The National tribune., 1884-01-31
TIE QUESTION souAD.
Veterans Who Want 70 Hear from Their Old Com
ra(.es,

Comrade J. I. Briggs Joplin Mo- would ike
answers 20 me following questions J. Tan Son m
form me if there has ever been q Reunion Of the
I'd New York heavy artillery Of company y of
that regiment? 2. has q detailed account Of the
operations OF tie troops commanded by General
T.. f. Wlnsiow ever been published; and II SO,
where can 1t be found?
Comrade ]. Will. Depuy, H.. writes Us: Hav-
ing General Smith article in your paper n
regard to the colonel OF the regiment in General
Steedman's command whose flag General Steed-
man took at the battle of Chiekanauga now J. as
an eyewitness to tie Transaction referred to and
participant in the battle from beginning TO end,
wish TO bear witness 70 General Smiths state
ment as true; and. Sc far from General SteedrGan
attTinutinS any eowardce to tbs colonel on the day
after the battle the brigade formed in line and
the brigade colors were presented TO him.
Comrade A. =. Story, Epworth Iowa, who was
member Of company +, 2lst Iowa V. L., wants TO
know the number of his old brigade commanded
by Brigadier- General slack 1st DIVISION I5h corps
stationed at So5Le. II was the Isl brigade, aud
was composed of the 18th Indiana DIST Iowa, 10Th
Wisconsin, and S9th Illinois.
The letter signed &C. J. N" Anoka, MINI, sent
TO IHE TRIBUNE Office, was referred 10 General W.
y. W. Ross, baltimore, Md, who writes: If G.
j. NJ, Anoka, Ninn., will send me his fun name
and address, he will receive the information he de-
sires directly from headquarters"
a eornrade of company G. 18th Illinois. now re-
siding at Culver, Kan, calls attention to te fact
that our correspondent, One Of En- IN his re-
cent article The battle Of Corinti omits from his
brigade the Z6th Illinois, commanded by Colonel
Illinois, 18th Missouri, and Sth Wisconsin, and they
were brigaded together in 1862.
After the battle of Corinth portion of the COM
pany to which belonged company p, lst Mis-
souri, engineersl went 10 Ripley Miss, and in the
corner of an old drug store there i saw human
skull on which, nicely engraved the insnTip-
ton: This Is the skull Of Yankee captured at
Bnil Run, July q, 1901 Can any one tell who
the unfortunate man was?-J. J. Van Houtin, Co.
d, fst No. Eng, YerniIhon, III.
Comrade Charles Thomas Company C. 18th Y.
Wv. L. OF Grand Centre, Kan. Is informed that the
New York troops engaged III Tie affair at Deveaux
Neck were battery f. Sd light artillery and the
06th, IZath, i4ith and 18th regiments Of infantry.
Comrade T.. J. Allen, Box 2572 Battle Creek,
Mich, writes that the cotnrade IN Sanborn,
Dakota who wished 10 hear from some of Berdan 5
shaIpshooters viii be gratifed if he VIII address
as above.
In answer to the question of Comrade George
Grifiths, Moro, Ill IN TIE TRIBUNE Of January
10, Comrade ". II. Records. company /, I'D Iltii-
ana volunteers Rising san, Ind, writes fellows:
The Wilder brigade went into camp at Gravclly
Springs, Ala, the night Of january = Is65 and
left there March - IStj arriving IN front of Sell
me, Ala, at p N. April 800, and IN less than
three hours IT was inside the strongest feld-wOTz
the rebels ever built, and there received General
Wilson's compliments: aIen, I see now how II
Is that the Wider brigade has suei1 a - name
For further particulars would refer the eomrade
10 the history OF the I'D Indiana regiment
Comrade William II Mutt Athens. Pa. would
like some one to furnish him with the poem, q
which the following Is one verse.
1t was in September. on the seventeenth day,
| That brave General Summer led his men away
As over the mountains the soldiers did go
To the plains OF AIitietam TO meet the dread foe
| Comrade F. W. sharp, sioravia, Iowa, who was
a member of the 9th Iowa infantry, writes that he
has photograph Of General Sherman IS he sal
on his horse in the rear OF the 9Th Iowa. at the
battle OF Shiloh. The flagstaff Of the regiment was
/ shot into three pieces that day, and Lieutenant
Allison. Of company f. gathered up the fragment:
and carried them of the field.
| ComTade Fred Thompson, company K. 5lst Hi
nois volunteers Lynn Centre IL, would Ike som,
| the regiment to which he belonged through tbs
cedars at Stone River.
/ J. A. Stewart, Nevada. Ohio. wants some com
/ raGe, 10 furnish hin with tie words of the sons
/ called EilsS oTfhs Lament" re thinks it com
niences: sleep, soldier, sleep, thy country rnourn
( thee."