The National tribune., 1889-12-12
ONE OF OUR CONSTITUENTS.
What Pennsylvania Nan Thinks Of Our Paper.

AAaA y FeHhH3lAaHia nan Ihtnkb OF Our Paper.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: ! would re-
fpectfuily state that il requires more time 10
read ali Of your very interesting paper than /
had calculated On. ! receive half as much
more pBper than ! had expected and many,
very many times more reading matter directly
Interesting 10 the survivors Of the great Yankee
Armies, well as TO the gallant SOuthrOHs who
confronted as on the fields Of Virginia aud
elsewhere. ] had from some cause imagined
TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE a sort Of siid. selfish,
and - far az the interest Of the x-sOidieT was
Concerned. half hearted sheet, occasionally
reaching down from SIS perch 20 accept some
contribution 81 interest 70 the great body only:
Tot deigniHg 10 notice the Individual soldier
and only when pcnBed by one Of more prOmi-
neDce than many Of Us obtained in military or
civil life. But, instead, find the opposite Of
ali this; a journal which the most obscure Of
the line may approach respectfully, with full
assurance that lie will be cOurteoHsly dealt
with. ] am, 70 say the least, in love with IT,
30 also ID my wife, who used 10 sometimes init
mate that ] was about the only returned sol
der that cared 10 speak Of McClellan's guns IN
tic seven days battles, % the bugles Of AHtie.
tam and Fredericksburg, or the horrors Of
prison life It AudersoByiile aud Florence; az
times lntimaiing. too, that twas idle talk. But
nOt 50 how, as she seems a. deeply interested
IN our military adairs Of those days as myself
And MY daughter, the whole family, as she
terms herself Sgho accompanied INC last Sum-
meT % South Mountain, Antietam aud Gettys-
burg, Is partial 10 this great soldiers publ
cation as 10 her FTe5ide Companion. Conse-
eucHtly, ] suppose u VIII fnd welcome IN
OBr place Of abode As long az VIC are an organ
lzatlOn. was most aHluily pleased to Gnd tile
child 20 years Of age taking as much interest
lD localities, etc, the fields as myself aud il
could think nay joitings might interest some
81 ny Old comrades ] might with permission
ErrrFfs- zE-s 80
etc, Of where cur brigade stood az Antictam.
readily found where cur regiment fought. in
front Of tic famous CorBGeld near the Haecrs-
town pike. But at South Mountain ] was less
fortunate, mainly for want Of time though AZ
i expect 10 . move on the Mountain in force
next Sumner, ] shall find tho place On ton Of
The mountain where our regiment stood when
firing ceased On Sunday evening, Sept. il. 1862
Our regiment 9Th Pa Deserves fought 10 Tie
night Of al old red clay road, down which We
marched next morning toward BO0nsboro and
AHtictam. II i but knew what part Of our line
occupied this old road way. ] could better locate
Our position. / think some Of the gallant old
9th Reserves, which lost 70 heavily there eouJd
tell tne Who fought Oh this road Nav / hear
from you, pleasey aud shall be under ob!iga-
Ion 10 you. While our division was filing 10
the right away from Tie pike preparatory TO
advancing up the mOHutaiu-sidc a battery ar
single gun opened On our column from the
mounlain-top. Livery man Of the division
present remembers the circumstances esnccialIv
tue men Of the 7tb aud eth, because lust az our
flag was passing between house aud barn he
You'd the little church. a shot struck in the
barnyard, knocking the manure higher tlan
The barn. aud two or three women ran scream.
ing out Oh the porch, one carrying an infant
aud our men called 10 them 10 20 into the eel
lar ] have often since thought tie battery was
pianied ia that old roadway Could some Of
The division tell whether il was soy Or posi-
bly some Of Gen. Lees gunneTs could give the
Information. II would afford one some salts
faction 10 stand AZ that point next Summer
aha notice how far cur column was away.
Lastly respectfully request, a great favor,
that the occupants of the roadway IeII mo WHO
tbey Were.-B. ALEXAKDER Sergeant. Co G
1th ia. Reserves, 25z7 North Ninth St., PhiIa.
delphia.