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TIE 18th III. Cav. Heard From.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: The present
outlook indicates that the makeup Of Wins
lows Brigade aud the Meridian expedition is
to cause greater trouble than De Grcsss bat
terry. Already the foW Of ink has been great,
yet I as.. permission to slightly swell tho food.
do not know the origin OF the controversy !;
am not eager to enter the ring to determine as
TO who we're not under WinslOw," nor who
did not accompany the Meridian expedition. 1
simply desire 70 express my candid belief that
the 9Th IL. Cav. was under WInslow and did
accompany him TO Meridian, Miss, as a compo-
ncnt part Of that famous brigade.
/ would ask Comrade WALKER, Of Co. D, 18th
Iowa Cav, IL he recoIieels what regiment ell
camped just across small stream and south
from Gen. Winsiow's headquarters at Camp
Clear Creek, Miss, during the Winter Of 1863
and - VIII the comrade say not the 5th
Ill Cave That camp Including our regi-
Tncntj was that Of WinslOW's Brigade fact
not questioned at that time. At the time and
place above stated | boarded with a squad Of
blue-coats who had every reason to believe
themselves 10 be members Of the =" 18th Hoss
Cav" and further, it was reported, and gen
orally believed, that an officer known as Gen
Winslow was our brigade cornmander-don't
think he passed by any other name, as aliases
were not tolerated by our Uncle Samuel We
saw the General almost every day for months
/ was out visiting (scoutiug) with him on
divers occasions, and came 10 place high esti-
mate upon bis ability as a commander, and to
respect him for his gentlemanly department to-
ward the men under his charge. In view of
ali this it seems passing strange that any one
should be led to state that the 9TH III. Cav.
was never under WinsloW."
Now, FOR the sake Of peace and quiet, I am
willing 10 admit that WinsiOws Brigade com
prised all the cavalry within the department !;
but please, cOmrade don't kick us out entirely
Put on your thinkiag-cap, and whenever you
arc able 10 recall the facts in this matter, then
you will sec that-not Comrade McKee-but
you arc mistaken in the premises.
Do not seek to rob US Of the glory due US in
consideration Of the honorable service rendered
under the command Of Winslow. We are proud
Of the part We bore in the Meridian expedition,
aud equally proud Of our General who com
manded us On that memorable march, as well
as in other military movements prior 10 that.
Finally, We expect to ever believe that we were
wild you-alls generally, and when Winslow's
Brigade had a contract, with headquarters at
/ Clear Creek, the 5th Ill. Cav. was thar or
tharab0uts."-JAAEs @. BENNETT, First Ser
4 geant, Co. 4, 9Th III. CAV, Merom, Ind.
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yEhifn su.11Inr.

Mr. II. 5, Hamlin one Of the best known
Insurance men IN North Carolina. writes
from Winston. as follows. Ever since T
was seven years Of age l have had uhas
the doctors call hip disease, aud which I
call white swelling. Ny hip was drawn
out Of place Ihe=s was i swelling at tho
knee-IoIut where there is a prOfuse run
nlng, which has been there for years OF
course this has greatly depleted my sys-
TEN, together with surgical operation on
the leg bone / tried syery known blood
purifier % build up my system. but none
did me good until / took s. = use is
every spring. It always builds me up.
giving ne appetite and digestion. and ena-
Gles me % stand the long. trying. aner-
waiting hot summer days 70 nie there -
no such medicine for purifying the blood
and building up the wasted system a.
) ) On using it soon became strong
OF body and easy Of uind. Nv color
changed from pale, worn look to q
healthy, robust complexion
AIr G n ErizleI. Of Farmarsvilla,
Texas. writes About August Ist. 1865,
eu eruption appeared on nay arms and
legs. which panied me much and seemed
70 affect my physical condition generally.
On the advice of a physician az this place,
finally commenced using Swift Specific
l am glad 20 say that after using thrss
large bottles the sores have all healed
Treatise on Blood and SKIM Diseases
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stacks, etc, bears no design whatever of the
humble pick and shovel.
All soldiers knew their use but the Engi-
neers became experts in handling them. At
times we were placed in positions of great dan
ger, aud had to perform our duty under the
most trying circumstances.
Tho regiment to which / belonged the 50th
N. Y. Eng.) was part of the corps that built the
line of earthworks in front of Petersburg The
building Of those works was marvel Of mill
tary skill. The rebels kept up 4 continuous
fire on US, apparently Mortified that we dared
to desecrate the sacred soil of Virginia.
If the place was greatly exposed to the fire of
the enemy the work would generally be done
under cover of darkness. At daylight we would
return to our camp in the rear and divide the
time about equally between sleep and fighting
flies. The typical Virginia fly of war times
was a species Of insect the vigor of whose bite
made such an impression upon me that / find
that a recollection of it is still reluctantly
cherished among the sacred memories of my
army experiences.
