The National tribune., 1888-01-19

From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.
Personal.

Mexican war in Co. f. 4th Ind, and would like
to correspond with any of his old comrades
who are yet living.
John Hays, Troop F. 4th Iowa Cav Stock
ton, Kan, begs leave to differ from Corp'l Rice,
Co. G., Sd Ohio Cav, in regard to the fight on
the bridge at Columbus Ga. He says it was
his regiment that went through that bridge
first, and he had hand in it himself for he
took flag at the west end of the bridge and
got medal for it.
James J. Ruch Sergeant, Co. IT, saith Pa,
West Nanticoke, Pa, thinks Comrade Tarsney,
of St Louis, did perfectly right in choking
Congressman Henderson for his uncalled-for
insult to the dead Union soldiers who are buried
at Salisbury.
Chas Banks, Silver Lake, Kan, writes effus-
lively, thanking The NATIONAL TRIBUNE for be-
ing the happiest man now in Kansas. Through
its correspondence columns he got wife who
is making him and his six boys happy. She is
an old soldiers widow. He found her at Mount
Sterling, Ill.,, and they were married at the
Grand Army Post in Silver Lake, Nov. 10.
d. r. Ockerman, Co. G, 46th Iowa, Lineville,
Iowa, objects to the cry against the days
men," He served two years and was diseharg
ed perfectly sound at the expiration of his en-
listment; and then, in 1864, went into 100
days regiment and came out crippled so badly
that he has never seen well day since. All
his disability resulting from his service in the
100-days regiment.
Lieut. George Lyman, Co. A. 18Th Wis, Ack-
ley, Iowa, says that Comrade Amos Watson, Co.
f, 9th VT, is mistaken about his regiment get
ting into Richmond April 3. 1t was April 4.
The writer was a prisoner in Richmond and
was the last one to be paroled on April 3, the
day that the Confederates abandoned that
place. He was taken to the Union lines and
was sent to Gen. Weitzel's headquarters that
day. He was captured at Bentonville. N c.,
on the 18th of March, 1865, with 10 of the men
of his company.
Mahlon Huff, seth Ohio, Raymond Kan,
says that his regiment took an humble part
in Sherman's grand army, and he wants some
of his comrades to wake up and tell about the
hard battles they were in.
Christopher G. Webb, Co. Fl, 9Th KY, Drip
Rock KY, says that his regiment saw about as
much Of Chickamauga as any other command
there, and tells at considerable length of the
desperate fighting of Sept. 10, 1864. Unfortu-
nately his account is too long to publish in our
crowded columns
w. 7. Fisher, a Lieutenant in Merril's
Horse" I'D Mo. Cav.), Denton, Tex. thinks
there is something wrong in the administration
of the Pension Office, because large number
| of ex-Confederates living in his neighborhood
| filed pension claims last Spring for service in
/ the Mexican war, and have received their GER
| tifcates already, and are drawing their PEN
sions, while his claim for bounty, filed in 1882,
| is still hanging fire. He wants to know how
| this is.
George w. Jones, Hiram, Ark, wants to
| hear from some of his old comrades of the 123d
| Ind.
| ]. d. Forbes, 22d N. Y, Indian Lake. N Y,
writes that Moses Harris, Of that village a COM
rade of Charette Post, is probably the oldest
Grand Army man in the United States, he haV-
| ing completed his SD year on Christmas Day.
He has five discharges in his possession-four
from the Regular and one from the volunteer
service-making more than 20 years Of active
service He served in the Black Hawk war,
the Seminole war, in Mexico and during the
rebellion.
L. f. Gould, Co. ], I'D H., Hastings, Neb.,
writes funny sketch Of foraging expedition
that he and three comrades made in Novem-
ber 1862 near Nashville While two stood
guard to watch for the dog and the proprietor
of a neighboring farmhouse, the writer was
detailed to go up persimmon tree where
some fowls were discovered at roost. About
the time he grabbed the first fowl the rest all
woke up and made such racket that it drove
him out Of the tree and all Of the foragers back
to the camp on the double-quick. The tree
was full of guinea-hens
G. L. Cruikshank, First Sergeant, Co. A, 18th Pa
Cav. Addison, Iowa, says he was much pleased
at the recent sketch of the military history oil
was unfair in the Adjutant to have quoted al
most literally from the book published by Col
Franklin A. Stratton, Of that regiment in 1866
without giving the Colonel due credit.
w. Il. Eddy, Lieutenant, Co. G. 69th n. z.
Pueblo, Colo, gives the following addresses Of
the members of his old company: c. w. Burt
Honeoye Falls, n. Y; Serg't g. II. Humphrey
Breesport, n Y; Chiliion Peck, Reading Cen
ter, N. Y; A. J. Colson, Humboldt, Iowa; j. t
Thatcher, Soldiers Home, Bath, n. Y, anG
George G. Spencer, Olean, NY. Comrade Eddy
would be glad to know the addresses of any
other survivors Of his regiment that he car
get, and suggests that if Serg't Hart of his ole
company, is still living he should write ;
, story for THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE OF the his
tory of the regiment, as he kept a diary during
the whole of the war.
o. p. Hoffman, Harshman, o., thinks there
is much injustice in the adjustment of pen
sions He knows of comrade who was in
jured during the first three months of the war
but who later re-enlisted and served more thar
three years part of the time in rebel prisons
!. He is pensioned for the injury he received il
, his first service, but now he wonders If he vii
not get left when the Service Pension Bill j
passed. In applying fc~ his pension he dit
r not state word about his three years service
John III. Meeks, Troop G, I'd KY. Cav, Yves
ton, Tex. wants some comrade of his old regi
; ment to write history of their services, AM
especially of their march through Georgia t
+ the sea with Gen. Wilson and Gen. Fitzpatrick
t ]. T. Roach, Co. c. 178th Ohio, Richmondale
I o., says he is one of the men who killed til
! old woman's geese near Franklin. Thoma
/ Calvin, of the same company, when hauled u
by the Captain, talked sassy" and said tina
. he "could shoot goose between the eye an
l the eyebrow" He got taken to the guard
+ house for his talk.
\ Harrison Blackwell, 9Th KY, Manchestel
+ Ind, was a Southern Unionist, and lived j
| the mountains of East Tennessee when tn
war broke out He made his escape TO th
q Union lines after hiding for six weeks, an
O shouldered a musket that he carried throug
/ the entire war after 1862 He had to leave a
a he had in this world when he got away, an
4 has never received a cent for what he abar
. doned. He thinks the Government ought t
give him show. He says he belongs to
g bully Post-John A. Logan, No. 1919, Depart
d ment of Indiana.
n Cornelius O'Dwyer 1st Mich. Cav, Detroi
i Mich, puts in a claim as boy soldier. II
! was born in Limerick, Ireland, i'll the Fall {
r 1884, and in 1868 enlisted in the 1st Mich Cav
c a number of months before he was 10 yeal
a old. He was not Bugler or Drummer, III
a a soldier. He was in 80 general engagement
r and number of skirmishes; was never sick
/ day during the service; was never hurt; W;
If never dismouated a day; was never da
n away from his company, and was never No.
/ in his troop.
A. s. Thompson, Co. a, 123d Ohio, Kenesav