The National tribune., 1885-10-15
CONDENSED LETTERS.

the lengthy fowl, while the comrade was tax
ing the top rail wherewith to cook the object
of pursuit.
"Carleton's" account of the second days fight
at Chickamauga, says that the repulse of Breck-
inridge from the Judgment he had gained on
the Rossvile road was accomplished alone by
landowners Brigade of Brannan's Division,
consisting of the I'd Mimi, 9Th and 35th Ohio,
and S7th Ind. The charge was made Obliquely
across the Rossvlle road through an open field,
driving the Confederates into a wood beyond.
The writer denies that Vanderveer's Brigade
fired the last shots that day.
j. Fl. Smith, First Lieutenant 10th Ind,
Sterling, Kan thinks Carleton I" did not give
the Twenty third Corps sufficient credit for the
capture of Fort Anderson at Wilmington. He
says the 10th Ind. of that corps was first in
the works. and pulled down the rebel flag.
Jas. Hane, Co. c, S1st n. Y, Ohio, Herkimer
Co., N. " says good words for Col. J. J. Bowen,
author of recent article in THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE on the Quartermaster's Department,
and tells of a raid upon the sutler, resulting in
loss to the latter of several bottles of cham
payne.
William Bond, Co. F, 9th Pa. Reserves,
SmiGksburg, Pa, writes of what he saw at the
battle of Mechanicsvlle in the Peninsuar cam
paign. We should be glad to print it in full if
our space would permit.
Medad " Miller, Co. E, 33d q. S. Inf, Wes-
sington, OAK, says the War Department is off
in declaring that Herbert Fay, Columbus, o.,
was the youngest Union soldier. Miller says he
was born at Port Washington, o, Jan. 16, 1850,
enlisted Oct g. 1861 and was discharged Feb.
b. 1867, after serving five years, four months.
VIM. Prouty, Co. 3, 31st Iowa, Peace Dale, K.
l., rises to remark that he never said the Sew
enteenth Corps did not enter Columbia, S. c.
He was only quoting from Gen. Sherman's
Memoirs.
IT'LL. VI FL pr,
gade, First Division, Twentieth Corps, AYERS
that Gen. Carlin was wrong in saying the 3lst
Wis. fell back at BentOnville because they had
rails in their hands instead of muskets." He
says his regiment fought with its guns through
the whole engagement, repulsins five success
sive charges of the enemy.
E. d. Kersey, First Lieutenant, S0th Ill,
Oswego, Kan, speaks strongly against the
peal of the Arrears of Pension Act, and urges
soldiers to support no man for public office who
is not pledged to do all in his power to secure
justice to the veterans of the war.
L. C. Rankin, Sergeant, 4th Ohio Indp't Cav.
Co., and afterward Captain, Co. +, 9TH Ohio
Cav, Ripley, O., ayers the entire truth of Com
rade A. G. Thompson's statement relative to
the death of Ger. Mcpherson, w. w. Allen, of
Knoxville, Tenn to the contrary notwith-
standing. He says Thompson was the Gen.
erals Orderly; was captured with him, and
was by his side when he died Capt. Rankin
thinks it was Thompson's horse that was sub
sequently ridden by Confederate Colonel,
and not Gen. McPherson's, as stated by Capt.
Richard Beard who commanded the soldiers
who fired the fatal shots. McPherson's horse
ran into the Union lines, and was taken to
Ohio with the Generals body.
Thomas c. Davis, Co. E, 3Sth Ill, Weloka,
Fla, says it was his regiment that captured the
battery at Nolinsvile Gap, and suffered nearly
all the casualties in that engagement.
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Colo, says that they captured in the arsenal at
Meridian Miss, in 1864 large number of
lances, mostly new, which he thinks goes to
show that these weapons were used IN the Con-
federate army.
"Co. H." 92d Ohio, Chicago, ILL.,, objects to
Baird's (Third) Division, FO rteenth Corps, be-
ing left out in the cold a. Bentonville. He
says the Third Brigade of that division was
actively engaged and did valuable service. 1t
lost many men, among them being the brigade
commander, Gen. Fearing, who was very badly
wounded.
Geo. S. Myers, Co. F, 1O1st Ohio, Carey, o.
says, in regard to the guns captured by the
10lst Ohio at Nolinsville, or Knob Gap: 1t
is certainly absurd for comrades of the 2lst ILL.,
and 10Th Wis. lay claim to their capture. We
were no Drawer than they, but in advancing our
part of the line struck the guns, and our claim
to them was never questioned until 1885. The
writer of this was within a rod of the gun far
thest west when AdJ't smith, OF our regiment,
sprang from his horse upon it,"
w. E. LOring, Co. L, 141st Pa, Santa Rosa,
Cal, tells of recruit, early in the war; who,
having been enjoined, while on guard, to allow
nothing to cross his beat" bayoneted toad
in the strict execution of his orders.
S. E. Gilbert, Co. F, 44th ILL.,, Willard, Mimi:
P. S. Carver, Both ILL.,, brigades the 36tK 44th,
18th and SSth Ill. and the 24th and 125th Ohio
together at the battle of Franklin. In Mis-
souri, in 81, at Pea Ridge and later, until our
arrival at Louisville, KY, in the Fall of '62,
the Cd and 18th Mo-, 4lth and Both Ill. were
brigaded together. After that time when so
many new regiments came in, the old brigade
organization was broken up; the I'D Ill. TAX
ing the place of the Both ILL.,, which regiment
was with the SSth III.
Geo. L. Peeler, First Lieutenant, Seth ILL.,,
Crystal Lake, Ill., says his meaning was mis-
construed by Comrade Overley, 10th KY, IL
regard to stragglers from Spring Hill to Frank
lin. He did not claim that Gen. Cox's troops
generally were stragglers, only those who de-
tached themselves, without leave, to get little
much needed rest.
Geo. Wetmore, First Lieutenant. 22d N. Y,
New Haven, Oswego Co., N. Y, would like to
know if the 147th N. Y. ever belonged to the
First Brigade, First Division, First Corps and
if so, at what date it was assigned thereto.
VIM II. Weir, Co. A, 18th ILL.,, Birmingham,
ILL.,, correcting Comrade w. Fl. Seaman's article
Brigade, Second Division, Fourteenth Corps,
was composed of the 9Sth, 10Sth, 18th and
12lst Ohio, 34th and 18th ILL.,, and was COM
manded by Gen. Mitchell.
"a. NJ" Flora H., complains of the delay in
the forwarding of pension checks. Although
the vouchers are executed on the 4th or 9Th of
the month, the checks are often not received
till the Goth. Our correspondent thinks that
if the old soldiers had been as slow in getting
in their work in suppressing the rebellion they
would have been in the field yet.
NJ b. Rupe, Co. G., 18th Ill.,, Canton, ILL.,, re-
members very well the incident mentioned by
w. w. Allen in recent issue of THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE in regard to the Confederate, Miller,
drawing the fatal slip of paper, but he states
positively that Miller was shot, as he saw his
body afterwards.
Henry Barrow, Co. F, Sd Iowa Cav, claims