The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-02-22

PERSONAL.


of 1864 would make 1t appear that there il still
another youngest soldier" 1t gives Capt. John
l.. Clean. A. q. NJ. Z. s. A, Atlanta, Ga. pretty
fair claim to the tile: "Serg't John Glenn. I'D
Mich, is the youngest soldier in our army. He s
IL years old and small even, for his age. His home
is i'll Newark. D. He first attracted the attention
of Gen Rosecrans at review at Nashville, where
lie acting marker of his regiment The
General attracted by his youth and intelligence,
invited him to call upon him whenever they were
in the same place. Rosecrans no more of Glenn
until his return to Cincinnati, when one day coming
to his rooms at the Burnett House he found the
boy awaiting him. He had seen service in the
meanwhile. He had gone through the battle of
Chickamauga, where he had three bullets through
his hat. Here he killed a rebel colonel. The
officer mounted on horseback, encountered the
young hero. and called out: Stop. you little
Yankee devil. By way Of answer the boy halted,
brought his piece TO order thus throwing the
Colonel off his guard. In another moment the
piece cooked, brought to aim, fired. and the
officer fell dead from his horse. For this achieve
meni Glenn promoted TO the rank of Sergeant,
and Rosecrans placed him the roll OF honor.
He is duty at the Headquarters of the
Army of the Cumberland"
Capt. John NJ. Tobin has been appointed United
States Internal Revenue Agent, "A position which
he most Rcceptably filed under appointments
OF Commissioner Miller in September, 1887. He
has en- excellent army record as an officer OF the
| 9Th regiment during the Gen. FitzJOhn
| Porter testified that while Capt Tobn was under
| his command he rendered brave. gallant and
almost ncalcnable service at the battle OF Gainess
| Mills"
| Capt. Daniel Pratt Manhix. Of the Marine Corps.
who recently died in Washington, was in charge of
| the detachment of marines on the mentor Saugus
that guarded the conspirators and John Wilkes
Booths body until they were removed to the Wash
| inglon Arsenal.
Maj. Lloyd Wheaton has been awarded a medal
of honor for distinguished galantry in the assault
| upon Fort Blnkely, Ala, April 9. 1865.
| The fu-length portrait of Mrs. Harrison, wife of
the ex-President, has just been finished by Daniel
| Hunting ton President of the Academy of Design
| 1t painted for the National Society of the
| Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Har-
rison having been their first President General.
The portrait represents Mrs. Harrison standing
open doorway. through which is caught
| glimpse of the Potomac. The back ground shows
| drnpery of tan-colored satin and large velvet
chair, to side of which Mrs. Harrison stands.
The dress is plain. and of stee-bue MORE. with
long train. Ia hand is held a halfopen fan,
| while the badge of the Revolutionary Society,
| spinning wheel and distaf of gold, silver and colo
NAL blue enamel, set with - large diamonds, is
pinned the left side of the waist. The likeness
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Harrison aud Mrs. Mckee. The portrait will be
| hung in the blue of the Executive Mansion.
Charles J. Stees the new Commander of Acker
Post. g AR st. Paul, Mimi, with bis energy and
| ability and weli-known enthusiasm, will infase
new life and strength into Acker Post and il is safe
to predict for the prosperous future. Capt.
Stees I'm Philadelphia when Sumter fired
upon, and Immediately raised company of young
men known as the Spring Garden MIME Rifles"
75,O0o men. After the battle of Birch Cooe he
the bearer of dispatches from Gen. Sbley to Gov.
Ramsey and at the battle of Wood Lake he assisted
in carrying Maj. Welsh from the battlefield.
Col. A. M Benson. of Boston, with six other
Union soldiers. escaped from the Confederate
prison at Columbia. s. c. in 1864, and made their
way to tile mountains of North Carolina, intending
to pass through 10 the Federal lines in Tennessee.
Col. Benson one night slept in the barn of q. III.
Greeniee, near Marion, n c., where he dis
| covered by of the Greenlee slaves named
Mark. The negro did not report his discovery, but
| furnished Col. Benson with food and drink for a
| week until guide could be secured to take him
across The mountains. They had lot met until last
week. when Col Benson happening to be in Ma
| rion for few hours hunted Mark up and renewed
the acquaintance. When he left Mark 500
richer than before.
| A letter. written by unknown malicious
| person. sent from Chadron. Neb, to the PEN
| sion Office, recommending the removal from the
| rolls of certain veterans names. The Examiner
| who was sen. TO investigate the assured the
| six comrades that notice would be taken of the
affair aside from effort discover the author of
the letter The soldiers attacked in the letter
| among the oldest and best class Of pensioners in
| the town, and no reason can be assigned for the
| cowardly attack. One of the number. Comrade G.
| w. Dunn. a prisoner in ABdersonve five
ure. snnstroke, starvation, and illness during his
term of service. he is unable TO work and is de-
] pendent on his small pension.
| Speakers at the Lincoln dinner of the New York
! Republican Club were follows: Abraham
| Lincoln" Bishop John r. Newman; Republican
| Party" w. =. Hepburn, member of Congress from
Iowa; " Republican New England, I" Frederick T.
| Greenhage, Governor of Massachusetts,: PRO
| tection," John DaIzell, member of Congress from
| Pennsylvania; Republican New York." ex-Sen-
| ator Frank Hscock, and - Veneraton of the Flag"
| Hon. II. ID. Esterbrook, of Omaha, Neb.
| medal of honor has been granted to Col Ed
ward Hill, 10th Mich. for distinguished gallantry
| a. Cold harbor Va. June /, 1864.
Sers't A. ]. Langmade, of Howell Post 800 of
| Deievan, N Y, is popular among his comrades
| that he has been elected Commander of the Post
| for the Eth time in succession. Comrsde Fred
| SHERMAN has also been elected Quartermaster for
| the 18th term by the same Post. Sergt Langmade
| served three years. four months aud Is days con-
tinuous vice with enlistment. He was in q
| hard engagements. besides number of skirmishes
| and was six months at Salisbury. N. c. Comrade
| Iangmade has said that he wishes he were capa-
BILE of writing "A history of Salisbury. as he con-
| siders it equal in horror TO AndersOnve.
Mrs. Elizabeth Addison Williams will be lO5
| years old April g. Her maiden name Addison
| was born i'm Sussex County Delaware, and at an
early age went to Ohio with parents in vehicles
| drawn by While coming westward she
| stopped at An inn where Gen. Washington was
| being entertained for the night, and she says she
| shook hands with him. Her eldest child is 10
| years old and the youngest SO. She has
| seen a locomotive, railroad train steamboat.
Miss Clara Barton, President of the American
National Red Cross accompanied by Field Agents
| HubbeiI aud Pullman, with three assistants ar
rived at Charleston last week bound for Beaufort
s. c.. where the Red Cross has done such noble
work for the thousands of poor people the South
Carolina Sea Islands who lost everything in the
storm last Fall. The party is prepared for enter
ing upon the second half of the great work of
relief.
Oliver p Anderson Lieutenant Colonel, Slst
Ind was under President Harrison. appointed
| letter carrier at New Albany, which position he
filed satisfactorily, according to the names signed
to a petition asking that he be reinstated. The
comrade who is a member of the GA. R., dis
| missed though he is a man of strictly temperate
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