The National tribune., 1885-07-23
CONDENSED LETTERS.

CIV. Jones, Lebanon Post, No. 240, Sweet
Home, Kan, sends us the words of the old
Union war song set to the tune of the Bon.
ME Blue Flag" We do not deem it worth
while to publish them, as they are familiar to
all old soldiers. But we thank Comrade Jones
just the same.
j. NJ. Russell, Captain, Co. K, LIST Iowa Cav.
Mt. Pleasant, Pa, writes brief account of the
cavalry skirmish that opened the battle Of
Prairie Grove, Dec. Z, 1852, and the death of a
gallant oficer-Maj. Bartlett, 9TH Mo. Cav.
Lindsay Steele, Captain, Co. E, 30th Ill.
Chester, Ill, corrects C0mrade Fuller, Co. E.
18th Ohio for forgetting the 18th ILL.,, which
Steele says, was with the 18th in the capture
of Jackson, Tenn, June z, 1862. The force wa:
in command of Col. N. ID. Leggett
]. M. Klinker, Sergeant, Co. B, 40th Iowa
writes that his regiment was the first to cross
the Arkansas River at the capture of Little
Rock. He disputes the claim of Comrade Rowe
Co. NJ, I'd Mo. Cav.
Roswell Thomas, Co. G, 14th N. Y. H. A.,
would like to have some cOmrade write up an
account of the charge of the Ninth Corps on
the works in front of Petersburg, June IL, 1864
and the death of Maj. Hedges.
J. S. Alexander, First Sergeant, Co. F, 67th
Ind, writes briefly of the part taken by his
regiment in the Teche campaign, omitted by
COmrade Bartlett, Goth Ohio. The 9th lost
one officer and Is men killed, % wounded, and
y
were exchanged the following Christmas.
j. E. Jones, Co. B, 10th Ind, New Madison,
O., wishes to say to s. E. Chandler, Yallaha,
Fla, that J. c. Moody, Co. i, 9th Wis, is cor
rect as to the regiments composing the only
"iron Brigade" ever heard of in the First
Corps, or Army of the Potomac.
E. d. Lloyd, Co. K, 55th Ohio, Miller's Cor
ners, n Y, was with the Eleventh Corps when
it was defeated at Charlottesville. He says
that Gen. Howard was informed that the reb-
els were making a flank movement, and his
retort to his informer was, "YOu are more
scared than fanked."
John C. Wright, Co. F, 18th Iowa, Maquo-
keta, Iowa, says Comrade Proutz in THE Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE Of July 2, is Oft his base in
asserting that the Seventeenth Corps did
not enter the city of Columbia, S. c., as he,
Wright, belonged to that Corps and certainly
marched into the city. C. j. MOnyer, Second
Lieutenant, Co. K, 18th Iowa, Allerton Iowa,
also cOntradictS the statement of COmrade
Proutz, in this particular.
l.. Scott, johnson, VT, was taken prisoner
Nov g 1864, near Mt. Jackson, Va, and was
taken, together with several comrades, to New
Market. They suffered great hariships dur
ing the march, the guard giving them scarcely
enough food to sustain life. Near Harrisonburg,
Scott became insensible from exhaustion, and
when he recovered consciousness he was in the
guardhouse at Staunton, Va. He has never
been able to hear what became of his comrades
on that dreary march, and would be glad to
hear from any of them.
ID. B. Spencer. Red Oak, Iowa, says "Carle-
ton is in error in The NATIONAL TRIBUNE
of July 9, in locating La Grange in Mississippi
when that place is in Tennessee. He also says
La Grange is situated on, the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad, and not on the Memphis
Railroad, as stated by Carleton"
r. B. Chappell, Kansas City, Mo-, writes that
the shot that killed Gen. Polk at Pine Noun
tain was fired by Capt. Simonton, 9th Ind. bat
terry.