The National tribune., 1886-04-01
CONDENSED LETTERS.


of Chattanooga, gives too much credit to Gen.
A. j. Smiths troops
r. III. Irwin, Co. E, 51st Pa, Mifflinburg, Pa,
does not agree with recent communication in
The NATIONAL TRIBUNE headed "South
| Mountain and Antictam" in which the writer
claims the taking of the bridge for the Both
Ohio. He urwin) claims the 51st Pa. were
ordered to take the bridge, and the 51st n. Y.
supported them. He was the first man on the
| bridge.
Thomas Drew, Co. A, I'd ILL., Art, tells an
amusing anecdotc of member Of his company,
| named Sam Johnson, at the battle of Pea Ridge.
While in the thickest of the fight a shot from
a rebel battery struck his haversack, containing
his provisions, scattering the contents all over
the ground. Johnson walked cOolly up to his
Captain and asked him if the Government was
responsible for rations lost on the battlefield.
j. H. Blaisdell, Santa Cruz CAL thinks the
wranSllng between comrades of the East and
| West very unbecoming
Il. Crcech, Sergeant Co. d, list Mich, Forest
Hill, Mich, at the battle of Gaines's Mill was
shot through the head, the ball entering just
below the right eye and coming out behind the
| right ear
Edward Black, Co. A, nth Ill, Jesup, Iowa,
| thinks the assault the Federal position at
Franklin, Tenn by Hoods army on the even
| ing of Nov 80, 1864, was as great a movement
| as Picketts charge at Gettysburg.
Buckeye" Ocean City, Kan, does not be-
| lieve in this wrangliHg between East and West,
and, although an Eastern man himself, thinks
the structures on the West too severe.
| j. Il. Eppcrson, Co. L, 9Th Tenn, writes that,
although Tennessee was numbered with the
seeded States, there were thousands of loyal
men there, but that after little while things
got so hot for them that they must either join the
rebel army, be taken prisoners, have their necks
| broken, or take their chances to run the CANT
let through the Cumberland Mountains to join
| Tn
were hanged, some were pressed into the rebel
army, while others made their escape to the
Federal lines, of which number he (Epperson)
was one.
N. M. Camp, Waterloo, Iowa. wonders what
has become of all the light artillery boys, as so
! little appears from them in the columns of The
| NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
III. III. Walton, Co. K, 34th n. Y, Burlington,
Iowa, writes that it was the 34th N. Y. which
supported the Rhode Island battery at Antietam.
Royce Kelly LIST N. Y s. s., Hartford, Conn,
will bet Comrade Miles Buck, of the 50th Pa,
a box of wormy bareback that the oath Mich.
was never in the Ninth Corps
Geo. Hayes Serg't, Co. X, 9th Mimi, st.
Charles, Mimi, adds the 9th MINI. to the Sec
Ond Brigade, First Division, Sixteenth Corps,
at Mobile, Ala. and takes Comrade T. w.
Gibson to task for the omission.
| Geo. Rosa, Co. III, 45th Pa, Jackson Summit,
| Pa, wonders if the boys of his regiment remem-
rear of Vicksburg.
Chas G. Davis, 1st Me. Cav, Boston, Mass,
SCOTS at the idea of Jack Warner ever having
acted as an angel of mercy towards Union pris
Oners.
L. E. Root Co. X, Sd W. Va, Newman, ILL.,,
in regard to the recent notice in The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE ola number of medals awaiting owners
at the Capitol in West Virginia. noticed among
the names those OF Geo. b. Steel and Frank III.
Gullin, and writes that both those comrades
are dead.
M. NJ. Walsh Hillsboro, ILL.,, wants the name
and address ofany member of Duryea's Zouaves.
Elias K. Chase, Embar, Wyo Ter, claims to
be the senior of Absalom Gray by two years.
two months and II days. having been born July
"a, 1906. He enlisted in Co. G, Goth ILL.,, April
"a, 1861, and served one year and half, being
honorably discharged May 8, 1862.
