The National tribune., 1893-12-21


Champion Hills battlefield, with our dead
and wounded still on it. The Captain of my
company, George f. Nelly, was left there,
wounded, taken prisoner there, died, and is
buried there. Joe Johnston was in our rear
all during the siege of Vicksburg, aud must
have had possession Of Jackson most if not
all that time.
81 also know that as soon as the formali
ties of the surrender were over with at VIcks-
burg, on July A, 1863, our division or bril-
gade, do not remember now which, was sent
back on the Jackson Road against Joe john
ston, and drove beyond Pearl River
again. / should, therefore, like to know
what Comrade Chambers was doing at Jack
son, Miss, from May Is, 1868, to April, 1864.
Was he Johnny? My recollection is that
Jackson, Miss, was not permanently Oceu-
pied by Federal troops until after the fall of
Vicksburg, July 4, 1863"
A Rejected Comrade.
F. c. Bachly, Co. d, 9Sth ILL.,, Toledo, ILL.,,
writes have just read with much inter-
est THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE's opportune
and truthful Open Letter to Commissioner
Lochren, and l want to state that am one
of the 700,0 900 whose claims are unadjusted.
You will not be surprised at my being in
dgnant when tell you that my claim has
been dragging along for over IL long years,
and not yet allowed and that, too, without
any real difficulties in the way of its adjust
ment. Despite the fact that Board of Med
ical Examiners stated my disabilities chronic
catarrh and heart disease, and that have
furnished all the testimonials and aftidavits
called for, the Pension Bureau sent me q
notice last July, think, that my claim was
rejected, because am not disabled from per-
forming manual labor in pensionable de-
gree! o! the injustice of it! Does not the
Bureau, in effect, say that swore falsely in
my declarations; that four or more of my
neighbors swore falsely, and that the Med
ical Board lied or are mistaken? But what
am / to do? Since that notice l have
written to the Commissioner thrice, protest
ing against such unfair treatment, but up to
date have received no answer. l lost my
health by three years service in the army"
Brothers in Companies.
Justus Freer, Co. E, 18th Wis, Delton,
Wis, says that in his company there were
Is sets of brothers, being 33 brothers in all.
Many are yet living, but most are widely
separated. The writer is the oldest men,
Der living of Co. E. The company was
made up mostly of young students of the
Delton School, with few farmers sons.
Made Mistake.
10 Swan, Co. G., SD Ohio, Kansas City,
Kan, writes: After reading my letter in
your issue of Nov. 80, / wish to make cor
rccliOn. / mentioned an incident as occur
ring at Crawfsh Springs during the battle
of Chickamauga. In this / am in error. l
should have said that the spring had no
name of any prominence so far as know,
it was where we picketed, and at place
called Reeds Ridge, think, in the northern
part of Chickamauga.
I" 1t was at this spring that the rebs and
our regiment mixed and got water, and
where we first learned of the arrival of
Longstreet's Corps, through conversation
with the rebels, and that they had just dis
embarked and were direct from Richmond"
Homes for Thousands.
o. w. Todd, Co. /, both Ind, KOkOmo,
Ind, declares that homes for thousands can
be secured in northern Alabama. He has
passed six years III Jackson County in the
capacity of school teacher. There is yet
much vacant land on the mountains, but for
want of school facilities it is settling slowly
by families. Cumberland Mountain, the
termination of the range of that name, is an
exception, having an academy OF 200 pupils.
This is 60 miles west of Chattanooga and %
east of Huntsville, on the G. & Nj. Railroad,
the nearest depot being at Limrock. The
mountain, or table land, is rich in timber
and soil that will produce the finest fruits in
the country and all kinds of vegetables.
Fine mineral water may be had. The eli
mate is equable. There is no land now to
homestead there, but it may be bought for
from 81 TO IS an acre. There is GAR.
Post nearby, and there are many people from
the North. He would not have returned to
Indiana had not personal affairs made it
necessary.
They Were Apt Pupils.
T. j. Ormsby, 18th W. Va, Osawatomie,
Kan, asks the boys to tell some of their ex-
periences, and asks the boys if they remem-
Der how green they were when they first
started out But they learned a lot even
before the polish was worn off their canteens
and gun barrels, though it took good while
to become initiated into the mysteries of
successful fence-rail appropriation, gray
back" hunting, and railroad destroying.
"The Girl Left Behind Me-"
Mrs. G.. NJ. NJ, Metropolis, ILL.,, calls to
mind the old wartime days at home when
the girls we left behind us" did their little
bsst as well as the boys who had gone
away. The writer was Assistant Postmaster
in a small country village in southern Illi
nois, from which all the able-bodied men
had gone to the front. She tells how the
boys too young to go and the decrepit old
men formed themselves into "home-guard"
to repel the Johnnies should they "dare
cross the Ohio" She used to have to read
10 the old folks the letters from the boys,
and many secrets of the most profound
nature were inrusted to her care, and that
of other young women. 1--WE girls" she
says, would slip away with our letters, the
wives would hurry home with the news from
Pa while the old men would take the news
from John home to mother. Those were
gloomy days. and brave hearts were put to
the test to hold out without despairing."
Like Old Times.
William Carter, Co. B, 5th Mo- Cav, Mos
COW, Idaho, says the fuss the soldier-haters
are making reminds him of the yelppg of
the blood bounds the rebels used to employ
to track their hali-starved prisoners. The
true Johnny reb private who fought on the
battlefield and knows what it was to do or
die" is probably very much ashamed to find
out at this late day that he was beaten and
had to surrender to lot of cOifee-coolers
and skulks, and it was very bad for the
rebel cause that Gen. Lee did not know that
the men who had whipped him were moth
ing but lot of bounty-jumpers and dead
beats. Perhaps Southern pride would not
have allowed him to give up his good fight.
What Thew Really Said.