The National tribune., 1897-04-08
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.
where Are Hhese Missing Ones?

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Where Are Rhese Missing Ones?
A. Landegren, 47ss Franklin street, oma-
ha, Neb., says: ANDREW j. Bovee, of Co.
K, 18th Mich, left his wife and young step
son in Omaha in October, 1882, to do work
out of town, and has not since that time
been seen or heard of by her. Mrs. Bovee
was an entire stranger in a strange city, hav-
ing only just arrived in Omaha from farm
in upper Michigan, After long, anxious,
and fearful waiting she was at last forced to
believe that he was dead. Their relations
were the best. She is persuaded that some
thing happened to him. or that he met foul
play. If her husband can be proved dead
she would be entitled to widows pension,
which would be to her in her poor circum-
stances and aged condition very God
send. She has supported herself and boy
by work, but the years begin to weigh
heavy on her now. Can any comrade tell me
where BOvee is ?"
Danford Redding, Co. F, 11th Mimi,
Athens, Tenn, says: II am anxious to learn
Mich, and Witte Stanfeld list Ohio, and
man named Marion, 10th Ind.
E. F. Gillette, Co. A, 117th ILL.,, Oberlin,
Kan, says: "Thirty- three years ago I was
one of transfer of wounded from Cumber-
land Hospital, Nashville, to General Hospital
at Camp Butler, ILL.,, that being the nearest
point to my nlistment-McLean, Ill. WAS
suffering from gunshot wound of left fore
arm. Inflammation having set in on account
of the cold, my arm was swelling rapidly.
The waiting-room at the junction between
New Albany and Springfield was filled with
men, women and children waiting by the
station stove for two hours late train.
While pacing back and forth on the platform
in front Of the waiting-room door, gentle
man came to tie door and inquired If was
wounded, saying that his wife and several
other ladies in the room wanted me to come
in and see if something could be done to re-
lieve me.
aNo .s excuses would do, SO I went in.
One lady found light bread, another pint
tin of milk, another cloths for bandage,
and in less time than it takes to tell it my
arm was relieved by a smoking-hot poultce
of bread and milk. The lunch-baskets were
then searched for good things to eat, and in
spite of my protests there was nothing to do
but submit. Since then / have wished 3
hundred times had asked the honor Of
their addresses, but never could think to
say the right thing under such circum-
stances. / should like to find them"
w. N. Minturn, 148 Larch street, Lam
sing, Mich, would like to hear from the
"man who got the hunting-case, gold
plated watch / let, him look at to buy in
Libby Prison in, January, 1865 I never
saw the man or watch iafterward."
Thrown into the Breach.
VIM. II. Hoyt, Co. G, 1st Ind. Cav, Eby,
Ind, says his regiment, dismounted, was
thrown into the breach after the rebels had
captured the trenches and battery at Helena,
Ark, July a, 1863.
Robert Dewhursts Co. G., 1st Ind. Cav,
Eby, Ind, was Orderly at Premises Head
quarters. He sayt it vas known more than
two weeks beforeatte rebel army came that
it was coming. The shardest fighting was
done in the center, just west of Fort Curtis.
The 1st Ind. Cav. were in that part of the
field, the center, and the 5th Kan. Cav.
in part were there.
II was all over the battle-ground directly
after the fight, and only the negro regi-
ments were not directly in the hard fighting.
They were on the left, Col. Powell Clay
ton was in commtnd on the right. The
battery in the cehter near the graveyard
and little Catholic Church was captured in
the a. M. by the rebels. and retaken by
o'clock p. m. The ground was too hilly to
use cavalry, so the men were dism0unted in
the center"
Saved Comrades Life.
a. A. Thompson, Go. F, Sd Wis, Salina
Kan, writes: ~ want to find the man whose
life saved from drowning at Sandy Hook
| Md, in the Summer of 1861. was guard
ing the commissary stores on the bank OF
| the canal, and the soldiers Of three-montbs
Pennsylvania regiment were waiting fol
transportation. A large number were in
bathing. The cry went up, Man drown
ing!,
and stood to see the man rise and sink the
third time. / said to company soldier by
the name of Albert Gillis, Take my gun
and stand guard jumped into the cana
|. and swan to where he had sunk. Diving
/ caught him by the hair, swung him on mJ
shoulder, face up, and swan for shore, but
having my clothes and boots on, I had al
l could do to reach it.
| II never learned the soldiers name, mol
the number of his regiment, but as it was
witnessed by hundreds of soldiers, am sure
some one is alive who remembers the circum.
stance"
Encampment Journals.
National Encampment Journals from the
14th to the Oath annual Encampments fol
sale by Comrade William Simmons, 1882
| Wharton ST., Philadelphia, Pa
| Scattering.
| E. G.. Blackman, Co. G, Sd q. s., Donohue
Mo-, writes: Il must say am well pleased
with your paper. / never had subscribed
| for it before, but had read it some. 1t wal
my misfortune to be living in the extreme
| South when the rebellion took place. l was
| just boy of II, geing to school. They put
stop to my going to school and took me in
the Confederate service.
But made my escape, and took Uncle
Sans required oath and one OF his best guns
and went forth under the Stars and Stripes
to try, Of course, to do some of my best fight
ing to redeem and bring back into the Union
my old mother State, Alabama"
Edward Armstrong, 1919 Butler street, cx'
tended, Pittsburg, Pa, has an original re-
port of the Signal Corps from April 80, 1863
to May 6, 1863 If Capt. S. L. Cushing
Lieut.. Hill or others prominent want it, ht
would like to hear from them.
Wanted by The NATIONAL TRIBUNE, &
few copies of Aug. 6, 1896, issue. Any com
rade having any of this issue will do us {
favor by sending same.
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Profitable Hog Raising.
There never was time when anyone couli
enter into the business of raising choice thor