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The New South and the Worlds Fair.

No section of the country, East, North West
is taking greater interest in the Worlds Fair nj
present than that portion lying south of Mason and
Dixon's line, and typical Southerners. easily dis
tinguishRble in the immense throng by the grace
ful military bearing of the gentlemen and the rare
beauty of tie ladies' to be met in great mum bers
on the Exposition grounds i'll the corridors of the
leading hotels and at the various social gatherings
in the Worlds Fair City.
To n large extent the success of the Fair depends
upon the Southern people; the Board of Managers
expect hundreds of thousands of people from south
of the Ohio River to attend the Exposition, and
from present indications they will not be disap.
pointed. The railroads making extensive
preparations TO take care of the people, and their
comfort route is fully assured.
The Big -Four Route which Is the only line max
ing connection in Central Union Station, Cincin-
natl, with through trains of the e. +. w. & e.,
Queen ~ Crescent Route, Louisville Il Nashville
X. r., Kentucky Central Ry. aud Chesapeake &
Ohio Ry., naturally forms the popular outlet for
Southern travel, and to accom- odale the business
five elegant vestbued trains with parlor- ears,
sleeping cars dining-cars and elegant coaches
daily from Cincinnati Chicago, stopping at
Midway Plaisance, the Main Entrance to the
Worlds Fair, Goth St., Hyde Park, 5lst ST. 39th St.
22d St., and running into the new 18th St. Station
on the Lake Front. All the Worlds Fair hotels
and boarding houses are located adjacent to the
Big Four stations, and passengers via this popular
line avoid the long, tiresome transfer across the
city necessary by all other lines from Cincinnati.
There is positively other line landing passengers
TO the comfort and convenience great saving of
time and expense, nll the people of the South who
contemplate trip to The Worlds Fair should be
sure to ask for tickets via the Big -Four Route
For full information address ID. Il. MARTIN.
General Passenger Agent, Cincinnati.
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tAs he appeared before Seven Pines where he lost
his right arm.)
soldiers perform on its historic fields His
words were simple and simply spOken-good,
clear English, no mannerisms, no slang, no
eoaTseness, and even the little children could
understand all he said as well as they could
understand pictures-for his words were pic
lures, realizing the perfection OF oratory, as
Coleridge describes il, forming and ex-
pressing thoughts in visual images Of the
things TO be described"
His manner was not in the slightest de-
gree that which one would have expected of
o RriZZled warrior who had commanded
armies in the greatest battles Of the world,
but rather that of some good, kind father
speaking to his children.
Very earnest and emphatic, gesticulating
good deal with his one left arm to give
point and emphasis to his statements, and
occasionally Struggling his armless shoulder
as If he would use another arm if he had it.
IL was impossible for anyone to take his
eyes off the speaker SO long as he stood
there. / noticed no affectation, not a single
act of the conventional orator, no tropes or
figures, no generalizations, no philosophic
deductions, no bombsst or rhetoric. That
belongs to the stage aud the actor, not TO the
great General narratiDg simple facts of his
tory. Nor must it be thought for moment
that be is lacking in power, all unconscious
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| and the grand need of the State is NOR,
| farmers. Vegetables, fruit and grain are
| shipped into the State, which the consumers
| would gladly buy at home if somebody
| would raise them. What has been done is
| n fair test of what can be done. Oats five
and one-half feet tall, with heads IL to 16
inches long; sweet corn taller than o man
can reach, tears corresponding with the
stalks); as good potatoes as were ever
grown anywhere; watermelons, musk me Ions
and garden vegetables of all sorts were all
grown here during the past Summer. The
Summers are long, frost before October
hardly known. The Winters are mild.
Flowing can be done much of the Winter
Long drilling rains and spells of dismal,
cloudy weather unknown. Many thousands
of acres of Government land, and more coal
than Pennsylvania"
II. II. Parker, Co. K, 9th III. Cav, Ham
mond, La, wants to correspond with some
comrade living near Los Angeles Cal.
s. II. Thomas, Co. H. 9th Ohio, Kimball,
S. D., claims that southeast South Dakota is
the best region in the country for the poor
man to get a quarter section. The soil is of
the very best, the crops rich and large, and
the land as yet comparatively cheap in any
of the Counties east of the Missouri River.
Indeed, the best uninproved land can be
bought for SIS to $40 an acre, and improved
farms, few of them, may be secured for
about SIP an acre. In few months Brue
County will be as finely irrigated as any
land in the Northwest. The cheapest and
best way for man of small means to get
$50 acres of choice ground, is to buy a
REIMBURSEMENT to tree claim, and then, if
he has not used his homestead right, to file
his right on this land and live on it We years,
and in that time he will have farm worth at
least $4,000. The REIMBURSEMENT will not
cost more than So an acre for choice pieces.
This Is all in a region where there are
schools, churches, railroads, and good social
surroundings.
Wants to Get Married.
F. L. Feighner, Danville, ILL.,, says: al
write on behalf of middle aged lady who
desires TO correspond with some veteran of
means with view to matrimony. Photo
graphs and references exchanged. Only
satisfactory letters answered. Address Mrs.
j. c., Box 1867, Danville, H."
Scattering.
I. G. Mcclure, Co. X, 18th KY, Glasgow,
KY, is anxious to see some things written
by members of Co. X, 18th KY. He sug-
gests that someone who can tell a rattling
good story write up the fight at Huff's Ferry
Nov. Ia, 1864; also, the fight at CampbelPs
Station.
j. B. Work, Chicago, Ill, writes: ain
your issue of Aug 81, in Picket Shots, my
name appears as Corporal, Co. G, SD Ohio.
never held the rank; the article was in
tended to be published under the non de
plume of The Corporal and Private which
was intended to represent Corp1 Alb McCue
and Private J. B. Work. l fear that the
boys at this late day may think me culpable
of promoting myself to the detriment of
Corp1 McCue's earned honor. Will you
please reduce me to my proper rank ?"
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on this side of the shadow which long ago
enyeloped Thomas, Meade, Grant, Sherman,
Sheridan, and hosts of his fellOw-ofic rs and
men whose fame is now no more than a radi-
ant memory.
The cheers which again greeted the Christ
ian hero OF the one arm and stainless record
were loud, hearty, and protracted, and it
was some moments before all was quiet
enough for his soft bass voice to be heard.
