The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-01-14
CONDENSED LETTERS.

John Miller, Co. F, Sd Mich, Santa Rosa, Cal,
speaking of the controversy in regard to the
relative good qualities of the Western armies
and the Army Of the Potomac, says the latter
could hold its own with any Of them;
Levi Davis Corporal, Co. F, SD Ind, Cres-
ton, Iowa, thinks that Sanford Snyder, Co. q,
I'd Mo-, is right when he said the last real fight
ing of the war was at the charge Of Fort Blake
ley, Mobile, by Gen. A. J. Smiths troops, Six
teenth Corps.
P. S. Moore, Co. K, 4Oth Ind, Independence,
Kan, says the oath KY docs not need the
"self-appointed " championship of E. P. Root,
who wrote in regard to it in The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE of Nov. 10Th.
Thos Bow1es, Corporal, Co. A, LIST Ohio. claims
for the flag of his regiment the honor Of being
the first Oh Mission Ridge.
Bert Berry Detroit, Mich, thinks the efforts
made by some writers to belittle the Army of
the Potomac are highly unbecoming, and de-
serve to be frowned down.
NJ. II. Wilson, Co. E, Sd. KY, Hagaman, Ill,
writing of the conflicting claims for the honor
of first planting the Union flag on the rebel
works at Mission Ridge, observes, very sensi-
bly,, that it is impossible to say what particular
regiment reached the crest first. and claims of
that sort are not reasonable. He says there
was thunder enough for all that day. He was
in Harker's Brigade, Sheridans Division,
Fourth Corps. He says Gen. Harker was
"blown to atoms by q shell" in the charge at
Kenesaw June 81, "a. In this he is partly mis-
taken. He is right as to place and date, but
Gen. Harker was struck In the body by mus
ket ball, was borne from the field, and died that
night, 10 or IL hours after receiving the fatal
| wound. The person who makes this correc-
ton was member of Harkers old regiment,
the 65th Ohio.
g. P. Stone, Fountain Run, KY, writes that
| he served as guide and scout with the 5th Ind
| Cav, and corroborates Comrade Dougherty's
H. r Of
| that regiment, across the railroad bridge over
Green River, KY, at Munfordsville.
| John J. Wiltse, Co. A, 23d Iowa, Kelley,
Iowa, writes to say that in the account of the
siege of Mobile the writer should have said the
troops were all mustered out except the 23d
| Iowa. which was sent to Columbus, Texas, where
| it was detained until late in July. Then the
regiment went to Harrisburg near Houston,
where it was mustered out, and came home to
Davenport, Iowa, where it was paid off
| In the recent article on prison life in Column
| bia, S. c., by Lieut. Bowley he alluded to Capt
S. T. Harris, of a Tennessee regiment, who was
held for a long time in solitary confinement
The writer expressed the belief that he was
| dead, and asked for information concerning
him. F. A. Angle, Spring Lake, Kan, writes
to say that Capt Harris was exchanged in 1865
returned to Knoxville thence removed to DAN
bridge, where he married, and is now living at
Johnson City, Tenn.
John P Miller, Co. C, 98th Ill, stromsburg
Neb., says his regiment belonged to Wilder's
mounted brigade; did not participate in the
charge on Mission Ridge, and did not, of course
lose flag halfway up, which was picked up. as
stated by Comrade Beatty, 10th Ill. He says
the 9sth ILL., never lost flag.
Martin Kelley, Co. H. Goth n Y, Chester,
| Ncb., having seen so much controversy as to
what regiments first entered Little Rock, CO.
| lumbia and other places where they had to
| ip,h of IN pat there
thinks he will stir up the boys by filing the
claim that the Goth N. Y. was the first regiment
to enter Atlantis with its colors, and also the
first to enter Savannah.
JOS Monk, Chicago, Ill, thinks it would have
been in far better taste to have erected a monu-
ment to Nathan Hale than to have made so
much fuss about the British spy Andre.
w. B. Dickey, Co. Z, 57th Pa, Faribault,
Mimi, indorscs Comrade Dunham's account of
the part Gen. Alex. Hays's Brigade took in the
battle of the Wilderness.
A. Murphy Co. H, LIST battalion, 18th q. s.
Inf, Greencastle, Ind, sends brief account of
the services of his regiment in the Army of the
| Cumberland. He says: "There were Ill Off
GERS appointed for the regiment. On Dec. 81,
1865, there were 4s commissioned officers, show
| ing loss of So; ATS men were enlisted, and
on Dec 81, 1865, there were 93S enlisted men,
showing a loss since the organization of $40.
S. B. .LiedOrff, Sergeant. Co A, Sd Ohio Cav.
Hartland, O., writes of the capture of rebel
| wagon train near Chickamauga Station, just
before the battle of Mission Ridge, by force
under the command Of Col. Eli Long. The force
consisted of the LIST and Sd Ohio and 4th Mich.
Cav and 18th Ind. and 9sth Ill. mounted in
fantry.
A. "A. Jones, Co. B, 65th Ill.,, Toledo, Iowa,
writes of the services of his regiment on the
Atlanta campaign.
James Malone, Co. B, 9Th Pa Reserves, says
it was that regiment, and not the 9th Pa Re-
serves, that relieved Duryea's ZOuaves after its
charge at Gainess Mill
A. Mcdonald, Norfolk, Va, says that any
person reading Comrade MurdOcks account OF
the battle of Cedar Creek would infer that the
Sixth Corps did all the work, whereas the fact
is that the Nineteenth Corps did quite as much
as the one to which he (Murdock) gives so much
credit.
c. True Middleton, Kan, offers to send
arborvitg trees from to 10 inches high and
soft maple seeds to any comrades sending the
necessary postage for same.
O.S Barrett, Co. B, 4th Mich, Adrian, Mich.
writes an entertaining history of his regiment
which was with the Army of the Potomac in
all its campaigns.
Chas. H. DePuy, Co. H. LIST Mich. s. s., Mus
kegon, Mich writes: ain your issue of the Goth
ult. Comrade Buck, 50th Pa, is a little mixed
in giving the Michigan regiments in the Ninth
Corps. or rather in his brigade. He claims the
oath Mich was in the brigade. This regiment
according to Michigan in the War was in
First Brigade, Third Division, Second Corps
and FED. II, 1865, was sent to Springfield, Ill.
for duty at draft rendezvous"