The National tribune., 1888-01-12
PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.
Personal.


his regiment,) writes sadly about the present
attitude of the general public toward the vet
Grams of the late war. lie says: What you
and / revere is but a mere Renaissance to the
many. The rising generation cares nothing
for the past; my own children give the events
of 1875 no Thought In most cases. when we
speak of our sacrifices, hardships, ETC., we are
scoffed at and derided as the has beens.' am
sick of the thought of the past, and yet the
present is so permeated with the impressions of
20-odd years ago that / cannot dispel their in
fiuence"
John Gilman, 31st Ind, Kingnan, Ind, was
badly wounded at Fort Donelson in leg and
shoulder, and the ball is yet in his shoulder
He has not heard from any OF his comrades for
long time, and would be glad to have any of
them write to him.
II. Conkel Co. d, 1st w. Va Cav, Hendrys-
burg, o., thinks that Co. A. LIST Ohio Cav, and
the 1st w Va. Cav. put in some of the work
done at Monterey on the night of July a. 1868;
of which Col. Ayers Bugler" recently wrote
under the title of Flashing Sabers"
Eli Buch, Drummer, Co. d, 18th u. s. Inf,
Towanda, Ill., says he was one of Sherman's
" hummer" was at Shiloh and all the other
battles in which his regiment participated;
was badly wounded and is now utterly unable
to work. His pension is so small, too, that he
is unable to support himself and is obliged to
depend on his comrades. He was with the
lied until its muster-out.
+. M. Campbell, Kingsville, O., writes
sketch of terrible experience he had in hos
pital, where for nine months he suffered with
almost every disease known to soldiers. He
was taken sick while on post, and was relieved
from the guard to be taken to the hospital.
The sketch is too exteaded for these columns.
Samuel L. Dent, Co. Il, 18th Ind, Clarissa,
Mimi, criticzes Maj. Wiler's statement about
the death of Col Washington in West Virginia
in 1861, for Col Washington certainly saw more
than three men fire at him before he was
killed.
j. H. Fugate, Co. F, 9Th Tenn. Cav, Hypatia,
Tenn. wants to hear from some of the old COM
rades of his regiment. lie would like to know
the name and number of the battery that was
engaged in the fight at Wallens Ridge, near
Tazewell, Tenn in 1862. He says his section
is the best in the United States for old soldiers
to settle in, and they can get good land well
watered and we'll timbered, very cheap
Capt. j. B Ridenour Co. A, 55th ILL.,, Wood
hull, Ill, says the illustrations of the battle of
Ezra Chapel are like enough to have been taken
on the ground. He wants to correct the article
by explaining that Ezra Chapel was three and
half miles north of west of Atlanta instead of
| south of that city.
Washington Talbot, Abel Iowa. says he will
| be II years old in March next, and is in receipt
of only S. month pension, which, as he is
crippled, is very little to support two old people.
L. G. Landing, Corporal Co. B, Sd Md.
Cav, Sullivan, No., who recently wrote about
rebel chasing hog into our camp at Nor
CANA, La, and being captured with the hog,
says that an error was made in giving the num-
Der of his regiment. The paragraph assigned
him to the Sd DO. Cav. instead Of the Sd Md.
Cav.
S. r. Evril, Co F, 18th Pa Cav, Watson
| town, Pa, recently met Moses Waugh, 18th Pa.
! L. -
| at Charles City Crossroads and was left on the
field until July 8, when he was picked up by an
old colored man, who carried him and another
| wounded cavalryman to the James River, ii
miles away, which they reached the next day,
and were sent to the hospital at Norfolk. The
old darby hitehed an abandoned horse to an
| old broken cart. The writer would like to
know the name and address of the other cav
| alryman.
| Capt. John J. Austin, st. Andrews Bay Fla,
writes that the recent paragraph placing him
among the Mustered Out is an error, if he
understands the case 1t was very poor joke,
| If one was intended.
| George b. Gerard, Co. +, 14th Wis, Osceola
H., wants somebody to write the history of his
regiment. He would also like the address OF
| Col. t. NJ. Ward, of that regiment
Samuel ID. Longford an old eomrade, Free
dom, Ind, says that in 1876 his wife eloped
with man named William Mack, taking with
her their little four-year-old son. He learned
| that she died at Omaha, and that the boy lived
with woman by the name of Reayes. He can
| get no information from there, and would like
some comrade to write to him on the subject.
S. A. Colby, Co. II, 10Th Wis, Rock Valley,
Iowa, never wrote for publication before, but
wanted to say Merry Christmas and Happy
| New Year" to all his old comrades; but the
death-list was so great in 1887 that many will
not see the next holidays He wants to live
however, until the next Presidential election,
and "see the Copperheads cleaned out again"
A w. Ray, 10Th Ind, Paramount Ind COM
mends Gen. Thomas j. Woods story of Piekett's
| Mills, and wants to hear from some of the 18th
Ohio comrades If Cal Ciingman, the spy Of
the 18th Ohio, is living he would be glad tC
hear from him.
H. Evans, Co. e, nth Ohio, Rome, O., writes
pitiful story of his old age and, poverty, and
bad health contracted during the march tx
| Clinton in the campaign of 1863.
John H. Bryan, Co. A, goth Pa. Cav, Belle
fonte, Pa, wants to know where in bazes
all his comrades are. He thinks it is about
time for some of them to show up and tel
something of the regiment
w. II. Bolton, U. S. Navy, Bridgeton, Ont.
would like to hear from any of his old ship
mates who were in the gunhoat Forest Rose il
1863 on the Mississippi, or in the gunboat New
Era in 1864
George steigner, Co. I, 5th u. s., 223 Olive
street, Springfield, Mo-, would be glad to hea
from any of his old comrades. He also served
in Battery 3, 4th U. S. Art, and in Co. g, 12tl
Kan.
information Asked and Given.
n T. Sanborn, Burlington, Kan, is informed
that the Boy Spy" is not yet published il
book form.
George Beourke, Battery K, 1st Vt. H. A.
Kansas City, Mo-, wants the address of Capt
Soule, First Lieut.. Todd, or any other membe
of his battery.
Mary A. Myers, South Bend, Ind, had bro
Their, Capt. Thomas N. Patterson, who entered
either the 18th or 18th Ohio at Cincinnati earl,
in the war and was afterward promoted, who's
whereabouts she has never been able to fine
out. He was wounded during the war and los
his arm, but afterward, she thinks, was in TIN
Veteran Reserve Corps. Any person knowini
of him she asks to address her, care of Adol
plus Densow, South Bend, Ind.
, George w. Arnot, Grindstone City, Mich
writes of an old soldier, Allen Barton, Co. K
9th Wis, who lives at that place, and is yer.
destitute. He is unable to obtain deserves
pension for want of the address of old comrades
He would like the following addresses of off
GERS and comrades of his regiment: Col.
Humstead, Capt. Peter Mnlhelland, Corpl Al
bert Hutchins, John Weber and Chas Brock
man. When last hsard from Capt Mulhollan
was in Dakota.
Andrew Miller Manchester, Iowa. wants
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