Its first notes were musical and pathetic,
and as he addressed his dear old soldiers y
many tears started Involuntary down fur
rowed cheeks.
Maybe the touching spectacle of the empty
sleeve pinned to the right breast of the uni
form of Major General of the United States
Army smote the Old veterans with SYM
pathetic stroke that set the tears ALLOWING
Certain ii is that volumes would not hold
all that passed through the minds of his SOL
diers at that moment, for all "the mystic
chords of memory" must have vibrated
sadly, and the echoes of Charlottesville,
Gettysburg, Ezra Chapel, Missionary Ridge,
Bentonville, and Columbia again revived in
every soldiers heart that had thrJbbed along
his battle-lines on these and many other
fields. At the talismanic touch the silent
halls of memory again flashed with the lurd
bres ana TeVerDeTated with the tnunders OF
the battles through which they marched at
his command
The scene was historic.
He began in an easy, conversational tone
to express his qualification at once more
meeting his old soldiers of the Armies Of the
Potomac and Tennessee. He was glad to
stand on the same spot whore Gen. Sherman
had addressed them in 1874, and Gems. Gar
field and Hayes since then, and then he went
on with one pleasant story after another,
modestly relating his own experiences in
the war, and the brave deeds he bad seen his
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Sand Hill.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: I note
with amusement that many comrades still
hold on to The sharp stick" But does ii
not stand out in bold relief that all COM
rades do welcome fair criticism, but protest
against unfair criticism? No one on any
battlefield saw all that was going on. If
such could have been, then Comrade %. L. u
would never have written, in his article on
Fishers Hill battle of Sept %, 1864:
wondered what made the Johnnies skedad-
die So"
Now, If the comrade had been with us
boys of the Eighth Corps, and climbed up the
craggy sides of the North Mountain on his
hands and knees, as many of our boys did,
and then game down in the rear of the rebs,
thanking them, and pouring into them lead
by the ton, he would not wonder why the
Johnniesskedaddled pell-mell, leaving every
thing behind them.-ALFRED TURNER,
Chaplain, John A. Logan Post, Sand Hill,
W. Va.
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weapon pointed at them, I Nicely sly that
we believe SO valiant a regiment is still 'ully
competent to fight its own battles, although
grateful, no doubt, to the comrade of the
I'D for his volunteered services in leadin .
them into the conflict.
As to any other reports or records quoted,
/ can see nothing in any of them in any way
contradictory to my statements that the
Second Brigade Gen. Mower's). Third D-
vision (Gen. Tuttle's), was the advance bril-
gade during all the skirmshing and fighting
on the Raymond road on their advance on
Jackson on the 14th; and that they were
under fire of the line of works covering and
enfilading that road, and charged over them
and on into the heart of the city to the State
house Square in the ad vance of any other
troops in that part of the city.
The comrade very pertinently remarks
that there seems to be no hint of this re-
markable onset in the official reports, nor
does Col. Robbins, of the 9Th Wis, make any
report at all, probably because he deemed
the part taken by his regiment as devoid of
interest"
We have to humbly admit that both Gen.
Mower, of the Second Brigade, and Col. Rob-
bins, of the 9th Wis, did their fighting with
their swords along with their respective COM
mands in the front, instead of the pen some
where in the rear, very much to the detri-
ment of their own and their respective
commands reputation for wonderful feats
of valor and meritorious conduct. 1t APP
pears that they did not sufficiently estimate
the fact that {" the pen is mightier than the
sword.n
There is, therefore, the more room for the
"award of merit" to the high private in
the rear rank who can sufficiently represent
their valiant deeds to arouse the green
eyed monster" in the hearts of those who
appear to think there are not honors enough
to 60 around. At any rate, / do not fear
that any Of the famous Live Eagle Brigade
will suffer in reputation by any other regi-
ment taking all the honors which belong to
them; and l would be pleased to see true
and graphic, even a glowing, history of every
one of the 1000 grand old regiments which
saved the Nation in its hour of peril. A
glorious pageantry! the grandest that ever
history embalmed upon the records of Times
heroic martyrs to freedom and humanity =
S. G. MILES, 9Th Wis, Stetsonville. Wis.
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IN A NORTHER,
A Member of the seth Ohio Tells His Ex-
perience on the George Peabody.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: The dread
full experience of the 28th Ill. on the steam
ship George Peabody as given in late num-
Der by S. M. Howard, brings to mind terri
BILE night passed by squad of the 56th Ohio
on the same vessel.
On the 18th of December, 1865, I was de-
tailed as Lieutenant in charge OF guards to
take a lot of recruits to Galveston for the
4th and 9th U. S. Cav, then in Texas. We
left New Orleans on the steamship st. Mary
we had large crowd on board, and made
Galveston in good time. There we were re-
lieved of our recruits by the 4Sth Ohio.
I'VE left Galveston on our return Jan. 2,
1866, on the steamship George Peabody
This old ship had seen hard service. The
trip Comrade Howard writes of would have
ended a less staunch vessel. At this time
she was leaking to some extent, the pumps
running to keep her aflOat while at the
wharf There was a number of passengers
on board The weather was fine after we
left Galveston until about p. m of Jan. 3,
when one of those dreaded northers swooped
down upon us, and while our experience
was nothing like that of the 28th H., yet it
was more than we should like to go through
again. The stoves, tables and chairs broke
from their fastenings in the cabin, and roll
ing about added to the confusion. We had
to hold on to something solid to keep from
being dashed about. To all appearance
death was face to face with us. How it
affected the different people was curious.
Some prayed at the top of their voice, some
cried, and others swore. In fact many of
them did not know what they were about.
The boys of our squad had faced death
before in different shapes and many forms,
and amidst the uproar it was curious to see
them taking the matter so calmly. In few
hours we were in quieter waters at the mouth
of the Mississippi.
What has become of the old vessel? She
was a good ship at one time, and was named
after good man, and she had good COM
mander on that awful night we spent on
her.-THos. j. WILLIAMS, Lieutenant, seth
Ohio, Jackson, o.
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MINTY AND CROOK.
The Cavalry Commander Objects to Some OF
COmrade DoyIe's Statements.

