The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-01-02

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medal Issued by the State of Ohio to William
III. Brelsford, Co. II, 10th Ohio.
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE has the discharge
of james Clary, Co. K, I'D N Y, dated June
20, 1864, and issued from Washington, d. O.
Random Shots.
?. J. Condor, Irish Brigade Arkansas City,
Kan, thinks that THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE is
the ablest edited paper circulated in the inter-
est of the Union soldier. He thanks it very
sincerely for the ability and energy with which
IL 30 persstently urges and prOclaims the just
ice which should have been rendered the vet
erans and for the gallant efforts in advocation
of the fulflment of promises by the Govern
ment in the future.
David Fox, Quincy, H., was q prisoner in
AndersOnville, and sends the following copy Of
the order issued by John III. Winder in regard
to opening fire on the prisoners if Sherman's
army approached within certain distance:
HEADQUARTERS MILITARY PRISON,
ANDEEsoSvILLE, GA, July q. 1864
Tho officers on duty and in charge Of the battery
of Florida artillery mt the time WILL upon receiving
notice that the enemy has approached within
seven miles of this post, open upon the stoekade
with grapeshot, without reference to the situation
beyond the lines OF defense.
- JoHE IT. WrNDER,
BrigaderGeneral Commanding
II. G. Ford, Co. I, 753stfr~A. Y, Carroll, Iowa,
has been a reader of this paper for y ;2nrnber OF
years, and would like to inquire what has be-
come Of the members of his old brigade lie
has not seen one of them in 10 years although
he has attended several State Encampments
and Reunions during that period. He wants
to know what ever became Of Col Nelson Tay-
Tor and Col Austin. The men of his regiment
had rather hard name as fOragers and several
Suffers wagons got accidentally upset along
their front at different times but, as one of the
brigades of Fighting Joe Rockers" Division,
they also had an enviable record. The COM
l.. H. Al
selves heard through these columns.
b. +. Rawson, Co. +, I'd Mass Cav, Fresno.
Cal, advises comrades who desire new homes,
and have few hundred dollars, to como to
Fresno aud the Joaquin Valley, aud go to work
at raising grapes. 1t is very profitable bust
ness in that section.
Thomas G. Arnold, 122d Ohio, Millersburg. o.,
thinks that the battle of Cedar Creek was one
of the most singular fights Of the war, on ae-
count Of the numbers engaged and the complete
victory at first TO the rebel arms and afterward
their total rout His regiment was on the ex-
IRENE right of the Sixth Corps west of the Val
ley pike, while the Eighth and Nineteenth
Corps lay east of the pike. The first intimation
the regiment had that the enemy was around
was a few shots to the right on the picket-line.
But the sound had hardly died away when a
roll of musketry broke out along the pike, and
everything became noise and confusion. The
Sixth Corps hastily formed and advanced to-
ward the pike, but was soon forced to fall back
to where it had first formed, while the Eighth
and Nineteenth Corps were hurled pel-mell
down the pike northward, leaving everything
to the rebels. The Sixth Corps lay in line for
several hours, expecting to be attacked. Mean
time the rebels had ample opportunity to take
everything that belonged to the two scattered
corps and get back across Cedar Creek but in
stead of doing so, they busted themselves in
plundering the dead and wounded. until Sheri-
dan came up with such part of the two corps as
he could rally, and finding the Sixth Corps in
fair condition, attacked the rebels and routed
them as completely as they had, few hours
previously, routed the two corps mentioned.
with the difference that Sheridan captured and
kept nearly everything the rebels brought on
the field, thus turning victory into a most
disastrous defeat