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FIGHTING THEM OVER
What Our Veterans Have to Say About
Their Old Campaigns.
SAW AN ARMY.

But Uncle Billy Sherman Would not Believe
the Rebels were There i'm Such Force.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In recent
issue of ST. Louis newspaper appeared the
following:
"The late Gen. Madison Miller was at The
front when the Sunday battle of Shiloh be.
gan and if Gen. Sherman had not pooh.
pcohed his report of the previous day, and
that of Maj Kicker on Friday, as TO the
coming of the Confederate army, surprise
would have beer prevented, and the Federal
forces would have done their fighting under
much better conditions"
This contains more war history than shows
at glance; and believe. because of Uncle
Biliy's pooh-pooh," it was never written ur
by him. Yet only for the "pooh-pooh not
less than $50 men at that time would have
made oath aud staked their lives in support
of the fact that the rebs were approaching
in force on Friday afternoon or evening be-
fore the Sunday battle of Shiloh. April 6.
The first question then is, Who is Maj.
Kicker? Then, Where Were the rebs, and
how did we know? Where did Uncle Billy
get his information?
Kicker was Major of the Cd battalion, land
If not dead is still to be found at Batavia
o., 5ih Ohio Cav. 1t is necessary to say
the 9Th Ohio Cav. was at that time attached
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AN ORDER THAT FAILED.
Death Prevents Charge That Must Have
Involved a Sacrifice.

Death prevents Charge mat Must have
Involved Sacrifice.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: On the
22d of May, 1863, very late in the afternoon,
Gen. Boomer, commanding the Third Bri-
gade, Third Division, Fifteenth Corps re-
ceived orders to lead his command over the
walls Of Yicksburg. Possibly the main OBJ
ject of the assault was to relieve about 80
men imprisoned in the ditch in front of the
wall. This wall was IL miles long, and it
was nearly dark when we arrived on the
ground designated for the assault.
Our line was formed and marched down
the hill on double-quick time to the rife
pits, and halted for short rest behind the
low bank. By this time, the rebels had
caught onto the racket" and the bullets
were flying over the rife-pits as thick as
swarm of bees.
But~orders must be obeyed, bullets or no
bullets. Gen. Boomer rose upon his knees
and said: Third Brigade-Forward -
The next word would have been march
but it was cut short by bullet passing
through the Generals head.
He fell forward almost onto our bayonets.
1t SO happened that was closer than any
one else TO the General, and l looked up and
down the line to see if his orders were being
obeyed, but every man was hugging the
ground, as still as death.
In about 20 minutes darkness had prac-
ticaliy put an end to the firing. Several of
the officers came 10 where the General was
lying. They held a short council and de-
cided TO abandon the assault and fall back
Gen. Boomer was very highly esteemed and
well respected by all of his command. He
died for US; for by The word march I" not
being called the brigade was saved from a
dreadful SLAUGHTERED. L. MARKS, Co. ID,
10Th Iowa
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TO Sherman's Fifth Division, and had been
for weeks scouting between Shiloh Meeting
House and Corinih, Miss, mostly on what
was the road to Monterey. distant 10 miles
from the church and eight from Corinth.
Sometimes we were sent on the Purdy road,
branching off to the right from the Monterey
road little south of Turkey Creek, and
near FIVE and a half miles southwest of the
church.
The Iebs generally had an outpost at the
said creek and at the intersection of the Mon
terey and Purdy roads. We had become &C
customed to finding 10 to Is Johpnies. Sew
eral times we slipped up on them and capt
ured some of the outpost before they could
get on the road or hide in the brush. So our
battalion of Cos. A, ID, l. and NJ had become
bold Just at that particular place.
On Friday, April 4. between and 4
o'clock, the I'd battalion land perhaps othersl
was started on our old road to do some
scouting again. The boys were little hot.
We had been on the road a day or two be-
fore. Our sutler had just got on some
postage stamps, sold at 10 cents apiece, and
scarce at that. But we could write, and
were writing TO our girls. This was stopped
all of sudden, hence our holiness" So
we started growing at rything, and the
Johnnies in particular.
Mai. Kicker had been in the Mexican war,
and he was good commander. He had his
men well under control. This day he was,
for some seause, a little more cautious, and
-sensd forward two platoons, one from A, one
from L. They found the Johnnies with a
strong outpost about three and a half
miles out, and on what we considered our
garden" and some two and half miles
from where we usually struck them.
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LET THE aJOHNNIES GO.
But the Kentucky Horses Were Valuable to
:, qA4a Yanks.