Sonrade DOylc'S statements.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: William
| E. Doyle in Picket Shots in your issue OF
| Oct 5 evidently intended his remarks as a
| shot at me, but he confirms every statement
of mine to which he apparently desires to
| take exception.
In the letter which he criticises I said
"It was dark before our advance brigade
| (Miller's) got into action. The fight was
short and sharp, and the enemy was quickly
driven by the mounted infantry"
In speaking of the fight at Pennington /
said 81 overlook the division at Farming
ton and reported to Gen. Crook. He had
had gallant fight with Wheeler, defeating
him with heavy loss"
William E. Doyle confirms all of this ex-
cept my giving the credit to Miller's Bri-
gade.
There was but one brigade of mounted
infantry in the Army of the Cumberland,
known as Wilder's" bnt on this expedition
commanded by Col. Miller of the I'D Ind,
Wilder's ranking Colonel.
In confirmation of this statement refer
to Van Horne's History of the Army of the
Cumberland" Vol. /, page 1888: In the
meantime, Cen Crook, with Minty's and
Lang's Brigades and Col. Miller's mounted
infantry, later Wilder's, had assembled the
mountain south OF Smiths Crossroads"
If William E. Doyle was a member of the
Mounted Iafantry Brigade of the Army of
the Cumberland, think he is the only man
in that organization who would insnuate
that the Saber Brigade or its commander
was ever slow in getting into a fight. His
statement that Gen. Crook found fault with
me for being slow is simply not in accord
ance with the facts. Gen. Crook accused
me of disobedience of orders; yet it was
Gen. Crooks manly, straightforward evil
dence which exonerated me from that
charge.
! am simply writing incidents in the his
tory of my own command. If it had been
otherwise it would have been labor of love
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and striking eloquence, the like of which !
never heard before, and ] have heard ali the
Generals of the war, and all the orators OF
my century and country.
No WEAKNESS, no hoarseness was appar-
ent as he eli sed his third speech. Fresh and
cheerful he was as the young Aid who accom-
panied him as he entered his carriage and
drove 10 the depot amid the cheers of his
boys in blue, the blast Of the trumpets, and
the roar of the cannon that proclaimed his
departure. PRIVATE DALZELL, Cald-
well, O.
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The 2Ist Wis.

