The National tribune., 1893-07-13
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.
Eating Jerked Mule Meat.


were at Benton Barracks, and Lieut.. Chas.
Springer was selected to take to Nicksburg
about 125 stragglers and deserters on a
steamboat, and there were 10 men detailed
for the work. The boat we went on was the
Henry Ames, large side-wheeler. About
40 miles above Vicksburg we were COM
PEELED TO pass a battery of nine guns, and
they made it very warm for us. The Henry
Ames was loaded with commissary stores,
and the rebs wanted them very bad; but we
had wooden gunboat dashed to us to pro-
tect our boilers, and we got by. Seven men
were killed on the gunboat and two or three
on the Ames. On the seventh day after
leaving st. Louis we landed in Vicksburg.
i took down with me 100 papers missouri
Democrat and sold them as fast as / could
hand them out at % cents each. / sold So
of them before any body discovered the date
They were all looking at the big war news
headings, and were paying % cents for a
paper seven days old. This was in the
month of June, 1864 At the end of the war
we were not mustered out like the most of
the army, but were sent by river from East
port, Miss, to Omaha, Neb., and on the 1st
of July, 1865, started out TO slay all the
Sioux Indians, but some of them got away.
We were on what they called the Powder
River expedition, and before we got back we
chawed jerked mule meat without salt,
bread, Worcester sauce, or mince pie. The
market report clipped from a newspaper
would have made good lunch. / would
like to hear from any comrade who was on
the plains or Powder River trip"
For Some Lady's Eye.
s. F. P, Postofice Station R, New York
City, an old soldier, wants housekeeper
about % years of age; comrades daughter
preferred, one capable of taking full charge
of his home-no children. Correspondence
and photograph solicited.
Youngest Soldier.
Anthony Headley, Co. /, 18th W. Va,
Pine Grove, w. Va, thinks that at date of
enlistment he was one of the youngest SOL
diers in the army. He was born June 3,
1916, and enlisted Aug. "a, 1862, and re-
manned in service until the close of the war.
Cordial Approval.
You may at all times count on me as a
subscriber to your great and good paper,
which so bravely stands up for and defends
the rights of the old soldier against our COM
mon enemy, the pension-hater. / had 13
years military service, three of which were
served in the war of the rebellion. wish
you great SUCCESSIVE. PERRY, Co. (, 18th
Ind, Princeton, Ind.
Herewith / send 81 to renew my sub
scription to THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE /
am lost without it, for it is the best friend
the old soldiers have. When / think of the
undeserved scorn and abuse heaped upon
the men who sacrificed so much that man
kind holds dear, in order to save the coun-
try, / do not care to read any other paper
F. j. BROWN, Bismarck, n. d.
Long live THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
J. T. STANHoPE, Forum, Ark.
| The NATIONAL TRIBUNE is a welcome
weekly visitor to our house, not only as SOL
der paper, but valued paper on all sub
jects. The Sunday-school lesson alone is
worth the price of the paper. And it stands
up so grandly for honest pensions.-JOsIAH
A. BROWN, Lebanon, o.
Whore is Mr.. watkins7
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE has received
several poems from the pen of P. Watkins,
who does not give his address or accompany
the same with letter. Will he not kindly
communicate with US at once?
Where is Van Dorm?
G. 81. Berger Co. G, 1ssth Pa, Lake City,
Fla, writes: "I ran across an old reb in
Live Oak, Fla, by the name of VIM. A.
Campbell, Goth Ala, who, in conversation,
said he would like to know if VIM. A. Van
Dorm, 9Th Ind. Cav, is still living, and
whether Van Dorm, or any of those who
were with him in Libby In July, '64, recol-
lect the guard who gave them tobacco on the
sly, though such was strictly prohibited.
Campbell says he recollects several drinks
of brandy he had with the Yanks, who had
lately been captured, and had struggled it
in with them. Campbell also wonders if
there are any of the participants who recol-
lect the turning over of the first COnfeder-
ate wagon to the q. S. Quartermaster at
Appomattox, which was done near Gen.
Grants Headquarters, and the dispute over
the whip, which the teamster tllimed as his
private property, which was st tiled by Gen.
Grant ordering the Quartermastsr to pay the
teamster for the whip, and Campbell, who
was then teamster, received the first money
| $50 cents) that was paid out by Uncle Sam
for equipments after the war. Should this
meet the eye of Van Dorm, or others who
were in Libby with him, he would like to
hear from them"
Where He Can be Found.
VIM. Jones, late of the 11th Ohio Cav. and
| the 18th N. Y, wishes to inform his COM
| rades that he is now q resident of COlusa,
| CAL, and asks that his name be placed on file
in the office of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, to
| the emu tndG any cOmTduo WlSuIuS W COLIC-
spond with him can do so.
Col. Raulston's Fate.
J. B. Mcdonald, Captain, 9Th COM
pany, 1st battalion, N. Y. s. S., Fresno. Cal,
saws that in the issue of June Is, in the
sketch of the oath N. Y. Cav, the writer
says that William c. Raulston was the first
Colonel of the regiment, but he was missing
in action Sept. 80, 1864, and was never heard
from afterward. The writer knows that
Col. Raulston was captured on the above
date, and taken to Libby Prison about Oct.
3, 1864, and when Gen. Butler made the at
tack north of the James River, about Oct. 4,
Col. Raulston and some $50 other prisoners
were sent to Salisbury, n. c., and from
thence, about Dec. Is, taken to DInyille,
Va. While in prison at Danville Col.
Raulston was shot and MORALLY wounded
by one of the guards while the prisoners
were making an effort to escape. The Col
| onel was shot while running upstairs. The
| guard heard him running up the stairs,
stuck his gun through window, aud fired,
shooting the Colonel through the abdomen.
He was removed to the hospital, but died
| in q few days. Col. Smith, of Baltimore,
commanded the prison. Smith had lost an
arm early in the war.
Stay by the Commissioner.