The National tribune., 1888-01-19

ment promised them years ago, aud especially
against the demand TO equalize pay and extend
pensions. He says: Soldiers, wake upl"
John Gilman, Co. b, 1st Vt, and Co. c, 9th
Vt, Woodstock, VT, tells of two ex.soldiers,
both receiving pensions at the rate of $l2
a month. One is pensioned for gunshot
wound in the face, which neither dsfgures nor
disables him, and he is earning $3.50 a day at
his trade; the other is penSioned for rheuma-
tism and is utterly unable to do a days work.
Why should one receive the same amount as
the other?
John S. Pornler Co. K, 21st Mo-, Lebanon,
KAN says that he was in the Sixteenth Corps
under Gen. A. ]. Smith, and was at Fort
Blakely when it was captured he does not
think that the Government has treated the old
soldiers right, and thinks that their pay should
be made up to the gold-dollar basis.
George L. Place, Alton, N. H., writes Wig
orous screed advocating the service pension,
which he thinks should be at least Sl2 month;
and he gives details of various eases where in
justice has been done in pensioning disabled
men who are not crippled by wounds. The
men who are disabled by disease are unable to
work, while other men having lost leg or an
arm are able to work at their trades an earn full
wages.
Random Shots.
William 7. Wheeler, Co. F, SD Wis, Shopiere,
Wis, sends a copy of q little paper, apparently
published in the field during the war; which
contains some of the humorous writings of the
famous Asa Hubs" Co. G, 58th ILL.,, anent the
Red River campaign of Gen. Banks in 1864.
Many veteran soldiers will remember these
sketches, that so amused them in those times.
George V. Card, Co. c. 18th N. j., writes again
about the first entry into Richmond, and says
that Gen. Devens, who wrote the letter to Gov.
Smith regarding the first entry of troops into
Richmond, and Gov. Smith, of New Hampshire,
himself, who received the letter, are both liy-
ing, and can be called upon to prove tho mat
tiers of that date. He supposed this question
was finished when he furnished the official data
published some weeks ago. and has been sur
prsed at finding the letters of Dr. Deyendorf
and others claiming that the 18th Wis. first en-
tered the city. DR.. Devendorf claimed that
the 18th Wis. was on picket-duty early in the
morning, and picketed into the city about sun
rise. Comrade Russell, of the same regiment,
claimed that the regiment marched in at the
head of the column after o'clock. AS the
writer has furnished official documents to prove
his part of the story, he leaves it to DR.. Deyen-
dorf and Comrade Russell to reconcile the two
stories of sunrise and Sis a. M.
Thomas Wooley, Sterling, ILL.,, writes plea
in favor of the hundred days" soldiers. lie
is of English birth, and came to this country in
1854, and, desiring to become citizen as soon
as possible, was told that enlistment and hon.
orable discharge would give him citizenship.
Il
raised; he went into one; was in two actions
and wounded came out with his discharge,
and securing his citizenship, was able to vote
| for Abraham Lincoln in the Fall of 1864. His
regiment guarded rebel prisoners and did picket
! duty relieving veteran regiments that were
| thereby enabled to go to the front and do hard
| fighting. He says he did the best he knew
how, and does not think that there should be
| so much cry against the I" 100-days men,"
William Graham, Co. b, 9TH w. Va, West
| Grafton, w. Va, sends his recollection of the
old time dinner-call during the war, as fol-
| lows " Oh officers hi for roast and pie, and
privates for sow-belly with BEANS bareback
and coffee black we will make the Johnnies
rally"
Renwick Brown, Sergeant, Co. B, 143d n Y,
Ypslanti, Mich, was in the First Division
| Twentieth Corps, and crossed Peach Tree
Creek at about 10 a. m. on the day of that bat
| tle They cooked dinner and finished it by
noon, at which time the battle began, and they
were in action hotiy until the fight ended
| about shutdown. The rebels made seven
charges and the Union troops threw up breast
works between the charges. He wants to know
where the 143d comrades have gone. Many Of
them were from Ithaca, and the rest from
Sullivan Co., N. Z.
]. C. Ralston, Co. G, ADD Ohio, Steubenville
o., tells again of the brigade that made the
fight at the Salkahatchie Crossing, in Sherman!
IQafCD nOIbnWaTO ITOIu OdSduHdllJ DeIOfC pOuu
ston's surrender. The "0hio- Brigade" ht
says, was organized Feb 81, 1862, as the FRS
Brigade Army of the Mississippi, and retained
that title until 1863 when it was assigned tt
the Fourth Division, Sixteenth Corps, in which
it remained until April 1864, when the bri
gade was divided and portion of it becam,
part of the First Division, Seventeenth Corps
under Gen. John w. Fuller.
William Gamble, 18th Wis., 0watOna, Wis.
says the 10Th Wis. flag was first on the court
house at Richmond, but not on the rebel CAPT
toll building. He was Orderly for Mai, Vaughn
of his regiment and held the Majors horse
while he hosted the flag on the top of tn
court house. There was no flag on the Capito
but cavalry guidon. This puts new phas
on the first flag" controversy
@. A. B. Fox, Co. III, Seth H., Lake Preston
OAK, says that Comrade Sharp, 10th KY, j
mistaken about the First Brigade, First Di
vision, for all of the Fourteenth Corps was en-
gagged at Peach Tree Creek. The story of Com
rade Faris, Seth ILL.,, is correct. The Secont
Brigade, Second Division, under command o
Col Dan McCook, was engaged early in tn
afternoon and fought until shutdown.
Samuel Austin, 45th Ohio, Milton Center, O.
writes that he saw recently, by chance, cop,
of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, and says that h
will not do without it under any circumstance
hereafter. He was at Nashville and i'll tn
battles that forced Hoods army across the Ten
| neSSee anu WOuIu llk0 W IcaO SOOQ STORY Y
that series of battles.
b. F. Rawson, Pine City, CAL, says that he
delighted with his location in Central CalifoI
mia, where the climate is good and there
plenty of timber and good farm land He sug
gests that old soldiers should come there to sci
tie.
J. B. Cave, Co. E, 18th VT, Barre, Vt, say
that at the battle of Cold Harbor, June 8, 1866
, he saw a chain-shot-the only one he ever di
see-flred from rebel battery. 1t struck
tree near where he was, and breaking apal
, one shot went off to the right and the other {
! the left. He thinks if it had come in diret
. line it would have killed him.
! George S. Anderson {who does not give b
! regiment), Rossville, Pa, says he has list
the survivors of his regiment with their &C
dresses, and would like to see something prin
ed about the service of the regiment. lie say
/, Comrades, wake up"
! Robert N. Hamilton, Troop F. Sd Tenn. Cav
q Van Alstyne, Tex, says there is colony of e1
! Union soldiers in his neighborhood that make
, it very pleasant to live there. The Grand Arm
! Post, to which he belongs is Maj. John Nj
! Gaughey Post, and was named after a Major
: the 9TH Tenn. NJ. l., who was captured in 16t
: near Athens by detachment of Wheeler
J troops, led out into patch of woods and mul
: dered
Henry B. Grifing, Co. g. LIST Wis, says thu
Adj't Sharp is in error in supposing that I'll
y | brigade to which he belonged was the only Oh