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AN ERRAND OF CHARITY.
The Kindheartedness of Two Connecticut
Yankees Whose Chicken Dinner was
SDoiIed.

The Kindheartedness of Two Connecticut
Yankees Whose Chicken Dinner was
| Spoiled.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: During
the month Of May, 1864, on The Petersburg
and Richmond turnpike, three or four days
before the battle OF Drewry's Bluff and about
halfway between Petersburg and Richmond,
Va, nv cOmrade and ], who belonged to the
Second Brigade (Col. Griffin A. Steadman's),
Second Division, Eighteenth Corps, started
off to the lett of the turnpike, CT, in other
words, deliberately swung to the left, in ac-
cOrdance with Gen. Grants tactics of the
campaign.
About mile and half brought us to a
farmhouse that had been pretty well ram
sacked before we arrived. Under the barn,
which had been overlooked, we discovered
about dozen or more hens setting quietly
upon their eggs, not knowing that The order
had gone forth that the rebellion must be
put down if it took the last chicken in the
Confederacy."
My c0mradc crawled under the barn and
passed out the hens, through which you could
see daylight, so far had they been reduced,
living on short rations and nObly doing duty
fer the Confederacy. He kept me busy
wringing their necks after which we tied
their legs together, swung them over our
shoulders, and started back to the turnpike,
cOngratulatiDg ourselves upon what a nice
chicken dinner we should have when we
got back to our command. But our jubilant
expectations were peremptorily demolished
by the direct order of a General.
Just as we emerged from the thicket on
the left of the turnpike we came in contact
with Benjamin F. Butlerl The General
beckOned to us to come up to where he was
sitting on his horse.
After saluling him very respectfully, and
trembling very perceptibly, the first question
he asked was:
"Where did you get those chickens?"
My comrade, acting as spokesman. replied:
At The farmhouse 10 the left, about a
mile and half from here"
The next question was poser.
What are you going to do with them?"
We thought we Were in for it, and we
should be punished for capturing old setting
hens, whereas nice fat chickens might have
passed with The General as legitimate spolls
Of war. So my chum replied:
We are going 10 take them back to the
hospital for the sick and wounded" The
hospital was about six miles 10 the rear.
The General called an Orderly, who was
mounted, and gave him the following gen.
eral order: Orderly. go back to the hospital
with these men, and see that they deliver
those chickens TO the Surgeon in charge"
Ii a cannOB-ball had struck us we could
not have felt more crestlallen. The next
morning We were escorted back 10 our COM
mands, where we remained during the battle
OF Drewry's Bluff, on the morning of the 10Th
of May, 1864.
/ saw Gen. Butler upon one occasion after
that, which brought wildly 10 my mind that
lost anticipated chicken dinner.-G. w,
FORD, Co. A, 11Ih Conn, Prescott, Ariz.
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DEAD CAVALRYMEN.

A Comrade Tells Col. Joyce that the First
One WAS Found Prior 10 the Advent of
Sheridan.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In the in
PRODUCTION TO Col. Joyce's Temin sciences of
Gen. Sheridan, be says: When Gen. Grant
took charge OF the Army of the Potion he
cast about for some one OF nerve and dash
10 take charge of The cavalry and knit to-
geiber broken remnants of the different
divisions, that had become the laughing
stock OF the infantry boys, vino offered large
rewards TO any person who would furnish
them with dead cavaIryman."
/ think if Col. Joyce had studied the his
tory of the cavalry of the Army Of the Poto-
mac he would have discovered that the
chaotic condition which he Describes, if it
had ever existed, had been remedied long
before Gen. Sheridan took charge of it,
Has he fOFgOtien-or has he never heard
how Gen. then Col) Fitzpatrick, in June,
1863, at Brandy Station met "Jeb" Stuart
and scattered his legiOns like chaff before
the wind, thereby winning his first star?
Or OF Gregg and Fitzpatrick at Aldie, Mid
dlebUrg; and UppeTyille. guarding the flank
OF the army in its march TO Gettysburg,
where they again met Stuart and defeated
him in three separate engagements though
with the loss on our part of The gallant Col.
Douiy, Capt. Summat, and L'euts. Taylor,
Neville, and Kimball, of the LIST Me. Cav.
The loss of this regiment in these three en-
gagements was ID killed AZ wounded, and
other regiments suffered equally. The in
fantry was 30 far away at that time that il
might never have known OF il.
Has he never heard how, on the morning
Of July l, at Gettysburg, Buford, with two
brigades OF cavalry, before there was any in
fantry on the field, met Heath's Division OF
rebel infantry and held them for several hours
till Reynolds arrived with his First Corps ?
Or OF Gregg's engagement with Stuarl's
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"HORSE AND MAN"
Nineteenth Corps Comrade Tells How
Sheridan Came Down to the Front of tie
Front,

