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The National tribune., 1893-11-09

The trees that once covered the ground
were probably felled 10 form abatis and Il
supply fuel for soldier vandals to warm tbeil
coffee and roast their chickens and turkeys
and other delicacies which Uncle Sam Sc
bounteously provided for his soldier boys
during emergencies like this.
/ thought how our boys might have re.
called themselves with nice fish that abound
in the river. The hill for long distance
has been denuded of its growth of wood
excepting a few cedars and spruce bushes
that stand in places, and the ground COW
cred by grass and laid out in town lots save
where the sacrilegiOus plowshare has turned
it over to plant farm products.
The rebel works of decentralization at a dis
tance of over a mile across the low plain. that
may have been wooded, still remains, but
not without being seriously deiaced. The
narrow strip of bushes and cedars that lined
the brow OF the little elevation, and behind
which lay their rifle-piis and main body of
troops, are lett untouched.
The dam that Burnside put in North Creek
TO raise the water for preventing an attack
from that point is torn away, and the cur
rent of water that flows through the chan
mel now turns several mills and factory
wheels along its short and rapid eonrse.
Three sides of the dirt embankmeut (the
side rext to the city was left as sallyport)
stands, with the salients at each of the cor
ners at The southwest and southeast, and the
bastiCn; but the rains Of many seasons have
nearly filled the moat around the parapet
The people of the place take great delight
in telling visitors who may be sjght-seekers
wonderful stories about The occurrences
which took place there during the siege
They tell, and no doubt the inexperienced
believe their story, that so many Of the as
saulting rebels were killed in trying TO get
over the parapet at the two angles that the
ditch was shoe-top with blood.
/ remember going along the railroad track
with one of their story tellers, and when we
would come TO tie that showed the marks
of pick that had been driven into it to
move it to its place, he would point out that
as being made by bullet. He forgot that
the ties that were on the road-bed then had
long since rOtted or been removed and re-
placed by new ones. There is not now left
one of the stumps among which we know
wire was woven 10 check aud retard the ad-
vance Of the rebel forces.
The National Cemetery is beautiful
grounds, nicely located, and carefully cared
for, containing graves of mere than 500
dead heroes, with now and then a new
grave added for one of the old veterans who
has suecumbed 10 disease or old age, and
been buried there.-ELLIoTT WINsCoTT.
Go. K, 9Th Ind, Syracuse, \. Y.
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SHILOH.
How One Comrade Always Understood the
Matter of Cen. JOIInston's Death.

