The National tribune., 1886-03-11
CONDENSED LETTERS.

Jacob II. Snyder, Co. C, s7th Pa. Mansfield,
o., writes that he is greatly pleased with THE
| NATIONAL TRIBUNE, and says it should be read
by every soldier. He belonged to the First
Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Corps, and was
captured in the Shenandoah Valley, but made
his escape.
II. c. Myers, Co. B. 11th Mich, Portsmouth,
Mich, takes issue with c. 3. Outten, who says
the 45th Ky. participated in the battle of
Cynthlana and almost completely destroyed
Morgan's forces. Myers claims that the charge
was made by the 10Th Ohio, 18th and 9th Mich.
Cav, and to them is due the credit of routing
| Morgan
John Snider Co. B, 175th Ohio, Cynthiana,
Pike Co., o. says of the death of Gen. Pat
! Cleburne at Franklin: " He fell about 15 steps
| from our breastwOrks and called for water say
| ing he would give anyone his gold watch, worth
! $500, for drink. He called pteously for
water until his voice became inaudible. After
he was killed his horse came on and was shot on
| top of the works within Is feet of where
stood, and fell with his head and fore parts on
our side"
L. Rossiter, 5th Wis, Cotton, Cal: John W.
| Davis, Co. III, 9th Ind, Rogers, Ark, and III. G.
Denny, Co. III, 18th Ind, Comanche, Tex,
deprecate the jealousies and unkind criticisms
| between the Eastern and Western armies. All
did nobly and deserve the highest praise for
their valor and patient endurance.
f. L. Lee, Co. |, 4lSt ILL.,, Cerro Gordo, Ill,
replying to Comrade Waterhouse Goth Me-,
takes up the cudgel in defense of Grants army
at Shiloh. He says the determined soldiers
could not have been driven from the line they
held Sunday evening, April g.
George NJ. Williams, Crab Orchard Mo-, writes
a brief account of his capture at Spring Hill,
Tenn, and his suTerings during his confine-
ment as prisoner.
Adam Wilberger Co. B, 25th No. ST. Joseph,
Mo-, corrects typographical error by saying
that Col. Peabody's regiment (at Shiloh) was
the 25th Mo. and not the 23d as stated.
G. A. Tracy, 18th Conn, Halstead, Kan, and
G. Autenrieth Co. X, Goth N. Y, Creston, Idaho,
express the hope that Congress will provide the
medals promised to the forlorn hope" at Port
Hudson.
All members of the 11th Mo. Cav. are re-
quested to send their Post-office address to Geo.
A. Marks, Secretary Lafayette, Ind.
l.. w. Carson, Post 156, GAR, Eaton, Ind,
replying to Comrade Smith, of Harrison, Ind,
says the gallant act referred to by him was
performed by w. j. Carson, Chief Bugler of the
18th Regulars. Comrade Carson was taken
prisoner at Chickamauga, and lodged in Libby
Prison for some months; exchanged and
turned home, reduced in weight by starvation
and sickness to IS pounds, and now resides at
Muncie, Ind.
John G. Eddy, Co. K, 3Sth Ohio, writes that
in hiscompany there were Is pairs of brothers,
one pair of twins one trio of brothers, and one
father with two of his sons.
w. l. Archbold, Leroy, Osceola Co., Mich
thinks that men who enlisted in the Regular
Army few months before the war broke out and
served their FIVE years, should be entitled to
bounty the same as the volunteers who enlisted
during the war.
Robert P. Black, Co. E, 1O3d Pa, Parker's
Landing Pa, writes in favor of pensions for
exprsoners Of war. He says that before he
was captured he weighed 1876 pounds. After
hafn in nkaI I !, ;-L&
was 81 pounds.
+. M. Adams Co. D., 18th Ind, says good
word for THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, and writes
brief sketch of Wagner's Brigade Army of
the Cumberland.
J. F. Walker, Corporal, Co. F, 101st ILL.,, Co.
lumbus, Kan, backs the judgment of M. w.
Dodge, Co. c., 143 n. Y, in regard to Gen. Rob-
ertson's Brigade at Bentonville, n c., on the
10Th of March, 1865. Don't you forget it,
they were in the hardest of the fight till it was
over"
John G. Oulson, Co B, 35th Wis, Delhi, Nc
Pherson Co., OAK, makes strong argument in
favor of the repeal of the arrears act and urges
comrades to labor with their Senators and Rep
resentatives to secure that end.
Friend Evans, Co. G, 4th Mich, Riverdale,
Gatriot Co., Mich thinks all the soldiers ought
to have pensions.
C. c. Bowen, Miller's, O., thinks there should
be no distinctions favoring officers in the pen
sion rate; that q private is entitled to just as
much as a Colonel, because he sacrificed as
much and is likely to be even more needy.
G. l.. Paris, Owosso, Mich, says he was born
March %, 1S4S and had a hard time sting
into the army. In 1862 he tried the l26th and
14sth n. Y, but they wouldn't have him. In
March, 1863, he enlisted in the 11th n. Y. III. A.,
at Rochester, but his father took him by the
ear and marched him home. In December he
Joined CO. G, 14th n. Y. III. A, managed to get
to the front, and stayed there till the end of
the war.
Alfred KOCH East Sandy, Pa, thinks gross
injustice was done Gen. Warren by his sum-
mary removal from the command of his corps
at the battle of Five Forks.
j. E. Langton, Elyria, o., sends us the order
issued by Gen. Hurlbut at Bolivar, Tenn, Oct.
s, 1862, for which we regret to say we cannot
find space.
John Baldwin, Co G, 23d Mo-, Alma, Neb.,
enlisted in August, 1861, and served until July,
1865, and was never in the hospital or on extra
duty during the whole of that time
John n. Brown, Co. III, 92d Ill. Mtd Inf,
Kansas City, Mo, supports l.. +. Willhide in
his claim that the flag of the 92d was the first
to float over Chattanooga.
q. 4. Hunt, Co. A, 57th Ind, Prairieton,
Ind, says he would like to know why his regi-
ment was sent to Texas after the war closed
THE Fourth Corps was sent to Texas in the
Summer of 1865 as an army of observation"
on the Mexican frontier.-ED
G. Sandamore, First Lieutenant, Co. c. S0th
ILL.,, Lakeport, Cal, narrates his experience in
rebel prisons, having been captured with Gen.
Streght near Rome, Ga. He would like to
hear from the Lieutenant of an Indiana regi-
ment who got out of Libby Prison at the sam
time-whether he made good his escape Or 4
recaptured. b,
John b. Miller, Graybill Tex, sa~al en- a
born Nov. %, 1858, enlisted as Bur
7th Tenn. M'td Inf, and waSworth, Neb,
gagements. tells OF the run y
c. F. Barnes, Co. I, 5th Vo generally forgot 1
"whoops up" the 5th -Arch " when ordering
they had with q Cp
to give the comw, Adjutant 32d III, THINKS
a movement 81 that killed Gen. Albert SD
Alex Var commander of the rebel army at l
he fired
ney McClintock, Co. A, s7th Pa, Belleville,
She Lost his left leg near the hip, when 10 ~
ars old, at the battle of Cedar Creek. lie
inks there was something wrong that the
bels got the bulge on them in the morning
that day. c. rr
w. ]. Brown, Co. B, 1st W. Va. Cav, Elm
rove, W. Va, and A. NJ. Sample, Go; L, lst W.
A Cav, Santa Barbara, Cal, say that SerSt
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