A Nineteenth Corps Comrade Tells How
Sheridan Came Down to the Front of tie
Front.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Sheridan's
own story of his famous ride from Winches-
ter town to Cedar Creek, by Col. John A.
Joyce, in The NATIONAL TRIBUNE of Nov.
80, is the truth, but not the truth in its full
est extent.
Gen. Thoma's Brigade, consisting of the
9Th VT, 160th N. Y, 18th Conn, and a Penn
sylvaDia regiment (Gen. Weitzel's old Louis
lana Brigade), was the left OF the Nineteenth
Corps, lying just to the right of the pike,
on the morning of Oct. 49, Just before day
we fell In, and lefl-iaced forward, double
quick, TO the pike; there formed line of battle,
were ordered forward over the pike, across
small valley, and up into the woods, where
we met Earlys men, and repulsed three
separate charges, when we received orders
every man for himself from the edge of the
woods back to the pike. Rienzi could not
have passed us from there. Although many
paid strict attention TO running, many did
not, but continued to load, about-face, and
lire, aud then load running from the crossing
OF the pike. / was with the colors of my
regiment, and at no time were we over half
mile TO the right Of the pike. 1t was
self, but We worked together remarkably
well.
was On the extreme left, about quarter
OF a mile from the pike when we heard the
cheering back toward Newtown. That it
was rebel cavalry we all felt sure, and when
we got up courage to look behind us and see
them, we almost died from Joy at seeing
Sheridan. He kept the pike until he was
past his last man.
Notwithstanding there was rebel battery
Just coming into position in front of us, he
turned 10 the right and rode in front of us
To the right on TO q small hill that was
crowned with few oak trees His Orderly.
with Headquarters streamer, was nearly
mile behind him, and came to him on the
hill. The next officer was about the same
distance behind the Orderly, and the rest
came on shortly after but Rienzi and his
rider were one.
AS soon as the Orderly with the Head
quarters c0lOrs came up to Sheridan, the
battery commenced TO she'll him; still he
stayed there, and our cheering turned to
praying. He rode down in front of us, with
sIx-gun rifle battery firing at him and him
only, and, with his hat in his hand, he said /:
That's right, old Nineteenth Corps; stay
by me to-day, and we will whip them like
- yet, and you may sleep on your old
campgrOund Tonight
Then he rode to the rear; and as he en-
tered the woods one genial brother Jonathan
| said:
There's men praying for that little Irish
man that haint prayed before for 90 years."
Then orders were obeyed, and we saw
him leading Renzi through the woods in
the heat OF the battle without a BODY
guard, aud when an Aid would come he was
at cnce dispatched with an order to some
General along the line; but the last one of
US was his bOdy-guard, and he knew it,
JOHN 7. WOODWARD, Co. c, 18th Conn,
Newhall, Cal.
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SAVING THE GUNS.
Where were Those Wheels Wrapped, Any
way; and When?