now tne to1nrade Always Understood the
Matter of Gen. JOhnstOn's Death.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: noticed
in your issue OF Oct. IS, 1893 that Shiloh
had been brought up again. / always read
with great interest anything about that bat
tie, and most always find something new.
Comrade Murphy, 45th H., speaks of the
death Of Confederate Gen. Albert S. john
stOn as occurring in front of his regiment,
which was in McClernand's Division. I
have been OF the impression that The fatal
shot was fired by one Of Gen. Hurburt's
men from the Hornets Nest" which was
to the left Of McClernand's Division, while
Gen. Johnston was actually lead ng some of
his men in q charge on the Union line, when
they failed TO break it, therefore called the
Hornets Nest.
Another point where / differ with him is
the old story if Gen. a. S. Johnston had not
been killed he would have captured Grants
army. If.
i always believed, and do yet, that the
Confederate army was repulsed on Sunday
evening by Grants army, without help from
reinforcement. Gen. Beauregard, who took
command of the rebel army after Johnston's
death, never denied this.
What the result on Monday would have
been without the reinforcement of Buell's
army i leave for someone else TO say.
1t was great battle, and without any
preparation whatever for a battle in the
commencement, but turned cut well in the
end of it by natural bulldog fighting on our
side and the timely arrival OF Buells army.
We gained great victory, with heavy loss
on both sides.-JAcoB FINK, Co. d. 55th
Ill, Canton, Ill.
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name, company, and regiment, number of
grave, and date and causes Of death OF any
one who lies there, on inquiry with postage
from those interested
why Don't They Write?
Q. M. Wallace, CO. A, S0th Ohio, Murray
vile, w. Va, wonders what has become of
all the boys of his regiment. He asks if
any of the men who composed the detail of
80, commanded by Lieut.. s. Murphy, Co. A,
have forgotten the little expedition they
were on while near Goldsboro', \. G.. He
thinks if some comrade would write this up
brightly and humor0usly it would make a
good story for the paper.
The Old Songs.
Mrs. Ella Turner, Wilmington. Kan,
wants the song beginning, "On Shiloh's
dark and bloody ground"
George II. Allen, 9O6 Eddy street, Provi-
dence, X. l., wants the poem entitled The
BivOuac of The Dead"
c. l.. Batten, Parkersburg, ". Va, wants
some comrade to tell him where he can Sc
cure book on how to grain, stain, and
varnish the inside woodwork of houses, etc
Homes for Settlers.
10. Clark, Woodville, Ala, says that since
his Picket Shot of Sept % he has been
having lively time answering all the que
ries from comrades as to his locality Some
of them failed to inclose stamp for reply,
and though he has answered them all, any
way he wishes to remind the boys that he is
no millionaire, and that it is only fair for
them to pay their own postage. From the
way things look now he believes there soon
will be enough comrades there to make a
respectably-sized Post. If few veterans,
with some little money TO spare, would come
and take hold with those already there,
large and prosperous colony could soon
be formed.
Hard Times.
w. r. French. Co II, 18th Tenn, Miser,
Tenn, tells rough story of how he was
captured, with 200 others, at Russellvlle,
Tenn, on the night Of the stampede from
Bulls Gap, Nov. -, 1864, and taken to Dan
vile; of the desperate attempt to escape of
number, and the success of but three, him.
self one; of his recapture before he got back
to his regiment, and to Salisbury, where the
prisoners lived in holes in the ground, and
the rebels came in every morning and carted
out two wagon-loads of dead and buried
them In pits like lot of dogs
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Of the ground, and the people who were
non-combatauts took refuge in the mount
aims or fled the State to avoid military serv-
ice. Some remained and tried to make
themselves popular in the estimation of the
side which happened to hold the district.
The cavalrymen who first entered the
place will recollect some of them. Col.
Mabry, one of the old aristocratic stock, who
owned large plantation, raised slaves, and
owed everybody he could get i'll debt to, and
was killed few years ago by Banker
OCOnnOr in an affTay, was one Of this class.
OF the notable and interesting objects in
the locality, Fort Sanders and its ruins is the
most important point of all. Here the as
sault was made, and the only fierce struggle
that took place around there. The attack
upon attack by the assaulting column-still
renewed bul still resiSting-are traced only
by the ina ginatiOn. when one who has read
The particulars OF the action or was a party
sees the wreck, when the whole scene is
brought 10 ones eyes with tremendous force.
The fort stands on the crest of a hill, south
of and overlooking the town, and is reached
from that point by a grade of gradual ac
clivity. Along the west side runs the
Georgia, Tennessee & Virginia Railroad; the
east side of the range is washed by the Ten
nessee River, the banks of which for many
miles are high and precipitous, walled with
natures formation of stone that would pre-
vent an approach from that side of any force
of the enemy, and the distance across the
river and TO the fort was too long 10 be
reached with artillery.
There is stretch of rifle-pits along the
breast of tie ridge on the north side, ex-
tending far around 10 the east side. These
may have extended all the way around the
fort, but the destroying hands of Time, with
that of human assistance, may have caused
their disappearance.
The National tribune., 1893-11-09
CTTgTER,S
LAST
BATTLE
FIELD.

A visit to this spot, which is now National
Cemetery is extremely interesting. Here Il
years ago, Gen. Custer and five companies Of
the 18th u. S. Cav, numbering over 200 ofiie
and men, were cut to pieces by the Sioux In
dians and allied tribes under Sitting Bull. The
battlefield, the Valley OF the Little Big Horn,
located some 40-odd miles south OF Custer,
Montana, a station the Northern Pacific
Railroad, can be easily reached by stage. If
you will write Charles S. Fee, st. Paul, MINI,
inclosing four cents in postage, he will send you
handsomely illustrated 100 page book, free of
charge, in which you will fnd graphic ac-
count OF tho sad catastrophe which overlook
tue brave Custer and his followers in tie Valley
Of the Little Big Horn in June, 20
The National tribune., 1893-11-09
FIGHTING THEM OVER
What0 Veterans Have to Say About
Their Old Campaigns

