The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-10-18
Replying to Webster.

Madison Craigo, 9th W. Va, Plymouth,
W. Va, writes: ain recent issue W. E..
Webster starts out with seeming intention
of stamping the big bluff of Gen. w. H.
Powell into nothngness, but he landed him
self where he absent-mindedly thought to
land the General. COmrade Webster has
written only something he heard someone
else say. We want what the writer actually
knows himself If Col. Fox thinks-as Com
rade Webster tries to convey the idea he
does-that Cloyd Mountain was the first
battle of the Eighth Corps, ne (the Colonel)
knows as little about it as the valiant COM
rade does.
"Cloyd Mountain was fought May 8, 1864.
The Eighth Corps was tired of fighting two
years before that. Gen. Boiling commanded
a brigade of the Eighth Corps at the second
battle of Bull Run, composed of the 1st, I'd,
Sd, 5th and 9Th w. Va. Gen. Shurz COM
manded the division of two brigades more of
the same troops that afterward composed
the Eighth Corps.
"Shurz's Division had fought all over the
ground from the Rapidan back to Bull Run
before the big battle that Fitz John Porter
wasn't in. Then, good part of those regi-
ments he says Gen. Powell mentions were
all through the VIcksburg campaign. Com
rade Webster thinks to put - sumner in
when he quotes Gen. Sigel. l will inform
him that Gen. Sigel was not there at all.
To our knowledge Gen. Sigel was not in the
State at that time.
aft Webster attributes the reason of Sheri-
dan keeping the Sixth Corps in reserve for the
final work at Cedar Creek because of its
being the best, etc., how is he going to
harmonic the fact that the Eighth Corps
was kept in reserve until ready to make the
grand charges on the left that won each of
the battles of Winchester and Fishers Hill?"
Fighting Morgan.
A. G. Deboe, Goth KY, Fredonia, KY, OBJ
iects to some of the statements by Comrade
Munbrun regarding the surrender of the
Goth Ky.
Morgan attacked the Goth Ky. July 5,
1863, at O'clock a. m. We fought them
until | O'clock and were forced to surrender,
on account of our ammunition giving out.
The depot was on fire in two places. Col.
Hanson was wounded. We had IA men
killed and wounded out of $50 men in the
engagement There was one company which
was out on the scout and Sut off.
"The wounded and dead of Morgan's men
were 300 Comrade Munbrun said there were
loopholes in the depot, and there was corn
locked up in it. / deny this. There were
few hogsbeads of tobacco. We piled the
hogsheads in the doors and we shot out at
the windows of the depot. Morgan had
three ROdman guns and two pieces of brass.
He set two of them down the railroad rang
ing in the depot door, 900 yards away. We
never let him fire once. We killed the artil-
larv facta thary he nth
three, farther back on the hill, fired all the
time.
Three regiments were ordered to rein
force US from Danville, KY. They came in
sight of Lebanon and stayed there for three
hours, and wouldn't offer to give US their
assistance.
After the rebs captured Us they carried
US to Springfield, KY, nine miles away, and
there paroled u.s."
Something of a Wag.
VIM. Fl. Hartwell, Sergeant, Co. ], 9th n.
H., KirkwoOd, ILL.,, writes SIN our COM
pany we had a wag, West Aldrcb. After
the fight at Fredericksburg he was one of
the detail sent to bury our dead. West of
the railroad cut they dug a quadrangular
trench and collected about 70 bodies the
JOhnnies having stripped them. While
u
rage, drawn by pair of mules, halted near.
One of the young women in the carriage
clapped her hands and sang out:
"'Ha, ha, ha! There's where our boys
piled them up!'
"'Ha, ha, ha!' answered West, with
perfect mimicry of her voice, ride over
there little way and you'll see where our
boys piled them up'
You ought to have seen the point Of her
nose trying to touch her forehead.
In the advance upon the defenses of
Petersburg in front of the fort that was
blown up on Cemetery Hill, COrp1 Bailey
was killed and buried close by little creek
in the rear of our rife-pts. One day two
or three boys, West among them, were TAX
ing wash in the creek near Bailey's grave.
The rebs dropped mortar shell plumb on
the grave, and in exploding the shell made
quite large hole and spattered the boys
pretty sharply with gravel and clay.
HelIo!' says West; they are after Bal
ley again.
son July 30, 1863, it happened to the lot
of my regiment in the charge to advance di-
rectly on the fort. AS we were passing
over the parapet into the Crater, half
buried Johnny groaned out:
60 For Gods sake, boys, help me out of
this
son, no. says West, l haven't got time;
and another thing, you ought not to have
been here.'"
"In the Neck"
PC. Branch writes: 1.-THE closing weeks
of the Vicksburg siege were spent by the
Third Brigade, Fourth Division, Seventeenth
Corps, at camp of observation near the
Fox plantation, some miles in the rear of
Vicksburg, and not far from the Black River.
At the house were gathered a number of
rebel women, whose male friends were in
side the rebel lines While awaiting the
resuft'o of the siege they took kindly to the
attentions paid them by some over polite
comrades and were always ready for ex-
change for our fractional currency to supply
us with their generousI y-watered SKINNED
milk. A slightly-extended ridge of ground
hid the house from our Brigade Headquar-
tiers.