The National tribune., 1892-12-08


tage by addressing Capt. Justin III. Chapman,
the Governor of Branch, at Marion. Robert
Cosgrove died leaving estate valued at SID
and it is the desire of the Board of Managers
that this money should go to his two sous in
stead o: to other disinterestod parties who are
now trying to get it.
L. Il. Roderick, Union Veteran Legion En-
campment, 81, Wilmington, Del, wants to find
Thomas f.. Harvey, Co. !, 18th III. Cav. (who
disappeared from his home, in Wilmington, be-
tween Sept. 10 and 2o), aged % years. He is
crippled in the left hand, having but two I'm
gers.
George l.. Bates Co. B. lst VT Cav, Man
chester, n. H.. writes: " In the Winter OF
1864, IS / was prisoner in Libby, and badly
wounded. Charles Stocking citizen, who
was captured on the James River while taking
camp stores to City Point board a vessel,
was also prisoner, and did me many kind
nesses. Can anyone tell me where he is, if liv-
ing?"
Nellie Bailey, 81 Hartman street, BROOKLYN,
n. Y, wants the poem beginning Some day
upon the highway going"
Thomas Mooney, Co G., 114th ILL.,, Gilman,
Iowa. would like to have these questions an
sWered by personal letter Does the man still
live who carried the 72d Ohio flag on the sec
ond day at Nashville Dec IA. 1863? What
regiment rose up from It's place OF concealment
in the brush and displayed its flag, when the
WHO nag WIS ufSpiayeu from Tue LcDel "olho'
in front of the Twenty third Corps, on the sec
ond day at Nashville? How many of the 9th
(or perhaps it was the 18Th Ala. were captured
on the second day at Nashville? Was their flag
taken from them in the prison at Nashville!
They carried it there with them concealed IN
der the Color bearers clothes.
Charles Ross Co. H, 35th Z. S. G. T., Bren-
ham, Texas, wants the name of the Surgeon or
Steward who assisted DIR. Warren to amputate
the arm of rebel soldier Of Co. G, 4th Ga Re-
serve Guards, at Andersonville, Ga, in the
latter part of the Summer of 1864. Also the
addresses of the two paroed Union prison
ers who attended in the hospital at Anderson
vile, who went bathing with the writer. lie
thinks they belonged to the navy, and one was
called Scotty" and the other Shake" If
living, they will remember the spring board
they had there at the swimming hole below the
prisOn-pen
Geo. w. Leaman, alias George Lemon Caro-,
Mich wants the addresses of Capt. Fitzgerald,
of the u. S. s. Ouchita; Seaman Thomas ODon-
nell Executive Zimmerman also, Capt James
Hickey, of the U. s. S. Silver Lake: Seamen
Joseph Morrison and Joseph Mathews, aud
Ensign Mckeen. The above-named were Oh
said steamers from October, 1864. to August,
1865. wish these addresses to use in my PEN
sion claim. / served and was discharged under
name of George Lemon"
r. J. Brown Co. G, Tooth Pa Box i61, Roch-
ester, Pa wants information as to the where
abouts of one James Watt, who left his home
in Pulaski Township, Beaver County, Pa, for
San Francisco, Cal, ON April -. 1892. He is
80 years old, five feet IL inches high, and
weighs 40 pounds, and is slightly demented;
was dressed when he left home quite slovenly,
in SLOUGH hat and ifrock coat. Any information
in regard to him will be very thankfully re-
ceived
Frederick Cole. Edmore, Mich, says he had
brother, Maj. James Henry Cole, 4th Mich,
who enlisted at Adrian, Mich. in 1861, and was
discharged in the latter part of 1862. He also
had another brother named Johnson b. Cole,
who enlisted in 1861 from Cass County, Mich.
The writer has not heard from either since the
war. and would be exceedingly glad if any
comrade can give him information of their
whereabouts
The Charge at Jackson, Miss.
Ralph A. Baxter. Co. B, SD H., Hurley,
Wis, writes: :" In your issue of the Goth ult.
appears an article from the pen of Robert L.
Thomas, Co. II, 2sth H. Evidently the
writer has forgotten the facts in connection
with the charge The troops engaged there
were the 28th, 41st and sd III, Sd Iowa. Sd
Wis, and Battery E. I'd Ohio l.. A., which
composed the only brigade i'll the charge; the
First Brigade, Fourth Division, Seventeenth
Corps, Army of the Tennessee, with Col. /. &.
Pugh, of the 41st H., in command. The 32d
III. was in the Second Brigade, but was not
under fire at that time. The First Brigade,
only, participated in that charge. Col. Seth C.
Earl, SD H., was killed in that engagement,
and Capt. Allison Co. B, assumed command of
the regiment. 1t was q hot fight and we had
fierce storm of shot and shell, and lost more
men in that engagement than i'll any other
we were in-I agree with you there. comrade.
I would be pleased to hear from any of the
comrades engaged in that battle. at any time,
ba ffo nj cd to lxyt hair lattc
"Yahoos" and "Hoosiers."
F. L. Mennet, Co. c. Sd Ind. Cav, San
Miguel. CAL, writes: :" would like to ask
Comrade Kelley. of Co. Z, sth Ill. Cav, if he
remembers the 9Th n Y. Cav, 9th U. S. Regi-
ment, and Sd Ind Cav. sll in the same Brig
ade. The Wild Yahoos,' as the Sth Ill. was
called, and the wild Hoosiers, as the Sd
Ind. Cav. was nicknamed, were there TO-
gether, and passed through Gettysburg about
3 o'clock in the afternoon, June 80, 1863.
Those cavalry regiments opposed the advance
of the rebel infantry, under Heth. early on the
morning of July 1st. The above regiments
were all in the same brigade. Maj Charles
Lemons, of the Sd Ind, was killed near the
Seminary"
Comrade i'm Hard Luck.
Aaron Hart. Dongola, H., writes: 81 want
{, say through the columns of the soldiers
friend that my family is passing through the
fire of affection caused by the dread disease
diphtheria. l am Quartermaster Of Post 608,
Department of illinois, Dongola. H., j. n. Dale,
Commander. | wish you to state that during
our sickness not one oomrade has assisted my
family, not one has protfered assistance in any
way. Last Saturday morning, Nov. 10, our
little Jennie died Sunday evening our darling
boy, Joe, died. We have two more. and both
are sick with the disease"
Is This True?
J.W Parsons, 14th Conn., New Britain, Conn.,,
writes: Zone of our boys who has recently
made two weeks trip through Virginia, brings
home an account of horrible affair, if true.
If the account be correct, as reputable ex-rebels
attest there must be among your readers those
who can name these officers. According to the
statement of Virginia citizens, there was an
old man named Whiting living on his place in
1863 One day party OF Union stragglers
came along and during the excitement, these
straggers, it is alleged, threw the old man into
his we'll and left him. party of rebels, COM
ing along shortly after, rescued the old man.
His SON, hearing of the affair, took terrible
oath that he would never take another Union
prisoner alive. He and another man con-
trived one night to get across somo stream at
Newport News, and, as alleged Whiting en-
tered one tent, that of Colonel, and the other
man entered Majors tent. Both officers were
asleep. and Whiting with butcher knife cut
the Colonels throat, and his companion cut the
Majors throat Both assailaEts safely escaped
and Joined guerrilla bands. Now, il this is
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