The National tribune., 1884-09-25
CONDENSED LETTERS.

will be glad to send to such of his friends as
desire them.
S. E. Bailey, Canal Winchester, o., thinks
that the great trouble with the soldiers is the
presence of too many Southern Brigadiers in
Congress, and the first step towards doing them
justice is to get them out of the National
Legislature.
o. Ainsworth, Co. A, 36th Wis, claims for
his brigade which was the Third of the First
Division, Seventeenth Corps, and composed OF
the 25th Ind, 10th Ill. and 36th Wis, the
credit of capturing the gun at Cheraw that had
the inscription upon it which has been fire.
quently alluded to recently in these columns
Comrade j. c. Munger, Co. /, 10th Iowa,
Waterloo, Iowa, says that Comrade Brown, in
describing the positio of the 10th Iowa at
Iuka makes great blunder. Comrade Munger
says the 10th Iowa did not support two guns
or any guns of the 18th Wis. battery.
The article of Gen. w. J. Landram, relative
to the Red River expedition, awakens memo
res in III. c. Bufiingtdn's mind. He belonged
TO Co. ID, 23d Wis, and remembers quite well
the night after having reached Point Pleasant
they had settled down for good nights rest,
when they were routed out, without time to
make coffee, and their brigade hurried TO the
front to support the cavalry. They had very
tiresome day of it, marching in line of battle
and skirmishing most of the way. He saw
Col. Webb, of the nth H., almost Immediately
after he was shot He was on his horse, sup
ported by two men, who were taking him to
the rear. On reaching Mansfield, the 23d Wis.
was placed in the rear of Nims's battery and
saw some good solid fighting, especially on the
part of the battery. Gen. Landram is entitled
to the most profound respect and admiration
for his heroism. He was ever ready with a
cheering word of encouragement to the boys.
Comrade Burlington does not wish to criticise
the movements of the army further than TO say
that, with the wagon trains, loose mules and
horses and disorganiZed men, they had very
disorderly, mixed-up mess.
w. L. Martin, Co. B. 10th Conn, Thomaston,
Conn. does not think that his regiment has
been treated fairly in the account Of the Burn
side expedition to North Carolina. With the
25th Mass, his regiment held the position at
the battle of Roanoke Island directly in front
of the enemys works, in which were three
guns, and maintained it until the enemy had
been hanked and driven out. Gen. Fosters
report says: "The manner in which the 10th
Conn formed in line of battle under the FIRE
of the enemy, particularly deserves mention.
C. ID. Maylor, Co. III, 18th Vt. West Cum
minton, Mass, recalls an incident of the attack
on the Weldon Railroad on the 23d of June,
1864. he was sent back from the lines with
several eanteens for water, and did not reach
his comrades until the line had been formed.
He went to work to build a little breastwOrk,
using rails, crossed at right angles, with a lit
tie dirt thrown on them. One thing that puz-
zled him very much at the time, was the fact
that the line was formed so as to fsce our own
people instead of the enemy. He wonders
whose blunder that was
Frederick Carl, Evans's Landing, Ind, cor
rects Comrade Van Camp, in regard TO Chieka-
mauga, and says that Absalom Baird COM
manded the Third Division then, not Gen.
Negley. He also insists that the Third Bri-
gade was not at Rossville during the day, but
4 x I II
3Sth Ind. did not leave the field until dark.
After the battle of Missionary Ridge the 35th
Ind. visited the battlefield of Chickamauga,
and buried the bones of its dead.
R. Keigor, Co. K, 4th n. j., White City, Kan,
wants to know what has become of all the New
| Jersey boys, and especially those who were
captured with him IN the Wilderness and taken
| to Andersonyille. He was wounded at Gaines's
Mills and afterwards in the Wilderness, and is
/ still suffering from a disease contracted in
| prison.
| S. Lutes, Atwood Ind, has in his possession
| the discharge Of Patrick Downey, which his
relatives can have by addressing him.
/ Geo. w. Culp, Co. ID, 14th Iowa, Fawn Greek,
Kan. in replying to some questions of " YAM
| kee " in regard to Cahaba Prison, says that on
| the 26th day of January, 1865, there were
| counted 2,951 prisoners. This did not include
| those in the hospital outside the prison. He
knows nothing further as TO the seven Yankees
I pat in the Cahaba Jail. He does not remember
the leader of the party, but only recolleets that
| he and Martin Becker. of the 18th Wis, did
| the duty that was assigned to them in the out
!. break, which was TO capture two of the guards
Becker was wounded at that time. The name
of the rebel guard who killed member of the
18th Regulars and Billy Tibbs, of the Sd Mich
Cav, was Hawkins. He knew of but one o1
the Yankees who took the oath, and he was
Jack Mallatt, who afterwards came into the
| parole camp on the neutral ground, in the real
of Vicksburg He was recognized by the rebels
and when they arrived at Demopolis they took
him out and shot him, and threw his body into
the river. Comrade Culp would like to have
% Yankee" write him, and give his correci
name.
t. L. Wilds, Co. E, 18th Tenn. Cav, Flat
Pike Co., o., wonders why no one who was con.
fined In Danville Prison No. 6, between the
Fall of 1864 and the Spring of 1866, writes
anything concerning their experience in that
terrible place.
Jno. Tisdell, I'd Ohio Ind'p't Bat, Alfred
| Center, n. Y, says that the 10Th Ohio battery
fred the first gun at the battle of Champion !:
Hill, and the I'd Ohio battery the second. The
battle opened at 1890 in the morning, and hi:
brigade was marching left front. The brigade
lost 800 killed and wounded. 1t was commanded
by old Pap" Machines. He shouted out 81
complete victory" and then looked around
ana saw SO many OF the Old llt0 1nQ- Killed
and wounded that he came back towards the
battery crying like child. He was a brave
and humane man.
A. P. Mason, 2Sth H., New Lancaster Kan.
says that Illinois sent to the Mexican War the
1st regiment, commanded by John j. Hardie
I'd, commanded by Wm. III. BisSel; Sd, com
manded by Foreman, and 4th, commanded by
Edward Baker. These went out in 1916 III
1S47 Col. Collins took out the 9Th regiment anC
Col. Newly the 9Th. Besides these Capt Adam
Dunlap. of Schuyler County, took out cavalry
company in 1917. and another company wa
raised in some other County which he does no
recollect. W. III. Dent, 9Th ILL., Cav, Denver
No., writes to about the same effect concern
ing Illinois's quota in the Mexican War.
John r. Hallbrook, Co. E 11th Ind Rondo
Ark, tells of woman in his neighborhOod, 2
years DID, and the mother of - children, who
on the 25th of August, gave birth to four chill
dren,-two boys and two girls,-three of which
weigh six pounds each and one seven and
half pounds. They are all doing well.
S. III. Henderson, Co. B, 4th Ind'p't Batt'l
Ohio Cav, would like to see an account of the
advanced skirmish-line composed of Goth Ill
(Sharpshooters), while near Dallas, Ga, and par
ticularly the part played by Co. g. How man,
and who were killed on the skirmish-line
Will some one who was there tickle his memory
and give US true tale thereof?
Arkansas Post Again.
To THE EDITOR: / see by THE TRIBUNE o
Aug. 18th an article from J. w. Fry, 42d Ohio
still claiming that r. P. Wallace, of the 120tl
| Ohio planted the first flag on the works in tn