The National tribune., 1889-07-11
PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades all Along the
Line.
Information Asked and Given.

uTeSSeS OF hlcnNTu lIlJJie, JacOO Rice, anu inc
Surgeon of the gunboat Curlew, No. IL, Misss-
sipp Squadron.
r. s. Cruikshank, Jefferson City, Mo-, desires
information as TO the company and regiment
of Alexander Cruikshank, who enlisted in st.
Louis in 1863. He thinks his Captains name
was Frank Kidd. Cruikshanl died in 1864 in
the hospital at Little Rock, Ark, and is buried
in the National Cemetery ut that place.
b. F. Rea, South Bend, Ind, who was Pilot
of the gunboat Queen of the West at the time
she ran the Vicksburg batteries, wishes to know
the whereabouts of Col. Alfred w. Ellet, COM
mander of the ram fleet whose flagship was the
Switzerland.
Francis Mayette, No 0 Lecler ST., Montreal
Canada, would like tho names and addresses Of
all the comrades of Co b, 6oth N. Y, who were
acquainted with the writer during 1864.
ID. X. Gwinn, III South Fifth St., Quincy,
H.. wants the address of Joseph f. Vanstein-
berg, alias Joseph f. Wood who Is supposed TO
BIO somewhere on the Pacific Slope.
Christian Rolf, 10th Ind. battery, Los Angeles,
Cal, wishes the addresses of Capt. w. Nayior,
Ferd Meyer David Blodgett and Perry Miller,
all of his battery.
John Maucf, Weston, Mo-, wishes the adj
dresses of John Liebig, drummer. aud Lieut..
August Reimers both of Co. h, and Lieut.. Rex
niger, Co. G. 18th Mo.
VIM. A. Forsberg, Hutchinson, Mimi, wants
to know the whereabouts of VIM. b. Rouse, who
was discharged May S, 1862, at Hudson City,
Mo-, for disability. He disappeared from Bur-
lington. Iowa. about Oct /, 1863
Mrs. RuanDa Maggart, Maggart, Tenn, de-
sires information of Riley Spears who was in a
Kentucky regiment during the war. She wishes
to know to what regiment he belonged, and
amy information concerning him.
Neil l.. Whitney, Henning, Mimi. wishes
information regarding his son, Pbares who
enlisted in the Regular Army at Fort Gratot,
IL
following October or November to Camp Wash
ington, Tex. aud when last heard from was
living in Tennessee.
William Simmons, 1882 Wharton st., Phila-
delphia Pa, wants information of George
Laurence, who served in the u. S. Marine
Corps; when last heard from he was farming
in Logan County, Ill.
Loren s. Taylor. Co. H. 18th Iowa. Salem,
Mass, desires the addresses of Chas. w. Wood
row aud VIM. NJ. Arnold, both of Co. f, 10Th
Iowa
j. ii. Gott, Noble H., wants the address of
Thos. Colt, who served in Co. E, 18th Ill.
Comments aad Corrections.
Geo. w. Hartsook, 9Th Ind. battery, Wood
land, Cal, has noticed two articles in which
comrades of the l43d aud 150th N. Y. claim
that they saved the 5th Ind battery ut Resaca,
and he thinks that for cheek and misstatement
| these comrades take the cake. He says that
| just before dark the rebels drove one of our
| brigades back, and the writer's battery opened
on the JOhniiies in such style that they ske-
| daddled. They soon tried IL second time,
| but at this juncture the First Brigade, com.
maDdcd by Uncle Billy Gross, took hand in
the scrimmage Then R0binson's Brigade, OF
! Wilson's Division, Twentieth Corps came
through the battery, aud the latter ceased
firing. The men did not leave their guns,
| however, and Gems. Hooker aud Butterdeld
eomplimenied the battery on its admirable be-
| havior throughout the battle.
