The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-02-18
CONDENSED LETTERS.

L. F. Becker, Co. A, 104th Ohio Clinton. O..
remembers the bloodleSS fight referred to in a
recent issue of The NATIONAL TRIBUNE by
blue Coat" as he was thar" He hopes the
writer will pay MIN visit if he should ever
come in the vicinity of Clinton.
c. w. Onthank, Sergeant, Co. D, 18th ILL.,,
Harvard, ILL.,, was delighted with Col. w. W.
Jackson's account of the battle of Shiloh, and
says it is the most accurate he has yet read.
IL. S. Archer, Sergeant, Co. H, 18th Me-
Randolph, Mass, writes that Comrade Cleave-
land will find that the % rebels at Lafourche
Crossing, La, were killed by squad of about
40 of the 26th Mass.
B. A. Wood, Lieutenant Co. /, 5Sth Ind,
Vincennes, Ind, claims the honor of planting
the first flags on Mission Ridge for the 26th
Ohio and the 5Sth Ind.
o. w. Bradford, Co. F, 14th Iowa, McVeigh,
Iowa, was much pleased with Col. Jackson's
account of the battle of Shiloh, and says it was
decidedly the most correct account of that
affair he had read.
w. II. Young, Co. B, 4Oth Ind. Veedersburg,
Ind, writing OF the battle of Mission Ridge,
says: " None of the flags in Wagners Brigade
were first on the top, but they all got there all
the same
w. L. Langley, Co Fl, 18th Ind, says they
were in full retreat at the battle of Cedar Creek
when Gen. Sheridan came up, reformed them,
and finally whipped the Johnnies
G. A. Fitch, Co. ID, 18th n. Y, Medea Kan,
says that in reading an account of the battle of
Gettysburg in a recent issue of THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE he noticed that the I'd N. H. was
placed in the Third Brigade, Second Division,
Third Corps, when it belonged in reality to the
First Brigade.
James NJ. Follin, Baldwin City, Kan, who
was captured at Chickamauga relates the suf-
ferings of himself and fellow-p prisoners at Rich
mond, Va.
T. c. Cory, Co. 1, 18th Ohio, Parsons, Kan,
thinks J. Nj. Adair, of the Seth Ind, gives his
regiment and the 10th Ind. too much credit for
their work on Mission Ridge. He Cory claims
the above for his command.
Z. b. Seaman, Co. A, Goth Ohio, says: was
with my company II months in the Army of
the Potomac and 20 months in the Army of the
Cumberland, and will just say that | would
rather follow Bragg as Sherman did than to
stand in front of Lees Army of Northern Vir-
ginia, which, l think, was the best army the
COnfederacy had in the field Our regiment was
engaged in % different battles and skirmshes
during the war. Our services closed in the
Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg and began
in the Army of the Cumberland at Lookout
Mountain and ended in the Grand Review at
Washington in 1865"
Patrick Foley. Co. K, 157th N. Y, Leon, N
Y, indOrses the sentiment of L. A. Gossett in
regard to pensioning ex-prisoners as set forth
In communication in The NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE of Dec. II last.
The Eleventh Corps finds an able champion
in l.. ID. Anderson, Co. l, SD Ohio, Lewis Gen.
tire, o., who severely criticzes recent commu-
nication from Western man, which speaks
slightingly of that organization.
]. j. Rininger, Co. X, 6lst Ohio, Akron, o.,
remembers well the time when Stonewall
Jackson's brigade burst so unexpectedly on the
Eleventh Corps at Charlottesville.
+. w. Grimsby, Co. B, I'd Ind, Dillsboro,
Ind, thinks that the Government has not acted
right towards the deaf veterans of the late war
The cOmrade thinks that deaf veterans suffer
far more than is usually conprehended.
Henry Kaback, Co. L, 152d n. Y, Little
Falls, n. Y, says that he thinks the Western
boys might give the Eastern army little credit
for helping to save the Union. The comrade
also gives an interesting account of the part his
regiment took in the fight a. Spottsylvania
Court House. He says they doubleshotted
every musket and waited until they could see
the whites of the rebels eyes. The comrade
facetiously adds: Gould the Surgeons have
dissected that rebel brigade they would have
found enough lead in it to build monument"
Samuel Rutter, Co. Z, Cd battalion, 18th IT, S.
Inf, Emigsville, Pa, indorses what Samuel A.
Mcneil says in regard to six guns fired from Fort
Wood being the signal to charge on Missionary