1.-THE Editor greatly desires communications
for publication i'm the Fighting Them Over and
Picket Shot columns Contributors are requested
20 write frequently. iegibiy, to the point on one
aide of the paper with each subject OH n separate
sheet following the form of the printed article
below, and signing name, company, regiment, and
address al the eud. If articles are of Importance
copies should be kept, in case of accidental loss
Matter for these columns should be of general
interest all old soldiers and historically accu-
rate possible.
The National tribune., 1893-11-09
KNOXVILLE VISITED.
Scene Of Tragic Events 1t Now Appears
TO "A Veteran.

Scene Of Tragic Events It Now Appears
TO a Veteran.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: The SOL
diers' Friend is once more an agreeable
visitor 10 my home. The article which
interested me more particularly than others,
in the first number of my late subscription,
was :" The Siege of Knoxville" by Comrade
Brearley. The special interest created by
reading this article dad not originate from
any sympathy begOtten by being one of
those engaged there at the time, but on
account of the fact that, since the event,
l have spent some months at the place, and
inspected the grounds where so much forth
tude and heroic bravery was displayed.
What makes me take an unusual interest in
the matter, for one who had no participa-
ton in The affairs that transpired in that
department, is that Longstreet's forces, which
were there, formed part of Lees army
The National tribune., 1893-11-09
Wonderful Cures of Catarrh and Consump.
ton by New Discovery.

Wonderful cures of Lung Diseases, Catarrh,
Bronchitis and Consumption, are made By the
new treatment known in Europe as the Amdral-
Broca Discovery. If you are a sufferer you
should write to the New Medical Advance, 81
East 9th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, and they
will send you this new treatment free fer trial.
State age and all particulars Of your disease.
The National tribune., 1893-11-09
THEIR RECORDS.
Brief Sketches Of the Services of
Various Regiments.

lTBE NATIONAL TRIBUNE has In hand several
hundred requests for regimentR histories All such
requests will be aceeded TO in due lime. although
those now received cannot be published for al
least six months, owing to lack OF space Numerous
sketches have already been published and OF these
none can be found room for a second timel
The National tribune., 1893-11-09
Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Iif.
Away.v

Name Of little book just received-tells about
NOtObdc, the wonderful, harmless, economical
cure for chewing, smoking. cigaret or snuff
habit. You run no physical or financial risk,
for Aoto5ac is absolutely guaranteed to cure or
money refunded. Your druggists got il or
will get it. Write for the hook-mailed free.
The STERLING REMEDY Co., Box 3, Indiana
Mineral Springs, Ind. Agents wanted.
The National tribune., 1893-11-09
saxby's Query to IngersolI.

This beautiful song words aud music, regu.
lar sheet-music sizel will be mailed to anyone
inclosiDg 5 cents in stamps to-
ID. q. EDWARDS General Passenger Agent,
c. Ii. & ID. K. f. Cincinnati, Ohio.
The National tribune., 1893-11-09
Wants to Sell His panara

Comrade Henry Warren, Terre Hsute, is now
confirmed invalid, and needing money, wants
to sell his files OF THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
lie has them complete from 1881 to date. and
would take $3.50 volume for them.
The National tribune., 1893-11-09
New south wales Gold Mining.

Gold mining in New South Wales appears to
be looking up as the yield of last year was
f56S, l79, being ELL 0C0 more than that of 1891,
raised.
The National tribune., 1893-11-09
The f23d Pa.

This regiment was organized at Harris
burg in August, 1862, to serve nine months
and was mustered out May -, 1868, by reason
OF the expiration of its term of service
John B. Clark was the Colonel, Richard C.
Dale, Lieutenant-COlonel, and Charles ID.
Wiley, Major. 1t was attached to Hum
phreys's Division, of the Fifth Corps, and lost
in ali ~ men. Three officers and 81 men
were killed in action, and one officer and Al
men died of disease and other causes.
The National tribune., 1893-11-09
The 1A2d Pa