Allen Conner, Elkader, Kan, having seen the
claim OF VIM. A. Shaw, Bloomington. Ind, says
that Shaw Is younger than he by one year, but
the writer enlisted younger than Shaw did
| He enlisted ut Camp Johnson, O.. Sept. 10 1861
| and WAS mustered SIX days before his 18th
birthday into Co ID, 18th Ohio, and was dis
| charged Nov. 26, 1863. He would like TO know
| the whereabouts Of some OF the comrades wh
| served in Capt. Gleason's company Pioneer
Corps. Army OF the Cumberland in 1863.
| james Jardin, First Sergeant, Co. +, 54tt
| Ohio, Grant Park. Colo says that Conrad,
| Emmer Bowen is mistaken when he SAYS thai
Gen. Blair led the forlorn hope ut Vicksburs
| May -, 1863. The writer says there were lot
| men III the undertaking, aud they were led by
| Captain of the 30th Ohio, who was wounded
and fell into the ditch around the fort The
| writer is one of the 20 survivors. Gen. Blair
| commanded the Second Division, Fifteenth
| Corps, ut that time, and promised medals TO nj
the survivors of the storming party; but that
| like most all the promises made by the Gov
eminent or its officers to the men who saved
the Nation. was never fulfilled.
e. NJ. Dougherty, Co. L. 120th Ind Winsted
| Ind, snys that in Capt. Romeyn's account o
| Franklin he declares that on the Uuion Ief
there were several new regiments which gave
| way and He'd toward the rear. The writer
says that the left of the Union line was held
! no Gfifr4fs RrfVa hos bal \,
through the Atlanta campaign, and therefor,
| there was not new regiment among them
and there was no fiinching either.
H. j. M0sher, Co. q, ist MIMI. Seneca, Kan.
says that he was made to say in recent issue
that he had removed a fragment of shell from
his hip; it should have been fragment o
bullet.
W. s Grover, Co. A, I'd Iowa, and Co. K, 81
| Mo- Cav, Warsaw, H.. thinks the claim o
Henry Carver, 9Th Pa. Reserves, regarding
the first newspaper published in the army il
| wrong, rs the Aat-SeccssiOaist, published a
Chillicothe, Mo-, by Cos. A aud g. Sd No. Cav.
July 2, 1861, was without doubt the first pape
published by soldiers
O. Brown, Co T., i4th Mich, Sodus, Mich.
thinks the articles that are being published il
this paper regarding foreign lands by Comrad
Frank Carpenter are the most interesting let
ters of travel he has ever read.
VIM. Ill. Nichols, Corporal, Co. /, 7th r.
Cav, "a Andrew street. Salem. Mass, having
read the description of Kernstown by DIR. Cape
hart, thought that the survivors of his regi
ment would like to know that photographs o
the stone wall aud other localities connecte,
with the battle OF Kernstown and Wincheste
can be obtained of j. w. Black Washington
street, Boston. The writer passed week il
camp at Winchester in 1886 with the Sheridan
Veterans Association. Several nominen
Union and rebel officers were present, ant
points of interest In the Valley and on tn
battlehelds were located and photographed.
Personal.
q. +. Johnson, Co. +. 44th Ohio, Springfield
o., says that his company contained AZ brother
and half br0thers aud thinks there was not an
other company that could make such showing
lie also claims that Co X of the same regi
ment had the greatest number of comrade
bearing one name-in this case that of Allen
OF these there were ii, five of whom wer
brothers aud the rest cousins.
9. w. Dean, Co. q, 4th Mass, and Co. b, Is
Mass, Frontier Cav, Weston. o., says that
Jacob Johnson and james Abbott of Co. X, At
u. s. Cav, will send their addresses TO hin
they will hear something to their advantage.
A soldiers widow eau fluid good home b,
| writing to Box 60, Valentine, Mo.
Floyd Atwill, Sc. James Hotel, Washington
ID. o. says that +. Nuns, Co. X, I'D Ohio i
buried in an isolated place in Loudoun County
Va. IL any of his comrades or relatives viii
communicate with the writer he will inform
them where the comrade lies. He was shot b,
mistake one night by his own comrades.
j. s. Kenny, CO. i, I'd Md, Newbern, Tenn.
says that he understands that the widow o
4 n -. k.