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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-25

The queen Of Madagascar has been
'exied to the island of Reunion, French
possession near the island OF Mauri-
titus
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-25
President Mckinley issued his mes
ssge converting congress March Is.

CAscARErs stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken OF gripe Toe.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-25

The largeest store in Williamsburg
Va, is owned by negro. He has nine
clerks. all white.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-25

Thomas Evans was nned by New
forl judge for splitting on the floor of
q street car.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-25

Miss Hanna announces her engage
nent to young business man of Tole-
do.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-25

Dispatches from Rio de Janeiro say
the outbreak in Bahia, Brazil, is becom-
ing more serious.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-25

Specific duties on sugar are decided
1pon by the ways and means commit
tee.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-25

A Brainerd woman is sentenced to
tate prison for life for the murder of a
10Y.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-25

The funded debt OF Boston increased
over SIS 100000 in the last fiscal year.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-25

The sundry civil, Indian and genera
deficiency bills failed to become Law.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-25

The total income of the London hos
pitfalls is close upon 5000 900 year.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-25

A Jew ish pork pitcher keeps g shop
In Brick lane in London.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-25

Members Of the Greek reserve forces
In the United States are called upon.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-25
A WOMAN'S BODY.
What It's Neglect Leads to. Mrs. Chas
Kings Experience.

woman's body is the repository Of the
most delicate mechanism in the whole
realm # creation, and yet most women
win let it ret out Of order apd keep out OF
order Just as if il were Of no consequence.
Their backs ache and heads throb and
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-12-30
THE BELMONT MOVEMENT.
Historical Information Desired rs to Grants
Intentions

