The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-01-31
PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.
information Asked and GiTen.

W. B. Primmer, Co. F, 64th n. Y, Coleridge,
Neb., would like to have some comrade inform
him if the Irish Brigade was in the battle of
Fair Oaks on May 80. The writer knows it
was there on the day after
w. L. Sanford, Chana, ILL.,, would like to
know the address of anyone who can tell him
the whereabouts or fate of Lyman Lamb, who
enlisted in Co. G, 7th Ill, in July, 1861, and
was discharged May 6, 1862.
ii. j. Blaisdell, 0akdale, Fla, says that if any
comrade who desires q cure for the opium habit
will send him 4 stamped envelope, he will send
him a sure remedy for both that and the NOR
phine habit.
Fred P. Bailey, Co. E, 5Oth Ohio, Bordeaux,
Neb., would like to hear from any Comrade of
the 50th Ohio who can remember the circum-
stances of the writer crushing his ankle on the
march between Columbia aud Lebanon, KY.
The names of the soldiers with him at the time
were Henry Volentire, Henry, John and Gar
rett Van Zant Max Newman, VIM. Andrew,
John Beck and Milton Foster.
E. II. Sampson, Batteries B and L, I'd 0. s.
l.. A., Joliet Ill., wishes to know how many
members of the above batteries remember see
ing the rebel cavalry in their camp at Cedar
Creek on the 18th of October 1864, and would
like also to see description of how they got
out of the scrape.
Hiram Mcpherson, Harveyville, Kan, will
give the friends of Ralph S. Otis, of New York
occurred in the Cumberland Hospital, Nash
vile, Tenn, in 1864.
John w. Manning, Salineyille, O., would like
to hear from any persons who can tell him any
thing about Daniel Stout, who served in the
war of 1872. His widow, Catharine Stout, is
living, and is 81 years old She is in destitute
circumstances, and has no record of his service.
He enlisted when young man, and was mar
ried some years after his return from the war.
If anyone can inform the writer what State he
enlisted from, ETC., he will confer great favor.
Correspondence.
James II. Pollard, Middleport, N. Y, would
like to hear from any of his comrades of Co. 6,
1st N. Y. Engineers
Joseph E. Layton, Sergeant, Co. Fl, LIST N. J.
Cav, Branchville, N. j., would like to hear
from any comrades of the 37th n. Y. Irish
Rifles. or the LIST n. j. Cav, who were detailed
one night in the Winter of 1861, 50, to make a
raid on rendezvous of bushwhackers on the
banks of the Opequan. The bushwhackers
made their headquarters at the Colchester
House. The detail that made the raid was
composed of 60 men of the 37th n. Y. and II OF
the LIST N. J. Cav.
| A. Barnhart, Co. 81, 35th Ind, Brooks, Kan
would like to hear from any members of his
regiment.
| ]. T. Mcneil, Captain, Co. II, 65th H., As
| toria, H., would like to correspond with any
| comrades who remember him IA Castle Thun-
der in the Winter of 1868, and especially with
the man who worked with him on the tunnel
If the writer remembers Alright, he belonged tC
| the I'D Pa. Reserves. Comrade Mcneil was
confined in the east room on the second floor
where the iron cage was situated. He would
also like to hear from the man who traded uni
forms with him while he was in Libby, as thai
! was the means of his making his escape He
was transferred to that place Dec, %, 1863 ani
got away two days later