The National tribune., 1885-07-02
CONDENSED LETTERS.

B. F. Strong, Co. A, 101st Ohio, Wakeman, o.,
thinks Gen. Carlin is in error in his account OF
| the gun captured at Nolinsville, Tenn, on the
| advance to MurfreesbOro. Comrade Strong
claims the honor for his company, and says E.
| H. Kilbourn, who is now living with bullet
| in his body received at Stones River was the
| first TO reach the gun. Afterward Col. Heg,
| 18th Wis, rode up and planted the colors OF
his regiment upon it.
James E. Graham, Co. C, 43d Ohio, Fort
Wayne. Ind, corroborates the editorial state
| ment in THE TRIBUNE that Col. Rodgers, I'd
| Texas, was not killed within the Union works
at Corinth Oct. 4, 1862, but fell fully 100 yards
from them, while leading his regiment in the
charge. Comrade Graham says he saw Col.
Rodgers fall and later saw his body lying on
the field.
H. Miller, Co. 81, 104th ILL.,. Silver City. Iowa,
says the troops captured at Hartsville, Tenn.,-
104th Ill.,, 106th and 10Sth OhiO,--were sta
toned there by Gen. Thomas in person. Gen.
DumOnt's Division was at CASTLE Springs, seven
miles distant, but failed to render aid in time
| to prevent the capture.
Sergeant" Co. A, 2Sth Iowa, Guthrie Center,
Iowa, says that Comrade Bartlett, 96th Ohio in
his communication, gave credit to the 10th Ind.
that belonged to the 29th Iowa in coming to
the support of the Fourth Brigade in its time
of need
J.F. Tiff, Co. E, 18th ILL.,, Aurora, ILL.,, thinks
Carleton is wrong when he speaks of Con-
federate troops under Gen. NJ l.. Smith, as
Gen. Morgan l.. Smith was well-known Union
officer, commanding division of the Fifteenth
Corps. [Comrade Tiff should not forget that
the Smith family was as numerous in war as it
is in peace. There was Gen. Kirby Smith on
each side, and we think there was also Gen.
n. l.. Smith in the rebel army as well as in
our own.-ED.
S. Tyroller, Co. g. 7th Ohio, Grand Rapids,
Mich, corrects Gen. Carlin's error in attaching
Col. Creighton, who was killed at Ringgold,
Ga, to an Iowa regiment. He was Colonel of
the 7th Ohio, as has already been stated.
w. F. Bacon, Sergeant-Major, 18th Ill. Cav,
Hastings Mimi, insists that that regiment first
crossed the Arkansas River and entered Little
Rock, the 1st Iowa Cav. entering at about the
same time. He would like to read an article
from Gen. Davidson, and says: "a better cav
airy officer never strobe horse than John w.
Davidson, but he was hard old devil on his
men. He came near walloping me once for
getting drink of water from muddy bayou"
Joseph r. Drain, Co. l. 129th Ind, Ligonier,
Ind, writes of his experience at the battle of
Franklin. Late that night the regiment crossed
Harpeth River on the burning bridge, and
reached Nashville the following day.
j. C. Clay, Sergt, Co. /, 107th Ohio, Lostant,
ILL.,, admits his error, corrected by Maj. Culp,
25th Ohio. He thinks it possible yet to find
out who fired the last gun of the war. He also
Eleventh Corps at Charlottesville.
C.S. Ellison, Sergt, Battery K, 5th U. s. Art,
Algernon, Neb., would like to know who stole
half dozen sheep that his company had penned
up one night for use on the following day, at
Ganes's Mill, Va, in June, 1862.
B. Mcconnell, Grape Creek, Ill.,, says the Sd
KY was not in the same brigade as the Tooth
Ill. On the Atlanta campaign the latter was
brgaded with the Goth and 9th Ohio, 40th
and 57th Ind. After the 26th Ohio was dis
charged by reason of expiration of term of
service, the 2Sth KY. took its place in the bri-
gade. During the greater part of the Atlanta
campaign the Sd KY. (Col. Dunlap was in the
Third Brigade, Second Division, Fourth Corps,
Gen. Charles G. Harker formerly Colonel of
the 65th Ohio) commandng.-ED.l
j. c. Hannah, HallOwell, Kan, writes that
Battery b, Sd N. Y. L. A., was on the march in
South Carolina referred to by Maj. Culp, 25th
Ohio under Gen. Schimmelpfennig.
j. w. Thomson, I'd Kan. battery, Red Cloud,
Neb, would like to have somebody write up"
little fight that occurred near Honey Spring,
Ind. Ter, in August, 1863, between a small
force under Maj Gen. Jas. G. Blunt and force
under Gen. Cooper (Confederate). Blunt's
command consisted of the 1st Kan (colored,
Col. Williams), five or six companies of tho
I'd COL Lieut. Col. Dodd), three regiments of
loyal Indians, part of the 9th Kan. Cav, Co. G.
of the 9th, four guns of the I'd Kan. battery
(Capt Smith commandingl, and the Sd Kan. bat
terry.
A. G. Parkhurst, Co. C, 9th Mass. West
Chelmsford Mass, thinks Comrade Schnepp
mistaken in the name and regiment of the man
he speaks of as finding in prison at Franklin.
D. III. Goodhue, Co. c, 9th Mass, was wounded in
the ankle and taken prisoner at Carrsville, Va,
(not Cassville, Ga..) at that time. and was taken
to Franklin. He afterwards died in Libby
Prison Of his wounds.