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Comrade
Joseph Ray, of Emery, Ill, having seen my
article, AN Amusing Incident Mt Cairo. - in
the issue of Nov. ii, writes to me: The 9th,
18th, 40th, and 41st H., Thielman's III.
Cav, and at least one battery (Taylors, OF
Chicago, OF Buell's. of St Louis went from
Paducah and threatened Columbus During
the battle of Belmont we were In plain hear
ing of the fighting. Perhaps other troops
went from Paducab, the 9Th Mo-, Ith Ind,
and maybe the 25th Ind. being there at the
time. We were under Gen. G.. F. Smith.
who died at Savannah, Tenn, shortly after
the battle of Shiloh We were apprised OF
the fact that other troops were in the vicinity
at the time, but we did not see them"
This brings out a point in history which
/ have always wanted cleared up j wished
1t brought out in justice to my own regiment
and the 18th H. and the cavalry / noticed
that all accounts of the Belmont movement
were silent as to the part we, the 2Sth and
7th ILL.,. took In that short campaign, and
was not satisfied
i now want to ask if it was Gen. Grants
intention to attack Columbus from the land
side Or at all. Some say it was and yet
Gen. Grant does not so state, and in reality
says 1T was to satisfy the longings of the men
for battle that he decided to fight the battle
He states (Vol. l., p. 271): had no orders
which contemplated an attack 10y the Ma
tional troops, nor did / intend anything of
the kind when j started out from Cairo, but
after we started i saw the officers and men
were elated at the prospects of at last having
the opportunity of doing what they had vol
unteered to de-fght the enemies of their
country. My command consisted
of little over g, 900 men, and embraced five
regiments of infantry"
j know the eth Iowa, 30th and 31st ILL.,
participated in Belmont What other regi-
ments, and where? Did Gen. Grant have
the 7th ! II. and 25th H.? Certainly not on
transports and participating in the battle.-E.
J.. HoBART, Co. ID, 2Sth H., Denver, Colo.
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taken by the Sixth Corps You must not
forget the Sixth Corps did business on the
first floor when the curtain of war went up,
and wa. there when that curtain went down.
Now, want to quote Jube Early little
on the Cedar Creek fight. On page LOG,
q Early's War of Independence, 2" he says:
Gordon. however, pushed his attack
with great energy, and the Nineteenth and
Crooks Corps were in complete rout, and their
camps, with number of pieces of artillery
and considerable quantity of small-arms,
abandoned The Sixth Corps, which was on
the enemy's right, and some distance from
the point of attack, had had time to get
under arms and take position so as to avert
our progress"
On page 109: GA number of bold attempts
were made during the subsequent part OF
the day by the enemy's cavalry to break our
line on the right, but they were invariably
repulsed Late in the afternoon the enemy s
infantry advanced against Ramseur's, Ker-
shaw's, and Gordon's lines, and the attack
on Ramseur's and Kershaw's fronts was hand
somely repulsed in my view, and | hoped
that the day was finally ours; but a portion
of the enemy had penetrated an interval
which was between Evans's Brigade, on the
extreme left and the rest of the line, when
that brigade gave way and Gordon's other
brigades soon followed"
Our comrades make the great mistake of
seeing it all They don't; they can't. In
many cases it is not the corps that loses the
most men that does the hardest fighting.
Often the line is broken and severe loss is
met; for instance, at Winchester, Sept. 10,
1864 The official records are pretty near
correct-W. L. WEBSTER Cowan's battery,
Sixth Corps, Auburn, n Y.
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THE CEDAR CREEK BATTLE.
One of Cowan's Batterymen Fires o Few
Rounds.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: I was a
much interested reader of the article on
Cedar Creek by a comrade of the Nineteenth
Corps, and, to use a slang phrase of the day,
mast . call him down" The comrade saws
he was wounded in the early morning. His
chances OF seeing the movements of the other
corps were hence, limited
No one questions the fighting qualities of
any soldier and yet the commanders Off
GERS, If you piease-have great bearing on
results. How many fields of the war were
there where divisions ana corps were swept
from the field III disastrous retreat on ac-
count OF poor officers? And yet if one or
any of these were named Tie n ,TIoNAL
TRIBUNE could not hold the protests that
would arise. Read the official reports and
see for yourselves.
l remember the Sixth Corps was out
fanked in the Wilderness, lost two Generals
and a few men prisoners. Did the corps
rush to Fredericksburg demolalized? Not
much; they reformed and retook the position
at once.
remember that two or three corps made
an assault upon the flights Of fredericksburg.
They were good soldiers; they were re-
pulsed. | remember the same position, held
by the same Confede94tes. was assaulted by
the Sixth Corps and The flights captured, in
Guiding the famous Washington Artillery.
! remember the lines At Petersburg were
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LETTING THE CoE0Rs WAVE OVER HIM. y
most of the colorguard away. Col. Zlnn
sprang to the colDrs, catching the lower
corner and shaking them with one hand and
pointing with his sword to the enemy. lie
was shot, and neversspoke again.
Our hne-of-battie formei at about 500
yards from the enemy's works. From this
point our regiment charged the stone wall
twice, almost reaching it once. By this time
we did not have a commissioned officer in
command. Ours was the advance regiment
on that part of the line. l do not know
about the First and Second Brigades, but
am inclined to think the whole division
charged at the anne time.
One funny thing happened during the
charge which l will never forget. / was on
the left OF Co. |, and near the colors, and
our color-bearer was an Irish comrade. At the
first stop or halt We all fell to the ground.
Pat turned on his back and placed the flag
staff on his breast, letting the cOlors wave
above him. The grape and canister were
tearing us all to pieces and some of the boys
called out: Pat, put down that flag; you are
drawing the fire on U.s. Pat answered: "I'll
not do it; it's the flag of me country, and it
shall wave"
We got 80 bullet holes through our flag
and the staff was half cut off that day
There were no troops In advance of US at any
time.
Six years ago | went over the entire ground,
first crossing the river and going up to the
Lacey House. and then to the place where we
formed. ! traced the march and charge out
to where we stopped and up on the Nights.
Several of my old comrades were with me
at TINS time, and we even found where the
company stood, or rather lay, in he line.
The ground had never been plowed since the
fight
N the Federal Cemetery there are Is, $50
graves, and II, 900 of them are unknown
rebel MAJOR accompanied Us. He was on
the flights at the time we made the charge
tie was with Pickett at ettysburg, and he
said he never saw such bravery as was shown
in the charge at Marye's Hignts. JOHN T.
WILEY, Co. ], 130th Pa, and Co. F, 9th
Pa. Cav, Scottsburg, Ind.
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Thought you could do so without compromis
Ing yourself in politics, or taking actively
any part for the South, should war take place
] recollect a little incident at Manassas
that tends TO confirm me in this view. A
few days after the battle, some of us from
Louisiana spoke of the fillSe rum0r that You
had been captured. when DR.. 5. A. Smith,
onr Nioe-President of the Board of Super
visors, said:
by Gemminy, wish it had been SO;
would like TO have a good long talk with
him. and then make him 90 back home to the
seminary !"
The letters of Beauregard, Bragg, and
others alluded to, you might possibly lind.
Mai. Gillespie, of Macon, Mo-, says that he
removed all the books, papers, apparatus, etc.
from the old seminary in 1864, by order of
Gen. L. Kilby Smith, of the Federal army,
and that Gen. Smith took charge OF some of
the articles himself Who knows but he
may have preserved those letters? He did.
w. L. S.
ANY account of the war, however accurate
and liberal. must be, to even Confederates,
full of sadness. We made a struggle such rs
history may never tell of again. We lost so
much of our lest blood, only to fail
There are some few things in your book
that l regret. You have mistaken the
character of some of the Confederate leaders.
Ii you had known Mr. Davis and Gen.
Hampton personally and well, / know you
well enough to say that you would not have
done them the injustice you have in your
book.
The burning of Columbia accounts for
itself-one army retreating stragglers falling
behind; the other advancing, bummers III
front, Confederate storehouses fired, ana
cotton (which the Confederates were afraid TO
burn, lest they would burn the town un-
baled and scattered through the streets, with
liquor everywhere! Nothing but miracle
could have saved Columbia from burning.
Such Is the account given me in 1866, by
one who was present. a Southern lad, son
of prominent New Orleans gentleman; and
/ have always felt that neither you nor
Hampton were to blame, and that there
ought never to have been a word between
Iou about II X
Your humble but devoted friend,
d. f. BOYD.
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n tHEbu GLEe. Inc following letter
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FIGHTING THEM OYER
What the Veterans Have to Say
About Their Campaigns.
CHARClNG ATsMARYE,S HIcHTs.
Part Taken by the Third Brigade, Third
Division, Second Corps.


