The National tribune., 1890-09-11
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.
Information Asked and aI,nn.

cholera cure" 1t proved to be very valuable,
but she lost the recipe aud would like to have
someone send it to her.
Mrs. |. b. Sloan, Penn Van, N. Y, writes that
the family of Serg't Jewsbury, or Tewsbury,
3lst N. Y, who was killed in 1864, will hear
something to their advantage by addressing
her.
III. W. Merithew, Simon, Pa, has q copper
ring made from n piece of the old Merrimack
which he will sell to the first comrade who is
willing to pay a small price for such a relic.
Daniel Peace, Co. III, 18th KY, Foxvile ILL.,,
wants someone to tell him tho name of the
Sergeant commanding Is men who drove q
company of sharpshooters out of a house be-
tween our lines in front of Atlanta in August,
1864. He belonged to the writer's regiment.
IL. V. Hicks Volga, s. d., wants someone to
give him information ms to what brigade or
division did the Cd N. Y. MID Rifles belong,
its length of service in the different commands,
all the engagements, tho number of killed and
wounded or died of disease. Will some comrade
please furnish the informatiOn2
Lewis ii. Miller, Baltimore, Nd says that
tho Timothy Webster who was hung in Castle
Thunder, previous to the execution of Can't
Webster, was a shrewd English detective who
was with Pinkertons agency many years and
planned the trip Of President Lincoln through
Baltimore in 1861, and got the credit of saving
LinColns lifo from the "Pinkerton firm" 1t
but betrayed by some of the "chivalry." He
was from Onarga, H., whore several relatives
still 1.-Two. His widow lives in Sacramento, CAL
A. Z. Watson, Box ll2, New Wilmington, Pa,
wants Johnson's poem, "The Raiders and
Traders"
J. Il. Patterson, Co. K, 155th ILL.,, City Hall,
Springfield Mo-, wants tho song beginning
" Mother kissed me in my dream" -; also, tho
one beginning con the battlefield of the Cum
berland lay tho bodies Of 10000 men,"
John A. Hubbell, Co. G, 26th Mich, Ovid,
Mich, says that on May ~ 1864, Mt the break
of day, the First Division, Second Corps, formed
and advanced on tho rebel works Mt Spottsyl-
vania Courthouse, struck their works at an
angle and rolled the enemy back a long ways,
finally coming 10 stand at the Bloody Angle.
The writer was helping Off the field young
man who was wounded in the calf of the right
leg, when he was struck himself; then he told
the boy he would have to 90 on the best he
could. He would like to hear from that boy
now.
John Muller, 18th u g. Inf, Ansonia o.,
would like the address of Gen. II. F. CARING
ton.
Bridget McElroy, 10i Nelson street, Utica.
N. Y, wishes the address Of any comrade who
knew Robert McElroy, who served on some u.
5. vessel during the war, and who later be-
longed to GAR. Post in Lynn or Boston,
Mass.
GrONIs.
Peter Wallace Clinton, H., sends us an open
letter to Gov. Fifer complaining of the man
agement of the Soldiers Home at Quincy, one
item being that he az Chaplain and three other
officers were removed without cause and with
out n hearing, and that the Adjutant has been
asked to resign. The only reason for this he
alleges. Is their opposition 10 some of the
methods employed about the Home.
Monroe s. Denton, Saunders, Kan, Is deeply
angored at tho shameful way in which the
party in power is allowing tho public lands in
eastern Kansas to be stolen from actual set
tiers. lie thinks one of tho most fragrant
abuses Is tho way in which timber claims are
proved up where there is scarcely a semblance
OF timber. He cites one instance where man
proved up his claim, claiming 200 or 1900
trees. The officer allowed him to destroy the
trees, and then prove that they had been malici-
ously destroyed by someone else, and so he
got an extension OF time.
Samuel Langbein, Co b, 23d N. Y. Cav. 43s
West Seventh street, Cincinnati, o.. referring
to Maj. McKinley's statement at Boston that
the old soldiers made good bargain with the
Government during the war, says that the
ratiOns received from the Government were OF
the poorest kind, the meat often being such that
dogs would not have eaten IL, aud the few
dollars the veterans received were spent for
food, which they had to buy from suffers, while
comfortable beds and plenty TO eat, without
exposing their persons to danger.
Personal.
John England, Callao. Mo-, srraigns Gen.
Hatch the Congressman from that district. for
his failure to keep his pledge TO the old soldiers
about supporting pension bills. Gen. Hatch in
every campaign assures the veterans that he
will support their measures and then fails TO
do IL.
J, c. Linsey, 18th Ohio Ravenna, o., compli-
ments Maj. Mckinley very highly as friend
OF the soldier, and hopes that the comrades
Will do what they can To secure his election
N A. Chamberlain, Surgeon of the 18th Ind,
465 South Water street, Denver Col, seconds
Comrgde Readers motion about Mrs Arnold
He was the Hospital Steward at Beverly, VIVA.
Twenty nine men were in the hotel on the
corner across from the Arnold home, which
was used rs hospital after the Greenbrer and
Allegheny battles in 1861. Mrs Arnold was
frequent visitor, bringing what she could as
appetizer5 and making all feel her womanly
presence. At Christmas she brought about ali
Of her Winter apples, and with her own hand
and with Merry Christmas presented one
to each wounded comrade.
Lost aud Found.
Hasoy Lathrop, Peckville, Pa, lost a gold
headed cane at Boston, and will suitably reward
the finder. On the head was engraved, Pre-
sented To halsey Lathrop by the Union Ex-
Prisoners Association of Lackawanna Co., Pa
Patrick McGee, Alvord, Tex, lost his dis
charge from the gunboat Lexington at Horse
Creek, Ind. Ter, 10 years ago and now needs it.
Mcclure Preston, Olney, H., can procure tho
original discharges of the following: Michael
oBrien, Co. ID, Sth V. Il. c.; A. II. Blackf ford,
A, sd Ind; ID. NJ Greenwood, T., 9th Ill Cav;
Jesse Lands, A, I30th ILL.,; Daniel Smith, /,
SD Ind; John A. Wood, ID, Sth H.; Stephen
q. Foreman, i, 9Sth H. James Taylor, X, SD
ILL.,; John Heath X, 22d Ohio John Boyles,
d, 4th V. II. C.; Robert NJ. Carter, +, 10th III.
J. G.. Frazier, Adjutant, Post 49, GAR,
Rolla, Mo, has the discharges of Absalom NJ.
Wynn, Co. ii, SD Mo. Enrolled Militia; Al
phonsas Collins, Ii, 63d Mo. Enrolled Militia
Chas.-Spencer, Il, 9th Mo. Cav.
Homes for Settlers.
]. +. Baity, Howe, Tex, is an Illinois boy
who has made his home in the Lono Star State
and thinks it II fine country. Sherman is the
with population OF about l., 600
and is Il beautiful and thriving city, fast being
built up. 1t has good drainage, light and
water, electric railroads, five colleges besides
free schools great Ice factory, cotton seed-oi
factory and cotton factory i'll process of cree
ton. The railroad facilities arc good and good
crops of oats and corn are raised outside of the
town.
J. A. Trail Cedar City, Mo-, Co. f, 9TH Kan. |
Cav, cannot answer all the letters he received |
about his locality as settling place. Good crops
of wheat, hay and corn aud potatoes and light |
"a -. 4, II.