The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-06-02

GES.
ment Besides these there were two or three
| Tennessee officers, young native of the
mountains, Lotus By name, and q guide who
| was deserter from the rebels and who agreed
/ to take the party through the mountains to
| Knoxville for $500. The rest of the names the
| writer does not remember but hopes through
| some living members of the party to get a com
| pIete list. He has correspondent with Maj. Mat
| tocks and DIR. Hunt, and has such points as
| they remember, but hopes to fud others who
| will give him complete list.
Prisoners Mt Piedmont.
| John c. Lewis. Sergeant Co. 4. LIST \. Y. Vet.
Cav, Minneapolis, Mimi. says that ia a recent
number. Comrade Hidebrand calls another
comrade to account for stating that the LIST
n. Y. Vet Cav. took the prisoners captured at
Piedmont. The writer is amused TO see how
| often the old soldiers fail to remember that
nobody excepting their own comrades took
any part in any march or engagement. He
thinks that If the 28th Ohio had charge of those
prisoners, and he had no doubt that they did,
then the 1st n. Y. Vet. Cav. was sent along
either as guard of honor to watch the 25th Ohio
for it is a fact that the 1st n. 7. Vet Cav, as
we'll as the 2Sth Ohio took the prisoners to Bev-
erly. If any body over wrote an account of the
battle of Piedmont, and left out COL Moore's
factor in that fight, as the writer has always
understood that the 18th sanked the enemy,
thereby giving them their choice to either sur
render or swim, and some did one thing and
some the other. The 1st n. Y Vet Cav made
the last charge at Piedmont, and q very
foolish charge it was, too. charging in columns
of tours through the woods, where the enemy
were in ambush behind rail fence. The 1st
N. Y. Vet Cav. lost eight of as good men as
ever drew sabcr. The writer was in the
first set of tours in the charge, and was also
with the prisoners On their way TO Beverly
over the hills. He would like some one to
write an account of the battle Of Piedmont.
Premonition Superstitious Absurdity.
w. ID. Anderson, Co. II, 60th Ohio, High
lands, n. g., says that every now and then
some uusophisticated comrade comes to the
front with an article on premonition, and
thinks that little exercise of intelligent
thought will prove to their minds that these
alleged premonitions were In no sense presage
of the soldiers death. Everybody knows that
when VIC met the Southern brethren in mortal
combat that there was on their part some wild
and reckless shooting, and when q Yankee got
in the way of bullet he was liable to get hurt.
Gloomy foreboding did not cut the slightest
figure in the case. lion the eve of an impend-
ing battle regiment of 100 men received Or
ders to meet the enemy in the morning the
probability is that each and every one of those
soldiers will be troubled with q premonition
that he will never be permitted to see mother
or home again. When the morrow comes and
the smoke of battle clears away, and but sim
gle man of the thousand has fallen, this man
had premonition that he would be killed, and
1t was as firmly impressed upon the minds of
each Of his 500 comrades as it was upon his that
they would be killed. Why did the 999 cases mis-
carry? The writer thinks that he could assign
many good reasons for believing this Fremont
ton idea to be superstitious absurdity.
Expedition Against the Sioux Indians.
Frank Myers, Co. B, 9th Iowa Cav, Miller,
s. D.. has been reader of The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE for a long time, but has never seen
from the boys of Sully's expedition
OF 1863, '64 and '65 against the Sioux Indians
in Dakota. Sul1y's expedition left Sioux City,
Iowa, June a, 1864, and followed up the Mis-
souri, River to spot about 40 miles south of
where Bismarck now stands, where they re-
NAMED in camp 10 days, when they started in
a westerly direction towards Yellow Stone
River. On the 18th of July they encountered
5000 Indians, there being but $500 soldiers in
the expedition, and at / o'clock one of the
hardest-contested battles ever fought between
whites and Indians began. The battle lasted
until shutdown, when the Indians were put to
flight. but they ran across them again On the
7th Of August in the Bad Lands, and three
the Bad Lands, the expedition came on the
prairie to a small stream, which was dry, and
the banks of which were straight up and |
down, and being but 10 feet across, it was soon |
bridged. While at this place the writer and |
tae comrades in searching for water came upon |
\ pile Of slabs that had become petrifisd, and |
they also saw tree that had been cut into saw |
logs which wore petrifed. The writer kept |
iary of this expedition, from which he has |
written 60-page pamphlet, giving full &C |
count Of his three years soldering among the |
Sioux Indians.
A Deserving Glass.
T. ]. Pearson, Co. Fl, 4th Iowa, Postmaster at |
Ruff Colo, says that there is no class of soldiers
who deserve more generous consideration by |
Congress than those who suffered imprisonment |
IN the prisons of the South, where they con- |
,racted diseases which make life burden, |
while others died miserable deaths without so |
much as coming under the eye Of the rebel |
Surgeons. He thinks the law regarding pris-
,ners of war is unjust and merciless, and in the |
lame of the surviving prisoners and the widows |
md orphans of those who died, justice should |
De done to these men. Secretary Stanton de-
,ided not to exchange prisoners because he be-
ievod, and stated, that the prisoners were put
ing down the rebellion faster than the same
lumber Of men could do in the field And per-
laps this was so, but it was at fearful cost to
he brave men confined, who have tried to get |
PENSIONS which never came.