The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-01-16
Peach Tree Creek.

70 II, cOtn Ill, lnIrU brigade, SeCOnu DiflS-
ion, Fourteenth Corps, says the 22d Ohio
was in his brigade at the battle of Peach Tree
Creek. think Comrade Fario is mistaken.
/ was in that brigade from it's organization,
and the 22d Ohio was never in it. 1t was
composed of the odd Ind, s5th. seth and
125th ILL.,, and sd ObiO-Dan McCoOk's old
regiment. McKook commanded the brigade
until he was MORALLY wounded on the rebel
works at Kenesaw, June 81, 1864.
1t was the sd Ohio that was across
Peach Tree Creek that day helping to make
that racket with the Johnnies. The SD was
the first regiment to cross the creek, and, If
l mistake not, the Odd Ind. crossed soon
after. After we drove the rebels off the hill
they fell back across clearing about thou
sand yards. We saw troops in the woods on
our right at the end of this clearing but as
we had been told not to fear our right be-
cause the First Brigade would cross lower
down and protect it, we continued to advance,
supposing the troops in the woods to be the
First Brigade.
AFTER the battle we learned that the
First Brigade could not cross. Anyway, the
troops in the woods proved to be rebels.
They came out and struck our right flank,
and then the Johnnes we had already licked
in our front got very saucy and began firing
at us again. We were between two fires, and
had not the boys of Capt Barnett's Illinois
battery lent us helping hand-which they
always did-there would not have been a
COrporal's guard Of us left The SD Ohio
lost 81 men, most of them being lost while
they were between the two bodies of rebel
troops. The 22d Ind. laso lost heavily.
stood at the Helm.
Joseph Fl. Richardson, Burlington, n. j.,
was pilot of the steamer Pawnee when she
went to Alexandria and forced the surrender
of the place the day Col. Ellsworth was
killed. Later he put her through the fight
at Hatch's Mills, n. c., where 500 prisoners
were captured. Next he ran her past the
Shipping Point batteries, where her sides
We're pierced by many balls, but not man
was lost. He thinks he deserves medal for
this
Captured the Gun.
James Fl. Chandler an ex-Johnny, tells how
he captured cannon from i'Yank" who
was on horseback and doing his best to drag
the machine over a log in hispath. This was
at Bentonville n. G., and the gun was turned
over to Gen. Loring. Chandler says he lives
at Mckenzie, Tenn. He extends to all the
Federal vets the hand OF true fellowship.
1--WE Confederates propose to stand shoulder
to shoulder with the old Federals in defense
of the Monroe Doctrine and for the honor of
our common country against all foes"
Those Were Lively Times.
A. M. Watson, Pittsburg, Kan, writes: 81
often look over the columns of your paper to
see something of the First Brigade, Second
Division, Sixteenth Corps. The brigade was
composed of the I'd and 18th Iowa, 66th Ind,
and sd H., organized at Corinth June, '62,
and commanded by Gems. Sweeny, Hackel-
man, and lastly by Rice, formerly Colonel of
the 18th Iowa These four regiments were
together nearly three years, and at the close
were not much bigger than good regiment.
''The 9TH Iowa was initiated at Belmont,
where their loss atteSted 10 the awful work.
The I'd Iowa made successfully charge on
the left at Donelson. The Goth Ind. was as
good a lot of Hoosiers as ever enlisted. The
gallant old sd Ill.-but this was my regi-
ment. / won't say much about them, for fear
YOU may think / am blowing. But the Bri-
gade fought at Belmont, Fort Donelson,
Shiloh, Corinth, and then took part in the At
lanta campaign, being the first troops at and
through Snake Creek Gap and the first to
cross the river at Lays Ferry. Old Battery III
1st Mo- l.. A., was always with us, and how
they could give it to 'em.
Missed the Soldiers Joy.
James r. Phillips, Co. b, 10th H., Ran
kin, ILL.,. writes that he was not treated to the
sight of gray back" during mis- entire term
of enlistment, five and one-half months. He
SAYS % / enlisted May IL, 1864, and was dis
charged October 28th. Our regiment was
ordered to Benton Barracks, st. Louis to
Columbus, KY, and then back to Cairo, to
guard prisoners About July l was taken
sick and sent to the Regimental Hospital and
afterwards to the Post Hospital | was not
able for duty until after / was discharged.
Perhaps month after discharge | took my
blanket out of doors to shake and air it and
discovered something on the knee of my sky
blue pants that had never seen anything like
before. But from the description that | had
heard given of 'graybacks L concluded that
it was regular Government 'grayback,
with u. S. on its back In looking over the
blanket found another. Being in the hos
pith so much was not exposed to the fellow
ship of 'graybacks as much as if l had been
able for duty"
Scattering.
James Z. lie Count, Strafford, Mo-, has
files of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE for 10 years,
and would like to dispose of them for cash to
the highest bidder by mail.
Kans, says in the issue of Dec. 20 occur the
words, referring to Marye's flights in the
battle of fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862, chad
been assaulted by the Second Corps, with three
distinctive division charges, led by Hancock,
Humphreys, and Tyler" In reply to
this let me say as a memberof Tyler's Brigade
at the time that Humphrey commanded
division in the Fifth Corps and Tyler bri-
babe in Humphreys Division, and that
Humphreys Division of the Fifth, and not
the Second Corps, must be what the COM
rade means / was a member of the 126th
Pa and in Tyler's Brigade, Humphreys Diyis-
ion, and remember distinctly the charge of
the division with all its terrible results.'
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