The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-05-05
PERSONAL.

the Congress Medal OF Honor Tor ga'lRntry ut
Spo.tsylvania. The following is his own account
of the fight: I'VE lying in front of the breast
works early In the moruing-had been there all
nighttime, 10 feet from the enemy. The rebels had
the advantage of u.s. their side OF the works was
cut down straight from the top, while ours sloped
toward Us like the roof Of n house They were
huddled together the bottom Of the pit while we
were compelled 10 lie fiat on the side hill and keep
close watch of the muzzIe of their guns they
poked them over into our faces. In CIDER to hit
any Of them obliged TO crawl to the
top of the breastworks and risk arm or n hand
by pointing gun down upon them before our
firing could be effective, while they could lay gun
half way over the ridge, lower the muzze and blaze
away. It kept us busy pokng their guns to one
side, and no man knows how many of our boys in
the were killed About 10 feet to the right OF
where lay gun appeared above the breastworks
with white handkerchief tied to the bayonet.
All who it supposed it to be flag OF truce and
the man nearest TO It leaned over the breastworks
and said All right; come over here and lag down
your A bullet through his neck ended his
life. This trick of the rebels made me mad; the
guns thick beside me, and calling TO George
Voodry, who enlisted from Calais. and Johnny
Grant. who went from Burlington to load as many
guns as possible and pass them 10 rapidly as
they could. made up my mind 10 make those
devils pay dearly for the cowardly trick they had
played upon us. The boys tried every way to pre-
vent my going to the top of the brenstworks, but
was too mad to heed the danger. Together they
passed up the guns all cock ed for firing and aiming
directly down into the nest OF the men below the
place where the white flag shown I emptied
them fast as possible. / don't know whether
killed or hit anyone. but the thick
man with his eyes shut must have hurt someone.
kept it up until q rebel poied a gun under my
nose and blew my cap off, when Johnny Grant
took my place. He had fred only one shot when
bullet through his forehead ended his life. Early
that morning he q rebel officer in front Of him.
and eaping the breastworks he grabbed the little
fellow by the collar and dragged him back into our
lines disarmed him of his ssber. which he buckled
around his own body and turned his prisoner over
to his Captain
A very remarkable survival with wound In the
head has emily TO light In the State of Ne
braska- The matter was made public through the
application of widow for pension. Her hus-
band had fought through the civil war IN an Hi
nois regiment. In of ,tse last battles of that
bloody condc. he was left for dead the field
with jagged wound In his right temple. When
the ambulance making its last round how
ever, Of the attendants noticed signs OF life In
the wounded man. picked him up and tenderly
conveyed him to the hospital. The Surgeons
thought the soldiers case so hopeless that they
did not probo for the bullet and this Is, doubtless,
what saved his life. Carter that was his name,
laid In paralyze and comatose condition in the
hospital for five weeks. Then, under careful nurs
ing and nourshment. he began to recover strength
and consciousness with remarkable rapidity, until
in two more months of confinement he was dig
charged recovered. But the war was over then,
his company had scattered to the four winds OF
the earth, and he had no one to substantiate his
relations Of the marvellous recovery he had just
undergone. The oompany's records showed that
he was dead and the hospital people knew nothing
of his identity. When he emgrated to Nebraska,
however, he was recognized by old companion
int arms, and his record properly established
on the company's rolls. He carried the bullet in
his head for 70 years. and while following his pow
under a blazing Nebraska sun one day last sum
mer dropped dead in The furrow. On post-mortem
examination i. was revealed that the sac that
formed around the bullet in bis brain and held 1t
in place for many years had broken, and the
rupture killed him.
Mai John A. Halderman, lat Kan, has given to
the Young Mems Christian Association OF Leaven-
worth, Kan, his large aud highly priced collection
of bric-a-brac books curos menentos, relics, and
hundreds of other things, collected from various
parts of the world. civilized and savage and which
have been accommodating for quarter OF q century
Among other things is collection of rare and
fused $500 There also valuable paintings,
a bottle of water from the Jordan, some from the
Dead Sea, powders from the far North, flowers
from the Cape of Good Hope South Africa; statu-
cts ezhumed from Pompeii, the buried city, and
mementos from the Holy Land and ancient Rome.
A number of President Abraham Lincoln's old
letters have recently been discovered In Chicago.
In one of them, addressed TO Mrs. Browning, the
wife of o. III. Browning. Of Quincy, sferwa-d Sec
rotary of the Interior, the future President writes
concerning his rejection by young woman to
whom lie had paid court: :" My vanity was deeply
wounded by the reflection that had so long been
too stupid to discover her intentions, and at the
same time never doubling that understood them
perfectly, and also that she whom / had taught
myself to believe nobody else would have had aetu-
ally rejected with all my fanced greatness; and
cap the whole then for the first time began to
suspect was really little In love with her. But
let /. all go. Pl try and ou.live ii. Others have
been made fools of by the girls, but this never
be with truth said of me. L most emphaticaly in
this instance made fool of myself. L have now
come to the conclusion to think of marrying,
and for this reason: can never be satisfied with
anyone who would be blocShead enough 10 have
me-"
The deaths Of two interesting old negro women
occurred last Saturday. At Charlottesville, Ind.
Aunt CI3Sy helcnHutr the iursS VI Ucn CaiiDS, Vi
Modoc war fame departed this life at the age of l02
| years. and at New Orleans on the same day Mrs.
| Frances A. Arm gave up the ghost Mrs. Arm
was 104 years old. In the days of her childhood,
when she was slave in Virginia, she saw Gen.
| Washington several times and she waited upon
Lafayette at the table when that distinguished
Freuchman visited New Orleans in 1875.
Col w. W. Dudley, 10Th Ind. Reconnaissance
of Pensions, delivered address at Richmond,
Ind Saturday, April 10, the occasion being the
laying of the cornerstone of an Episcopal church.
| Richmond is Col Dudleys old home.
Capt. Richard 8. Hayes, who has consented to
! accept the Presidency of the Union Pacific Rail-
| road. is about 80 years of age, and learned the
rudiments of his profession at the Altoona shops
of the Pennsylvania company. In 1870 he was
appointed by Gen. Dodge Chief Engineer of the
Texas Pacific; in 1883 he became President OF the
St. Paul & Duluth, and ne now holds like posi-
ton on the New York & Northern. He served
| all through the war, and was good soldier.
| Co. A. 10Th Mo-, stacked arms on the 9th of June,
1865 I, was the last Confederate command to sur
render W. NJ Moore, who commanded this regi-
nent is now Speaker of the Kentucky Legisia-
| ture and Capt. j. A Love is g candidate for the
| State Senate Of Missouri.
Gen George Stark, WHO died at Nashua, N. H,
on Wednesday. April Is, grandson of MAJ
| Gen. John Stark, the hero of Bennington.
| CAPT. Peter d. Becker, a Jersey Shore lawyer,
| has been rendered by Gen. David Mem. Gregg the
office OF Chief Clerk in the Auditor Generals office