The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-01-07

| pare favOrably with most Of them. and "a he
| re-enlists for another year in the ranks Of the
| THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE readers. sends also
dates Of eulistmeuts and discharges; and will
say that his hospital record from Oct %, 1861,
| to July . 1866 only nine days. he being
! with his company all the time. He enlisted
/ April Is, 1861 Oct. 81. 1861. aud Jan. l. 1864.
He was discharged Aug. ?. 1861. Dec. 81, 1868.
and July >. ls66. making total service Of five
| years and y days
! y. :. Fales Thonaston. Ne, seeing someone
| in Tbs NATIOSNL TEIECSE challenging tho
| boys 20 show longer record OF service than his
own. thinks they have one IN their town in the
| person Of E1wark Mink who enlisted in the
4th Nc. some tine in May. 1861 was mustered
| into service june Is, ls6i was transferred to
the 3sth y. V; re-enlisted as a veteran, and
| WIS retransferTed to the Attn Me-. and was
transferred to the lg.h Me, and then to the
| Goth Me-, being mustered ont with tie latter
| regiment July 10, 1865; his service being con-
tinuous four years one month and one day. lie
! was never of duty, except when on veteran
furlough was in the battle Of the FIRST Bull
I Run ~ we'll ~ in tho roundup at AppOmattOx
aud took part ~ tho Grand Review. He was
I in all the battles that the regiment TO which he
/ belonged WIS engaged aud never got scratch.
/ and was always private soldier. Ills officers
I say that he was good soldier, and always
ready 10 go where ordered.
/ Thinks Comrade Simmons Wrong.
J. Gregg. Co. A. 37th H., Willis, Kan. no
/ tced the article by COmIade Simmons entitled
\ Capturing Guuboat' in v hich the comrade
treats the story OF the whole affair as a wilful,
| deliberate, and intentional falsrhood The
/ writer IS not able 70 sag that such an engage
meHt took place. bat certainly rrcOllerts seeing
! an account m the paper at an expedition be-
7 Ing sent out from New Orleans 10 operate in
I tie vicinity Of Sabine Pass. aud his remetn-
\ bTanco Of the affair is that il was an absolute
/ failure. Shortly after the close OF the war the
4 writer's regiment was sent % Texas. and
I their journey they passed up Sabine River.
\ They saw an eaTthwork on the west bank and
/ were told that our forces had made an attack
/ on the fort, aud that the garrison consisted Of
I an Irish Sergeant and 40 men. He thinks IL
\ such an engagement ever took placs someone
I knows OF It, and should rise and explain.
/ No MHnchausen lie.
1 J. y. McCurdy. Co. C, Josh Ohio, Bucyrus. o.,
says that the article ia recent issue by Mai.
| Shaw. Of the 9Th Ind, regarding the wOuuding
! Of Gen. Kelley at PhiIippi. makes him tNIcCur-
/ dyj out as d close second 20 the celebrated
/ Munchausen. lie thinks that the Major is
I drawing heavily on his imagination for a great
portion Of his article. and that /; must be some
thing like Joe Mutations story Of the mule
| who n crib on fire that contained popcorn,
ard when the corn began TO I'll the air with
/ white clouds the mule imagined it was a snow
/ out aHd frozs TO death. The writer never
/ claimed to have been at PhiI:ppi, and person
/ ally knew nothing OF the wOunding of Gen.
/ Kelley, and did not claim TO belong to the 10Th
, Pa, aud The NATIONAL TRIBUNE did not
convey such information. The facts are that
Comrade Henry Lane published an article in
I daily paper which tho writer sent to THE Ma.
TIONAL TgIBUNE and ii the Major will exam
| inc the article carefully he will discover that
| McCurdy was not credited with the statement
/ but simply sending the statement OF Henry
IIGe, and II is left for the latter TO say whether
IL was true or false. The writer believes the
Majors statement % be correct, as it was cor
roborated later by the Chaplain Of Gen. KeIIey'5
old regiment.
Critics Error.
Smith A. Hunt. Co. II. 2Sth Iowa. believes
that Comrade Hobbs, in his article Yanquish-
/ ing Vicksburg." starts ont with serious
| bIUuder by calling CarF's Division the Four
teenth. IL is no worse however. than the mis-
| take made by officer Of high rank with the
writer. when he required him 10 change on
| some papers the number Of the division from
the Third, which it was, TO the Twelfth. which
it WAS not.
THE Official Records Of the rebellion show
| that Gen. +. A. Carr commanded the Four
teenth Division. Thirteenth COrps.-EDIToR
NATIONAL tribune.
Little Journey.
Elmore C. Argadine, Co A. 18th u. s., Forest
Hill, Ind, says he is q regular reader of The
| NATIONAL TRIBUNE. and does What he can to
| increase the circulation. He fails 10 find any
thing in Fighting Them Over" from the boys
! OF the old 18th regiment in which he served
| from February, 1884, to February 1867 He
does not claim that he was engaged in many
| battles, but thinks that he at discharge got
transportation for great number Of miles as
| any man in the United States service-from
arf MnFtF 10 Al F-n
miles. He would like to hear from some of the
boys that were with him in Montana during
the Winter Of 1850 '67, when they were sur
| rounded by Indians, and Inc was forced to re-
main three months with the command after
| his discharge.
COrFObOrates COmrade TaIlman.
Henry Boley, First Sergeant. Co. ID, 9Th Pa.
| Reserves, and Acting Second Lieutenant, Co. X,
| l9lst Pa, Lilly, Pa, eorrOb0Tates COmrade Tall
man concerning the treatment of Union
| prisoners at Danville aud other places. The ex-
| pected dinner for Christmas Day, 1864, never
materialiZed. The report was circulated that
they were going to furnish enough bean soup
and bacon for complete meal, and the boys
had reason TO believe that such would be the
case. but Of all the slop they ever got the stuff
furnished that day was the worst. The beans
were seasoned with a small riece Of rotten fat
bacon that decent dog would not eat, and it
was so small that when divided into messes of
/ II, ~ was TOO small 10 Do cut any further. The
writer remembers we'll the shooting and death
of Col w. g. RalstOn, 2ith N. Y. Cav. 1t was
in an attempt TO escape, and Coils. Ralston and
Garlic, Of the 19lst Pa, and Gen. Duifey were
the leaders; but it failed, Col. Ralston being
shot in the attempt. Later on the writer es-
capped from prison, and after being out four
weeks, was recaptured in North Carolina and
brought back the night before they all started
| home on a general exchange. He has not seen
| single one Of his prison mates since but would
be glad to hear from any Of them whom may
| see this.
Information asked and Given.
John T. Ogden, Middletown, N. Y, wants
some comrade to tell him by letter whether in
1864 or at any other time during the war there
was an order issued to the Union cavalry in the
vicinity OF Front Royal. Va. to kill every man
| capable OF bearing arms found in that village at
the time. A eomrade of the 25th N. Y. Cav
asserts that there was such an order issued, he