Where were Those Wheels Wrapped, Any
way; and When?
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In yOur
issue of Dec. % Comrade Thomas J. Bond,
Cd Ohio, furnishes another good illustration OF
the value of history written from memory
after lapse of 30 years. From such history
must necessarily result conflicting state
ments, but they are, nevertheless, of value,
as they often help 10 lead to the truth, and
to bring to light important incidents that
otherwise would never be known.
That wrapping the wheels of Battery /, Cd
H., with blankets is becoming SO tangled
up hat shall not be surprised to find that
il really occurred at Rome, Ga, instead of
near Chickamauga.
Comrade Bond has got his geography and
dates down there terribly mixed, as have
many Others. They are not to blame, how
ever, alter so many years. General officers
on both sides, reporting few days after the
battle, were fully as much bemudded. The
Comrades Colonel, in his official report, lost
track entirely of Monday, Sept. 81, and the
cOmrade is all at sea.
1t was out on the field of Chick amauga,
about a quarter of mile south of Cloud
Hospital, where the I'd Ill. battery claims to
have mufiled its wheels, and that was on
Sunday night, at about 7:3O, according to
the official report of the Captain of the bat
terry. From there he fell back to near
R0ssyille.
On Monday, the Dist, the battery sent two
guns on Missionary Ridge, east, in Rossville
Gap, at the forks of the road. This was in
the afternoon, at $50 p. M; the two guns
withdrew and moved into Chattanooga. 1t
was not until Tuesday morning that Com
rade Bond got back to Chattanooga.
Now, since Comrades Swan. Bond and
others are locating the muffiing of he can
non-wheels at Rossville Gap. l should like
TO know where the muffling really was, if at
all. There was no gap at the place where
the battery was on Sunday, nor any gap near
there.
Can anyone produce any positive proof as
to where it occurred, if it did occur? Bat
terry ! is preparing history of its services,
and know the members of the battery want
nothing in it but the truth, and that wheel
wrapping was one of the most important in-
cidents of its whole career.-G. f. DoLTON,
ST. Louis, Mo.
The National tribune., 1894-01-11
The Human Hand.

Imagine. If you please, what would be the con-
dition of this world without the vast achievements
of the human hand Without the hand TO act and
little better than the brute creation. On all sides
we the results OF the inventive genius of man,
aud not less in the matter of All human effort
to relieve human suffering. But of those now
before The people, none are more worthy of hearty
endorsement from suffering public than the in
veniion by DIR. Harvey of his Human Hand Truss,
for the retention of hernia. IL operates exactly
like the human hand, and is undoubtedly the best
article of the kind before the people to- day. and
must by very renson of its extreme simplicity and
praclicabiy take its place by the side of the iele-
phone, the steame engine, aud other great iuven-
tions, "a boon TO suffering man. An announce
ment of this article may be found in another coll
umn of this issue. Ii is manufactured solely by r.
]. Pearson & Co., of Kansas City, Mo.
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FIGHTING THEM OVER
What0ur Veterans Have to Say About
Their Old Campaigns

1.-THE Editor greatly desires communications
for publication in the Fighting Them Over and
Picker Shot columus. Contributors are requested
10 write frequently. iegby, to the point, ON one
eide Of the paper, with each subject ~ separate
sheet. following the form of the printed article
below, and signing name, company, regiment, and
address Rt the end. If articles are of Importance
copies should be kept. in case of accidental loss
Mailer for these columns should be of general
interest to all old soldiers and historically as aecu-
rate as possible.l
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A Mock Prayer.

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE wishes to thank
scores of comrades for sending copies of
"The Mock Prayer" but will say that since
this has had such wide circulation, and it
is evident that nearly all The comrades have
read it, as well as on account of its incUn-
venient length, we cannot make use of the
same in our columns.
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Worse than He.

COL Wat Hardin, of Kentucky, was recently
asked if he did not regard certain in
Washington who had dealt most villainously
with him, as the most pluperfeet. unmtigated
scoundrel he ever knew. The Colonel studied
the question with thoughtful gravity for mo-
ment. aud finally decided: mo; am CON-
mitted to fellow out in Ohio"
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GOOD AUTHORITY.
Gen. Sherman What Constitutes a Vet
eran.