AS time wore on we noted how little damage
the enemy's bullets seemed to do u.s. and after
ward performed our duties chiefly in daylight.
The ubiquitous Engineers were found all along
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THE 97th OHIO.


EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: There are
many strange things that took place in the
army that the boys in blue never could under
stand, and especially those of us who were Of
the rank aud file Many of these incidents
have doubtless become part of the history of
the war, but very many VIII only be romem-
bered when. some comTade relates them through
the columns of the great soldiers friend, THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
On the 22d day Of June, 1864, we were lying
in front of keBesaw Mountain. Our regiment
was on the front aud was therefore the picket
line. We had long since learned while we were
with Gen. sherman TO dig ourselves under as
soon as stopped for the night We were IN our
pits and the rebel picketlines were in their
pits, or gopher holes, as Wo called them, and
were about $50 yards IN our front. About
o'clock p. M. the officers OF the day concluded
they would straightcH our line, which formed O
segment of q circle. Up to this time not q man
on our line had been harmed that day, but
when the order came to Forward March,"
and eight companies OF the 9th Ohio bounded
out OF their pits it was only 90 meet such
shower Of lead as yge had n05 encountered since
the battle of Mission Ridge We had gone not
more than two rods from our pits until many
had fallen never to rise again. 1 remember
so well OF one timid boy, COmrade Buxton,
of Co. II, who remarked that he would be killed
as soon as he left the pitt and he fell at the
first yoilcy from the rebs, not over 20 feet
from our starting point, q bullet piercing his
forehead. We advanced about so or 70 yards.
but could get no farther, neither could we get
back, and the battle ragged ferccly from that
time until dark, when sc were able to get
back to our pits again. l remember so we'll
the brave officers of our different companies
facing death, first in one place and then in
another, that they ght place their men be-
hind trees, stump5 or something to protect
them. The next morning after the recouEting
we found out of eight companies Of the regi-
ment that were engaged there we're 10 killed
and wounded, and we buried the dead all in
one grave on that morning of June %. Why
did the officers of the day want to straighten
that line? What good did it Go? There was
whisky issued to the army on that morning.
Did that have anything to do with it?-ADAM
HoGLE, Co. IL, 9th Ohio, Sugar Greek, Ind.
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of the Zouaves. o. ]. Wise, who had received
several wounds, was carried by to the Jarvis
house, and as he passed said, addressing the
9th, :" You are the only men who fought to-
day." Afterward, in conversation with Mai
Kimbaii, and just before his death, which oc-
CURED in the afternoon of Sunday, the 9th he
stated with confidence that the battery could
have defed all the troops on the island for
several days had the fighting against it been
carried ON in the manner it was during the
morning until the approach of the Red Caps.
forbear to repeat how officers aud men on
the gunbOats all sent up rousng cheers for the
charge we made; how we were entertained and
praised to spelling by the other regiments and
how many OF the other troops procured fezcs,
or made them of red flannel. TO wear, that they
might be taken by other soldiers and the yokel
ladies for the very popular Zouayes Enough
has been related to prove that a charge was
not only CALAMITY made by the Hawkins Zou-
ayes, but was very effective and generally ac-
kuowledged by both friend and foe
1t will be observed that my narration of
what Gen. Foster said as we approached the
field differs from the versions of Ben ]. LOSING
and Ben: Perley POoTe, which were, believe,
altered from mine. Dir. LOSING, hearing that
| was about to publish history of the regi-
ment, was DESTROYS Of obtaining true descrip-
tion Of the battle, and | furnished him one
from my standpoint. ] also sent Horace Gree.
ley a similar account for his Conflict"
/ would not notice the error which Col. Haw-
kins makes when he says that Co G, at the
head of the regiment was followed By Co. B.
under Capt. Barnett except for the reason that
! was in Co. and relate what | saw from the
extreme left, the best point of observation in
the whole line. Go. 3 was the second company
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tie and at ( o'clock connected with the Sixth
Corps, and q general advance was made, with
heavy bodies of our cavalry on the TANKS.
When the crack of the cavalry's carbines were
heard in the Confederates' rear they gave way
in confusion, and were pursued with vigor by
the troopers of Custer and Merritt until the
victory was complete. We marched back to
our old camp, arriving there after dark, and
were soon asleep.
As to Getty's Division, Sheridan says in his
report that it confronted the enemy from the
first attack IN the morning until the battle was
decided. Certainly it was in the most trying
position Of any, and nobly held It's ground; but
it lost one of its brave brigade commanders,
Gen. Bidwell, a man who had been in all the
campaigns Of the Army Of the Potomac lie
stood like rock, and with his personal bray-
cry held his brigade in line. While this brave,
noble old man was stemming the torrent OF shot
and shell and encouraging his men to be steady,
] ask where was the Nineteenth Corps? Where
was the officer commanding brigade, holding
up his men in the open field when surrounded
by almost three times his number?