But the Kentucky Horses Were Valuable to
:, rn4a Yanks.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: belonged
to Capt. w. +. Patterson's Independent Com
pany. On Sept. Ia, 1862, we were sent to
blockade Rogers Gap, about 10 miles south
of Cumberland Gap.
We had to blast and throw in rock to
fill up the road, and this made the rebels
think we were cannonadng. They came
over on us, numbering 40, and our squad
was only ID. Each rebel had two horses,
the finest in Kentucky. We held the
Johnnies from o'clock p. m. until 10
o'clock a. m. next day. A battalion of Mon
days cavalry came to our relief and we all
went in together.
Gap, Gen. George Morgan ordered the rebels
to be blindiolded and their hands tied be-
hind them. We marched them up to the
top of the gap and kept them there until
we sent flag of truce to Bragg. They
found Colonel who claimed them, and who
had some of our men, and we exchanged
man for man.
We never could have got away if it had
not been for the capture of those horses.
Our horses were worn out and not able to
pull our artillery. Our rations were about
ont, and we had Bragg and John Morgan to
fight, one before us and one behind us. We
had to fight from Cumberland Gap 10 the
Ohio River-every day skirmish. Those
horses enabled us to carry ali our artillery
away, and saved us from capture.
We had about 100 pieces of artillery,
worth $4,000, and horses worth $4,000.
Some of my readers may think $4,000 a
big price for 80 horses, but they had picked
low valuation for such.-JOHN FREEMAN,
Oil Center, Ky.
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A DASH FOR LIFE.
Two Sergeants of the 9Th Mich. Cav. Escape
General Slaughter.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: j. K Low
den, of Worthwhile, Mich, has written for you
a short history of the 5th Mich. Cav. In
the issue of July 80 he says that near
Berryville % of the regiment were shot to
death after surrender by Mosby's order.
On 10Th Of August, 1864, 30 men and two
commissioned officers were detailed from the
5th Mich. Cav, near Berryville, Va. We
had orders to 90 some four or five miles
from camp and burn dwelling and some
other proper,y.DraT The work was done as
directed.
In returning to camp short stop was
made. The head of the column was on the
Woodville road, leading to Berryville. A
Sergeant of Co. M and were in the last set
of tours, and told the Lieutenant column
of cavalry was close by.
After we had gone 80 rods we saw barri-
cade 10 feet high acioss the Woodvile road
A stone fence was on our left, rail fence on
our right, and we were practically hemmed
in. Some 60 OF Mosby's men caught us at
this barricade. Some of the men said they
would surrender. Serg't Noble and / took
off one rail of the fence, leaped over, went
by Mosby's men, and escaped. Sixteen men
were shot dead, one mans throat cut, and six
badly wounded. The total deaths were %.
AS was never, (way from said regiment
from the time 4 LIT Detroit, in 1862, until it
returned, in 1856 Il am sure this is the time
J. X. Lowden refers to.-OLE G. OLSON,
Sergeant, Co. F, 9Th Mich. Cav, Holton,
Mich.
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only be termed skirnish in comparison to
many Others, yet over $50 men were killed
and wounded I'M the day BATTLE beginning
with the retreat frem Boonsboro, in which
10000 men were engaged.
called on Capt. Snyder and Capt. Pen
nebroker in the evening of the day the bat
tie was fought. They were both in the
same room at the Franklin House. DR..
Scott, of Hagerstown, had been called in and
extracted the bullet from the side of Capt
Snyder. I remained with him that night
and bathed his wound every 10 minutes
with cold water.
Gen. Custer made another brilliant charge
into the city July Is. This time he came
in on the Leitersburg road on the rear OF the
Confederate army.
When Custer made the charge, it was done
so unexpectedly that he took about 500
prisoners in less than 10 minutes time The
Eleventh Corps, which had advanced to the
edge of the city, now marched into 1t IN an
almost simultaneous movement with Custer,
and occupied the city. The Confederates
were driven to their line of intrenchments,
which were drawn in a semi-circle about
seven miles in extent, protecting the BOons-
boro, Sharpsburg, Williamsport, and Clear
Spring pixies.
No man could have appeared more cool in
battle than did Custer on this occasion. He
rode by US near the head of his column, his
long yellow curls flowing over his shoulders,
his hat in his left hand, waving it and bow
ing to the ladies at the windows, who were
waving handkerchiefs, while storms of bull
lets were sweeping his ranks. Here the
armies rested three days. When Meade
held council of war and was overruled as
Al an
threatened that in the event of an attack he
would destroy the city by turning his guns
upon it. Lee recrossed the Potomac without
general engagement
l was with Capt Snyder when Custer
charged into the city. He became so ex-
cited that he got out of his bed, wrapped a
blanket around himself, and walked out on
the veranda to see his old comrades, and in
so doing irritated his wound which morti-
fed, and this caused his death in a few days.
Capt. Snyder was a brave and daring officer,
and was much admired for his handsome
appearance and manly conduct He had
been on duty for awhile in Hagerstown, and
had formed the acquaintance of many of the
fair sex of the city, and he told me that 1T
was by his special request that Custer al
lowed him the privilege of leading the
charge on July z, because of the many favors
bestowed upon him by the ladies of Hagers-
town.
After the smoke of battle had passed away
many of the window-shutters, pOrches, and
signs in front of places of business bore evil
dence of the terrible conflict, as some of them
were literally riddled with bnliet-holes.
The brick house adjoining Mr.. Smiths,
where we endeavored to hold the fort, stood
out on the bend Of the road, and in line of
the street leading to the Center Square.
The side of this house caught many of the
bullets intended lfsyiGs, aud it stands there
to-day, Scared and marred with scores of
bullet-holes, as a monument of the battle
w. w. JACOBS, Chambersburg, Pa.
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Where Was Gen. Lyle KilIede