Gen. Sherman on What Constitutes q Vet
eran.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Noticing
recent article in your paper about "Veter-
ans" perhaps The subjoined letter from Gen.
w. I. Sherman may be of interest to the
veterans who served in the war for the Union,
81 TO '65.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY
WASHINGTON. ID. g., May 20, 1879
p. p. WILSON E-q, Putnam, Conn.
DEAR SIR: Your letter of the 9th instant, d.
rected 10 Gen. Sherman, Is received, and the GEN
eral directs me to answer as follows:
The word veteran" as used in a general
sense, means one who has seen long service But
during the war, and applied 10 volunteers, the
word was used In strict aud technical sense and
means one who re-eniisted after previous service
OF at least nine months.
Yours respectfully. j. T. ToURrELLoTTE.
Colonel aud A., ID. G.
p p VIII SON Pntnnm Conn
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HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY.
NAsHISGTON ID q Nav % 1877
p. P. WILSON, Putnam, Conn.
A Wonderful DiscOvery-Catarrh and Con
sumption Cured.

There is good news for our readers who are
victims OF Lung Diseases, Catarrh, Bronchitis
and Consumption in the wonderful cures made
by the new treatment known in Europe as the
Andral-Broca Discovery. Write to the New
Medical Advance, 67 East 9th Street, Cincin-
natl. Ohio, and they will send you this new
treatment free for trial. State age aud all par
ticuars of your disease.
The National tribune., 1894-01-11
Homes for Settlers.

A Comrade, p. o. Box 224, Sedan, CHATEAU
qua County, Kan. writes: | see from time
to time descriptions of homes for soldiers in
the South but If you knew the advantages
of living here you would not want TO live
in country where you had TO help pay
rebel pensions. Good plots of from seven
acres to 100 can be had from $500 up.
There is plenty Of wood, soft water, good
schools, and nice town, settled mostly by
soldiers. Stock may be run out all Winter.
There is plenty OF fish and game, and several
tradesmen are needed
The National tribune., 1894-01-11
Brutality in a Boy.

John Hills Co. K, 18th KY, Sears, Me-,
tells sad story Of how after the surrender
OF Wilmington, N. c., he learned of the ar
rival of some Federal prisoners, just released
from AndersonyiIle. Among these men he
inquired for friend, an orphan boy, who
had been his schoolmate and bedfellow, liv-
ing at the writer's house for IL years.
Finally one poor fellow, who lay On a
stretcher, told of the young mans fate. 1t
was at Andersonville, he said, that few of
them had dug a hole not far from the dead
line for shelter. Charley Donnelly, the
young man in question, was very i'll with
scuTvy. He crawled ont of the hole one
afternoon, and accidentally fell over the dead
line. Up in the guard-bnx nearest them was
boy of Is. He turned round. and seeing
Donnelly over the dead-li line, shot him. His
body now lies among the unknown dead at
Andersonville.
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NJ. A. Smith, Rowena, Pa, laments the
fact that hundreds of brave boys who stood
as breastwork between their country and
dissolution, and suffered, and were rendered
unfit to fight the battle for daily bread after
ward, are being stricken from the roll OF
honor; additional evidence cannot be gotten
so easily now a. few years ago, and this is
not lost sight Of by the men who are driving
the old soldiers 10 the wall
The National tribune., 1894-01-11

Catarrh indicates impure blood. To cure Il take
Hoods SsrsapsTiIla. Try il this season.
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Charles Germain, Acting Master. q. 8. ~,
Meridian, Miss, relates his experience at
the time of the fiyht between the Merrimac
and Monitor. He saw the whole affair from
the deck of the steamer altmore, being in
command of the same, and in charge of a
load of fixed ammunition that he had
brought from the Washington Maynard.
Perry Hill, Co. X, 10th Tenn. Cav, Bray
field, ILL.,, wishes some one of the literary
ones of his company would write an account
of the regiments doings at Nashville. He
does not understand why his comrades do
not write to the grand old NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE.
Dan T. Edwards, Co. A, 9th Ill. Cav, Red
Lodge, Mont, writes a breezy letter upon
several subjects. He says the comrades who
voted for change sometime ago are getting
it with vengeance. He thinks the vets
onght to be more charitable with each
others mistakes in history, and not call hard
names. He does not Ike to hear the COM
rades spoken of as old soldiers. The word
old" has depressing effect, he thinks, on
the ear. He would much rather be so years
young than 80 years old.
John F. Wentz, Battery E, list Pa. r. G.
Art, says that in his recent article the types
made him say he belonged to Battery C.
Capt. Theodore Miller was his Captain.
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The Pensioners Right.

