The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-07-28

@L u o ts"ss. A H. 1 1s; sS1stsi
%, 1866, as private in Co. K goth q. s., for
three years; discharged as Sergeant, Sept. %,
/ 1869, at Fort Totten, D. T. He was only 20
years old when he received his last discharge,
Sept. %. He is now Chaplain of Winfield Scott
| Post AS, G AR, Chicago.
At Piedmont.
Lewis Tallman, Ortng Wash, writes: In
| your issue of June 2, / find communication
| from John G. Lewis. Minneapolis, concern
| ing the LIST N Y. Vet. Cav. at Piedmont
| Comrade Lewis is right as regards the tax
| ing of prisoners at Piedmont also as to
| guarding them through Buffalo Gap and over
| the mountains TO Beverly; but in his state
! ment of the last charge on that battlefield he
should have said Co.'S A and III, instead of the
regiment, as they were the only ones in that
charge. Co. a lost six and Co. Ell two men, and
/ have never been able to understand why the
| charge was made as it was"
Defending the Dead,
Isaiah Mills, Louis Okla, writes. "In your
issue of May 26, 1892, Capt. Moses Wiley, LIST
| Tenn Cav, in his article on the frst page,
Life in Rebel Prisons makes serious
charge against one of the most honorable
and conscientious men whom God ever let
live. Now that he is dead it i'll becomes
Capt. Wiley to bring such slanderous charges
without at the same time producing the proof
necessary to sustain them The writer of this
has served an apprenticeship IN rebel prisons
| and knows by experience that prisoners were
| prone to envy and jealousy when one of their
| number happened to be favored by their cap
| tors Capt. Wiley, instead of absolute proof OF
| what he so fippantly charges, has given his
belief, which was nothing more nor less than an
outgrowth of envy or prejudice that he har-
bored and nursed these many years until he
l fD Iatfn re
not man in the 39th Ind Mtd Inf or
9Th Ind. Cav. who would, unsupported by
positive proof, believe Capt. Wiley's bare stat
ments about Col. Harrison. If Col. Harri-
son, Maj. Harry White, and the Captain said to
be acting under Harrison's instructions were
guilty of this heinous crime, why did not Capt.
Wiley bring charges and let all comrades know
of their infamy? Why wait q years."
"a Suggestion"
In reply to the above caption to an article in
The NATIONAL TRIBUNE of May IL, written
by A. C. G. Slocum, La Coventry, Conn., ]. II.
Lancaster will give few points asked for.
Several persons, including the writer, were
wanting to know Of chance to better present
conditions Of matters, especially IN regard to
cheap lands and milder climate. The writer
made trip to the White River Valley, INDIE
pendence Co., Ark, to fully investigate eondi-
tions, surroundings, prospects, ETC., and as re-
suit of that trip several families are expecting
to locate there about the middle of October
next. Here is what the investigation shows:
Plenty of cheap land, ranging from 81 to $50
per acre; Government land and State land to
be had by settlement thereon and fees for
entry, etc.; a splendid climate, lots of water,
fine timber; healthy locality on the high
lands but more or less malaria in the fat
lands; great fruit country tens of thousands
of acres of open range, where pasturage Is free
to everybody, and where sheep live the year
round without any attention, and cattle require
feeding but six to eight weeks in the year.
Gives Thanks.
r. N. Stoddard, Co. K, 18th Wis, Kettle
Falls, Wash, publicly thanks all the comrades
who aided him in securing his pension.
"Pass Him Around"
Richard Aubrey, of Milerstown, Grayson Co.,
KY, is guilty Of the following charges set
forth, viz: He has misrepresented himself to
the comrades of Henderson Jowett Post Gray
son Co., and has deluded the comrades into the
belief that he was a Union soldier OF the late
war We have investigated his military status
through the Assistant Secretary Of the Interior.
That Department official notified the comrades
of the Post that this Richard Awbrey's dis
charge relates only to Home Guard service. AT
the mastering in Of the charter members OF
Post 80, Richard swore that he was MEM
Der of the 18th KY. Cav. Such are the facts re-
garding this inpostor. By order OF the Com
mttee-Willis Snyder, Co. II, Cd KY. Cav. {;
Ed. Agan, Co. d, I'd KY. Cav; D. j. Cook,
Co. g, Sd Ky. Cav.
Information Asked and Given.
DIV Brownell Atlanta. Ga, writes: "serg't
Addison Hogue, Of Co. E, 18th Ohio, was at
the battle of Stone River on the 31st of De-
| cember, 1852 with his regiment, under COM
| mand of Col. Askew. During the day the
Colonel was wounded. Seeing the enemy ap.
| preaching Serg't Hogue and another soldier
| attempted to assist their commander off the
| field But he generously said: mo, boys; save
| yourselves l cannot escape. Leave me, and
save yourselves They left him, and that was
| the last known of Addison Hogue. Col. Askew,
with many others, was taken prisoner in that
| disastrous battle. In short time they were
exchanged. The Colonel nor his fellowprison
| ers, nor those left behind, could tell what had
| become of Serg't Hogue. His body could not be
| found on the field, and from the moment he left
his Coonel's side none could give any account
| of his fate"
Charles A. Sumner, s25 Montgomery street,
San Francisco, Cal, wants to ascertain the
date of death Of James DAILY, 5th N. Y. The
Pension Bureau only shows that he ceased to
draw his pension in 1880. After being mus
tered out of the 5th, he was in the 42d V.R.C.,
stationed at White Hail.
Silas w. Bland. Co. C, 49th Ohio. having been
told that there was an inquiry for his address
sometime ago. states that it is National Home,
Marion, Ind.
/ William Simmons, 1432 Wharton street,
Philadelphia, in answer to information called
for in a late issue wishes to say in reply to
Lydia S. Durfee, that Richard Durfee was az.
pointed Acting Second Assistant Engineer In
the U. S. Navy, Feb. 4, 1868. Appointment
revoked June g. 1864. The records do not show
him to have been on the Lodona in 1863, or
on the Bienville in 1854. The Bienville x-'
not captured vessel; it was bought by the
Government in 1861, and sold in 1865. There
is prize money credited both to the Lodona and
Bienville.
The Englishman's Mistake.
J. E. White, Co. K 9Th U. S., Hampton, Iowa,
| says while viewing the parade of the Ma
tional Guards and old vets Of the GA. R. / felt
someone punch me with a sunshade. Turning
| around l discovered portly old lady who
| wanted to know if those fellows in citizens
| dress were the ones that went down South to
| fight the rebels Upon being informed that
| they were, she moved her specks little farther
| up on her nose and examined them long and
| critically. and then remarked that they were
not very pretty lot, but looked as though
| they had lots of fight in them. This ought to
make that Englishman who thought everyone
| turned out to see the National Guard instead of
the old vets of the GA R. feel green with envy.
There is one thing sure; we had good crowd
furn 70 in I