The National tribune., 1889-05-09
PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.
Information Asked and Given.

D., is very anxious to have the addresses of any
of the officers or crew of the ship Iconoinia.
John w. Cannon, Co. ID, Sd Mo-, Cadmus,
Kan, would like to know the exact date in the
Spring of 1864 when the Fifteenth Corps left
Woodville Station, Ala to go on the Atlanta
campaign. He would also like to correspond
with his comrades of Co. D.
Thomas b. Sailor. Co. d, I'd Pa Cav, Box
500, Mt. Vernon, o., would like to know if any
members OF his company are living who were
captured by Stuarts cavalry on the morning of
Dec. 70, 1862, while on a scout. They were
taken to Libby, and later to Castle Thunder.
lie desires to hear from those comrades.
Jesse Dell, Co. E, 125th Ind, Winamac, Ind,
wants the address of Lieut.. Robinson, of his
company. and the name and address of the
Sutler of the 128th Ind.
Emmer Bowen, Color Sergeant Co. c, 127th
Ill., Vernondale, Cal, would like to know if
the Az survivors out of the $50 comrades who
composed the forlorn hope led by Gen. Frank
z. Blair at Yicksburg May 2, 1863, are yet
living
G. W. Grigsby, 10th Ind. Cav, Lamar, Mo-,
would like to hear from his old partner /. w.
Daniels, who resided at Petoka, Ind, before
the war and until 1869.
S. M. Chase, Co. E, 14th N Y Cavy-A4 S.
Tenth street. Saginaw, Mich, would like to
know the name of the U. S. cavalry officer who
captured Is or 20 of his comrades detailed to
guard the supply train from North Anna to
Petersburg. He says the men stopped about
noon near a farmhouse to get some fodder for
the mules, when the cavalry arrived and
marched them back two miles, and after being
called all manner of names by the officer in
charge for doing what they had been ordered
to do, were punished by being made to drill
two hours. and then were let go to find their
train. They caught up to the wagons about
o'clock the next day, when the writer found
his knapsack and gun had disappeared from
the wagon where be had left them.
ID. T. M. Crow Co. B, 10th Mo- Cav, Licking,
Mo-, IN reply to Comrade Foss, says that he
was on the boat b. f. Yonion when she was
sunk on the night of July 81, 1864. The writer
was sick and was lying down when his brother
came to him and said that the boat was sink
ing, and that he would have to get up and
swim for it. The writer succeeded in escaping
but missed his brother, and afterward learned
that he was drowned. Comrade Crow was then
on his way to st. Louis to be mustered out.
IL. b. Billings, Nora Spring Iowa, would like
the names and addresses of all the officers of
Co. a, 1st Wis. H. A.
J. b. Ridenour, Woodruff, H., is very anx-
lous to have the names and addresses of the
following officers and men of Co. a, 55th ILL.,:
Samuel Brayden, William Bull, John Cadwal-
lader. VIM. Ii. Coleman, Alfred Cox Michael
L. Cox, Lorenzo Eveand, Lorenzo Filler Chas.
Z. Finge, Joshua III. Gay J. J. Monroe, New
ton Morgan, Harvey Shaw
Nanted-to hire or adopt boy between the
age oil II or ii years; soldiers or sailors or
phan preferred. Address Box 70, Stockham,
Neb.
DeForest F. Wheeler, Denison, Tex, offers
reward of $40 for four U. S. papers, as follows:
One discharge dated Dec. 80, 1864, one fur
Tough dated Camp Falmouth Va, in March,
1868, one discharge dated Raleigh, n. c., July
Is, 1885, and certificate of disability signed
James f. Groves NJ. d., Grand Rapids, Mich,
sent to John II. Reed, Washington, d. c., in
$780, Reed died. and they are said to be with
his old papers in his wfes possession.
The children of Comrade Nels p. Petersen,
who enlisted from Carver County, Mimi, in
Co. A, 4th Mimi, want information as to his
whereabouts, if living, and if dead they desire
the particulars of his last illness and the loca-
tion of his grave. When last heard from he
was an inmate of the Soldiers Home at Mil
waukee, Wis, from which he was discharged
in 1875. Any information regarding Comrade
Petersen sent to Capt. Chas. p. Stees, 321 Wa
basha street. St. Paul. Mimi, Will be most
gratefully received.
james NJ. McGee, 1T Sansom street, Phila-
delphia, Pa, would like the names and adj
dresses of any comrade who knew John Loure,
a Scotchman, Ensign on U. S. S. Stockdale who
was captured at Lake Ponchartran in 1863,
and subsequently confined in Macon, Charles
ton and Libby Prisons, whence he was ex-
was twice carried out to the dead house, under
the supposition that he was dead.
j. Everett Alden, Torrington, Conn, is very
anxious to have the address or any other in
formation of one Robert Sneden.
Correspondence.
Charles A. Knox Sergeant, Cos K and D, 9th
n. Y. II. A., Marshall Mimi, says that he has
not heard or seen anything of the comrades OF
his regiment since the war, and would be
pleased to have them write to him.
Mrs Mary E. McCan, Elkland, Pa, wants to
hear from the soldiers who were stationed at
Camp Taylor and belonged 20 Capt Brggs's
company and who were acquainted with Wn.
Kerley; also, would like TO know their COM
pany and regiment.
John Greenwalt, East Dubuque, H., wonders
why the comrades of the 18th III. win persist
in keeping SO silent. He wants some of them
to write to him.
L. LANES, Co. E, sth Wis, Farmers Valley,
Neb., thinks that he has good reason to believe
that the old Live Eagle regiment has answered
to the asst rOllcal as he never sees any COM
munieation from them in this paper.
w. M. Jones, Co. G, I'd Kan. Cav Peace
Greek. Kan, wants to communicate with some
of his old comrades.
John McLane, Co. E. Sd Md. Cav, National
Military Home o., wants to hear from some of
the comrades who recolect him while in the
service.
Jacob May field, CO. K, 18th KY, Whitesboro,
Tex, says it has been more than four years
since he has seen any of the comrades of his
company, aud would like to correspond with
them, or see something in the paper from their
pens.
Frederick Buser, I'd Mo-, Mansion House.
Lock wood, Mo-, would like TO hear from his old
comrades.
Corrections and Criticisms.
R. B. Alexander, Co. G, 111th Ohio, Bellevue,
O., says that Comrade John r. Perrine, Co. /,
56th Ill.,, is mistaken when he says that the
Fourth Corps occupied the works ON the right
OF the Columbia Pike at Franklin The writer
SAYS that the Second Brigade, Second Division
right of the pike, and was commanded by Col
Moore of the 25th Mich, and that the IIIth
Ohio was on the left OF the line. He states
that the troops on the left of his regiment gave
way under Cleburne's desperate charge leaving
the flank of the 111th without any protection,
but they held the works until the troops re-
formed their line and protected the flank
Godfrey Jerue, Co. B, 5th Iowa. says that
the statement made in recent issue that the
first troops crossed the Tennessee River at Mis-.
sion Ridge pontoon boats and the rest on
the pontoon bridge is wrong. The writer SAYS
they all crossed in the boats before the bridge
was laid and the first to cross was the cavalry.
then the artillery. This was in the forenoon
of Nov. "a, 1863
ID. b. Hunnicutt, Co. d, 10Th Ohio, Lawrence,
Kan, corroborates Comrade Hoover's statement
that Van Zandt was the youngest enlisted sol
der and he belonged to Co. D. 18th Ohio He