James d. Fox. Lieutenant, 10th III. Cav,
Aurora, ILL.,, declares that the Commissioner
of Pensions has no right to deprive anyone
of his pension, once it has been given him
after due consideration and the required
proof of his qualifications for the same. A
pension is vested right. Roger B. fancy,
Benz. F. Butter, and Mayo and Moulton are
quoted as authorities.
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Matt Berry, 9Th N. Y. independent bat
terry, and Co. II, 18th Me-, BrOwnville, Me-,
writes: It's not right, boys, that there
should never be anything about the old 9Th
in The NATIONAL TRIBUNE. and so | am
going to sound the bugle. Do you recollect
the time that the u. Y. Ind'p't Cav. was sta
toned near Bowers's Hill, Va, with the right
| section of our battery? The eft section,
under Lieut.. Jim Laid, was ordered out to
take The place OF the right and the raid 10
Smithfeld followed. There was something
going on then, for Shorty was there and
COM Perry with his feet Didn't the
Major look comical in his Old V .rginia slip
pers? And didn't he swear rs he searched
our baggage-wagon for his boots, pistols,
saddle-bags, etc.? Did anyone ever find out
who had themP / have an idea that they
were buried darkly in the dead of night.
Has Serg't Murray ever forgiven the boy
who let him drink applejack for water out
of the rubber bucket? / met Capt. Fitch
and several of the boys at the Reunion at
Washington. / hope some of you win
speak up"
Magua Samson, Co. B, Goth H., either
all, Mimi, writes: " / should like 10 hear
from the boys who fought at Mt. Lion,
northwest Missouri, and skirmished on the
hdnsbs line, or any vi the squlrTeI-tdl
at Fort ID nelson, who belonged to Capt
Eads's company ofsharpshooters-14th Mo-
and landed at Shiloh March II, and fought
the 9th and 9TH of April on the SIX rmish-
line, and supported the I'd Mo. battery there
Sunday and Monday. Does anyone remem-
Der how things went when Col. Rogers
planted the rebel fig at our lannon's
mouth? / carried home for relic one big
button from his coat. Rome Crossroads was
the only place where our company turned
its back to the Johnnies. Our regiment lost
there $50 men and Is officers"
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why Don't They Write ?

the infantry. Hatch's men always fought
dismounted.
Il Cold Harbor.
Thomas M. Branton, Co. ], Seth Wis, Pa
nett, Wis, says his regiment got to Cold
Harb0r on the night of the I'd of June.
They drew rations long after dark. 1t
rained all night, and they did not know
what was in for them until the next morn
ing They went early into the fight, being
holly engaged at about daylight. His own
company lost 10 killed and wounded in
that days fighting and they did their duty
well.
Sets of Fours.
J. Fl. Springer, Co. /, 1st Iowa, Shickley,
Neb., says that in his company there were
four sets of fours, the names of which were
Davis, DoDnell, Hawk, and Williams. All
came through the war but one of the
Hawks. But nearly all are broken in
health, and at this time none of those who
had there been no war.
Want to Get Married.
The following solicit correspondence with
a view to matrmony: Charles Goehringer.
Co. l., I'd u. s. Art, Crabtree, Ore, German
lady preferred; Z. b. Cook, Greenfield, Iowa.
ne Here's Young I'm.
WIN. IiiSWOTtb, OpIiHSHelu, MISS, en-
listed Sept. II, 1863, as drummer, in the I'd
II. l., being then II years, IL months old.
He was discharged in August, 1865.
Good Home Waiting.
James e. Rowan, Exline, Iowa, wants a
housekeeper, preferring widow or daugh
ter of a veteran. He has q farm in Mt Pleas
ant, Iowa, and small family.
Camp Ford, Tex.
Capt. c. p. Bragg, Duluth, Mimi, was q
prisoner at Camp Ford, and wants copy of
COL j. III. Duganne's Prison Life in the
South" published 80 years ago.