The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1891-06-04
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.
Comments and Corrections.

his article on the battle OF Shiloh Of the gun
boats Conestoga and Lexington. lie should
have said the Tyler and Lexington. He also
has Gen. HalIeck sign his name W. H., when
his name was Henry w.
+. A. Gilbert, Co. +, 1921 H.. says It was
Wards First Brigade, ButtcrfeId's Third DI-
vision, and HOOkcr's Twentieth Corps that
captured the four gun battery ut Resaca May
IA. 1864. Wards Brigade received the name
Of " Wards Ducks in that action. This name
originated with rebel who belonged TO the
battery that was captured. He wrote n letter
TO bis wife, in which be stated that Rockers
men threw themselves upon our front as uu-
conscious Of danger as ducks going into pond"
This letter was taken day after the battle,
and was written by the Captain who command
the battery.
franklin Plank, Co. G, 9th y. Y. IT. A.. Pipe
stone Minn says that in the Battle Month"
the "CaunOHeer," IN his detail organization Of
the Army OF the Potomac. has left out the 9th
n. Y. III. A. This regiment was there and took
part in that whole campaign. THE 9th N. Y.
ii. A. will be found mentioned in its proper
placc.-ED. NATIONAL Tribune
A. w. Fitzgerald, Corporal. Co g, 81 Tenn,
Cub Run, Ky, wonders why his old comrades
never write anything. The regiment was like
the Hebrew Children" going through the
fiery furnace and crossing the Red Sea to fight
the rebels IN Kentucky. lie would like to know
how many are left that attacked tho Johnnies
April IL, 1862 and fired several rounds through
their stockade east OF Cumberland Gap, and then
fell back 70 the ford where their OrdeFly-Ser-
geant was captured, escaping that night and
coming back the next day. On that expedition
they also made forced march TO Wallaces
Crossroads, capturing several prisoners and all
their supplies, with lot of apple brandy.
Information Asked and Given.
Robert Alice Washington, d. C., says that
Mr.. Lewis OF Remington, Va, has the camp
chest Of Mai Joseph T. Chandler, l1ith Pa.
Bloody Angle, Spottsylyania Courthouse, and
can be had by writing 20 Mr.. Lewis.
John Griffin, 4i3 North California street,
indianapolis, Ind. would like TO know if there
is printed record OF the three months Dis
triet Of Columbia Volunteers that were organ
lied in Washington, ID. C., ia 1861; aud if there
is such published record. where he can get it.
Regulars at GaInes's MILLS.
Henry II. Perry, Co. A, 18th o. S. Inf,
Stephens Mills, y. Y, thinks that Comrade
Duuning is mistaken when he saws that
Franklin's Division was sent to Porter at the
battle Of Gaincss Mills. The only troops
engaged with Porter were Sloeum's Division,
consisting Of NewtOn's, TaylOr's and BartletCs
Brigades, which arrived at 4 p. m. and went
into action. Cunning is also mistaken when
he says that battalion Of the 18th Inf, which
had been fighting some hours, broke through
their ranks in small squads. There was only
one battalion Of the lith Inf. in that battle,
and they did not break into small squads nor
into any other shape, notwithstanding the
empowering numbers ID. III. Hill sent against
them. The battalion held the ground from
the position Of Battery Il, 9Th Art TO the edge of
the woods The enemy drove them back % the
brow Of the hill, but they in turn were driven
back by the Regulars with the help of grape and
canister of the battery. They held the ground
from 1890 until shutdown, and then left tho
field in good order by order Of Gen. Sckles,
being out Of ammunition. As they went 70
the rear they met tho Irish Brigade and 10th
y. Y, the latter coming up in line Of battle. 80
eager for tho fight that they were going
through our ranks without our permission, but
"Old Paddy" said No" and they fled to the
right. "Oid Paddy" was Capt. John ID. OCon-
nell who commanded the battalion. he was
one Of the brsvest and kindest officers, and
beloved and respected by all the boys. The
l4th lost in that action between 90 and 100
killed, wounded and missing. He would like
to hear from some comrades Of Battery B re-
gardiDg this fight
The Bible Good Thing to Have.
John J. Batemau, Co. d, 10Th Ohio, Cincin-
natl, o., gays his regiment served under Gen.
Sherman from Padueah, KY, clear through to
the sea. Comrade ThOmpson's account of the
battles before Atlanta where Hood tried to
break through our lines, was a good one and
the writer knows something about these little
affairs, for his regiment belonged 10 the Third
Brigade, Fourth Division Of the famous old
Fifteenth Corps. The writer heard about the
soldier Comrade Thompson speaks Of, who was
shot in the breast the ball lodging in his Bible.
The writer was presented with New Tesla
ment by his Sabbath school teacher in SeDtem-
her, 1861, when he left home, which he carried
through the war. and has il now, but it is, like
the owner, getting old. lie can't say that 10
stopped any bullets, but lie thinks the reading
of il turned aside great many temptations
while he was away from home. He never sees
anything about his old regiment, and wonders
if the boys are all dead.
How is ThisI
Rev. o. Craft, Co. A, 9th Iowa, Port Wash
ington. o., wants TO know If we live in free
country; if we have not fought four years to
extinguish slavery; if free speech is not one Of
the free pillars of our great country, aud if
every man should not be entitled to liberty and
be free from the despOtism of political parties
lie says that not only in the South does the
cause of secession rule supreme but there are
places in the North where a man who has
fought in the front for three years and eight
months dares not belong to the noble organ
izatiOn Of the Grand Army of the Republic
This is the case at this time, % years after the
rebellion, in Ohio that minister is beheaded,
so TO speak, for being a Grand Army man. by
COpperheads and members OF the Knights of
the Golden Circle. The writer would like TO
know what the $4,000 Ohio comrades of the
Grand Army say TO this.
True Friends OF the Soldier.
Alfred II. Jones, Co. f. CID Pa, Pittsburg,
Pa, thinks every old soldier should stand up
for his friends, and he believes none are more
true than THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE and Com
missioner Of Pensions Raum. Both of them
have stood nobly by the soldiers, their widows
and orphans and have done, and are still doing,
all in their power to get them their just dues.
Ever since Gen. Raum took charge Of the Pen
sion Bureau the pensiOu-haters have done all
they could 10 hamper and discourage him, a.
they have always done with every one who de-
sired 10 do justice 10 the soldiers and their de-
pendent ones. Gen. Raum has done more eff
Gent honest, and just work in the Pension
Bureau than was ever done before, and the
writer believes that every old soldier and loyal
citizen fully appreciates this fact and will stand
by him. God bless him
Services OTer One Grave.
William w. Y. Wilkerson, Sergeant Co. G,
I4th No. Cav. Chaplain, Post 8, Lake City, Ark,
whose letter reached US too late for insertion
last week, wrote that there are few GAR. men
in his section, aud rs he lives 80 miles from his
Post there being only one grave in his neighbOr-
hood of Union soldier, he was going to urge all
comrades to meet at the cemetery where this
body has been deposited and spend the day in
memory Of the salvation purchased for this
Government by the blood of the men of the
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