The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-08-07

that there was no organization called Kings
| Division at either the FIRST or second crossing
| rs Gen. King never resumed command after
| Gen. Hatch assumed it Aug. %, 1862 Gen.
Hatch being wounded at South Mountain Sept
| il, 1862, Gen. Doubleday succeeded to the COM
mand and retained it until after the battle Of
| Fredericksburg, when the first crossing was
| made. 1t was probably this crossing Lieut.
Wetmore had in mind, but how he got Gen.
Wadsworth mixed up with it the writer cannot
imagine. He was thinking of one crossing and
Col. Dawes was writing Of another. At the
second crossing in April, 1863, Gen Wadsworth
commanded the First Division and made the
crossing rs described by Col. Dawes, but Lieut.
WetmOre's regiment did not belong to the
division. Tie division consisted OF two bril-
gades, the First under Gen. Meredith and the
Second under Gen. Cutler. Col Dawes omitted
to mention the fact that the 5Gth Pa engaged
the enemys piCkcts, and under the cover Of
their fire the gallant Western boys made the
crossing.
r. p Stowe, Perry. H., wishes to correct
COmrade X. M. Akin, Co. b, 33d H.. in regard
to the burning of Prentiss Miss. The 33d I'll.
and 18th Wis. were the only regiments in the
expedition, "a the 9th and 18th Ind. wero not
brigaded with them until afterwards, and the
9th Ill. was not then an organization, being
raised in August 1862 aud joining them in the
Winter of 1862, 49, at West Plains Mo. The
boats the expedition went down the yer upon
were the Iatan aud the Ahambra, the ram
Queen of the West being lashcd between the
two. At Bolivar the boats were fired into by
both the infantry and artillery and the rebels
again made attack 81 Prcntiss. The result
was the killing Of three men of Go. J. ono Of Co.
Il, and the wOundiug of another. The ram at
once engaged the battery, aud soon silenced 1T.
Prentiss was then burned in retaliation for
these guerrilla attacks.
S. H. Martin, Commander Of G. A. Arthur
Post, 81, Department Of Colorado and Wyom-
ing, Sundance, Wyo says that the statement
that Chas. Van Wyck was Colonel Of the 15Oth
N. Y. was mistake. Van Wyck was Colonel
of the seth N. Y, and Lieut. Col. Jordan was
the first Lieut. Colonel of that regiment and
resigned in 1862, and Maj. Wheeler succeeded
him; on Wheelers resignation Mai. Tyler was
promoted, and upon the promotion of Col.
Tyler, Maj. Smith was made Lieutenant Colo
mel. The writer knows this, because he served
three years in the seth n Y
S. +. Sprague, 9Th Mass, was in the pontoon
train at Joiner's Ford, the graphic description
OF which was given by Ned Buntine recently
The writer remembers Ned and his scouts of
the lst n. Y. MID Rifles and the IIth Pa Cav.
and Coils. Dodge, Forster and Beck, aud more
than all, the Biackwater. The 18th Ind was
their pet regiment, and he would like to hear
from IFS members.
C. p Mears Co. r. 18th Pa Cav. Newberry.
Pa. having seen the statement of John Fox,
Co G, i02d Ohio, that Gen Sheridan started on
his famous ride with about % men, that all the
horses gave out but two. and that John O.
Monroe Co. E. 81 w. Va Cav, was one of the
men who went through with the General, SAYS
that his recollection of the affair is that Sherf-
dan left Winchester with $50 men, nearly all
of them being Of the 18th Pa Cav, which at
that time was on detached duty at Winchester
He knows that Franklin Beeber, Co. II, nth
Pa. Cav, went through with the General; and
he states that after the battle there were seven
men with the General who got to the front,
and remained with Sheridan until ordered 20
report to their command Col. Burland is liv-
ing. and the writer knows that he will sub
stantiato what the writer says. Beeber died on
July 3, 1865.