The regiment was organized at Oshkosh
Wis, Sept. 5, 1862, to serve three years.
The members whose terms of service would
have expired previous to Oct. 1, 1866, were
mustered out June s, 1865, and the remain
ing members transferred to the Sd Wis. Col.
Benjamin J. Sweet, who went out with the
regiment as the commanding officer, resigned
Sept. 8, 1863, and was appointed Major in
the Veteran Reserve Corps. Col. Harrison
C. Hobart succeeded him in command, re-
ceiving the brevet of Brigadier-General
Jan. II, 1865. The regiment participated
in the battles of Chaplin Hills, Jefferson,
Stone River, Hoover's Gap, Stevens's
Gap, Chickamauga, Resaca, Dallas, Keno
saw Mountain, Chattahoochie River,
Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro,
Lovejoy Station, Savannah, Averysboro and
Bentonville. 1t was part of J0hnsOn's
Division, of the Fourteenth Corps, and lost
in ali 305 men. OF this number five officers
and III men were killed in action or died of
wounds; over 10 per cent. of the total enroll
ment of LII men. Three officers and $50
men died of disease and other causes. At
Chaplin Hills, the place where the heaviest
loss occurred, SO men were killed, 103
wounded and 56 missing, and at Resaca 10
were killed and AZ wounded, including those
mortally.
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AS AN ORATOR.
A Pen Picture of Gen. Howard, by Private
DalZell.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: About five
feet eight, strong looking, not corpulent
with a firm, dignified military bearing, but
pleasant and winning address, Gen. How
ard, McPherson's successor III command of
the Army of the Tennessee, stepped upon
the platform of the National Soldiers Re
union at Caldwell, o., recently, amid salvos
of artillery and resounding cheers which
shook the depths of the forest where the
heroes of a mighty war for Union and Lib
erty had assembled to meet and welcome
their honored commander on many bloody
field.
With large, expressive blue eyes, beaming
kindness on his comrades, and smile born
of good life and clear conscience playing
like sunshine on every feature of his hand
some face, Gen. Howard rose tospeak. Every
eye centered on him, and every countenance
glowed with glsdness to see him once more
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ton than amusement, and instruction they
received in many points of war history they
never knew before.
And thus he spoke in the forenoon, and
again in the middle of the afternoon, and a
third time to the same audience, amid the
blazing campfires in the native wildwood at
night, while men cheered and cannon
thundered from the depths of the forest,
three speeches in one day, and each as differ
ent from the other as diamond, sapphire,
and emerald, bu' each speech gem of pure
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FIGHTING THEM OVER
Wbat0ur Veterans Have to Say About
Their Old Campaigns

