The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1891-12-24

men by starvation than in the front. When
| Sheridan was making his raid the rebs think
/ ing that he was coming that way pat up a
| notice that every man who would 20 out and
work on their breastworks would receive extra
rAtiens. Comrade Petty is proud 70 say that
| not q man in Prison No. I went out to help
| them. When he arrived at Annapolis he
weighed 81 pounds Out OF % Of his company
| who were taken prisoners be was the only Que
| that returned. After Lees surrender. the
| Sixth Corps. of which he was member. was sent
down 10 North Carolina to head of Johnston.
On that march he visited DanvilIe prison.
where few months before he narrowly es-
capped death. AS he stood looking from the
prison window, a position which in former
days would have been sure death. he could see
the nOtChes cut In the casing; initials cut in
the posts and many other little points Of in
terest, which brought wildly to mind those
| terrible trials which the prisoners had to en-
durc.
The Capture OF Spanish Fort.
J. s. Peckham, Co. H. 9TH Vt. Aledo Tex,
says when the troops arrived within feeling
distance Of Spanish Fort, and had sent their
compliments in the way Of artillery. it stirred
up hornets nest that could not be quieted for
the rebels continued to throw iron among the
Union troops while they were building breast
works. The sharpshOOters annoyed them che
were handling. While standing near bomb
proof headquarters, the writer saw a mounted
/ Orderly struck by . solid shot, which took his
head from his body, and he rode so yards be-
fore he fell from his saddle. There was a
monitor in Mobile Bay which threw shot into
Spanish Fort, distance Of three miles, and he
has seen the balls travel through the air, max
ing dark streak about four feet long. One Of
these struck 10inch Columtiad and dis
mounted it, and he was told after the fort was
evacuated that il was done by the monitor.
The rebels used to throw chunks Of railroad
iron, whether through the cause Of necessity
the writer does not know, but they made
terrible noise as they came end over end for
| them.
Smiths to the Front.
w. Fl. II. Baker, Co. K, Sd Iowa Cav, Saint
Lawrence, 8. d., having noticed the contest
among the veterans "a TO what family furnished
the greatest number Of soldiers Of the same
name, Zone person giving H. and he believes
| that the cOmrade was from IllinoiS) but be
| thinks that he will have to knock under TO the
| glorious Iowa, from which the writer's family
hailed. He does not think that there will be
o dispute as to the claim that the family to
/ which he belongs furnished more soldiers than
/ any other. There was scarcely regiment in
| the service that did not have their family name
/ On its muster roll, AMI they ranged all the way
| from private to ajOr-General. At Missionary
| Ridge there were four Generals Of this name
| engaged under Sherman. He does not write
this to stir up controversy, nor does he think
/ it will, for he announces that he belongs to the
| Smith family. His own name is not Smith,
/ however, but his wife's was, so that it is all
/ the same.
Connecticut Claims the Honor.
| w. P. Jones, Sergeant, Co. Fl, 1st Conn. r. A.,
/ 352 Adelphi street. Brooklyn N. Y, having
| seen the claim Of the LIST Mass. to the honor of
/ being the first regiment mustered into tho
| United States service for three years, says that
| the 4th Conn, afterward changed into the Ist
| Conn. III. A., was the first, being mustered into
| the service May p, 1861. A New Jersey regi-
ment was mustered into the service the same
| day, only q half hour later.
Here Is Another One.
| Jackson Bunch, Co. Fl, Goth U. g., and Co. @,
9th Ind. Cav, having seen the many claims as
/ to who was the youngest soldier, says that he
/ enlisted in the 9th Ind. Cav. in September,
/ 1863, and served two years aud one month, aud
then enlisted in the goth U. $. and served three
years, making five years and one month before
! he was21 years of age. Most OF his service was
in Dakota Territory with the Indians. He
would like to hear from Co. G, 9th Ind.
| The Battle OF Prairis Grove.
w. g. Pierce, Co. B, goth Wis, Delorains
| Agency, Winnipeg. Manitoba, has received q
number of letters from the 10Th Iowa boys,
| which show what a desperate fight they had
at Prairie Grove. Dec. z, 1862. They had run
/ into the JOhnnies at the end Of forced march
Of 40 miles. which lasted from Wednesday at
4 p. N. until Sunday at a. NJ, and being a
little tired and cross as 40 cats viii explain the
| fact that they meant someone should suffer for
| their misery, even if they got hurt also.
Are Amy OF Them LiYingl
| Mrs. Title Winger, $50 State street, Harris
/ frL 3 Of
fcers or soldiers that went into the fight at
| Gettysburg along the Emmitsburg road about
| five miles from the town, remember the little
| girl of u years who carried water for them
during the battle Although fighting was going
| on all around her she never hinched, but
watered the boys right along. She is now a
woman, has had II children, eight of them liy-
ing. She married an old soldier, and now
| wants TO hear from some Of the soldiers she
watered as they promised at that time never
to forget her. Anybody desiring to know more
Of the circumstances can do 80 By writing to