The National tribune., 1896-04-02
PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.
As TO DoolittIe;s Brigade.

As TO DoolittIe,s Brigade.
". S. Parr, Co. A. Sd Wis, writes: In
| your issue of Dec. u COmrsde o. w. Case,
65th ILL.,, tells. of battling with Hood
He says Doolittle,s Brigade, of Cox's Divis-
| ion, Twenty-tbird CopFs, charged at the
| same time as McAfillsnis Brigade, of A. j.
Smiths Corps
| 81 was in position to observe Doolittle's
Brigade better than Comrade Case. / know
| he is mistaken. The Third Division Of Gen.
Smiths Corps, Col. J. Il. Moore command
! ing, was in reserve till the afternoon OF the
10th, when we were put in between Nc
Arthur's and Garrard's Divisions. and ear
| ried the stone wall on the Hfllsboro pike,
capturing $50 prisoners and passing on q
| half mile beyond, when we were halted for
the night
"The next morning before daylight we
were withdrawn from the line and marched
| back to the Hillsboro pike, TO the right, and
into position in rear of Cox's Division. The
33d Wis. being on the right of the division
brought directly in rear of Doolittle's
Brigade, and, being on high ground with the
artillery, we had good chance to see all
that was done by the Twenty-third Corps.
Doo1ittle's Brigade did not leave their rifle
pits until the cheers announced that Nc
Millan1s assault had been successful.
"Comrade Case also says Doolittle's Bri-
gade was more exposed to the fire of the
enemy, and, he thinks, lost more heavily,
than the one in which was OOmrade Lacock.
We will take Gen. Cox's own statement in
regard to the losses. The loss in, .cAhllan's
Brigade was 49, Not more than two
thirds occurred in the assault Cf Shy's Hill.
in his entire division the loss was less than
90 He does not give Doolittle's loss sepa-
rate, but says that from the earthworks in
front of Dooittie one volley of cannon and
small-arms was fired, but in the excitement
1t was aimed go high as to do no mischief"
First into Columbia.
G. W. Higgins, Go. A, 32d H., Louisville,
KY, writes: Il was much interested in
Gen. o. o. Towards monograph. As 10 the
first troops into Columbia, | will say tlxtt
/ saw the flags of the 13fh Iowa and 32a
H., with troops from both regiments, who
went over TO Columbia together in that
boat, and that the first flag raised was the
18th Iowa's and the second that of the 32d
I'll. / am glad to see Gep. Howard give the
Seventeenth Corps boys credit for being the
first to enter Columbia Almost all writers
to THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE give the honor
to the Fifteenth Corps. Push along that
hJCA iCC tuSiOn tnluk III LUG DtSb
ever offered, and the one that will do the
most good"
Forced March.
Thomas W. Baird, Go. K, 5th Conn,
Springfield, Mass, writes: I'm your issue
of March IL is an article from ComTade
Barker, Sd Iowa Cav, about a forced march, |
and it is 'corker 200 miles in four days, |
over impossible and muddy roadsi 1t must |
have been d prodigious feet But the old |
9Th Conn. fought Stonewall Jackson for
over four hours at Winchester in May, 1862,
and crossed the Potomac at WiHiamsport
before shutdown. How is that for high. ?"
Back Numbers Wanted.
j. W. Eldridge, State ST., Hartford, Conn,
IS very anxious to get copies of The Ma
rIoNAL TRIBUNE from Aug. 90 1881, to
March 20, 1888, and is willing TO pay coed
price for them. Look your old files up and
write to him.
Capturing JEFF Davis.
F. Richter, Co. d, LIST Wis. Cav, st. Paul,
SEnn., says: In your issue of the 18th inst
len. Minty gives an account of the doings
If the 4ih Mich. Cav. during the war. /
nave no reason to doubt that the boys of
hat regiment were as brave as any other
oldiers, but when anyone of that regiment
,laims credit for the capture of Jefferson
Davis, il sets my blood boiling knowing the
and that Lieut-C0l. Prtchard
lad two OF his brave men murdered and
everal wounded TO accomplish his act of
reachery toward his fellow-oficer Col. III.
Iarnden, of the 1st Wis Cav The less they
ay about the capture of Davis the better for
hem, for the blood of the brave men killed
md wounded in the contest between the 18th | !
Itch. and 1st Wis. is upon Col. Pritchard, | ,
FOR particulars | refer you to the official re-
,ort of Col Harnden dated May IL, 1865
ndorsed by Col. o. H. La Grange then COM ,
banding brigade) and on file in War Record ]
)ffice, War Department Washington, d. c.
Recovered His Nerve. /
J. P. Ross, Co. Fl, 18th Ohio, Indianola, !
owa, relates an incident of July 90, 1864, in s
rOnt of Atlanta. "SuDflower" and POsey," I
ickuames, of course, represented too WELL 7
nova, but somewhat peculiar, characters \
tho were members of Capt. Cornyn's COM s
any, K. "The fight for the recapture of \
.eggett's Hill by the rebels was raging G
ercely, and shells and minie-bails were /
Dming from all directions when one of the h
vain alluded to above. the former, | think, r
ad close call, n bullet passing between O
NO of his fingers, but fortunately, only pro- c
ucing q slight flesh wound. 7
Being frightened and seemingly unnerved | A
y the shock. he began calling loudly for a u
Itretcher.' Presently he was picked up by :
lie stretcher bearers, and was being horne c
+ to less exposed part of the field, when
huge shell from one of the reb guns ex-
oded directly over him, sending its death
ealing fragments in all directions, and a
me of them in such close proximity that i
IT hero recovered his lost nerve in less than
, time and sDringinp from the stretcher -
2 started on the double-quck for his COM
my, where he stood manfully to The work
ltil the enemy tell back into the timber,
~ ,I,a hot1 In n1noaI