Inc regiment was organized at Harris
burg in August and September, 1862 to
serve three years, and was mustered out of
the service May %, 1865, in accordance with
orders from the War Department.. Col.
Robert p. Cummins who left the State with
the regiment, was killed at Gettysburg, July
i, 1868; Lieut.-C Alfred B. McCalmont was
promoted to the COlonecy of the 20Sth Pa
Sept. II, 1864, and the regiment was left in
charge of Lieut.. Col. Horatio n Warren
The total enrolment was 935 men, and of
this number 155 men were killed in action, a
loss of 16.5 per cent, which gives it a place
among Col. Fo1's 300 fighting regiments
The total number of killed and wounded
was 566, and 70 men died of disease and
other causes, of which 90 men came to their
death in rebel prisons. 1t was in the bat
ties of Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Catlett's
Station, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North
Anna, Cold Harbor Petersburg, Boydton
Road, Dabney's Mills, and Five Forks; pres
ent also at Fitz Hugh Crossing, Cbanceliors-
vile, Mine Run, TOtopotomoy, Weldon Rail-
road, PEBBLES Farm, Hatcher's Run, and
AppomattOx. It's first battle Was at Fred
ericksburg, and it went into action $50
strong, losing Is killed, 1S2 wounded,
including these moItslly. and As miss
HIS. many vi IIio laItcI are missing yet, all
OF them having been left on the field dead or
badly wounded. In this battle it was in
Meade's Division, Pa. Reserves First Corps,
but in February, 1863, the Reserves were
Withdrawn from the field on account of their
severe losses, and the regiment was assigned
to Rowley's First Brigade, Doubleday's
(Tbird) Division, of the First Corps. At
Gettysburg the regiment lost Is killed, 12S
wounded, and 20 missing; total of 211,
most of which was sustained on the first day,
Col. Crmmins being among the killed. On
joining the Fifth Corps the regiment formed
part of Stones Third Brigade, of Wads-
worth's (Fourth) Division.
The National tribune., 1893-11-09
The I25th i'll.

This regiment was organized at Danyille,
and mustered into the service Sept. g. 1862
to serve three years. The members whose
terms would have expired previous to Oct
j, 1865, were mustered out June 8, 1865, in
accordance with orders from the War De-
partment, and the remaining members trans
ferred TO the Goth Ill. Col. Oscar F. Har-
mon was killed in action at Kenesaw Mount
ain June u, 1854, and his place was filled
by Lieut.-COl. James W. Langley, who re-
ceived the breyet of Colonel March 10, 1865.
1t was attached to Davis's Division, of the
Fourteenth Corps. Nine officers and So men
were killed in action or died Of wounds dur
ing the entire service, and three officers and
1O4 men died of disease, by accident, in
prison, etc; making total loss of 204 men.
The regiment led the storming column of
McCook's Brigade in the grand assault on
Kenesaw Mountain June 81, 1854 Gen.
McCOOk was with the advance and fell NOR
tally wounded ON the enemy's works, hav-
ing passed the abatis. Col. Harmon took
his place, and while urging the men on to
victory so nearly won, fell with a bullet
through his heart. In this charge the regi-
ment lost 81 men, all of whom were killed
or died of their wounds, besides the large
number of wounded.
The National tribune., 1893-11-09
The Dist Ind.

This regiment was organized, with the
exception of Cos. III, /, and K, at Evansville,
in September and October, 1862, to serve
three years. Cos. H, !, and K were organ
lied in September, 1868. to serve six months,
and were mustered out in March, 1864, at
the expiration of their term OF service
Three new companies were organized in
1865 and assigned to the regiment as Cos.
II, l, and X. Seven companies, A to G., in
elusive, were mustered out June 26, 1865, in
accordance with orders from the War De-
partment, and the remaining companies, to-
gether with the recruits, transferred to the
124th and 12Sth Ind. John Mehringer, who
received the brevet of igadier-General
March 13, 1865, was the Colonel, Charles II.
Buttertield the Lieutenant-C Colonel, and
James nj. Carson the Major. 1t was attached
to Hascall's Division, OF the Twenty-third
Corps, and sustained total loss of 1876 men.
Of this number two officers and Is men were
killed in action or died of wounds, and the
remainder died in prison, of disease, by &C.
cident, etc.
The National tribune., 1893-11-09

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The Sth Conn.