1.-THE Editor greatly desires brief communications
for publication in the Fighting Them Over and
Picket Shot columns Contributors requested
to write frequently. legibly, to the point. one
side of the paper with each subject n separate
sheet following the form OF the printed article
below, aud signing name, company, regiment, and
address the end. IL articles of Importance
copies should be kept, in of accidental loss.
Matter for these columns should be of general
Interest all old soldiers and historically
rate as possible
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Condition of the Human Race

The human family living on earth to-day
consists of about l,450,000000 persons in round
numbers. Ofthese only about 500 600 600, or on g.
third, are even properly clothed; $50, 600 600
habitually go naked; 700000000 have only the
middle part Of their bodies covered; only
5O0.OO0,000 live in houses. 700 600 coo in huts
aud caves, while the remaining 250, 900, 900 have
no homes or shelter whatever
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II any young, old. or middle-aged man suffer-
ing from nervous debility, weakness, will in
close stamp to me will send him the prescrip-
ton of genuine certain cure free of cost.
No humbug. No deception. Address I. c.
Barnes, News Dealer, Marshall, Mich.
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Good News for Sufferers-Catarrh and Con-
sumption Cured.

Our readers who are victims of Lung Dis
eases, Catarrh, Bronchitis and Consumption,
will be glad to know of the wonderful cures
made by the new treatment known in Europe
as tho Andral-Broca Discovery. The New
Medical Advance, 81 East 9th Street, Cincin-
natl, Ohio, will send you this new treatment
free for trial. Write TO them. Give age aud
all particulars of your disease.
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THEIR RECORDS.
Brief Sketches Of the Services of
Various Regiments.

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE has in hand several
hundred requests for regimena histories All such
requests will be aceeded to in due time although
those now received cannot be published for at
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
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an involuntary as it appears, to move his
ndienee to mirth or tears, for this he
of en- did, but the prevailing mood of his
audience was that OF an assembly listening,
in strange good humor, rather for instruc-
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The Sd Wis.

This regiment was organized at Fond du
Lac, Wis, and mustered in the service June
20, 1861, to serve three years; the original
members were mustered out at the expira-
ton of their term and the veterans and re-
cruits retained in the service until July 1S,
1865. Col. Charles S. Hamilton was made
rigadier-GeneTal Aug. 10, 1861, and on
April 90, 1863, his successor Col. Thomas H.
Ruger, was promoted TO the same rank. leav-
ing the regiment in command of Col. VIM.
Hawley, who received the brevet of Briga-
der General March Is, 1865. The total en-
rollment was 1889, the original enrolment,
however, being but 979 OF this latter
number 124 men were killed in action or
died of wounds giving a loss of 1875 per
cent, which places it among Col. Fox's 800
fighting regiments. The entire number of
killed and wounded was 648; 122 officers
and men were missing and captured, and lis
men died of disease, in prison, by accident,
etc. 1t was in the battles of Bolivar Nights,
Buckton Station, Winchester, Cedar Mount
ain, Antietam, Fairfax Station, ChancellOrs-
vile, Beverly Ford, Gettysburg, Resaca New
Hope Church, d llas, Lost Mountain, Kene-
saw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, sieges of
Atlanta and Savannah, Argyle Island, and
AyerysbOrO. 1t was also present at Newton,
Cassvile, Robertsville, and Bentonville The
heaviest loss OF the regiment during any one
battle was at Antietam, where, outof $40 men
engaged, 81 were killed and 173 wounded. At
Cedar Mountain II were killed, IS wounded,
and % missing; and at Charlottesville, IS
were killed, "A wounded, and nine missing.
It was attached to Ruger's Brigade, Will
liamss Division, of the Twelfth Corps, and
accompanied Sherman on his march to the
sea.
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PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.
.den on Horseback.

cry glad was Com
rade Nat Sisson, Blu
gler, Co. A, I'd w. Va.
Cav, Maryville, Mo-,
to see, in our issue of
Oct. IL, " Centaur "
make such a good be-
ginning for a history
Of the cavalry. An
article such as his
should call out lots
of material for a his