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: / have not
been Oh the field of Chickamauga since
monuments have been placed there, and
therefore do not know personally where any
of them are erected, but it cannot be possible,
Notwithstanding the very many blunders
made IN locating troops and assigning the
hours OF their movements, that so gross a
blunder could have been made in placing
the monument to Gen. Lyle at the spot
stated by Comrade ID. I. Lawler in your
ssue of July 80.
Comrade Lawler says in that issue that
Gen. Lytle's monument is erected on a hill
about $50 yards nearly due south of the
Widow Glenn's house. He says that some
say the General was killed some 200 yards
southeast of where the monument stands.
think the trouble is that Comrade LAWYER has
made mistake as to the house, for Gen.
Lyle was killed almost exactly one-half mile
nearly due north of the Widow Glenn's house.
If one will take map of Chickamauga and
find what is called on those maps "Tan-
yard" a quarter of a mile southeast of the
Dyer house, and then locate point about
an eighth OF mile and about Is rods south
of due west from the so-called lanyard, he
will have the spot where Gen. Lyle was
killed. Itwas near the edge of the timber
at the west side of the field in which the
tanyard-was. And, by the way, there was
no lanyard there. There were a couple of
large ash-hoppers, used in making potash.
Their location can still be found by the ashes
that have been plowed into the ground.
wish to say TO all comrades that the Re-
bellion Records are nearly all published, and
the maps of battles, etc, are completed, and
if any comrade desires to know in which
books his regiment or battery is mentioned
in the Records, and in which any battle,
skirmish or march is shown in any of the
maps, Twill cbeerfully give him the infor-
nation onah his sending stamp to pay post
age.-GEo. L. BOLTON, "a South CONNER
clal street, st. Louis, Mo.
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Stand Solid for Mckinley.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Soon win
the last of the heroes of the war Join the
innumerable caravan that moves to that
mysterious realm where each shall take his
chamber in the silent halls of DEATH" In q
few years the graves of the last old soldier
will be decorated with those who marched
at the head of the column. 1t requires no
stretch of the imagination to call up the
scene when TAPS" shall be sounded for the
last time over the new-made graves of the
warriors of the late rebellion. Therefore, all
the old boys of 1876 should stand by the
men who made this country free. and vote
solid for Comrade William Mckinley and
Hobart for President and Vice-President this
FALL and save the Nations credit.-JosEPR
II. PEcoTT, Sergeant, Co. /, 47th Ohio, Boise
City Idaho,
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officers tents, arms stacked, men making
fires, lounging around, playing cards; ne
groes gathering brush and dancing; none
paying any more attention to the 800 Yanks
than if we had not been there.
The Dutchman was in among their fires,
guns, and coffee, we looking to see him
killed. l don't know what became of him.
We never heard of him.
We stayed there and looked for not less
than 10 minutes. Not a gun was fired on
either side. No one appeared scared par
ticularly. All seemed entranced by the Wis
ion of the Confederate army. Finally, away
to our left we began to hear the carbines
crack The Major had seen more than he
wanted, and for fear they would cut off our
rally. Our senses returned, and we were as
keen to get out as we were 10 go in. The
Johnnies did not crowd us on our return, SO
we went back at leisure.
Someone had preceded the command to
camp and reported us all captured to Uncle
Billy. About one mile southwest of the
church we met Sherman, and the Major
told him what we had seen. Bnt Uncle
Billy was not in the humor to believe any
such report. He ordered us back to camp,
and told the Major not to report such old
wornout granny tales Then we were all
hot again for his trying to make us out
towards and liars. Uncle Billy was hot,
too, SO he traded our regiment to Gen. Hurl-
bat, commanding the Fourth Division, and
the next morning we went back in camp
near the peach orchard, some two and a half
miles nearer the river. But by noon on
Sunday we were glad, for near where we
were canped was where the battle began.
1t was not over 200 yards to the spring
where the 54th Ohio first got into line, and
about 100 yards from where the rebs caught
Hidebrand's Ohio regiment in bed.
Now, / do not know Gen. Miller, as spoken
of in the printed slip, but perhaps he got the
same kind of a reprimand we did.-ED G.
AULTMAN, Co. L, 5th Ohio Cav, Melrose,
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Right This Time.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Comrade,
in last weeks issue you ask comrades that
have been reading THE NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE for 18 years if you had not been right
all the time. No; no one is right all the
time, but you are right most of the time on
nearly every subject You are right just
now when you are fighting mob law, re-
pudiation, and dishonor. Keep right on,
and hit 'em in front and rear and both
tanks. We will stand by you.-W. Will
KINs, Co. II, 4sth Pa, First Brigade, Second
Division, Ninth Corps, Kanesholm, Pa.
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Sad Results of Following these Same Lead.


