The National tribune., 1893-02-02

union at washington, ~. u, ihSt oepteInDeT
that if each COmrade would send some OF his
personal experience for publication in THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE that the material would
soon be at hand to compile new and interest
ing edition to the Historic Records of the 9th
n. Y. Cav. Now comrades this cannot be
done without your help. If we have history
you must help to write it. You have already
helped to make it. You saw fit to elect me to
the honorable position of historian of the regi-
ment a position do not feel competent to fill
but will do all | can to bring about the desired
end. / will carefully preserve all articles
written by any 9th n. Y comrade that comes
into my hands las | have been doing for num-
Der of years., and hope sometime in the near
future you may select a committee to examine
and correct Tor reject, as the case may seem to
requre,) and compile these recollections in book
form. THE NATIoNAL TRIBUNE was named
the medium through which these articles
should appear, as it was thought that larger
number of comrades were subscribers to this
than to any other soldier paper; but if there is
any who do not wish to send their articles to
The NATIONAL. TRIBUNE and will send them
to me, will place them on file for future use
Now, don't say you can't write. for ] know you
can state facts, and that is what is wanted, no
matter how crude the FORM"
The Anti-Pcnsion Howiers.
c. L. Brown, Rockwell City, Iowa, writes
"Journeying westward not long since, / heard
young physician of some prominence, and
of anti pension faith, holding spell bound a
number of young hearers to whom he was OK
planning that our pension system was looting
the Treasury with an unsparng hand, and
that only the wounded, and of them such as
could not make their own living, should be
pensioned. would like to know what would
be the effect on the business and popularity of
such howlers in their home communities were
they to indulge in pleasure trip to Europe of
from one to three years? Were they to stay
away only short time, and that to recuperate
health or for pleasure, they would find the
vacuum filled and so thoroughly filled that
it would require years to regain their strength
and standing. Then why, in the name Of
all that is patriotic and loyal, cannot such per-
sons see that when man has spent from one
to four years not in recuperating health, not
in seeking pleasure, but in wading streams
full of floating ice, in marching through mud
and snow, and too often sleeping in the same at
night; in freezing and starving not only he
himself, but his family, those dependent on
him. must suffer more or less the rest of their
lives in consequence? But men will stand in
horror and denounce the idea of gifts to the citi
zen by the Government. Such persons should
spend few minutes on the surprising fact that
the indomitable veteran not only tore the
rapidly vanishing specter of American Govern
ment from the hand Of secession, but in the
Presidential chair. in Congress, and in the
whole country made the unexampled efforts
which resurrected the specter and made it in
vulnerable.
Osterhaus Commanded.
John Ort Co f. 9th Iowa, Valparaiso, Neb..
says he saw correction i'll paper recently
which told comrade, what the writer always
thought, about who commanded the Fifteenth
Corps after the death Of Gen. Mcpherson, July q,
'6i. 1t was Gen. p. ]. Osterhaus. He received
a roster from Washington about the time of
the Goth National Encampment, which said it
was Morgan L. Smith who took command of
the corps. AT the time Osterhaus commanded
the First Division. This roster also had John
M. Thayer, Ex-Governor of Nebraska, and Col.
j. A. Williamson as division commanders;
which he thinks is mistake. He WAS also sur
prised to see the Iowa Brigade in the First D-
vision, Fifteenth Corps. as he always thought
they were in the Second Brigade from first to
last in that corps. The writer was with his
regiment in the corps from its organization I'M
til the close of the In a previous article
of the writer there occurred a mistake. From
the way the article read it would appear that
he claimed f. Z. Blair did not command the
Fifteenth Corps Some other party claimed
that Logan commanded the corps after Sher-
man, and not Blair. Blair did command the
corps in the latter part of 1868. The 9th Iowa
was in the Second Brigade, First Division
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Spanish Fort.
Peter Dricken st. Michaels, Wis, tells the
story of Spanish Fort and the part his regi-
ment took. He makes plea for the Tbir-
teenth Corps. The writer was member of Co.
l. 9th Wis, and his company was detailed on
the evening of April to go into the rife-pits
to make trenches all the way up to the fort
that night. But the shells of the rebels stopped
this work, and they lay low. All of sudden
there came great noise from the Sixteenth
Corps boys on the right and the Thirteenth
boys yelled too, without knowing what was the
matter. The rebels ceased firing. The men |
jumped up out of the rfe-pits, and a few of Co.
| ran up to the fort to see what was the matter.
One man. Philip Stabb, or Staub, jumped over
in to the fort and hauled down the rebel flag. |
and Joined lis comrades again with the banner |
in his arms. When Staub, or Stabb went into |
the fort the rebels were running hard for the
landing at the bay. Gen. Granger saw the flag
next morning. and then and there thanked the |
comrade for what he had done. That is how |
one flag was captured at Spanish Fort.
The Incident at Copper Creek.
Isaac Taylor, Co. l.. LIST Tenn. Cav, Whites
Vile, Mo-, states that he wishes to say to his /
old friend and acquaintance, Capt Daniel /
Ellis, and all the boys who are readers of The |
NATIONAL TRIBUNE. that he is very much |
III teTeSteu III tue HFdDu achievements VI Lue
Captain, and is one of the boys living to bear
testimony. and very especially to the part |
mentioned in his narrative of the company of
men being captured near Copper Creek, Wise |
County, Va, who were being pioted by one
George Gray. Perhaps the Captain and many
others do not know that he is the one yet |
living who perfected the arrangements with
Mr. Gray for that company Of men; and all |
were captured and scattered but himself and |
two others. The first time they were attacked |
the rebels captured q men and killed one, and
the second time captured "a men. One of the
last party-Levi NJ. Hckey-is living close by
the writer at the present time.
The Sword of James Mills.
Sol. R. Smith. Lincoln, ILL.,, says that among
the effects of Loo W. Myers Post, 1872, are n
lot of swords one Of them being an infantry
sword leather scabbard, and on the brass
of the scabbard is engraved: Presented to
James Mills by the Builders and Mechanics of
GAINESVILLE, Wis, 1861" How it came in pos
session of the Post no one seems to know but
perhaps the former owner or his relatives or
friends would be glad to obtain it, The writer
would be glad to know what became of James
Mills, and how he came TO part with the sword.
Could Not Do Without It,
w. S. Canoe, Co. A, 18th o. S., Clarion, Pa,
says that he had made up his mind not to T
renew his subscription to THE n ATIoNAL TRrB-
UNE as he is Democrat and loves the prin-
ciples of the old party, and something that was
said in the paper in the campaign this Fall
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