The National tribune., 1889-04-25

/ calls. ~ ln O. Is. Isi ARK Cav. The writer
/ weld likc 90 hear from Comrade Feeder, or
i his uile 10 be 81 dead.
! Charles H. Golden, Co IT, 19lst Pa, Wind
+ Ridge, pa, was taken prisoner at Reams Sta
I ton, Va. in August, 1864. aud was confined In
a rebel prison seven months, returning home
| more dead than alive He saws that ever since
/ his terrible experience there he he has been
| physical wreck.
NJ F. Murphy, Co. 7, 10th No Cav, Oak Ill.,
! No, was taken prisoner in January, 1864, and
! in company with about 100 Others put on board
! a train at Meridian. Miss, their destination be-
! ing Cahaba and Andersonyille, but while en-
route the writer managed to escape through
I car window. The rebels tracked the writer
and cOmrade named Bolliuger, who escaped
at the same time. with boodhounds. and final
! ~ captured them after Bollinger had been Sc
verely bitten. They were taken back to Me-
! ridian, and the writer was put into the stock
ade, while Boilinger was sent to the hospital.
The writer escaped finally ia August, 1864
Personal.
John Kelly, Battery T, ID q. s. Art, An
derson, Ind, was on detached service with 0.
a. Busard, Of Marion, O., in Battery VI, 1st Mo.
/ L. A., from 1861 10 1854 aud has often heard
/ COmTade Busard speak OF his service in the CO.
lumbia Light Artillery, of South Carolina. He
/ regretted 1t very much, aud the service was re-
! pulsye to him. He was a mere boy, and as
6oDl az possible uGSGTlGu from the IGUci
and passed through untold trials in reaching
the Union lines at Louisville, KY, where he
/ joined the Union army and served faithfully
4 throughout the war lie was in all the battles
+ in which Co. NJ, 1st Mo. l. a, was engaged,
+ and was one of the best soldiers In the battery.
William II. Smith, Co. Z, 4th Mich, Perry
! vile, y. Y, is greatly pleased at the appoint
ment of Comrade Tanner as Commissioner of
! Pensions, and he knows that the veterans
/ throughout the country Will be glad when the
4 Corporal gets TO work on their claims, as he is
in favor of giving the soldier all the law enti-
+ ties him to, and will undoubtedly see that a
more liberal construction Of the pension laws
f is made.
/ G. W. Wright, Walcottville Ind, is 20 years
old, while his wife is 60 He was used up
/ in the late war; applied for pension in 1868,
but did not get it until three years ago, when
he was allowed the enormous sum of Is cents
/ day--the law allowing him only one-half disa-
/ bility. He cannot work, and has to pay 20
/ cents day for help TO run his farm. He thinks
4 the law should be changed so as TO allow per-
+ son who cannot work enough to hire farm
hand.
William II. Nations, Fredonia, Kans says
+ he is a member Of Post Ne. 800, Department of
/ Missouri, and went to Texas for his health.
He is the only Union soldier in that part of
+ the country, and would like to have some of
4 the comrades elsewhere write to him, as he is a
J. H Rice, Co. A. Goth Conn., Cheshire, Conn.
says that he lost his right arm at Bentonville,
and that Comrade George Warner, of Co. B of
+ the same regiment, lost both arms. He thinks
that man could get through life quite COM
! fort3bly with one arm, but says that 500 a
month pension is not equivalent to the loss of
/ both arms. Comrade Warner now resides at
! Gettysburg, Pa.
Corrections and Criticisms.
- n spl NJ.
/ o., says: . l notice in your paper of April II a
/ reference to sailors of the Kearsarge There
+ is one of them here in Ohio; his name is
/ Christian Ackermann, and his address is Sum
merford."
Lewis Horton, Co. (, 9TH Iowa, Richmond
/ Iowa, takes exception to an account by Charles
/ Z. Kimmel, Co. 6, Goth III. He has been q
/ silent reader of our paper for many years, but
4 this account OF the crossing of the 0ostanooa
! River near ReSaca Ga, May II, brings him out
OF his pup-tent. On the morning of May II the
/ 9Th Iowa was supporting Battery III, LIST No. /.
a. on the road TO Lays Ferry The pontoon
! train came up, unioaded, and four or five boats
were taken by two companies of the writer's
/ regiment several men being killed, while car
I rying the boats, By the enemys artillery. The
boats were placed in the water, his regiment
1 was ordered over the river and they were the
1 first that crossed at Lays Ferry, and the rebels
! gave them a warm reception.
j. II. Lassell, Captain, Co. f, 153d n. Y,
/ Lassellyille \. Y, says that the Sixth Corps
! has been trying for nearly two years to make
/ out that it did all the fighting at Cedar Creek.
Mrs. Sarah D. Carpenter North Ashford,
Conn. says that Charles Grouse is mistaken
| when he says that Gen. Lyon is buried in the
! National Cemetery near Springfield. Mrs Car
/ penter says that his body lies in the town of
Eastford, Conn, the place where be was born.
The writer says she knows what she is talking
I about, as size attended the funeral.
Horace Cole, Orderly Sergeant, Co. D, 1st
/ Kan, Lyons, Wis, corroborates the statement
/ that the Chronicle of the 1st Kan. was written
! by Comrade Frisby, of Co. G. The writer is in
! possession of a copy of the Chronicle Of the lst
Kan, No. 2, written by Richard Williams in
| the Fall of 1868 at Vicksburg. Comrade Cole
would like TO hear from members of his COM
pany.
W. McEvoy, Equality, H., SAYS an error was
/ printed in the issue of March % regarding the
/ death of Serg't VIM. S. Killer. As printed,
Serg't Killer was a member of Co. G, led H..
when it should have read 1921 n. Y.
Homes for Settlers.
III. 4. Cleveland writes from Washburn. No.
saying that although that section is not strictly
speaking, farming country, ample crops of
corn, wheat, oats, etc., can be raised and fruit
grown in abundance. He assures any eomrade
who may come TO that section that he will re-
there, and who have established GAR Post
that Is gradually growing in membership
w. II. Green, Co. B, Sth Ohio Cav Arkalon.
Kan, says that Seward is the third County east
OF the Colorado line and bordering on No Mans
Land, which IS adapted TO nearly all kinds of
crops; especially wheat and cane. Two s., 600
sugar mills are being built in the County. one
at Arkalon and the other at Liberal. Land is
/ cheap and Government ground may still be
taken up. For old soldiers looking for good
homes and having a little money there are
frst-elass chances if they come to this country.
w II. II. Pyle, Co. II, 81st Ind, Adyevilie.
Ind, was one of the eight men detailed from
his regiment to hold the rebel army at Resaca
while flank movement was being made. II
was very hot for a while, as there were only
about 600 in the detail. He thinks that the
command was composed of part of Whitaker's
Brigade, with the First Brigade Of the Third
Division, Fourth Corps
4. J. Wright, Serg't, 18th No. Cav, Mount
MoTiah, No, says that his regiment was on the
Powder River expedition, and that the men,
bers We're compelled to eat their own mules to
keep from starving, thereby dismounting most
Of the command
Random Shots
Eison Moore, Delta o., thinks " The Nation
al Tribune" Pension Bill the fairest measure
yet devised for the benefit of the old soldiers.
andrew J. Lepper, Co. F, 34th N Y. Rocf-
ester, \. Y, says he is glad that his old com
rades can now sing out, Corporal Of the Guard.
Post l" and be answered by Corp1 Tanner.
who will be on duty for the next four years at
least without bareback and salt horse ar Chick