The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-10-14
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is so, what was the name Of the Chief whose
body we saw?"
He Has Been There.
Alvin Arand. Co. B. OH Ohio M,rysviIIs.
Kan. writes; Il served in the Army of the
Cumberland, and am very well acquainted
with the country around Chattanooga and
Atlanta The story of Capturing Loco
motive IL very interesting to me and my
family / have seen the old iron war horse.
| remember the Chattanooga Jail very well.
| saw it after the battle of Chiekamaugs.
when we were detailed TO clear tract Of
land for burying- ground. We worked
hard and faithfully. We bad no soles on
our shoes; our coats were worn out; we had
lost our knspsaclSs and blankets in the bat
tle, and were hungry. At the time we were
on quarter rations. i revisited the cemetery
after 30 years and found every thing changed.
L located several of the graves of my old
comrades. among others that of Capt. T.
Miller, Co. Il. 9th Ohio. / also found thu
graves of Andrews and his raiders marked
by little monument surmounted by a loco
motive"
Scattering
Patrick O'Neal, Washington, d. c.. writes.
Isis seldom that An old Regular sends Won
line. We, at the most, are only about 30 600.
In the late war was on the miserable PENN
sular campaign. / had served FIVE years
before on the Pacific coast against Indians.
Sheridan's first fight was at the Cascades,
Wash. Ter, April 5. 1856 A terrible fghs
it was all day. We hung 30 Indians that
day. They were tried by a military COM
mission and found guilty of murder"
L. Z. Partridge, Box 60, Duke Center, Pa,
has a badge, picked up in front of Peters
burg, marked: "a. 3. Cross, Co. d, 14sth
Pa"
J. FL. Trimble, Co F. 63d Ind. Monroe,
N. c., enjoys reading Sherman's Memoirs.
He WAS sorry when 'Alf Wilson's Adven-
lures" was finished. He says: 81 am a
railroad conductor, and have seen the engine,
The Old General quite a number of times.
| know that I shall enjoy reading The Man
Who Outliyed HIMSELF as / know Judge
Tourgee. wish that some one would write
up the 63d Ind, as / have been South ever
since the war, and have had no one to talk
to who was in the Union service"
w. Houghton, 14th Ind, Loogootee, Ind,
writes: " / heard a statement from men,
Der of the 30th Ind. to the effect that when
the Twenty-third Corps was ordered from
Nashville to the coast in 1865, Tennessee
regiment went with them, whose time ex-
pired soon after they arrived about the
mouth of Cape Fear River. They were
ordered back for the purpose of being mus
tered out, and shipped on the steamer Cas-
sandra, which he says was reported to have
burned somewhere about Cape Hatteras,
and all the regiment perished. I never
heard the story before. Is there any record
of such a eatsstrophe?"
G.. NJ. Ireland, Co. Fl, 5th Iowa Cav. Ara
pahoe, Neb, writes: Z" should like to'knov
to what battery the gun belonged that was
engaged In the battle near Newman, Ca, on
the McCook raid also, the man who spiked
the gun, turned to me and said: The
rebs will not use this gun on u.s."
T. S. Tawsey, Co. NJ, 18th n. Y. Cav, and
Co. E. 18th n. Y. Cav, Kinsey, Ala, writes:
II have read The NATIONAL TRIBUNE a
long time, and expect to eontinne to do so
as long as it battles for the rights of the old
veterans. I was disappointed in seeing
nothing from the members of my regiment
in the Encampment issue, and should like
to see something written by them"
S. W. Sedgwick, Pukwana, S. D., saw an
inquiry for three-months men. He enlisted
in the 1st Iowa in April, 1861, for three
months; re-snlisted in the 11th Iowa in
October for three years, and resigned Nov.
81, 1854, previously having been transferred
to the 5th U. S. G. III. A.
Dennis Delaney, Alexandria, Va, says he
and three brothers were furnished to the
army from his family. The other threa
were John, Thomas and James Delaney.
They were under age. Thomas was killed
on picket before his 18th birthday James
was bSn in March, f349, and enlisted in
Co. K, SD Pa, July 5, 1863, fer three
months; re-enlistsd for three years in Co. A,
7th Pa. Cav. He was one of the youngest,
the comrade thinks.
J. B. Ritner, Co. I, 202d Pa, Shelton,
Wash, was q three-months man. He
served in Co. E, 18th Pa, first He re-
NAMED two weeks over time. and was mus
tered out at Pittsburg Aug. 4, 1861.
G. n. Bates, Mesopotamia, o., wants by
nail the music to all the calls used in the
army.
VIM. Mann, Stoekdale, Tex, was one Of
those who enlisted under the first call, in
90. /, 18th Ohio. When his tins was out
ne enlisted again, in Co. G. 5th Ind. Cav
r. D. Colgate, Co. I, 149th Pa, Irwin, Pa,
writes: why don't some of the old boys of
ny regiment write up thsir experience? I
was in all the battles with the regimens
rom the 5th of May, 1864, to February,
1865, at Hatcher's Run, Va. We certainly
Ire not ashamed of our part in helping to
put down the rebellion. Our regiment did
IS share with other fighting boys. I will
ay under the late Administration Hoka
smith & Co. WAS the cause of reducing my
pension under the law of 1890 from S12 to
IS, and, shortly, under the present Admins
ration, which is trying to do justice to the
Id boys in blue, received an increase of
IS, and am now back on the rolls at the frss
ating they gave me in 1890"