The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-29
PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.
COmradeship.

ing over the battlefield where they had fought
% years ago. An apparently accidental motion
revealed to me that one was G.A.R. man.
This silent question and answer WIS all tho in
PRODUCTION needed. We were old aequaint-
ances, although We had never before met each
other personally. We had fought in the same
battles under the same commander; both had
followed the invincible A. j. Smith to victory.
Perhaps we didn't have Campfire that nights
Comrade Brown 1921 Ill, was on his way home
from Washington, where he had been to attend
the National Encampment and stopped off hero
at Tupelo to visit the battlefield. When Com
rade Brown returned home his pockets were
filled with relics, chips cut from trees whose
branches had been shot away by cannon balls;
flowers plucked from the old redoubts, and
other mementoes of the past Soon after his
return home / received copy Of THE Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE, and il continues weekly
visitor at our house. / think Comrade Brown
Is entitled to thanks for the same, which
most heartily tender"
Wants to Hear from Them.
A. L. Sumner Co. FL, 7th VT, Duncannon,
Pa, asks: Is there member Of the 9lst Ill.
living? The 91st was in the front Of our bril-
gade Second Brigade. Third Division, Thir-
teenth Corps) at Spanish Fort, when the 26th
N. Y. battery ION our right opened the ball,
and in few minutes two Of the 9lst were
killed by shell from the fort. The Colonels
name was Dey. His brother was Lieutenant
Colonel and his father Chaplain aud Gen.
Granger was not sleeping at that time"
The Cd q. 8. Art.
Michael Hayes, Co. A, I'd q. s. Art. Spring
field, Ill.,, writes: II saw communication
from Comrade Willet, Flint, Mich, 9th n. Y.
Cav, in which he mentions his brigade battery.
wish to say few words as member of that
battery, about the part we took In the great
battle. We went into Gettysburg on the even
ing of June 30, 1863. AS we went in the rebels
went out. We went about mile southwest OF
the town. Our horses were harnessed all night
and hitched to the guns. We had orders to
unhicb but we hadn't time to obey when
orders came to harness and hitch up. We went
about 300 yards further, and came into action
on ridge between the cut and the farmhouse,
30 that our left limber-box and horses were
close to the barn. Our battery, after q hard
fight on that ridge, where the artillery aud
musket shot fell almost like hail, got orders to
retire by sections, az the enemy were closing
on Us. AS the right and center sections had
withdrawn. one of the rebel balls struck one
of the horses of each Of our three teams of
the left piece of the left section. The writer
drove the wheel team of that piece. We had
to get othex horses, and cut the harness of the
wounded horses to get orr gun away. As We
were coming out, our infantry was firing into
the rebels on our right and front In the timber.
Only for their timely arrival we would have
been captured. l claim that our battery fred
the first artillery shot at Gettysburg. Our
battery was commanded in sections by Lieut..
Graham and Sergeants Pergill and Eeuman.
The 9th and 18th Ill.,, sth N. Y, and Sd Ind.
were considered the fighting brigade of the
army"
Good Soldiers.
Curtis s. Pinney. Co. D, 154th n. Y, Ches-
touia, Mich. writes: 1T interests ms to read
the Picket Shots of the boys In blue, especially
the pops they give at the old Eleventh Corps,
of which I was a member. spent 80 months
with the Eleventh and the fragment that went
to make up the Twentieth, with Sherman to
the sea. 0, yes, the Eleventh were great
runners They ran all the way to the sea-
However, they must have been good soldiers
for, has not some great man said that good
soldier Is he who fights and runs away that he
may live to fight another day2 That's me-"
Personal.
Alfred Wright, Parrish, Wis. says that he
enlisted In the early part of 1852 In the LIST
Wis. Cav, and was discharged In Aug. 1866.
Five Of the writer's brothers enlisted In the
defense of their country, and one who belonged
to the 18th Regulars was shot In rifle pit in
Georgia He also lost sister, which he claims
Is due to the war. He was in Andersonvillo and
other rebel prisons for seven months, and he
went to his sister on furlough with typhoid
fever. She tenderly nursed him back to health
but took tho disease herself and died from 1t.
The writer was in the fight at Bloomfield, Mo-,
and also the battles of Cape Girsrdsau, Mo-, At
lanta, and Lookout Mountain.
Capture of Sue Monday.
W. Fl. McMahon, Co. G, 9sth Ohio, Stewards
Vile, O., writes IL. ]. Bradley article In the
issue of Nov. 10 on the capture of Sue Monday
has been read with interest. The comrade
may have captured Sue Monday In 1853; II SO,
he was captured twice, for personally know
of his capture in the Winter of 1854, near
Brandeuburg, KY, five miles from the Ohio
river. He was brought from Brandenburg to
Louisville On the mail steamer America was
tried and sentenced to death, and hung the
third day after his arrival. He was taken by
detachment of the 18th KY, under NAL
Wilson, and so men Of Il believe) the Both
Wis. believe the other commander was Col
DILL"
Brandy Station.
A. A. Eaton, 10Th N. Y. battery and Sergeant,
ca. III, 9th u. s., Ports, Kan, says that the ar
ticle of J. +. b., on Brandy Station, which ap-
peared some time ago in The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE was most interesting one but the
comrade Ia In error In regard to the Army of
the Potomac being across the Rappahannock
River. The right section of the 18th N. Y.
battery was in the rear of the Third Corps
that day, and they were on mountain road,
in plain sight of the battle. The Lieutenant
in charge of the section wished to shell, but
the General would not allow it. It was getting
dark when the command crossed Hazel River
and they took position to hold the crossing
until the rear guard got across. Someone fired
a strawstack aud 1t lit up the whole scene. 1t
was late at night when the command crossed
the Rappahanuock River. and the writer heard
that there was drummer-boy who was killed
while he had one Of the sp0nge-stafs belong
ing to the battery He wants to know who is
acquainted with the facts at Kettle Run. The
enemy fred into the command and killed sew
eral men, but the writer's battery was so far
behind that they did not hear the shots. He
says that it was quite race to Centerville, but
they got there ahead Of the enemy and got re-
Inducements, and soft bread, too. The writer
would like to hear from comrades.
The Atlanta Campaign.
D. 8. Enverard, Corporal Co. f, 50th Ohio,
Morystown, O., says that some time ago he saw
an article from q goth Ky. man who wanted
some one to write good word for the Twenty
third Corps The writer has warm spot in
his heart for the Goth, 14th, and 9th KY,
which regiments composed the Third Brigade
of the Second Division of the Twenty-third
Corps He wishes to relate an incident which
happened on the Atlanta campaign, but he can
not remember the date, and thinks that it hap
pened short time before the capture Of At
lanta. Col Strickland ordered Lieut-Col. Est
ner, who commanded the 50th Ohio, to take
three companies of his regiment-the writer's
company being one-and advance on piece of