers Brigades in
the center and on the left respectively The
battle opened Oh the 31st of May, about
o'clock p. H. Naglee's Brigade composed of the
18th Maine, Seth and Tooth n. Y, sd and 104th
Pa, was the first to meet the oncoming torrent
of Johnston's 40, 900 we'll disciplined troops. For
four full hours there was as hard fighting done
along Casey's whole line as was ever done by
any division or any army. AiiEr losing fully
one-third of his men and rec ~ no re-en-
forcements, Casey ordered the Vine to retreat to
Seven Pines. Naglee's Brigade suffered the
heaviest losses, the seth N. Y. and the SD Pa.
each leaving half their number killed and
wounded on the field. 1t is now dark, and hos
Utilities ceased until the morrow, which WAS the
Sabbath. Great battles are sometimes fought
on Sunday, and it was SO with this first day of
June, 1862 The fighting commenced with
vigor at an early hour and lasted throughout
the forenoon, resulting in decisive Union vic
tory. Casey's camp of the previous day was
fully 81 hours in possession of the rebels and was
retaken, if l mistake not, by Richardson's
Division of Summers COrps.-S. w. TAYLOR,
Co. A, SD Pa, Harveyville, Pa.
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Lndnr False Cnlnrs.

Notwithstanding the protection with which
the law encirclcs patent rights and trade marks,
no sooner does valuable patent or proprietary
article make its appearance than horde of
unprincipled persons try by every means to
initiate the original. PYLE's PEARLIYE, cele-
brated as a washing compound, has had score
of limitations, but the superiority of the genu-
inc article over the counterfeits is SO plainly
apparent that very few people have been de-
ceived.
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Trough on Itch" cures humors eruptions
ring worm, letter, salt rheum, frosted feet
chilbains
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Harper's Weekly During the War.

The famous war sketches can be obtained
only in "Harper's History of the Rebellion"
Write Mcdonnell Bros, Chicago, for circulars
and agents terms.
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FROM ANOTHER Participant

To THE EDITOR: have read with interest
the accounts Of the battle of Port Gibson, Miss
or Thompson Hill, as it was called by our
division, and which it really was, as It was
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CONDENSED LETTERS.

Singing, irritation, all Kidney and Urinary
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For GAR, Masonic, and all other society
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If you are failing, broken, worn out and
nervous, use wells Health Remover" 81.
Druggists
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Posts ordering Col. r. F. Hills Memorial
Record Book are well pleased with it. Address
Kalamazoo Mich.
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Nearly seven thousand stories were sent in
competition for the prizes of $4,000 recently
offered by The Youths Companion. These prize
stories, with many others purchased, will be q
feature of the coming volume of the Companion.
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Night sweats, fever, chills, malaria, dyspep-
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AYERS
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Prevalence of Kidney Complaint in America
" Buchu- paiba" is quick, complete cure. 81.
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How il was First Introduced Here
Paw Paw, Mich. Jan. 30th, 1881.

raw raw, Mlcn. JAN JUtn, 1901.
+. S. MMLNGToN, Agent Damonia Co.
l suffered last spring from a severe attack
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from kidney troubles. Could only obtain
relief from pain by the use of morphia pow
ders, and was forced to use catheter two or
three times every night. My physician in
formed me | never would be well man and
l had given up in despair
] had occasion to 60 to Chicago in March
and the ride caused excruciating pain. The
return was even worse and was unable TO
get around for three or four days. A friend
of mine in Chicago TO whom l had related
my trouble, sent me pamphlet concerning
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laid one side thinking it not worth read
ing, but on Sunday while was feeling very
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Lost and Found.

On the 31st day of January last. Amos Co
vert, hotel keeper ut Holly in this state, and
a brother of Fred Covert of this village, mys-
teriously disappeared from his home, and his
friends have since that time been anxiously
looking for him. On Sunday evening last,
he came to the Clifton House in this village.
Mr.. Flanders, our village Marshal, ascertain
ing the fact of his arrival, reported it to,his
brother Fred.
Mr.. Covert was in sad condition, being de-
ranged, and being utterly destitute. He was
unable to give q connected account of his
wanderings, but evidently had been long
distance southwark. He stated that he had
been looking for his little boy Charley, who,
he imagined, had gone off on the cars. al
though, during all this time, he was safe Mt
home. Mr.. C's. hands and feet were quite
badly frozen. He further stated that he
cave his overcoat to a couple of men who
told him they knew where his boy was, and
thew would find him and bring him to his
father, and that he stood out of doors all
night waiting for their return, and was near
ly frozen TO death. He also stated that he
had slept in barns and ont houses during his
wanderings, and that people called him 4
tramp. He refused to sit at the table with
his brothers. family, for fear they would think
him tramp. He did not seem to have any
idea that his brother resided here, but was
looking for his boy. His father came hero in
response to n telegram, and conveyed him 10
his home. Mr.. Covert, the father, desires to
publicly thank Mr.. Filley, the proprietor of
the Clifton House, and Marshal Flanders for
their kindness to his son.
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Mary Bryar is having little run of fever.
w. N. Johnson has returned to Aberdeen,
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Ssxton, who has been very i'll.
Geo. Boyce says they are having the best
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The Plymouth Congregational church at
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Valuable Farm for sale.

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the territorial road and known as the Chaplin
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To whom tt may Concern.

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Elixir Eitm.

desire to call the attention of the public to
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Headquarters at Covert IL Bartram's, Paw
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Paw paw. February qOlh. /,

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necessary means to employ physician,
will treat all such, free of charge, who may
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on Wednesday of each week, until further
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For Saie or Exchange.

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Public Examinations.

The following is the schedule of dates for
examinations to be held during the ensuing
school year. These dates will not be changed:
South Haven, February II, 1884, Paw Paw,
March % and %, 1884; Hartford, May 3,
1884; Decatur, June Z, 1884.
4. l.. Ross,
S5tf Sec. Board Of Examiners.