Gen. Early says he sent Wharton forward
from Hupp's Hill, in front of the Nineteenth
Corps intrenchments and the Union forces fed
without resistance. Well might Capt. Lock-
hart say the Sixth Corps did most all the fight
ing at Cedar Creek, when the Nineteenth
Corps abandoned its works without struggle,
losing all Its camp equipage, etc. Gen. Wright
was, [ suppose, somewhat discouraged, as he
was with the Nineteenth Corps when it was
whipped, and was wounded himself. He at
once abandoned that corps and came back to
his own. The Nineteenth Corps as | recollect,
had only one General officer wounded, viz,
Gen. Grover, while Ricketts,, Penrose, Getty
and others of the Sixth Corps were wounded,
and Bidwell was killed.
l want to say something about the 61st Pa.
| know something of that body of men. Capt
Lockhart may well be proud of it. Its record
Of killed in action is the largest of any. l saw
that regiment go up Marye's flights when the
men fell by scores. Their Colonel led them
until perforated with bullets. Again at Cedar
Creek, the 6lst charged into the victorious,
yelling Johnnes and made them change their
tune. In the Wilderness, too, the 6lst was al
most anuihilated. Having been accustomed to
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PLAYED by the different writers of this con-
fict. What I arr most in search Of is the tTue
history Of the movements in the morning
Of the different bodies Of troops / have
read about everything that has been published
in regard to it, and an still somewhat ia the
dark as to how il was that Gen. Early was able
TO mass as lie says, $500 men at 3 a. m. within
guushot OF the Nineteenth and Eighth Corps
without 1t being known by those commands.
/ remember that after the battle this inquiry
was made. and that the report was current in
the Sixth Corps as coming from the members Of
the Nineteenth and Eighth Corps that the
picket-line IN frontof the Nineteenth for quite
8 distance was relieved by the Confcderates in
Union soldiers clothes, so that Early was en-
sbed 10 work his forces through this gap and
mass them, as he says, at 8 o'clock a. m in plain
sight of the campfires of these unsuspecting
Union soldiers.
Early says he sent ROsser with a brigade Of
infantry and his caval to strike our extreme
right, held by Custer and the Sixth Corps
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such fighting. Capt Lockhart might very truly
say that the Nineteenth and Eighth Corps did
but little fighting at Cedar Creek.
Some Of the boys Of the Nineteenth Corps
have been so ezaspcratcd Mt my song" that
they impugn my courage on the battlefield. In
answer l have only 70 say that generally in q
fight Iwasa as faT ahead, and many times farther,
than others Of the company. Also that in sew
eFal battles many comrades have been shot at
my side. ] was seriously wounded in the leg
after the Sixth Corps had calamity captured
the works Of the Confeder2tes at Petersburg,
april 2, 1866. 7. GRIFFIN, 16l La Sale
street. Chicago. III.
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THE HAWKINS zoUAvEs.
The First BayOnet Charge of the War.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
HEN / first saw thl

HEN i first saw the
disparaging statements
and quotations from
Mr.. Nelch in THE Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE of
April l, 1886, (since re-
printed entire in Col.
Hawkins's reply in
THE NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE of Jan. 20, 1887, J
my first impulse was
violent censure, and
that | ought to jump
into print as suddenly
as a flea intruded upon.
/ suppose the best
way to open thepresent
engagement is to show
what ! wrote in a his
tory of the 9th n. 7.
shortly after the war,
entitled. " The HaW-
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= - - - - - 90 - - - - " -
of the service which
the historians OF the
rebellion have, to a
greatextent, sighted
namely, the Engineer
Corps. They seem to
h ave been entirely
neglected. No poets
have ever sung their
praise and no sculptor
ever perpotuated their
deeds in bronze or mar
bic. Even the GAR.
badge, though brist-
ling with the crossed
cannOnS saber s gun-
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"Dotvos no right to trihe NIT peoples lives"
he said to the elevator boy vat if dot rope
should break?"
"There is safety rope" politely explained
the boy, " in case one should break"
"Ya; but vat if dot safety rope should
break?"
"Well, even then the elevator wQaIan't fall.
There is brake that holds ii. .
"Ya, dot vos trifing nit peoffess U ! at
if dot brake should give way?"
The boy eyed him with disfavor.
"Dutchy," he said, you make me tired"
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he battle of Cedar
Creek, fought on the
18th Of October, 1864,
was certainly, from a
Federal standpoint, a
decided victory, and
one from which the
C0nledcrates were
never able TO recover.
Probably there never
was another battle
about which so much
has been said, and so
F,4urh gprfraonu dis
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FIGHTING THEM OVER
What0ur Veterans Have to Say About
Their Old Campaigns
CEDAR CREEK.

The Excellent Work Done at that Battle by the
Sixth CORPS.
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