The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-11-30

| rcplIeS, ii desired.
| w. Cratsenberg, Trenton, Neb., wants to
| correspond with soldiers daughters, with q
view to matrimony.
| Miss Priscilla Cornelius, Ellis, n. Y, wants
| to correspond with some veterans sons with
q view 10 matimony.
Shot at Williamsburg.
| John f. Weutz, Battery C, 1st L. A., Pa.
Il. c., Ellsworth, Wis, writes: Answering
| the inquiry of G.. w. Ford, in the Issue of
Oct 10, ] will say that there were two men
shot at Williamsburg about the time men
toned Their names were Scott and Nc
Donald. Both were deserters from the
| rebels, or pretended to be, and had Joined
| one of the regiments at Williamsburg. How
long they remained with the regiment / do
not know, but they obtained passes and
went to Yorktown, remaining there two or
three days.
"On their return, I think, they must
have thought best to try the York River,
and forgot to stop, as they were caught in a
boat outside our lines by the gunboat Mystic.
They had, it was said, an excellent descrip-
! ton of the works, guns, and troops, at both
Yorktown and Williamsburg. They were
evidently spies, and should have been hanged.
| write this from memory, and expect to be
| Jumped on for inaccuracies by some one
| WHO KNOWS DeJter ABOUT III.
by the way, it has been asserted by
some one that at the battle of Seven Pines
our left wing was outhanked and driven
hack parallel with the railroad. / have
been waiting for some one to dispute that
point / was in that left wing, on or near
the extreme left, and 1 deny our being
driven at all. We did fall back, but it was
because the Johnnies had broken our line
to the right of us. If / am right, our left
| rested on the Williamsburg pike. An at
| tempt was made to outf1ank u.s. but they
ran against three batteries of artillery that
ground them up. When we fell back we
halted about mile in rear of the original
! position, and the line extended square across
the Williamsburg pike, with the exception
that on the left of the road as you face
Richmond the line was from 30 to 40 rods
in rear of the line on the right, thus making
Jog. Now, if the railroad was parallel to
our line, that is the fault of those who
made it, not ours, so no one can blame us."
The 4th Mass.
l.. L. Ballard, Revere Mass, noticed in
the issue of Sept. that the 4th Mass. was
organized Sept. %, 1862. He wishes TO
state that it was reorganiZed then, for it
had been the first regiment to respond to
the Governors call, and had reached Boston
the first, leaving there April II, 1861, and
had been the first to arrive at Fort Monroe.
1t had fortified Newport News, participated
at Big Bethel, then gone to Hampton, re-
naming there until the three months serv-
ice had expired. Col. Demmock had praised
them very highly upon their leaving Fort
Monroe, as had Gen. Butler.
Story of a Fighting Regiment.
Capt. r. C. Rankin, Ripley, O., says that,
~ II a,fN 10
say Adj't Mitchell, when it should have
been Adj't Allen. T. F. Allen should have
appeared as Adiutant in the organization
at Ripley. At the fight at Cynthiana,
Mitchell was First Sergeant of Co. l."
who Were They?
Adam Herzinger, Newark, N. j. asks
about the execution of three soldiers at
once on the gallows at or near Hancock
Station, before Petersburg, Va. also, on the
same gallows, one man; also, one man exc
cuted by shooting, at the same place. Who
were they?
William w. Bouldry, Sergeant, Co. G, 18th
Mass, South Weymouth, Mass says, not
withstanding he always understood that
after 1861 no Union troops wore gray, he is
at loss TO account for an encounter he ex-
perienced at the Wilderness. On the 9th,
when the rebels fianked his command early
in the morning, he did not hear the order
to fall back, and staid in advance until all
at once he found there were but two men in
sight beside the enemy and himself One
was Jake Roach, of his company, who was
Immediately thereafter shot down.
The other was a man about six feet tall,
"a or % years of age, dressed in gray, with
a light SLOUGH hat, standing about 10 feet
from me. / do not know where he came
f. L. L.
loaded when saw him. He had Just fired
his, and thought it good time to find
out who he was with that suit on. / said:
What regiment do you belong tor He
answered, 7th W. Va
"As soon as he said that / fired into the
crowd of rebels, and ran for the rear az fast
as | could 90, with more bullets whistling
around 10 the square yard than ever heard
before or since"
Entering Atlanta.
Jacob King, Corporal, Co. E, 7th Pa. Cav,
Berwick, Pa, says that, in his claim as TO
first entering Atlanta, u should have said
Sept. 2, 1864, instead of the GOTH"
Brothers in Companies.
J.W. Bender, Co A, 155th Ind, North Bal
timOre, o., writes that his company had
eight sets of brothers in it. Three of the
brothers were prisoners of war each for 10
months The writer enlisted in the 21st Ohio
at IA years of age; next in the 57th Ohio,
being thrown out of both, but in the goth
Ohio went to Lima before he was sent home.
He tried the 68th Ohio at Napoleon, was
thrown out, and went to Indiana and vol
unteered for the 18th Ind; finally he was
taken into the 155th, under Capt. Robert NJ.
Shields.
Sanford ID. Kinney, Los Angeles, CAL,
tells of his family of six brothers, who were
represented not in one company, but in
many commands. The 61st Pa, 10th Pa,
9th U. S. Cav. (Ricketts's Battery, Battery
d. 4th U. s. l.. A, and the Sd Pa. II. A. were
the organizations, and the records of these
will indicate how well the Kinney brothers
served their country. Two were killed and
one was wounded, but the rest got out with
whole skins. go"
William Cramer, Co. E, I'd Ohio Cav,
Loweflville, o., gives the history in brief of
each of the Neville brothers, Ira, Levi, Jason,
Lemuel, DIR. r., and Enoch. They were all
born in Beaver County, Pa, served their
country in different regiments, and all are
alive to-day, as we'll as their aged mother, at
whose house in Lowellyille they held Re-
union recently, 125 neighbors helping to
celebrate the occasion.
sure Cure for Sore Throat.
R. D. Talbot Sergeant, Co. C, 18th H., |
Parsons Kan, writes: While in GONZALES |