ers.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: You can
have but faint idea Of how business is
stagnated in this city. All wooden business
is almost at standstil1, and the cotton is
little better. The NiGs'!esex Wooden Mills,
with 700 hands, shut down the first week OF
July, and no one knows when il will start
up. The Lowell Carpet Company, with
1900 hands, has not made half time for q
year. This is the company that is run by
Arthur T. Lyman, who cried so loudly fos
free wool in 1922 CIV. Faulkner & Sons
mill, 400 hands, has been idle the last two
years. The same can be said of the rest Of
the wooden mills. There are over 5000
hands in the city in the wooden business,
and there are not 1000 working to-day, and
they are on short time.
The Lawrence Cotton Manufacturing Co.
shut down last Spring, and the corporation
is for sale now. They had $500 men emu
ployed.
In ordinary times the mills in this city
employ not less than 10000 hands, and
there are not 10000 working to-day, and
most of them are on short time.
Some two weeks ago you gave an editorial
on comrade named Kennedy, in regard 10
who ran the Chicago Convention. After
reading Kennedy's letter and the answer to
it, think it would be well for Comrads
Kennedy to send his loyalty motor to some
Union repair shop and have it examined and
put in running order again.-M. 7. W., Low
ell. Mass
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Enjoys the Paper.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: / must
write and tell you how much / enjoy your
paper, and especially "Sherman's Memoirs
How wildly come to my mind the days Of
40 and the gold fever; and when read Of
the days of 81 and 80 / almost live over
those days again. / shall do what / can to
increase the circulation of your valuable
paper. 1t should be in the hands of every
old soldier or his family.-A. s. CHAPMAN,
Bethel Me.
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Excursion to s. panI

