The National tribune., 1890-10-16
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.
Lost and Found.

| 20, ISbZ, ana Wnlle lying unconscious had taken
| from his belt fine - caliber revolver, which
| he is anxious to recover.
| VIM. II. Stewart. 1st Me. Cav. has the dis
charge of Isaac Barker, Co. A, I'd W. Va.
John Leary, Sparta, H.. lost silver fife in
st. Louis in 1864, with his name on it. He
| will reward the finder.
p. MARI Box ~, Lachine Locks, Quebec,
lost during tho Encampment at Boston, in front
of the Crawford House, on fremont street.
| gold plated Past Commanders badge, eagle
pendant on official bar.
George w. Diman 10th r. l., Bristol r. T.,
| lost mt the Boston Encampment silver badge
marked First" Brigade, Second Division,
| Ninth Army Corps.
W. J. Scriggins, Golden, Colo, has the dis
charge of George A. Welland, 112th N. Y.
| T.. A. Ellis, Springdale Ark, has a shoulder
strap which he thinks belonged to Capt Bivins,
| Co. b, 9th Iowa, and which was found by Com
rade Moriarty, of that regiment.
| w. II. Barnes, 1st N. Y. battery Havana n
! Y, will pay any reasonable amount for the
return of spy-gass lost at general hospital,
! Hagerstown, Nd, which had his name engraved
on it,
! r. J. Tanner, ~ Pearl street. Paterson, N. j.,
| has diary which he thinks belonged to Carlos
G. Hinckley, 18th or 4th VT.
Russell Thornburg, New Market, Tenn, has
| the discharges of John r. Ward, Co. 3, Ist
Ohio ii. A., and Milburn NJ. Cowser Co. III, I'd
| U. s. Vols
W. II. Waller, CO. K. 35th H., lost his dis.
| charge and travelling valise while on the way
to Washington. d. G., IL months ago. He
thinks that it went by mistake to Portland,
Orc.
The NATIONAL TRIBUNE has the discharge
of David Haugh, Co.,E, LIST V. Il. G.
Lot the Comrades Respond.
L. T. Donoghoe Co. b. 69th N. Y, $40 Warren
street. Brooklyn, wants someone to send him
the poem composed by Dr. Laurence Reynolds,
63d n. Y, which was read to the brigade on st.
Patricks Day, 1863
j. A. Haslet, kokomo. Ind, wishes copy of
tho poem What the Privates Did, which WAS
published in THE NATIoSAL TRIBUNE quite
| "a while ago.
ID. II. Robson, Co. F, Doth Ohio, Shane's
Crossing, o.. says that when his command lay
ut a small town in Tennessee in 1863, citizen,
who afterwards proved to be- rebel spy, came
into camp selling song the first line OF which
ran AT Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where Bragg
drew up his forces" Has any eomrade that
soug2
Comments and Corrections.
w. g. Tiff, Co. O., 18th U. s.. East Doug
| las, Mass. thinks COmrade John Glynn showed
considerable ignorance when Inc said it was i'm
possible for the writer's regiment to have been
diminishing with Ewell OH the right OF the
| turnpike on the morning of May 3, 1864 and
| that it was at least % or 80 miles from Germa-
/
sible for the Fifth Corps 10 march that distance
| from ii O'Clock on the Sd of May until the
| evening OF tho Attn or morning OF the 9Th and
| IN the second place, it is but five miles in
| straight line along the Gsrmania road to where
| It crosses the Orange turnpike. The writer
| gives Gen. Michier and his actual survey as
authority. lie has the map, and will be- pleased
| 20 send 10 10 Comrade Glynn, and he eau meas
| ure the distance for himself Gen. Grant says
| the Fifth Corps crossed on the morning of the
| 4th aud was followed by the Sixth and Swim
| ton, in his History of the Army of the PotO-
! mac, says the same. and also that the Second
| Corp crossed at Elys Ford. III Hancocks
Corps crossed on the 4th Tilt asks whore the
rebels came from who fired their guns to give
| warning when the head of the column entered
! the river on the 9th.
