The National tribune., 1895-09-05


Mississippi, on the staff of Gen. Minty,
commanding division. While he did not
have the honor of capturing the President
of the Confederacy, he and Capt. Scott,
Adiutant- General of the division, received
the prisoners from Gen. Prichett May Is,
1865, five miles below Macon, Ga; took them
to Macon, and turned them over to Gen.
Wilson, at the Lanier Hotel.
The prisoners were Davis, his wife, q boy,
| and baby girl at its mothers breast; the
wife's sister, an old maid, named Miss Howell !;
the Postmaster-General of the Conlederacy,
Reagan; Col. Johnston, n son Of Gen. A.
Sidney Johnston; Lieut.. James 3. Clay, a
grandson of Henry Clay, and Cliff Breckin-
| ridge, a Lieutenant in the rebel navy under
Semmes.
They were all turned over to Gen. Wilson
in regulation form, and jeff Davis and his
family were sent off by special train via
Atlanta to Augusta, Ga, that same evening,
the train leaving Macon about 4 o'clock
p. M, May Is, 1866.
Liked the Story.
j. r. Buttolph, I'd Iowa battery, Pilot
Mound, Iowa, writes: 81 have been reading
an account of the battle of Lake Chicott, by
Comrade Miles, 9Th Wis. The writer had
always prided himself that he had never
missed days duty nor battle nor hot
skirmish in over four years of his soldier
ing; but this Lake Chicott was a sumner
for | thought that / must have missed one
that my battery was engaged in, but / did
not. remember part Of our brigade going
up there, but for some reason the I'd Iowa
battery did not go along. It was probably
the battery that belonged to the Marine Bril-
gade that Comrade Miles has reference TO;
so if there was any glory in it for any bat
terry, it should not belong to the ID Iowa.
But write more of the doings of the Live
Eagle Brigade, Comrade Miles. / meet
one of them occasionally here, an old sth
Wis. comrade, Cole, one of the best Campfire
speakers in the State. You infantry boys
used to call me the smooth-faced gunner"
No Need to Run the Guard.
r. McAlley. Ches,ertowp, N. Y, says the
story Of pats Password" reminded him Of
the time when the 18th y. Y. was organiz-
ing at Plattsburg. The boys got unruIy.
The guard was doubled. David Collins Of
Co. j, on McAlley's right, stopped one of the
boys wanting 10 pass out. He said: Halt
who comes there?" "a friend" Be Jasus,"
says Collins, "ye're no friend of mine unless
we say Jefferson City, sor." The comrade
got out.
Valuable Papers.
A. J. Ragsdale, Marianville, Mo-, has the
discharges of the following, which be will
return to those having proper claim to them
if postage be inclosed with each request:
Charles W. Stsnsbury, Co. 3, Goth ILL.,; Will
liam A. Carrier, 9th Ill. Cav; John w.
Pormily, Corporal, Co. M, 18th III. Cav; J.
w. Bradford, Co. G, 14th Ill. Cav; William
W. Mcintosh, Co. M, 18th Ill. Cav; John
w. Gwin, Co K, seth ILL.,; Stephen NJ. Med
ley, Sergeant, Co. III, 1st U. S. Eng; Thomas
Pringle, Co. ID, 9Th U. S. Fl. A. (colored);
John Wagner, Co. F, Goth ILL.,; Alexander
Cawsert, Co. A, 120th H.; Elias Garris, Co.
l, 18th III. Cav; Martin A. Robertson, Cor
poral, Co. E, LIST III. l.. A; Plumer G. ABB
btt, Co. K, seth ILL.,; Martin A. Robertson,
Co. K, 1st Ill. l.. A.; James j. Joyce, Co. d,
Cd Ill. Cav; Lewis Comfy, Co. f, 29th ILL.,;
William T. Hopkins, Co. G, 9th Ill. Cav;
Mancel c. Mason, Co. E, 48th ILL.,; Samuel
Kelley, Co. K, both H.; Hardin B. Stark,
Co. G., 9th III. Cav; Pleasant G. Grosson,
Co. /, 120th Ill.
Monterey Pass.
A. G.. Jacobs, Edgar, Neb, thinks he has
the correct story in his diary about Monterey
Pass. Referring to it. he says:
THAT July 4, 1863, morning started
with my brigade to intercept a rebel wagon
train retreating across South Mountain.
We were halted in the midst of tremendous
thunder shower that did not let up until
dark. There were three regiments of us.
Mine was in the center.
about one hour after dark the advance
struck the rebel train Lieut. Carl Wood
ruff, commanding II think Battery f, Sd
U. S. Art opened on the train with two
nd thara a halt and m lAaa fbar1
five minutes an order came for Co. G, 9th
Ohio, to 90 to the front to support battery.
Our regiment supported that battery all
night Every few minutes they would
throw shot or shell into the retreating
train, then a part of our regiment would
charge ahead and capture prisoners, horses,
and mules.
"We got to the Monterey House about
midnight. Just at daylight we crossed
stream near the foot of the mountain, and
some half a mile farther on we corraled, on
the right of the road, about % wagons, this
being the head of the rebel train. We cap
tured that night some 1900 prisoners and
about the same number of horses and mules
and destroyed some 125 wagons.
"From 2 or o'clock in the morning we
had little to do save pick up prisoners and
destroy wagons. Now, if the 9th Mich, LIST
Ohio, and the LIST w. Va. was in that racket,
they must have come in on q road four or
five miles south of where we struck the
train. Comrade Hastings refers to the mid
night fight, which was about the time, per-
haps, they struck the train, while we struck
the train about 9 o'clock. Our regiment
captured about 1000 prisoners and sent
them back to the regiment in our rear be-
fore midnight"
90 1t Wouldn't Work.
D. G. Greene 1st Wis, tells a story Of how
the boys used to "shenanigan" to avoid
things they did not want to do. While in
the operations in and around Nashville,
prior and subsequent to the battle, Pap"
Thomas, TO swell the ranks of his army,
made a requisition on the barracks and hos
pitfalls for every soldier able to carry a mus
ket. The writer happened to be i'll the old
Zollicoffer building at the time, and it was |
amusing to witness the tricks the boys |
would resort to to avoid going out. 1t was
in Midwinter, raining and sleeting nearly |
every day, and the boys preferred remaining |
in the old "hotel" and partaking of its |
rather Indifferent fare to going out in the |
storm. A Sergeant would come up and call:
"All men belonging to the Fourth, Four
teenth, Seventeenth, and Twentieth Corps, |
fall inl" A few of the most conscientious
ones would respond. The Sergeant would
glance around rather inquiringly, but finally
take his little squad and 90 down. Pretty |