The National tribune., 1885-07-30
CONDENSED LETTERS.

| CONDENSED LETTERS.
| VIM. FL. Lee, Sergeant Major, 9th Mo. Cav,
| Harbor Springs, Mich, says his regiment has
been ignored by the many who have written
| about the entry into Little Rock, Ark. He
does not claim the 9Th Mo. Cav was first, but
that it was there and took an active part in the
proceedings.
! James L. Lee, 18th KY, wants the old Union
soldiers of Ohio County, KY, to organize some
Grand Army Posts, and thinks they would do
| so if somebody would take hold of the matter.
| Lemuel Ford, Co. c, 18th Iowa, Evans, Weld
Co., Colo, affirms that it was the flag of his
Columbia, s. c. He also adds his testimony
that Col. Rogers, I'd Tex, fell outside the
| works at C0rinth.
| d. FL. Chandler, 5th Ind. battery, Xenia, O.,
says Capt. Dilger's battery was not in the
Fourth Corps, but the Fourteenth. The COM
rade is in error. Dilgers battery-I, LIST Ohio
L. A.-served in the Army of the Potomac and
was in all its great battles until after Gettys-
! burg, when it went to the Army of the Cum
| berland with Hooker, and there belonged to
| the Twentieth Corps.-ED.]
Peter III. Meadows. Co. C, 18th w. Va, West
Plains, Mo-, writes letter in praise of the eli
| mate, soil. productions, ETC., of that section of
Missouri, and thinks it is a good place for SOL
der farmers.
John Bell, South River, n j., sends us an
| interesting account of the battle of Antietam,
| where he was desperately wounded, and he
carries to-day deep scar made by rebel bullet.
John L. Richards, Pompeii, Mich, was
prisoner in Andersonville, and was paroled by
Wirz and employed as a clerk to keep q record
of the mortality of the prisoners.
James d. Forbes, Co. B, 22d N. Y, Indian
Lake, N. Y, gives the 22d, Oath, and 3Oth N.
Y. nth Brooklyn, and I'd Berdan Sharpshoot-
ers, as the regiments composing the Iron Bri-
gade.
]. D. Place, Waterloo, Iowa, was very much
pleased with Comrade George Gardeners &C.
count of the battle of Perryville
John Treglowm, Coal Valley, ILL.,, while dig
ging in his garden recently turned up six
pound cannon ball, which was Is inches under
ground.
T. H. Bremen, Pawnee Rock, Kan, has not
a very high opinion of Southwestern Kansas
as a settling place for veterans.
VIM. B. Willis, Second Lieutenant, Co. C,
oath N. j., Alloway, N. j., writes that he wit
messed the fatal woundipg of General at Chan
cellorsville, who he understood was Gen. Whip
pie. He was sitting on his horse talking with
another officer at the time.
j. w. Lowe, Co. B, 18th u. 8. Inf, Phillips
burg, Kan, testifes that Carleton" erred in
saying that that regiment lost its colors in the
charge at Vicksburg.
]. II. Springer Co. ], LIST Iowa Cav, Carleton,
Neb., joins COmrade Van Houten in rebuking
COmrade w. F. Bacon, 18th Ill. Cav, for his
unkind criticism of Gen. Steele, who, Bacon
said, was always afraid some rebel would get
hurt" He thinks Bacon does Gen. Steele
great injustice.
Henry C. Vaughan, Co. E, Oath KY, Null
berry Grove Kan, writes that himself and a
cOmrade, at Resaca, May IA, 1864, carried to
the rear an unknown soldier badly wounded
in the head. He was tall, weight about 165,
hair cut close, black beard, with artillery uni
form. He would like to know what became of
the wounded man.
John C. Lang, Joliet, Ill, writes that Col.
George P. Buell. was Colonel of the 5Sth Ind,
and not of the 45th Ind, as Carlin places him
in The NATIONAL TRIBUNE of July g.
w. L. Hart, Co. G, 9TH Ind, corrects s. E.
Chandler in regard to the regiments composing
the First Brigade, First Division, First Corps,
giving the I'd, 9th and 7th Wis, 7th Ind, seth
Pa, 10th N. Y, 14th Brooklyn, and the Berdan
Sharpshooters as the regiments.
G. w. w. Dow, Lieutenant, Co. F, LIST Iowa
Cav, RushmOre, Mimi, says the LIST Iowa Cav.
was the first to cross the bridge at Little Rock,
but that the 10th Ill, which forded the stream,
reached the bank about the same time it did.
N. d. Brown, Co. g, 18th Wis.,, Columbiaville,
Mich, asserts that the 10Th Wis, which be-
longed to the Seventeenth Corps, camped in
the suburbs of Columbia the night that city
was burned, Comrade Proutz's statement that
the Seventeenth Corps did not reach Columbia
notwithstanding.
II. p. Watson, Forest, Ill.,, writes that he saw
the works in 1864 referred to by L. A. Henry
in an article headed "Who Knows About It"
in THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE of July g.
j. c. Hall, Co. X, LIST Cal, Wallingford, Conn,
claims that his regiment did as much actual !
marching as any organization during the war, |
making in ali 1000 miles.
G. w. Kelly, Sergeant, Co. K, 1st Iowa Cav,
Latham, Ore, claims that his regiment, the |
Sd Mo-, and 10th Ill. were in the advance at |
Little Rock, Ark.
S. A. Griffiths, Co. B, 26th Mass, West Town.
send, Mass, writing in regard to the recent |
communication of l.. A. Henry in THE Ma |
TIONAL TRIBUNE of July 8, entitled, "Who |
Knows About It," says that he was in the en- |
gagement referred to in that article. The |
Union officers in command on that occasion |
We're Lieut. Coils. Stickney and Sawtell. The
battle lasted about one hour and 20 minutes, |
and there were about 400 rebels engaged. |
The Union loss was 10 killed and 25 wounded. |
The Confederates left 300 dead on the field.
Jacob Feather, Oregon, Pa, writes, in reply /
to Comrade II. A. Trip, who inquired as to
what cavalry charged at Cedar Mountain, that
it was the LIST battalion of the LIST Pa Cav.
Chaupcey Hart, Battery G, 5th U. S. Art, |
Recce, an.Esendsi an interesting account of |
Grerson's raid into Baton Rouge, La.
A. p. Brown Co. II, 149th N. Y, Cicero, N. |
Y, says that the talk of this, that and the
other man in regard to firing the gun that
killed Gen. Polk at Pine Mountain is nonsense,
as whole vOlley was fired, and it was, there
fore, impossible to say what shot killed the
rebel General.
K. Cleaver, Sergeant, Co. II, 18th Iowa, Wa
buska, New, sends an interesting account of
the planting of the flag of the 18th Iowa at
S. C.
]. s. French, Otsego, Mich, does not agree
with COmrade ]. G. Harper in The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE of July in regard to the Teche cam
paign being picnic, but thinks the boys had
pretty tough time on that expedition.
j. Pember. Co. X, 2lst Ohio, Osborne, Kan,
writes that ]. Davis, Co. G, 21st Ohio and him.
self were in Raleigh, N. c., as soon as any
other soldiers of Sherman's command.
Joseph B. Hummel, Alliance, o., says the
Third Division, Fourteenth Corps was the first
to enter Raleigh, N. C.
w. A. Insley, Co. E, 72d Ind, Santa Ana,
CAL, writing in regard to the capture of Harris
Vile, Tenn, says that he found member of
the 104th Ill. lying in a burning tent. The
unfortunate man was shot through the head.
Insley carried him from the tent and gave him
water to drink. He would like to know
whether the wounded man recovered.
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