The National tribune., 1891-08-13
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.
At SpottsylyanIa Court House.

Samuel Miller, Co. G, Ist Conn. Cav, Birming-
ham, Conn, has looked in vain for an admission
from Gen. E.W Whitaker that the Union cavalry
took and occupied Spottsylvania Courthouse
and held il for some time during the morning
Of May 9, 1861. The writer was one Of the adj
vance. composed OF If men Of his company,
under Lieut.. w. II. Cook. They struck the
rebel pickets a mile from the Courthouse and
ran them in on the Fredericksburg road but
soon found themselves into a hornets nest, and
halted on hill overlooking the town from tho
east. The rebel artillery and cavalry in the
Courthouse opened fire on them, covering the
retirement Of a wagou-train on the road run
ming south. Col. Whitaker came up and told
them 10 hold their position that he would
send support, which be did after long time.
Then they got to the Courthouse and held il
about two hours, until forced to retire by Long
streets Infantry.
They Are Lonely.
Prof s. L. Yost, Soldiers Home, Dayton, o.,
is n soldier with fTst-class education, and de-
sires 20 correspond with some woman Of refine
ment aud good taste. who must also belong 70
some church. He has enough 10 support her
nicely in case the correspondence should end IN
matrimony.
j. b. Harris. Panacea, Mo, has home in
southwest Missouri and lives all alone. He
wants some old eomrade with pcusion) and
fers Baptist and Republican. References ex-
changed.
The Smallest Yet.
F. Z. RuR, Co. I, Goth H., Aurora, Kan,
thinks he has the smallest wife. She measures
80 inches in hight and weighs so pounds. She
is 3G years old, has had two children, and wears
No. - shoes, children's size.
Captured the SanShiHe.
Henry c. Denny, Comanche, Tex, has read
Comrade j. h. McChesuey's article about Col.
Mulligan's surrender at Lexington, No. The
18th Ind was on its way up the Missouri River
with other Indiana troops when the affair hap
pened. Just before they got to Glasgow there
was considerable trouble among the troops, and
all tho boats pulled back for BOonville except
the one on which the writer's regiment was.
The morning after the trouble this command,
under Col. Henry ID. Washburu, pulled on up
the river toward Lexington, and near Glasgow
captured the steamer Sunshine, that COmrade
McChesney says was taken by the rebel
Col. Martin Green, with the Il men whom
MulIigan sent down the river. The 18th Ind.
manned the boat fired up, and went back down
the river. This happened 80 years ago, but the
18th Ind. has received no prize money from the
Government for the capture Of the steamer.
Information Asked and Given.
r. A. David, Laclede. Mo, is anxious 20 hear
from the Secretary Of the Regimental Organ
iZatiOn Of the 18TH Ohio, as he desires to get 2
badge.
James Armstrong Oneonta, Cal, wants to
know by letter the date Of the capture Of four
steamers that were enticed into Cape Fear
River after the battle of Fort Fisher. Lieut..
Cushing, Of the Navy, was in the fort aud sig
nailed to the blockade runners 10 come in; that
they were all right One of the prizes was
close alongside Of the Seneca, and their crew
was substituted for one from the Union gun
boat. He wants to know what became OF the
steamers captured.
J. III. Sawyer, Co. u, 18th Conn, Whining
ton, H., is looking for location rs y photog-
raphcr in a growing town in the West or
South, where he could also procure little land
TO work. He would like 10 hear from some
cOmrade who knows Of such q situation.
w. III. Sallada, Santa Barbara. Cal. wants 10
know where he can get a poem called The
Return Of the Standards and a book entitled
Campfire Sketches and Battle Echoes"
w. +. GLADDEN., Co. +, 9th Ohio Perrysville,
o., wants the address Of the cOmrade in Ala
| bama whose signature to an article in q recent
issue was j. q. Clark, Co. C. 10th Ill.
Ii. S. Smythe, WO0nsOcket, s. d., asks where
he can get a copy Of Stovens5 Three Years in
the Sixth Corps"
A. CARLY, Co C, 1st Tex. Cav, Cedar, Tex,
wishes to be informed by the comrades scattered
over the western part Of Texas. where, and in
"ldL Apuuttcor no NCt uA.d oAabNf 'tllOblf
university, or asylum lands for settlement.
Comrades inclined to respond TO this will DO a
special favor if they answer per letter and give
q description of the land, whether suitable for
farming purposes, and if healthful.
Why Don't They Yriiel
James b. Frazier, 42d Ohio, Locks Springs.
No. wants TO know why the comrades Of his
regiment do not write 10 THE NATIONAL Tam
UNE little more.
Joseph Kline, 40 West Fullerton avenue,
Chicago, ILL.,, has never seen anything from the
| l3Ist n. Y. aud would like to hear from it, es-
| peeially from the boys OF Co. X.
Josiah Bennett, Co. G., 18th Ill. Cav, Grafton,
Neb., would like to have some one of his regi-
ment write up the doings Of the organization.
He calls on Capt. O'COnnen and Lieut.. Knox,
| Of his company.
Al. Hugus, Smithyille, s. d., eagerly scans
| the columns Of the paper each week for some
| thing from the old 10th Ohio. lie does not
/ think they need be ashamed 10 put their doings
in writing.
! pnhart Shnnlar uarunrl Mob asl.s Il thnra