The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-12-13
Killing of Cen. RarksdaIe.

T. p. NJ, Hath Pa, Rox boro, Philadel-
| phia, Pc. writes: L do not see how the
killing Gen. Barksdale can be fixed on
any one man, because there was too much
in his direction. Had there been no other
men shooting that way / could swear | was
the man who shot the General. From a
boy of II years / prided myself on my
craftsmanship, being able to bring down
| swallows on the wing, say, two out OF tive,
| and / never took cooler aim than on that
| afternoon; as our officers were mostly
wounded, it was every man for himself
| Just before the ball opened Gen. Sickles
had posted our regiment to support Ran
dolphs battery, and telling us that Gen.
| Barksdale was fronting US, and | don't
know but kept that in mind.
AT the time mentioned / was standing
in the garden of the Sherry house, between
house and barn, on the south side of the
diminishing pike. The General was riding
| between the first and second line OF battle
standing erect in his stirrups, urging his
| men on, and was within 10 yards Of me
when / fired my last shot with that gun,
for a second later / was knocked down by a
bullet striking my gun.
1.-The Johnnes were closing in around the
house, and about 60 of my comrades who
had gone into the house and were firing
from the windows were gObbled up, as we
had no immediate support until the other
corps came up; then 1t was the Johnnies'
turn to fall back. l have always thought
the General stopped my ball"
ID. III. Smith Elliottsburg Pa, writes: In
Picket Shots of Nov. 30 a cOmrade asks
on what part of the field OF Gettysburg Gen.
Barksdaie was shot. | answer he was shot
in front of the 10th Pa, near small build
ing and large rock IN a meadow. There
was a Pennsy lvania battery of artillery just
in front, or slightly to the right. of the 10th
Pa, and Just in front of Gen. Barksdale when
he fell; but there were other troops there, as
monuments will show. The General fell
within a few rods Of the road that came up
from Sykes's headquarters past the Wheat
field"
At Buzzards' Roost.
II. Lund, Captain, Co. Fl, 10th ILL.,, ST.
Joseph. Mo. writes: In your iss ne of Oct
% in Gen. Towards Atlanta Campaign, the
Goth III. is credited with the skirmish work
at Buzzards' Roost, May 0, 1864. fail to
find the &c h AZ all in the Fourteenth Corps.
The advance then and there was Gen. MOI
gaL's First Brigade Second Division, Four
tenth Corps, and on the skirmisl-lne was
the 18th III. Please correct and give credit
where 10 DeIOD2s. Inc ucdNy
for the honor"
Homes for Settlers.
W. F. Foge, Roseburg Ore, writes: This
place is q town of 1900 population, stu
ated On the South Umpqua River, 200 miles
south of Portland. The Southern Pacific
Railroad has round-house and machine
shops here and distributes several Thousand
dollars among its employees every month.
CnI -. inc
that any State might be proud of.
This is a distributing point for q large
area of country. Many miners get their sup
plies here, and the country being broken
up into small valleys, whose accom-
panyins streams mostly debOuch into the
Umpqua River, makes this natural center
of trade Our facilit es for transportation
are equally as good rs any inland city.
"Tnere will he shipped from this County,
of which Roseburg is the Countyseat, 1,00O,-
006' pounds of dried prunes, bringing in
100000 to the fruit-grOwers. Next year the
crop will be doubled. Good prune orchards,
in lots Of not less than five acres, can be had
for 5000 per acre for short time. This land
will bring in q net income of nearly 500
next year.
"There is room here for large amount
of people who have meaus enough 10 buy
small farms and improve them. Good land
can be had 90 miles from here at very reason
able figures"
Information Wanted.
Box SO, Harold, S. D., is the address of a
veteran who says he saw in the issue OF Nov
%, in this column, the complaint of COM
rade from Wilmot, s. d., member of 1l4th |
n. Y, that he is required to prove up his !
pension claim anew; also, that he is 1000 /
miles from any of his old comrades. The |
writer thinks he can aid the comrade if he |
will address rs above.
Comrade r. S. Drake, Columbiana, o.,
wants information in relation to collision of |
the vessels West Point and George Peabody |
in the mouth of Potomac River in 1862, in
which some 100 soldiers were lost.
/ am one of the survivors, and want to
obtain information relative to the disaster,
and that it did occur.
Col. A. G.. HAIRY. Pittsburg, Pa, wants
the address of X. c. Rice, 125th Ohio, who
wrote the article replying to Comrade She'll
enberger in the issue of Dec. 6.
Comrades should always give their adj
dresses with their names at the end of their
for the information of those
who may wish to address them.-EDIToR.
Best Drilled Man.
IL DCdi, w. w Oth WI |
Vile, Wis, writes: I" l wish to make answer
to q question i'll the issue of Nov. 3, you
claiming you did not know what became of
Joseph Childers. He was member of the
Bower City Rifles, company of the Ma
tional Guard of this city. He, in company
with a friend, went to Lake KoshkOnOng,
a great place for duck-hunting, in October,
1884. They were out on the lake in boat.
Chiders was in the front of the boat, and
the friend in the rear told him to stoop
down and let him shoot at some ducks fly
ing toward them. He stopped down, but
before he fired Childers raised up and re-
,eived the full contents in the head. He
lived about two weeks. and was buried by
w. II. Sargent Post, 20"
Cedar Creek.
J. E. Merrifcld, 18th w. Va, Fairmont,
W. Va, says that "Comrade Webster, 1st
n. Y. battery, Sixth Corps, seems to know so
much of Cedar Creek and of the running of
he Eighth Corps that he now wants to ask
he comrade how he can know so much, when
ne was eight or ten miles away at the time ?
Why was he away? Did he have little of
he running fever on him? Because, he says
ne was away. He must have run rs fast as
did, and most as far, notwithsi anding l
hen belonged to the Eighth Corps, and |
I'M not ashamed of it, either. :
81 met Gen Sheridan and staff that morn ,
nC, but do not know who the little Orderly
vas did not take the time to stop to in