The regiment was organized at Hart
ford, Conn., from Sept. 81 TO 81, 1861, to
serve three years. The original members
were mustered out at the expiration of their
term, and the veterans and recruits retained
in the service until mustered out in accord
ance with orders from the War Department.
Col. Edward Harlan was on Nov. 30, 1862
promoted 10 be igadier-General Of Volun-
teers, and his successor, Col. John E. Ward
was discharged March IA, 1865, leaving the
command with Lieut.-Col. VIM. III. Pratt.
1t formed a part of Rodmans Division, of the
Ninth Corps, and lost in all 264 men. Of
this number eight officers and 112 men were
killed in action or died of wounds, and three
officers and 141 men died of disease, by ac-
cident, etc. Five men of the regiment were
executed for desertiOn-an unusually large
number for one organization. At Antietam
the regiment suffered its heaviest loss, losing
81 in killed outright, 139 wounded, incIud-
ing those mortally, and II missing; a total
Of 1914 in the one battle. At Port Walthal
three men were killed, IS wounded and
eight missing, or "a in ali, and at Drewry's
Bluff there was loss OF "a, distributed as
follows: Seven killed, 81 wounded and 26
missing.
The National tribune., 1893-11-09
ARMS AND LEGS

DEAR SIR:-Affer having worn one Of YOUR artificial
legs with rubber tOOt fOg fifteen years nave no hest
tation in saying that it IS the best leg in use have
five differ
The National tribune., 1893-11-09
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line
The Man Who was No, Shot.

wn A S. WADE, Sergeant, Co. Fl,
!: !: !: :: J: :;
u O..
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-02-02
IN SENATE AND HOUSE.
Eoth Branches Devote the Day to Ap.
propriation Bills.

WASHINGTON, Feb. = Good progress In
the practical legislative work of the senate
was made yesterday. Immediately after
the routine morning business the commit
tee on appropriations asserted its right of
precedence, and maintained it up to the
time of adjournment. The fortiieation
bill was the first of the general bills to
come before the senate, and 1t was passed
after rather interesting, though not novel,
discussion on the subject of coast fortifica-
tions The army appropriation bill was
then taken up, and was passed with but "A
single endment-increasing the monthly
pay of sergeapts of the army. The District
of Columbia bill came next in order. All
the committee amendments were agreed
to except one that was reserved for further
action, looking to the erection of $500, 900
municipal building in Washington city,
and the bill went over
The attention of the house was concen-
trated upon one item of the sundry civil
appropriation bill. That item appropriated
Sl6,000,000 for carrying on the contracts al
ready entered into for the Improvements Of
rivers and harbors The authority of the
committee on appropriations was called
into question 1t was contended that the
appropriations should have been reported
by the committee on rivers and harbors;
but although Mr.. Holman was foremost
of those who made this contention against
the power of the committee of which he Is
chairman, that committee came out VIC
torious, and the item was decided TO be a
proper one. And further than that, the
item withstood fusillade of objections
and came out unscathed. Without finally
acting on the bill the house adjourned.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-02-02

Business was just closing In one Of Hart
ford's banks when the digntfed president
came In behind the rail and asked;
"Can any Of you tell the story of Jack
and the BeanstalkS, tried to tell it to my
grandchild last evening and was all mixed
up. l couldn't do it."
"'Jack and the Beanstalkf why, Ger
tainly," said the genial teller. ut was this
way, Jack brought home some beans, and
his mother threw them into the we'll,
and''--
Yes I know, but where did Jack get
the beansS" asked the president.
"Get the beansf Why, he had the beans
and the stalk grew up out of the WE'LL" and
the teller related in graphic way the allie
gorical tale, intertecting little bits of
Jack, the Giant Killer" ""Little Hop % My
Thumb" and other nursery LIMOGES, show
that at one time he was familiar with little
folk lore.
But where did Jack get the beansi That
is what / want to know" inquired the
persistent president.
Il can tell you all about that" said the
newly fledged bookkeeper. "He traded his
mothers cow for them, and his mother was
SO angry she threw the beans out of the
window, not into the well, and the stalk
grew"-
Never mind about the stalk. I've found
out where Jsck got the beans. That's
where my grandchild puzzled me-" said
the president, and the vaults were locked
and he hastened home to straighten out
the story for the little one.-Hartford Post