Ii. L. Kies, Co. II, 10th Conn, Cataract, Wis.,
had always so much to do in taking care of
himself in fight that he never could watch
the conduct of other regiments.
A. n. Colson, Co G, 91st n. Y, Caldwell, Kan,
says Comrade ONeil was correct i'll saying the
oath Mich. belonged to the First Brigade, Third
Division, Fifth Corps, A. P. Carr to the con-
trary notwithstanding.
G. II. Conkcl Co. d, 1st w. Va. Cav, Hen
drysburg. o., writes of fight his regiment had
at Warrington Junction with Mosby's guer-
rillaS, in which they lost quite q number of
killed and wounded and eight prisoners.
John II. Conner, Co. d, I'd Ill. Art, Lincoln.
Neb, says that to his mind there is no doubt
whatever that the Union troops were surprised
at Shiloh.
F. f. Bulls, Co. G., 1O6th n Y, Eagle Lake,
Mimi, writing of an article in recent issue of
The NATIONAL TRIBUNE, entitled "A Cautious
Muleteer," says that Comrade j. Williams, in
endeavoring to correct the author of that artI-
Gle, needs to be corrected himself, as he gets
the regiments composing the First Brigade,
hirIn iyriSi Cixyth yhatp iv-al
Austin Fem, Co. H. 10th VT, Olesburg, Kan,
thinks the account in a recent issue of THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE of the battle of Monocacy
by member of the 126th Ohio very correct in
all the principal points.
Geo. Oustott, 3Sth ILL.,, Ashland Oak, claims
for the 35th Ill. the honor of making the gal
liant charge at Liberty Gap, Tenn. and captur-
ing the flag of the I'd Ark.
Il. S. Jaques, Co. ii, 18th N. Y, Wilmington.
n " denies that the Union army was in full
retreat at the battle of Cedar Creek when Gen.
Phil Sheridan arrived.
L. r. Packard, Co. c, 37th ILL.,, Kansas, H.,
cannot see how Lieut-Col.e John B. Gandolfo
took such conspicuous part at Spanish Fort
and did not arrive at TT. Blakely until the 9Th
of April.
j. ID. Doyer, Co. A, Goth ILL.,, Fostoria, O.,
gives good description of the hardships en-
dured by the troops on the march from Beau
fort S. c., through South and North Carolina.
dence, Iowa, was very much pleased with Col.
Jacksons account of the battle of Shiloh, and
thinks it by all odds the most truthful descrip
tion he has yet seen.
c. w. Steele, Co. b, 122d N. Y, Syracuse, n.
Y, does not think the wrangling between the
Eastern and Western armies becoming, and
that it tends to engender much bad feeling.
A. S. OTIS Sergeant, Co. N, I'd N. Y. Cav,
Maiden Rock, Wis, is confident that the army
was not III full retreat at the battle of Cedar
Creek when Gen. Sheridan arrived, as stated
by w. l.. Langley in recent issue of THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE. He admits, however,
that part of the line was somewhat demon
allied.
Jas. Hartman, Co. F, 22d Ind, Central City,
Neb., is very much amused at the large num-
Der of first coors panted on Mission Ridge"
but can easily imagine why, amid so much con-
fusion, so many comrades got things little |
mixed.
j. d. Collins, Co. X, 10Th Ohio, Vandala, |
H., relates that after the famous charge at |
Resaca on the 18th of May 1861 at which Gen. |
Ward was wounded, Col. Ben. Harrison, of the |
10th Ind, took charge of the brigade. While |
Col. Harrison was experimenting the erection !
of his headquarter tent some rebel sharpshooter |
commenced sending his bullets rather close to !
the Colonels headquarters Finally Col. Har-
rison became tired of this and sent an Orderly |
to Capt. Williamson, Co. K, 10Th Ohio, re-
questing him to send some sharpshooters to |
try and dslodge the saucy rebel He (Collins), |