The National tribune., 1885-09-24
CONDENSED LETTERS.

C. w. Yost Sergeant, Battery E, LIST N. Y. l.
A., gives an interesting account of the part
| taken by that command at Gettysburg.
Henry c. Vaughn, Mulberry Grove, Kan.
thinks the Second Brigade, Third Division
Twenty third Corps has not been given credit
for the part it took at the battle of Resaca, In
recent communications regarding that battle.
M. Kelly, Siam, o., gives several instances
| where old soldiers have been removed from
postmasterships in Ohio and been supplanted
by those who were not in sympathy with the
Union during the war.
Daniel Knight, 5th Iowa Cav, COlfax, Iowa
says Coarade Walters, 72d Ind, was wrong i'll
saying that the 5th Iowa Cav. was not at Farm
inpton. He SAYS the I'D Ind. was in Wilder's
Brigade, which did the most fighting at Farm
ington. He says Minty's Cavalry Brigade was
composed of the 5th Iowa, 9TH Pa, 4th Mich
and 4th u. S. Cav.
C. K. johnson, Co. F, 11th Kan, Tiblow
Kan referring to the statement of w. A
| Leech, Sd Wis, Lamar. Me-, that Barton
County furnished no men for the Union Army
saws that fully half the men in that County
enlisted in Kansas regiments.
Robt. Bayles, Co. ID, 10Th Kan. Cav, Bijou
| Hills, Oak, sends an account of an attack by a
body Of rebels upon Government corral con-
tanning 600 or 700 horses and mules at Fort
| Scott, Kan, in the Summer of 1864.
M Chidester Corporal Co. M, Sd W. Va
Cav, Humphreys, Mo, says the fight at Lynch
burg was ON the 18th of June, and not the 18th
as slated by Comrade Dry, 123d Ohio, in his ac.
count of the Hunter Raid. He tChidester) says
he was wounded in that fight, and has distinct
| recollection of the date.
C. II. Taylor, Co. ID, 25th Mich, Chadron
Neb. says the Second Brigade of Judahs Divis-
ion, Twenty third Corps was composed of the
25th Mich, S0th Ind, 18th KY, 9th and Sd
Tenn The Goth Ohio was afterwards added
i>...r 1,.,.i
campaign.
Henry Drummer, Co. NJ, 1st w. Va. Cav, New.
ton, Kan, is reading with much delight Uncle
Daniels Story.
Sylvester Vaughan, Co. G, 18th Me-, Strong
Me-, protests against the injustice of the Limi-
tatiou of Arrears Act.
John A. Rich, La Otto, Ind, agrees with
Comrade Peeler in his account of The Rear
guard from Spring Hill to Franklin"
J.. b. Cunningham, English, Ind, writes OF
the death of Color Sergeant Robert Sagle, of Co
/. Goth Ind Sagle was shot at the battle Oi
Dallas, Ga. He was brave man, and a great
fayorite in the regiment.
VIM. Bard, Co. F, 9th Pa, Smicksburg, Pa
was at the battle of Drainsville, Va, Dec. 2l
1851. In the engagement the Federals lost
seven killed and 60 wounded.
L. Whitcomb Co. G, 37th Ind, Russell, Iowa.
saws his company was the first to meet the
rebels at Stevens's Gap.
w. III. Schrader, Brushton, Pa, thinks, from
the slowness of responses to veterans letters
that Washington must be in the District OF
Alaska instead of Columbia.
M. F. Sullivan Co. K, 9TH N. Y. Zouaves, re-
plying to the inquiry of John d. Mason, 1st s.
C. Rifles, says the Zouave regiment he refers
to at the battle of Gaines's Mill, was the 5th
N. Y, Duryea Zouaves.) Col. G. X. Warren
was in command of the brigade and Lieut.. Col
Hiram Duryea, of the regiment. Not a man
at the fight was under the influence of whisky.
and the only gunpowder they had was in the
shape of cartridges. which were utilized OH the
Johnnies before shutdown of June q, 1862.