| T. G. Kempshall CO. F. Saith ILL.,. New Brit
ain, Conn. baviog noticed n communication Of
| Comrade w. w. Martin, Of the G5th Ill, in
| which he states that two of his neighbors were
compelled TO eat cats aud dogs in Camp Doug
| las while prisoners OF war, does not believe
such thing happened. and If &c had not been
| told by reverend OF Christian church he
would use more emphatic language. When the
| war broke out the writer and two brothers were
| living at Knoxville. aud his elder brother
| joined kaiu's battery aud fought through the
war, except during the time he WAS prisoner
aI Camp Douglas. for his battery was captured
! Rt Cumberland Gap. The writer says his
brother told him that the best living be had
| while fighting for the lost cagss" WAS at
| Camp Douglas.
| G. S. Yawger Co II, 4th Mich Jerome,
| Mich, says in answer 90 the Hon. John Tars-
| ueys speech ia tho House in August last, he
| did not say that he was acquainted with the
| Congressman before aud after his service in
| the army, but did Say he know him while a
volunteer in tho 9TH Mich; that lie not
| wounded at Gettysburg and not prisoner in
| Andersonvlle, and he now repeats the same.
The writer never saw Mr. TaTsney In Ander-
| sonville, but did know him from the time ho
| came to the regiment as recruit in 1862, until
| they left Belle Isle in the Spring OF 1854. If
| Mr. Tarsney will inquire of Timothy Burch
! aud w. X. Fuller. OF his own company. good
| soldiers ever carried a mnsket. If they re-
| member the writer at Andersouville and il he
| tEnrsney) was wounded at Gettysburg. ne will
! perhaps learn something more than no appa-
| reHtly knows OF his own mill tGry career.
| w. wilkins, Go. IL, 18th Pa, kanesholm,
| Pa, says Comrade Maxfieid, ith VI. attempted
| TO take all the credit for breaking through the
! rebel lie st Petersburg, April ,, l565. The
| writer wants the cOmrade To remember that the
! Ninth Corps was there, and he would like to
| know where one division OF the Sixth Corps
| would have been if the Ninth Corps had not
! been III the proper position To help them. The
| writer's company had 90 men in line that morn
| ing and lost 20 in the fight while the other
|
| does not claim that they did it all, but they
| certainly did al much as any other command
in breaking the rebel line.
| Il. L. Gill. Co. b, S5th Ind, Colorado Springs
| Colo, replying to w. Nj. Clark in tho Picket
| Shots, Sept. 4, says he was present on the Sat
urlay night preceding the retreat of Braggs
| Army from Murfreesboro. On that night Co.
| b had only seven enlisted men left, and they
| were put in Co. l. aud under their own Captain,
| w. V. Yoris, went into tho charge. Gill does
not remember the loss, but Col. George Hum
| phrey was bay0neted. The writer stands cor
rected 10 his omission of the 10th Ohio in
| his brigade
| Pleasant Hill and the Crossroads.
M. NJ. Clother, 3lst Mass. says j. f. Caters
statement of facts relating To the battles of Sa
| bine Crossroads and Pleasant Hill is manly AS
| becomes true soldier, in strong contrast to
| Bryson's war literature. Clothier was with the
mounted infantry at Sabine Crossroads, and
| claims that statement thus tar relating to
| that battle has done Justice To the brave men
| who led the van on that Inflated 9Th of April,
| 1864 No troops could have made u more heroic
| fight than did the Thirteenth Corps. The sim
| gle division of tho Nineteenth Corps deplOyed,
! under the most trying circumstances, in the
| face of victorious enemy. He well remem-
| bcrs passing through their lines--perhaps i've
| minutes before their first volley-and near
| Gen. Emory aud hearing that gallant officer
| exCaim, The Nineteenth Corps never have
| been whipped. aud Im - If they'll be