That all members of the Grand Army of the
Republic, together with their families and
friends, may attend the annual Encampment
g. A. r., to be held at st. Paul. Mimi, Sep
TENDER LIST TO 4th, all eastern lines will sell
excursion tickets, August 20, 80 aud 3lst, via
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul railway, at
the rate OF about one cent per mile, good to
return until September Both.
For further particulars call on the nearest
ticket agent, or address John T. Pott, district
passenger agent, Chicago, Milwaukee aud St.
Paul railway, Williamsport Pa
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ACCUSTOMED TO FINDING J0HNNIES.
So the two platoons concluded they were
the cause of all the trouble, raised the yell
and started. But Johnny wasn't quite ready
TO go yet, and those two platoons Of about
80 men saw they had more than they cared
for, and they dropped back 200 yards and
waited for the Major. This was about three
fosrths of a mile from the east and north
bank Of the creek, which is little abrupt
approach. The south and west is beautiful
gradual slope, and fimbered on both sides
for miles along the road TO Monterey and
Purdy.
When the Major arrived the Johnnies
were still there, as impndent as if they
owned fie ground. The Major said:
Well, now, they'll 60, and don't you for
get it,"
The platoons formed skirmish-line, one on
the right of the road, the other on the left.
Co. J. went TO the right, Co. A to the left
the other companies to the rear little and
across the road; the rest quite distance
to the right and left flank. Skirmishers
went 40 yards in front, and were ordered to
crowd the Johnnies.
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Down the Whole Outfit.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In your
issue of Aug. Is / see that Comrade Joseph
Pecotte gives three cheers for Mckinley. I
say repeat the cheers, and vote not only for
the head of the ticket, but the tail, middle,
and every inch of it, and thus crush the
whole silver outft-the Vests, Joneses,
Cockerels, Tilmans, HAIRLESS, and the whole
guerrilla band.-JoNAs STRoUsE, Co. G,
seth N Y, Fond du Lac, MINI.
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THEIR RECORDS
Brief Sketches Of the Services of
Various Commands.

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE has IN hand several
hundred requests for egmentai histories All such
requests will be acceded to in due time although
those now received cannot be published for a,
least q year, owing to lack OF space. Numerous
sketches have already been published and Of these
none can be found room for second time, until all
have been printed.l
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proper, a rebel line-ofbattle. They yelled

proper, rebel line-ofbattle. They yelled
for us to come on.
One of our skirmishers, . Dutchman,
charged down the slope, saber in hand, hal
looing, Surrender, you damt rebels!"
The Johnnies appeared amused and in
good humor. He was permitted to ride
through their line-of-battle, over the creek,
and up the west slope, facing north and east.
covered with Johnnies as far as the eye could
see. There was artillery parked, ambulances,
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WE WENT PELL-MEIL.

Cos. A, J.. and M, draw sabers; prepare
for charge" cried the Major.
The Johnnies did not appear so sassy, and
slowly gave back.
the CHARGE
Never did bugle ring as clear as in those
woods that evening. The way we went
$50 OF 300 strong, pellmell for over hall
mile to the bluff of the stream was eau.
ton.
Suddenly there came into view, about 1OC
yards down the slope, near the creek bottom
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