The National tribune., 1888-08-23
PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.
TnformaLIon AsEea nnd alEen.


toned at Fort Thomas, on the frontiers, COM
municate with Mrs. Katherine l.. Simmons,
wife Of Private w. c. Simmons, who belonged
to Co. A in $780, then stationed at Fort Kear-
ny, Neb Would like to hear from any of the
following: Lieut.. Brockhoalt Livingston, in
command Of company in March, 1861; CorpI
Thomas Kennedy, Orderly Serg't John Rely,
Corpl John Simmons, Musician - PrOssicks,
Serg't John G. Breckenridge, Private Moses
Carey. If anyof these parties are living, please
write, in care OF Mrs. K. l.. WHITE Button,
Mich.
John B. McNalIy, 74th N. Y, Wellsburg, w.
Va, desires THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE TO pub
fish some Of the vetoes of Mr.. Cleveland On
soldiers and widows, and thinks it would be
what Horace Greeley called mighty interest
ing reading" He says his faith in Col. Mat
son has vanished, with that which he had in
Benedict Bragg, Warner & Co.
Henry d. Powers, Bay City, Mich, having
seen an inquiry in THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
about one John Powers, wants to know if
man by this name has yet been located, as be
thinks he is his brother. There were three
boys, Alfred, John and Henry ID. He would
be glad to hear from any comrade who knows
anything of his brothers whereabouts.
Mrs <. L. White, Postmaster at Button,
Mich, says she made mistake when she asked
for the address of comrades of Co. b, 9TH Iowa
Cav, also known as Curtis Horse, and LIST Neb.
Cav, who knew her late husband, Charles w.
Edwards. The company was A instead of b,
and she would ask any member of that organi-
cation who enlisted at Omaha, Neb., in Sep
tember 1861, to communicate with her.
William Ford, Co. d. 9Th n. Y Cav, Preston,
England, writes that q copy of THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE received recently recalls wildly to
his mind the services of this gallant regiment
He would be pleased to hear from any of the
comrades of his company or regiment.
S. a. Brown, Co. f, SD Ind, Huntingdon,
| Tenn, says J. +. Rogers, the Quartermaster of
the GAR. POST huntington, Tenn, has the
discharge of Jas. r. Kitehel, Co. X 10th III.
| Cav, which he found somewhere in Illinois,
| and which can be had by writing to the above
address.
f. H. Baker, Pekin, Ind, would like to ask
Comrade STATE, Co. E, 45th NY, Hunter NY.
or any other comrade who may know the facts,
whether the hospital, or old house used as such,
burned down and eremated number Of Union
soldiers Immediately after the battle of Cross
Keys, Va
G. NJ Bowden, Secretary of the Gath H.
Association, Abingdon H., desires the full
names and addresses Of the following members
of that regiment, TO complete the roster he is
preparing: Archibald Morris Corporal, Co. d;
Patrick Feeley, Second Lieutenant, Co. E;
Capt. Hack, Co. B Thomas Harner, Lieuten-
ant, Co. G; John Becker, or Baker, Co. E JOS
eph Bishop Captain, Co. &.
Charles K. Reitmeyer WellsYille II. z,
Of detail composed ofabout20 lst Mich. Sharp
shooters, who. while at SPottsylyan.a, under
! cover Of darkness dug trench and threw up
q bTeastWork near a rebel camp, aud were join
cd the next morning by three members of the
| l4th n. 7. ii. a, one of whom shot two rebels
with one ball, killing and probably fatally
| Woundlng the other. The one killed had Just
| descended from tree that stood between the
| sharpsh0oters and the rebel camp, while the
other one had just stepped from behind the
| same tree. He also desires the address of any
member of Co. ID, 14th n. Y. III. A., who remenI-
| bers the circumstance.
David Daub, Co. b. 45th Pa Burgoon, o.,
says he cannot understand why comrades of
his regiment do not come to the front aud let
| people know there was such o regiment in the
| service. They were always in the front IN
! time Of danger, and now ought TO come ont of
their holes and say something. He was capt
ured at the mine explosion, July 30, 1854, and
was prisoner seven months. He would like
TO have Reunion of the regiment at Column
bus daring the National Eneampment ia Sep
TENDER, and he hopes every man who IS able
| Will be there.
Edward Hendershott, Co. E, SD Ohio, Lum-
berton, o., thinks the shot was fred by his
regiment that killed Gen Stonewall Jackson.
| Gen. jackson rode by the pickets of the Third
Brigade, First Division, Eleventh Corps, and
voley was fred after him, which did the kill
ing. de says good deal Of comment has been
| INDUCED ia about the regiments of the Elev-
| enth Corps, who ran at the battle Of Chancel-
! lorsville, but he wants it understood that some
| of them did not stampede, particularly his
regiment and brigade. They fought as we'll as
any troops upon that field, and only left when
| ordered to do so.
T. q. James, Co. f, 42d Ind Pendleton, Ore,
wonders what mas become Of the members Of
his regiment. He has been reading THE Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE for years, yet never sees
! the name of )ne of the men of that brave
| old regiment. His regiment was the first in
Raleigh, n. c., and he would like to know
what has become OF the little fellow of the
| 104th III. who took the rebel flag from of the
| State House at Raleigh.
| j. q. Parker 9th company, 1st battalion, n.
| Y. Sharpsh0oters Brock port, n. Y, wishes to
| fad aud purchase the telescope rife carried by
him during the war. His name was on the
side of the stock of the rile,on an oval silver
plate He traded the gun to one Of the mem
bers Of the 7th company, n. Y. Sharpshooters.
B. II. Maxwell, Co L, SD Ohio, South Fourth
street Steubenville, o., wants to hear from any
cOmrade who can give the regiment snd COM
pany to which Aaron Hauser or Houser be-
| lOnged. He was in an Iowa regiment and en-
listed at place called Comanche, Iowa In
formation wanted, to get proper inscription for
q tombstone.
w L. Myers, Co. D, 9TH W. Va, Loyal, Kan,
would like to hear from any of his old com
rades.
Mrs. N. P Furman, Rushville, Neb., wants
the company and regiment in which Erastus
Newton served. He enlisted at Wiliamsport,
Pa. and died in the hospital at Perrysville, Nd.
W. T. Eddy, Co. G, seth n Y, Pueblo, Colo,
says: While the patriotic people of the great
State of New York are contributing so literally
in the erection of monuments to the memory
of the Country's defenders on various historic
| battlefslds, it will soon be able to reach the
stone wall en- the nights Of the Antetan bat
| tlefeld, whore the gallant Gen Rodman fell
and the 99th N. Y. lost at least one-third of
the rank and file in killed and wounded"
Lost and Found.
Jonathan Hunt, Swanton, o., says L.
| Schroeder, Co. d, n. Y. Art, occupied Temporal
rily one of the highest hunks in the barracks
at Fort c. F. Smith, Arlington Nights Va, in
| 1864. The company was ordered to the front
| just before the battle of the Wilderness, and it
| is hardly probable that Schroeder survived but
/ he, if living, or any near relative can have his
German Dictionary by paying for transporta-
ton.
Oar Constituents.
William Underwood, Co. B, 9th q. s. Inf,
Los Angeles, Cal, thanks The NATIONAL
| TRIBUNE for its persistent efforts in behalf of
the soldier element of the country, and wishes
us long life and prosperity, and Will try what