The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-12-14
PICKET1tSH0TS
From Alert Comrades All Along tie
Line.
Never Could be in Debt.

SOiuleTS came OuU VI e TIE dimy NSo',
pecuniarily or for clothing, to Uncle Sam.
1t was question with him of being unable
to get rid of his small gray back friends, and
it was determination by degrees or new uni
forms even before the Did uniforms were
worn out.
The Old Songs.
Mrs. S. T. ellison, Middlefield, O., wants
some one to send her by mail the poems
"Benham and the Devil,"" Hard Times IN
the Army, | Know" and Still Upon the
Field of Battle"
William J. McLernon, $50 Fifth avenue,
New York, wishes some one to send him
the song beginning after the battle is over
and the waT-drums cease to beat"
Loss of the Sultana.
o. B. Alderman, Co. G, Isl Iowa Cav, New
Westminster, Il. c., says the recent story
told of the Sultana disaster brought back to
his mind very wildly the horrible scenes In
connection Herewith. He was in the Mem
phis Washington Hospital, being Wardmas-
ter yet on the cOnvaiescent list. He and
others went down TO the riverside to render
help to those poor fellows who were being
brought in by the relief parties. He remem-
bers one young man he took care of in his
ward, J. II. Hyatt, whom he would like to
hear from again.
Information.
S. T. Pember Dist Ohio, Skiddy, Kan, re-
plies to Samuel Millrack, who asked for
good place to start a general store, that his
town is us good place as any He will give
Comrade Millrack further information upon
application.
On Snodgrass Hill.
James NJ. Whallon, 18th Mich, Fitchburg,
Mich, writes 81 wish to sta'e that having
in view the erection of a monument on
Snodgrass HILL Chickamauga Park, Ga, in
memory of the Second Brigade IT. X.
Stanley, of Negey's Division, Fourteenth
Corps, l desire TO hear from the regmental
Secretaries and other members of the 18th
Ohio and 18Th ILL.,, who, with the 18th Mich,
held the hill to the right of the Snodgrass
House during the afternoon of SPIT. 20, 1863.
| ais, wish to hear from Capt. Waggoner,
Adjutant-G eneral, aud all other staff or field
officers who were with the brigade during
that battle"
First Into Atlanta.
J. Balsley, Co. H, 9th Ind, Seymour,
Ind, writes: In your issue of Nov. so
Corp1 Jacob King Co. +, TIN Pa. Cav,
claims to have been the fist to enter Atlanta
Sept. 9, 1868. / shall not dispute the claim
9th Ind. got there in tiipe for about every
other man to get caddies of tobacco demon
strates one of two things They must have
been very close to the head of The procession,
or there must have been avery large supply
of tobacco there, considering that the cavalry
were in the lead" ~
John Gordon, Co. +, Ssh Conn, writes
81 wish TO corroborate tl,e statement of
Comrade Wilson in your issue of Nov. 16,
in which he says that my regi alent was in
side the rebel elrthworkS Sept. /, 1861
was on the leading skirinisb-line aud drove
the rebs out ahe4d Of me. 3 was one OF the
first Yankees into Atlanta. Corp1 King
did not get in first, If he was on horseback"
Shiloh Battlefield.
COmrade +. r. Lee, Secrstlry, Shiloh Bat
tlefield Association, of Monticello, H., de-
sires to say to the many comrades who have
sent him their names, hat it will be i'm
possible for him to answer every letter or
postal card, as he has received over 2 600
names, and they are still pouring IN. Bat
all comrades names sent in will be regis
tered, and their letters preserved for future
reference.
Want to Get Married.
Z. Elmer, Seattle, Wash, wishes to CORE
spond with a widow of intelligence and re-
spectablliiy, with view to matrImony. He
is member of the GA. r., az years old, and
has pleasant home. Photographs and ref
erences exchanged.
X. White, Enterprise, Ark, wants to cor
respond with some middIe-aged woman,
with a view - matrimony.
Charles T. Lewis, Fairfield, Conn, desires
to correspond with some soldiers widow
with a view to matrimony.
James Neilley, Grdndin, Mo-, wants to
correspond with view 10 matrimOny.
One of the Ineiigibes.
Harper Wilson, Manitoba Post, 592 De-
partment Of Pennsy lyania, Winnipeg, Mani
toba, writes that he is ohe Of The dete5tcd
foreigners" therefore his pension must be
stopped Notwithstanding his good record for
Uncle Sam from May ! |. 1861. to Dec. 10,
1865, in the Both Ny. ami the 23d u. S. G. 7.
When he assisted in raising Co. G., 36th
n. Y, he was not directed to ask any man
what his nationality was, but tOhk every
good man who offered himself. He asks the
comrades to stand by their out-of-the- coun-
try comrades.
At Nashville.
Ezra Peters, Co. G., 95ih Ohio, Girardeau,
Mo-, writes: "Comrade Jacob Kasler 33d
Mo-, is right when he says, in Picket Shots
OF Nov 80, that he Sixteenth Corps, under
A. j. Smith, were on the right, next to the
cavalry, at the battle of Nashville Who
remembers about the first day, when, in
the afternoon, after having skirmished and
bOwled about all day, tired and hungry, we
(McMilen's Brigade, of McAr;hut's Dlvs-
ion,) came in view of fort or redoubt on a
little hill and were ordered TO charge it?
troop Of cavalry came up to our rear, dis
mounted and charged with us, and, nimble
on foot, just fresh from their horses, out
stripped the most OF us in getting to The
fort first. What cavalry was that? Tell US
about that rebel gunner who was shot down
by our boys standing on the fort when in
the act of pulling his lanyard to send a
brOadside of grape into our advancing ranks
who had been less feet than some of us.
Tell us about rushing on and taking the
next fort, a short distance away; how many
cannon there were III EACH fort; how many
prisoners We captured in each fort; what
command they belonged to, ETC.
First of its Kind.
J. n. Stephens, 2d Mich. Cav, Denver,
Colo, writes: In the Picket Shots of Now
30 +. A. Ashby and p. A. Bryant told how
with their commands they were first into
Corinth the time of its evacuation in the
latter part of May, 1862. That makes me
think where / was just then. The early