The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-03-29
PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.
A Rash Enterprise.

charge OIL fOrbrs -SonnSCatlOn, NASHVILLE,
during Bragg's first raid into Kentucky.
Word came to the 10th III. that two privates
of Co. E had been killed by rebel citizen.
The boys got hot about it. Under the leader
ship of Serg't Thomas Blythe, of Co. E, they
went to the camp of the AID ILL.,, where the
| accused man had been, and not finding him
there, proceeded to the Capitol and demand
ed him of Gov. Johnson. The Governor,
who was with Col. Gilman, of the 1st Tenn,
| asked them to stack arms while he con-
sidered the matter. Meanwhile the LIST Tenn.
| came down the street, quietly got between
the boys and their guns and they had to
surrender to the Governor. They were all
taken before Gen. Negley, who read them
| a severe lecture, and reprimanded the Ser
geant for taking armed men out of camp
without orders. He promised that the muir
dered men should be avenged, if the case
against the citizen be clear one. The 18th
Ill. boys promising never to do SO again,
were allowed to return to camp.
A Fraud.
George s. Morgan, Co. E, 26th Ohio, Kan
sas City, Mo-, and others, write that the per-
son calling herself Mrs. L. E. Mitchell, want
ing situation as housekeeper, and claiming
to be soldiers widow, is an impostor, not
being a soldiers widow.
Fighting With Rosser.
George W. Toms, Orderly-Sergeant 9Th
n. Y. Cav, writes: 81 want to tell of a
little incident that occurred in the Shenan-
| doah Valley on Oct. 8, 1864. Gen. Sheridan's
army was falling back up the Valley, and
had reached Strasburg. 1 belonged to the
Third Division of Cavalry, recently placed
under the command of Gen. Geo. A. Custer.
1.-The enemy was following US up and was
getting quite saucy. Sheridan thought a
| little cold steel would do them good.
Our division was sent out on back road
near place called Columbian Furnace
Here we met the Johnnies-Gen. Rosser's
famous Cavalry Legion, with the claim that
they had never been whipped. The Skin
mlshers had some work at first, when the
artillery of both sides was brought into ac-
ton. When everything was ready Gen.
Custer ordered charge all along the line,
he leading the 9Th n. Y. Cav, and before
the enemy fairly knew what we were about
they were on the "skedaddle." We captured
six cannon, 90 wagons, and about 100 pris-
| oners.
"Custer and Rosser had been intimate
friends before the war, and at this time Gus
ter proved too much for his Confederate
friend. One thing that made us feel better
was that cannon and part of the wagons
which we captured were what had been
taken from our division only short time
before on Gen. Wilson's raid below Peters
| burg. In one of the wagons was found a
uniform Of Gen. Wilson, who had been in
command of our division at that time"
Cedar Creek.
| VIM. McVey, New Concord, O., tells the
story of Cedar Creek and the part his regi-
| ont Ho hoe tho 70 io1
security of the Union army wrapped in
slumber, the swoop of Early at dawn, the
rout, and Sheridan's appearance and magic
influence. He graphically writes of the
sweeping charges that drove the rebels back
over the ground they had won, and the final
victory that rolled up to the Union arms.
Geo. III. Lusk, Co. A, 1920 N. Y, says that
if Comrade Hannaford, who wrote about
"A Surprise of Infantry" when he first
saddled his horse had ridden over to the
rear of the Eighth and Nineteeth Corps, he
| would have found BidwelPs Division Bri-
gade of Gettys Division, Sixth Corps, which
had moved from the front line on the right
of the Nineteenth to rise of ground about
40 rods west of the pike. If he had waited
short time until the Nineteenth Corps
trains had gotten little out of the way he
would have seen the rebels in two heavy
lines coming up out of the fog, and Bid.
wells Brigade receiving them in warm
cordial manner. BidwelPs Brigade, though
forced to retire, fell back in perfect order
The balance OF the Sixth formed on the
right of this line, with the left of the 1920
n. Y. resting on the pike, about quarter o.
a mile from Mlddletown, staying there until
noon, when Sheridan came up.
SchofieId's Retreat from Pulaski
N. A. Pinney, Co. d, 104th Pa, Windham
o., says COmrade Ponds story, which APP
peared recently, is correct SO lar as his own
| brigade is concerned, but incorrect in severa
statements. "Comrade Pond places two di
visions of the Fourth Corps in line across
the Franklin pike which is all right, but hi
is mistaken in thinking that they were the
only troops there during the 2Sth and 29if
Of November. Just about daybreak on the
former date Gen. Cox moved his division
(the Third of the Twenty-third Corps bach
across the river, and extending to the benz
in the river opposite the fort, which was the
next night abandoned by the rebels. AL
day of the 29th an artillery duel went or
between the rebels in the fort and our bat
terry, ID, 1st Ohio L. A, the 10Th Ohio anG
18th Ind. Ind'pt batteries; and in the after
noon our infantry was also skirmishing with
thC IcuCioS VIM udu fSo1tSh ofSA thC ilSCA
So we remained until dusk, when, building
fires to fool the Johnnies, the Third Division
took the advance in the celebrated nigh
march.
Were Good Men.
Mrs. Mernelva A. Bush, Osseo, Wis, doe
not like to hear so much talk against the mel
who went out in the last few months of tn,
war Maybe a few enlisted for bounty only
or TO escape the draft, but the majority Were
men too young to enter the ranks before, ant
old veterans who thought it their duty to q
to the field again Notwithstanding thei
already valuable services.
Why Don't They Write7
Porter Bradley, Co. G, 9th Iowa Cav
Scranton City, Iowa, says in answer to Com
rade Drip's inquiry, that he thinks the boy
of his regiment really must be fast leaving
for another camping ground, as Lieut.. A. K
Fuller, of Co. l., tried to have a Reunion o
the regiment at the State Fair, and onl.
managed to muster two privates.
Up In Smoke.
J.. r. A. writes: 1" / see in Picket Shots, @
March /, that Comrade Proper, Co. F, 37t
ILL.,, thinks the old barn and ElkhOrn Taverl
, at Pea Ridge was barned as late as in 1863
/ will say that the 7th Mo. s. M. Cav. saw
go up in smoke and flames on the night G
Jan. Z, 1863"
Defending Nelson.
G.. M. Williams, Co. ID, I'd KY, Mays