The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-04-19
Run, and who has suffered untold sgonies from

cesSful amputati0n, this time in a BroOktyn
! hospital A visit was made during this period
| by Corp'i Tanner upon Serg't Pitcher, Of the
same regiment confirmed cripple, confined to
his home in Brooklyn from the effects OF a
guushot wound received through the hip at
| Fredericksburg, and subsequent starvation in
| Libby Prison. Corp1 Tanners carriage halted
before Serg't Pitchers window The Sergeant
saluted from the window. The CORPORAL sa-
! luted from the carriage. The Sergeant threw
up the window. He tried TO speak. His voice
broke as be saw what the knives had left of the
Corporal. The Corporal tried to speak eheerily,
too, but the knives had not left enough voice
in him to rise to a seeond-story window. Ma
jor." ne whispered. ego up, please, and shake
hands with SeTg't Pitcher, and say Good day
! and God bless yeu,' for me to him." The Major
went up and delivered the message with a
quavering voice. The Sergeant braeed up and
said TO his wife: my dear, please go down and
shake hands with Corp1 Tanner for me, and
thank him for his call and wish him a speedy
recovery" The Sergeant's wife went down and
when she had done as bid Maj. Wright got into
the carriage, told the driver to start, and the
carriage rolled away.
The faithful wsr-horse, "Old General" be-
longing to G. Y. Fulkerson, of Pilot Knob,
Kan, died recently at the age of 80 years. His
owner rode him in 81 and '65 when member
Of the Kentucky State Militia. In 1866 Mr.
Fulkerson drove Old General from Kentucky
to Illinois, remaining in that State until 1879,
when lie drove through to Harper County,
Kan, where the deserving old horse has resided
with his master ever since. For n number of
years Old General has been on the retired list,
but the comrade whom he served never stinted
him or begrudged him his rations. Mr. Fulk-
erson had intended last year to take Old Gen.
eral to the Grand Army meeting at Hutchinson.
but circumstances prevented him from doing so.
Comrade Geo. J. schmutz, Co. G, 1ssth Pa,
lately made visit to an old bridge near Cum
berland, Nd. where pickets of the 1e6th had
been posted during the war. He gives list Of
names which he found cut in the timbers of
the bridge. They are as follows: J. Yantro.
Co. c, S4th Ohio; Serg't G. F. Lawrence, Co. !,
13ith Ohio; A. Nusbourn; E. F. Thomas. Oct.
80, 1861; ]. r. Branderson. Co. z. 18th Va; J.
L. Edwards. Co. B. s4th Ohio; W. Neteas, Co.
/, 84th Ohio; II. II. Little. 1862. U. s. A.; s B.
Jenkins, Co. ]. 18th W. Va, March IL, 1864;
u
1865; w. G. Riefield, Co. j, 134th Ohio May
IL, 1854; J. d. Luke, Co. D. 54th Ohio; J. N.
Cudle Co. j, 18th w. Va; J. N. Hurst, Co. 81,
134th Ohio, Corysville, o.
Capt. James A. Capen, of Sedalia, Mo-, is a
candidate for Pettis County Assessor where he
has resided for the past % years. He served
four years in the Federal army with credit to
himself and is at present a prominent and
active member of the GAR. He is well
qualified for the Office which he asks, and is so
well known and popular that his friends have
little doubt of his election.
1t is one of the greatest ambitions of EN-
peror William of Germany that his six boys
should grow to be fine soldiers. They are
daily trained and exercised, and the Oldest,
who is but II years old, has already entered the
army, and has his first degree.
Maj. w. d. Bickham, who died recently at
Dayton, o., had an interesting war record. At
the beginning of the rebellion he was assigned
to duty as war correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial with the Army of West Virginia,
being also appointed volunteer Aid-de-C Camp
on the staff of Gen. Rosecrans with the rank
of Captain, in which capacity he discharged all
the duties of an officer of his rank. After the
battle of Carnifex Ferry he was transferred to
other military fields, being war correspondent
with the Army of the Potomac until after the
seven days battle on the Chickahominy and at
Malvern Hill !; then in Kentucky until the Cum
berlsnd Gap expedition under Gen. George w.
Morgan sfterward in Mississippi with Gen.
Rosecrans's command at Corinth, and finally
with the Army of the Cumberland, ending
with the occupation of Murfreesboro after the
battle of Stone River, when Gen. Rosecrans
conferred upon him the title of Major for serv-
ices in that battle as volunteer Aid-ds-Camp.
The Marquette Club, of Chicago, intend to
celebrate Gen. Grants birthday, April q, with
a banquet at the Grand Pacific Hotel feature
of the banquet will be the presence of many
distinguished members of Grand Army Posts,
the men who carried the Union flag under his
Generalship into many hsrd-cOntested fight.
1t is fitting that in the State of Illinois, TO
which he belonged, the initiative should be
taken to commemorate the birth and life of
one whose deeds of conquest and statesman
ship belong not to one State or one city, but to
the whole country.
Mrs. Anna Goodsell Smith, who lives at
Painted Post, near Emira, N. Y, has lately
celebrated her Tooth birthday. She was born
at Saratoga. in the house used by Gen. Bur.
goyne as Headquarters during the Saratoga
Her father, Capt Sherman Patter-
son, served in the Continental army under
Gen. Swift. He took part in the storming of
Quebec, and was near Montgomery's side when
that gallant General fell.
An autograph letter of Westinghouse ad- |
dressed to George Taylor, of New York, May |
18 1856. thanking the latter for gift of apples
and oysters, was sold at auction in New York |
last week for $50.
Wayne MacVeagh, Ambassador to Italy, when |
he made his call on King Humbert, was re-
eeived quite informally. A private letter from |
Rome says the least formal part of the cere-
monial was Humbert's talk with the Minister |
There was no set speeches. but the King greeted |
Mr.. MacVeagh afiectionately and talked with |
him in low, confidential tone as if he were |
chatting with an old and intimate friend The |
Italian King is man of so years, though he /
seems older because of his white hair and mus
tache
The revoking and restoral of the pension of |
Gavin recalls her interesting story
She lived in Troy, N. Y, and first came into
prominence during the war, when her half
WiLted Son was kiduaped and enlisted in the