The National tribune., 1884-09-18
CONDENSED LETTERS.

crS some "reminiscences oil service tnat lnctuueu
Balls Bluff and Antietam.
ID. d. McCulIum, Co. /, 10th Iowa, Sibley, |
Iowa, wants to know if there are any COM
rades alive who paid Wirz, in 1865, 50 TO be al
lowed to go with the exchanged prisoners. 1T
So he would like to hear from them.
l.. g. Flenner, Co. A, 18th Ohio. Findlcy, o.,
corrects j w. Frys account of the capture OF
Arkansas Post, in which it was stated that the
line of earthwOrks was guarded by deep
ditch on the outside, and had timber cut down
into at an abatis He says that his regiment
was on the front line, and he was out in front
as a skirmisher and saw no ditch or eieeaHx-de-
frise in front OF his regiment at least He was
within 100 feet of the rebel works, and there
was nothing between him ana them, but some
brush and stumps. He thinks that the 9th
and 10th Ohio were among the very first to en-
ter the rebel works and plant their eolors on
them.
Wa. Fulk, Co B, 59th Ind, wants TO know
if some comrade can inform him what battery
it was that was posted on the hill in rear of
his regiment at the battle of Champions Hill,
and did such splendid work in driving the
rebels back?
Wv. Lucare, Co. ID, LIST Pa. Cav, Emporium,
Pa, was in all the battles in which his veteran
regiment participated, and received severe
wound He has never claimed pension. He
would like to hear from all the comrades of his
company and regiment, and also those OF the
1st n. j. Cav.
Chas. w. Wood, 18th q. S. Inf, oconomowoc,
Waukesha Co., Wis, asks if Comrade Case re-
members the battle of Colliersville. where the
rebel Gen. Chalmers stopped them on the Ilth
of October 1863, with force of 2,e00 men and
nine pieces of artillery. Gen. Sherman had
only 800 men and his staff officers and two
Paymasters on board the train loaded with
ammunition going TO Chattanooga. The rebel
dead left on the field numbered 400, while they
killed nine of our men and wounded 80. Com
rade Wood would like TO hear from any of the
1st Bat, 18th Inf.
III. C. Vaughn. Co. E, oath KY, Mulberry
Grove, Kan, writes quite interesting letter,
but little to full of politics for publication.
Samuel r. Bachtell, 9TH Pa Cav, Philadel-
phia Pa, expresses his great satisfaction and
pleasure in reading the letters from different
comrades all over the country. He wants them
all to sign their full names, company and post
office address TO such articles as it makes it far
more interesting, and many an old soldier has
by this means found an old messmate or brother
sufferer in hospital or prison pen. He would
especially like to hear OF the Fitzpatrick raid
| in the rear of Atlanta
| s. w. Skipworth, Blue Mound Kan, puts in
claim for being the youngest soldier who did a
/ mans service. He was born in Muhlenberg
/ Co., KY, May %, 1549 and enlisted in Co. /,
| 46th KY Mounted Inf, Sept. 10, 1868, being
| then but little over IA. He afterwards entered
the Sd KY. Cav, and served with that regi-
ment all through the Atlanta campaign and
during the subsequent cavalry operations in
| Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and the Csrolinas.
He was captured in North Carolina and kept
| prisoner 30 days.
J. L. Brown, Co. E, 18th Ohio, Ellensbu rg.
W. T., gives a spirited account of the part his
regiment took in the battle of Champion
Hill, and is very complimentary to Gen. Wiles,
who had been appointed Colonel Of the regi-
/ fnaE n half h0Ur haf0
| the fight.
T. j. Beauchamp, Co. d, 18th Mo- Cav, Yer
don. Richardson Co., Neb was taken prisoner,
with his whole company, 81 in number, at
| Campbellsyille, Tenn, Nov. "a, 1864. lie
wants to correct Comrade Lemmon's state
ment that the squad of prisoners taken out OF
Andersonville in the Spring of 1865 to Macon
saw Union troops there. Comrade BeauchamI
was in that party, and believes that if there
had been blue-eoats in sight there would have
been stampede of the prisoners.
Geo. W. Vert, Co. G., 55th Ohio, Spring
1eid, Ohio wonders why none of the comrades
of his regiment ever write anything for THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE. He would like to hear
from them.
Jas. A. Pettis, late Serg't, Co. H, 9Th N j.
Woodbine, Iowa, likes to ra 1<THE TRIBUNE
as it brings to mind the friends of former day:
and the exciting events through which BIZ
passed while in the army. Soon after the
battle of Fredericksburg Comrade Pettis wa.
assigned to Battery b, 1st \. J. Art, ane
while in that command took part in the battle
of Charlottesville.
Adam Hartwick, Coudersport, Pa, was one
of the prisoners who attempted TO break out o
Salisbury. He had the heel of his shoe shot
OFF by rebel bullet while trying to get away
but received no hurt.
JAS NJ Burk Co. d, 4th Ky. Mt'd Inf, New
Ross, Ind, thinks Comrade Finney is mistaken
in stating that 800 of the 4th KY. were capt
ured between Lovejoy Station and Chattahoo
chez River in the raids near Atlanta HI
(Comrade Burk) does not think the prisoner.
amounted to that number.
John Blossom, Corporal Co. F., 5th Mich
Cav, spent four months and half in Ander
sonyille, and describes the misery he and hi:
comrades endured while there.
Another comrade of the 1st Ohio wants the
"boys" TO speak up and tell whether they
were good for anything but foraging and but
termilk raids"
! Jasper Roseberry. Co. F, 25th Ind. Island
Kan, corrects G. NJ. Butt, as TO the command
of "a Fighting Joe Mower" which he says wa
the First Division of the Seventeenth Corps
: He says Gen. Mower might also be appropri
ately called Wading Jo,' and recalls how th,
General, dismounted, led them through tn,
Salkahatche Swamp where the water was from
knee to chin deep and when at last, chill ant
numb, they reached the dry ground the brigh
, camp-fires of the Johnnies beyond looked s.
tempting that they charged and took then
/ with whOop.
III. Fry, Co. K, 5th Iowa. writes a very inter
, esting account of the opening of the battle o
luka, in which he speaks of how natural it j
that comrades should differ as 10 the details o
battle, since every man who is in line doin;
his duty as rule sees a very little of the igh
beyond that going on Immediately about him
w. f. Mayer, Sugar Valley, Pa, sends us
copy OF the very complimentary letter sent L
Col J. P Taylor, of the Ist Pa Cav, by Gen
the Cavalry Corps, upon that regiments retire
ment from the army at the conclusion of it
term of service. Accom- panying this is reeor
of the battles and skirmshes in which the regi
ment took part, and table of the miles
travelled during its service, which aggregate
5,S31. Comrade Taylor would like to hear fror
Harry Harris 1st Nj Cav, who was wit
. him at the Dismounted Camp, at City Point
when the whole camp went for Sutler."
A. Mullen, Co. G, 46th Ohio, Van Vert, o
! wants to know if some of the members of CC
| /, 11Sth Ohio will give him the particulars
the killing of John A. Dickson, of said com
! pany, at De Mossville, KY, and vino shot hin
, Any one will confer great favor on Mr.. Mu
len by sending him all the facts connecte
with the affair.
JAS f. Watts, Co. d. 7th Pa. Cav, Dextel
Iowa, wants to know what regiment eOvere
the retreat of the Union army at ChattanOog,
He thinks that his was the rear regiment, an
, Co. ID Of that regiment the rear company.
Henry Colin, Co. A, 42d Ind, Carriers Mill
H., claims for Jacob Messick the credit of BE-