The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-03-14

still alive" The name on the plate is Ii. a.
Rock, Co. A, 177th Ohio. Here is some grape
aud canister shot. The top of the can has been
removed to show the little balls. This book is a
fac-simile Of George Washington's bookkeeping
in account with the United States. We will
not try to enumerat6 the different old papers
we have here, for there are too many. But
there are a few we aust mention, such as the
Daily CaieeR, printed at Ficksburg on wall
paper, July 2, 1863. The Ulster County N. W
Gazette containing the account OF the entomb-
ing Of Gen. George Washington, and a paper
printed by the Sixth Corps at Danville, Va,
May 5, 1865. Three letters written by three
great men-Abraham Lincoln, Horace Greeley
and Charles Sumner Here is something that
a person would hardly look for in this place,
three leaves that were pluckcd from tree on
the battlefield Of New Hope Church, Georgia,
on the 9th day Of May, 1864, by Comrade w.
p. Mcdowell, 124th Ohio, and sent to Mrs.
Aettie Mcdowell. We have some envel-
opes used in Tennessee with c. s. A. stamps
on, two 5 cent stamps, JEFF Davis's picture.
They are directed to Miss Mary J. Montgom-
cry, Cleveland, Tenn; postmark Shelbyyille,
Tenn. 4 pipe found in the headquarters of
Gen. Crittenden, presented to the State by
Gen. George III. Thomas. Fragment Of brick
from Fort Sumter. Piece of rope made OF bed
ticking by Gen. John Morgan to assist him to
escape from the Ohio Penitentiary. The next
thing is something that nearly every soldier
carried that was anyway tidy about his clothes;
it IS 4 needle-case, or soldiers companion, and
some called them their wife. This one is quite
large; the back is of light leather, lined inside
with calico, with numerous pockets and places
to stick pins and needles. There is part of a
paper of needles in the companion, and they
are SO large that the womenfolks would call
them hand spikes; but that is the kind the old
soldier wanted. This case is about five inches
wide and u long, and made to roll up and
carried in the pocket 1t was carried by c. w.
Matthias during his entire service Of three years
and nine months. 1t was given him by his
mother.
Pocketbooks and diaries? Why, these are
only few that remain of those that were sent
to the State during the war. They were given
TO the friends who claimed them. Some of
these we have, You will see, have been left here
by the owners, as they know they are safer
here than they would be in their own posses
sion. Here is a needle-case, poeketbook, Tes-
lament and picture of John T. Rightly, sd
Ohio, who was killed at Bentonville, n. G.
They were placed here by his mother, as she
said they were safer here than in her own
hands, as she had no permanent residence. /
will not try to tell you of ALL rs there are about
p of the pocbetbool1s, Testaments diaries and
portfolios. Hero are three photos and one da-
guerreotype picked up on battlefelds; q tin
type found on the battlefield at Gettysburg in
the rear Of Cemetery Hill, Immediately after
the heavy artillery duel. 1t represents 4 SOL
der, young boy and lady. The photos are
of soldiers, two of them young boys and the
other an officer. The two daguerreotypes are
of ladies, one quite young. And photo not
found on the battlefield, but of Capt. Benjamin
Leroy, soldier of 1912, veteran of Lundys
Lane, who died at the Soldiers Home at Day
ton, at the age Of I0I years.
We have mentioned but few of the articles
IN this case, but enough to give you an idea
and the kind, and we will pass to the other
one.
We have quite variety of coin but not
enough to brag on. The Oldest two shilling,
Danish, 17l9. There are two many TO speak OF
each one, but here are two small pennies, struck
by bullet while in the pocket of John Dalis,
18th Ohio. They are welded together so Sc
curely that it would take hammer to break
them apart. A few pieces of the old shin
piasters," or fractional currency, cotton pods,
silk c0cO0ns, Confederate 10 and 20 cent post
age stamps; little piece Of marble cut in the
shape of a book, picked up on the battle
field of Antietam. Slides made to wear on
neckties, made out of beef bones by prisoners
on Belle Island. Union and rebel soldier
buttons. Piece Of shell that burst in the
pilot-house Of the United States gunboat
St Louis at the battle OF Fort Donelson, Feb.
IL, 1862, killing Frank Riley, Pilot, and wound
ing Commodore a. III. Foote in the foot, from
the effects of which he afterward died The
piece was picked up Immediately after the ex-
plosion by David Cone, who was on board the
boat at the time. Chip from the Merrimac A
piece Of stave that was being worked into a
barrel at the Ohio Penitentiary, that had to be
taken out, as the bullet you see in it spoiled it
the wood was shipped from the State of GeOr-
gia, and that accounts fer the bullet being
there. A piece of the oak tree under which
Pemberton surrendered to Grant at Yicksburg
it is made up in the form of book Piece OF
the Charter Oak" Piece of the first Repub-
lican hagpole ever raised south of Mason &
Dixon's Line, at Vale Summit. Nd, raised dur
ing the Lincoln campaign, 1860. Block OF
wood taken from the old Constitution while
being repaired in 1880. Block of wood cut
from the British ship Minden, on which was
composed the National song, "Star-Spangled
Banner" We ask the young reader, Who wrote
that beautiful song, and how it came to be writ
ten at ali? We will look for the answers in the
young folks column in THE NATIONAL TRIs-
UNE.
There are an hundred other things in this
case, but we have now tried the patience OF
our friends long enough, and think we had bet
ter close by asking one and all to make our
Flag and Relc-Room visit when you come To
the city of Columbus. We will at some future
time write some Of the incidents that transpire
in these rooms, that will be interesting as well
as amusing CROwELL, superintendent
Flag and Relic-Room, Columbus, o.