The National tribune., 1893-06-22

| built some time In the Summer or Fall of
/ 1861, and was about is rods square.
| When the writer's command arrived there
on the 18th of April it was being rebuilt. The
troops took possession of it. The old stock
ade was occupied by three crews of gunboats
-Sachem, Morning Light, and Clifton. He
| wonders if the 9th Kan. Cav. boys have for
gotten the fight they had with the gunboat
| men on the last day of October. At one
| time farmer came into the stockade with
load of truck. The rebs tried to buy it,
but bis prices were too high, so they allowed
him to 60 in to the prisoners, and gathered
around outside to see the fun. The old fellow
drove in, and the boys began climbing into
his wagon and holding up things and asking
the prices; when he turned from one to the
other they would slip away with what they
had picked up Finally the farmer got
mad at SO much Fostering and pulled his
gun, but it went off in the air. and he began
10 think he had struck a hornets nest. He
tried to turn around, but his wheels came
off, and he and his cart and his truck
strewed the ground, and the boys got q
feast. Then the rebs cheered. The Yankees
had a good scheme for escape there.
Through the Summer they were allowed an
old mule and cart to take the debris out of
One or two men would conceal themselves
under this rubbish and be taken outside.
It is estimated that about 100 men made
their escape in this way. Finally some
fellow currying favor "blew" the thing to
the rebs, and after that the rebs had a man
to drive the cart and see it loaded.
A Gettysburg Incident.
s. G. Bradley, First Lieutenant, Co. K,
f11th NJ " \,
the evening of the second day at Gettysburg
band of his sword scabbard. The sword was
in the scabbard, and with it was doubled up
at a sharp angle, 80 that the sword could
not be withdrawn. "We were in the midst
of the enemy at the time, and / was using
my revolver, which accounts for the posi-
ton of my sword.
The next day, in facing Pickett's charge,
near Zeigler's Grove, / was wounded, and
with COL G. D. McDougal (since GeneraD,
Capt. Mead, Lieut.. Caprun, and several
other officers of my regiment who were
wounded, was sent home on leave. Our
swords were all made up in bundle and
entrusted to the care of a negro servant of
McDougaPs, who stayed faithfully by Us till
we reached Albany, n. Y, when he disap-
peared, taking the swords with him. Mine
was the only one which had marks distinct
i've enough to be recognized at this distant
day, but about mine there could be no mis-
take. The scabbard was of leather, and the
upper band of brass, and broad enough to
show the full impress of the grapeshot
Somebody, doubtless, has that sword now in
possession as a curiosity, and should like
to recover it,"
Black River Bridge.
James T. Russell, ~ West Fourteenth St.,
Dubuque, Iowa, writes: 81 never had such
a deluge of correspondence as has come upon
me in regard to the truth of the charge at
Black River Bridge, May II, 1863, which the
23d end 21st Iowa made alone, capturing all
the prisoners, cannon, ammunition, rebels
running and receiving their surrender before
another regiment received orders or started
from their safe position under the bank
The 22d and 21st lost nearly 200 men, and
not another regiment one in that three-min-
utes' charge"
Scattering.
John Wingrove, Co. K, LIST W. Va, Proc
tor, w. Va, sends in his claim as one of the
young soldiers, having enlisted at the age of
16 years and two days, carrying musket
all the time.
J. A. Vaughan, Captain, Co. B, 4th KY,
Kan, still has the trunk be-
longing to Col. Battles which he picked up
during his service. He wishes to know
where the family now is, so as to be able to
return it. Among other things, he has
book with the name of F.
Lang in it.
Capt. E. Kryder, Bombay, Fla, wants to
with some skilled canneryman in
the North, with view of employing him to
superintend the writer's cannery establish
ment. A comrade is preferred.