| Part Taken by the Third Brigade, Third
Division, Second Corps.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: I saw in
| the issue of Dec Is an account of the charge
on Marve's flights. Comrade Houghton
claims that his brigade led the charge
belonged to the Third Brigade, Third Di-
vision, Second Corps. Our brigade was
composed of the 1Osth n Y, 130th Pa, and
the 18th Conn.,, and at this time was COM
manded by Col Palmer, of the 108th n Y
We formed in the second street from the
river, with fixed bayonets, and counter
marched and filed right up street that ran
perpendicular with the Hights and on Q line
with the rebel works. Just after we entered
this street the enemy opened on us with a
calling fire of shot and shell. So murderous
was this artillery fire that the men were
compelled to spread out, and we halted for
a few moments
During this short stop we found we were
going to open the fight, and many were the
messages given among the boys in case they
fell in the conflict. Our Colonel-H. i. Znn,
of Newville, Pa.-ordered the boys to fall
in. A short distance up this street we filed
left, and as we passed the place where the
depot now stands we filed right, and then
charged by the left flank.
AT about halfway between the point une
charge started and the Higfrts, the brigade
halted for a few moments.
Col. Zinn asked Col Palmer: =" What
are your Orders?" Col. Palmer replied:
i have none" ooh, this is deuce of
a place to bring men without ORDERS" re-
piled Zinn, and Immediately sprang to the
front OF his regiment and ordered IT forward.
The brigade rose with a yell and moved up
al, de
All this time we had been under the most
murderous fire that men ever experienced.
Just as Col. linn sprang in front OF his regi-
ment they cut right through the left Of Co.
/ and the right of Co. c, sweeping them and
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BENJAMlN'S BATTERY.
An Ex-Confederate's Story Brings Out Rem.
iniscsnces from q Member.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In recent
issue w. NJ English, c.. S. A, Delta, S. c.,
writes about the battle of Sharpsburg, Md,
he having been in q battery in Longstreet's
Corps, and placed to the left of the town.
He says that during that day his battery
was engaged against Benjamin s battery, and
got the blackest eye of the war; that his bat
terry wa completely demolished on that occa-
sion and he thinks Benjamin's battery was
worth 10, 600 men to the Old Flag
have the honor of having been a member
of Beniamin's battery, and was in that fight.
l must say we had very respectable foe to
oppose us that day, but | thought at the time
that we gave little more than we took, and
we were satisfied at the result of that day s
battle; but / cannot say that We enjoyed
things very much; the work we had before
us was too dangerous.
Beniamin's battery was E of the I'd u. S.
Art. told Regularsl, and / have always
thought and felt that we never got our full
credit for the service we did during the war.
/ am glad to hear such favorable mention
made of my old battery by one who was actu-
ally opposed to it in action, and thank the
Confederate veteran for the high opinion ex-
pressed in his communication.
T., I'd U. S. Art, was stationed at Augusta
Arsenal, Ca, when Georgia seeded, and
soon afterwards surrendered the arsenal to
the Georgia militia, and we left for Savannah,
Ga, thence for New York.
We took part in the Inauguration of Lin
coin, and were in the first Bull Run fight,
being known then as Carlisle's battery. We
were in all the battles of the Army of the PO-
tomac up to Fredericksburg, then were sent
to Kentucky with the Ninth Corps
Then we went to the rear of Vicksburg,
and after that place surrendered went with
Sherman to fight Johnston at jackson, Miss.
The battery was put in Fort Saunders at tho
time Lsngstroet's Corps assaulted it.
When we surrendered Augusta Arsenal the
Governor Of Georgia declared rs free; told Us
to disperss and 60 whore each individual
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pleased; if we would stay with them, COM
missions would be given us. But old Co. T.
was made up mostly of men who had served
10 to 90 years; they said Uncle Sam had al
ways been good to them, SO they would stick
by him. No enlisted men left us, but all our
officers who were Southerners did. d.-ANDREw
EIrcHMAN, First Sergeant, Battery L, I'd
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our front, and his artillery in reach playing
upon US, contributed to impede our progress
The course or direction when entered the
woods seemed to be about SOUTH and upon
emerging from it, at a distance from one-half
to three-fourths of mile, the brigade to my
right had shifted to the right such an extent
that l had to move right-oblique to fill the
space, and my left swinging around, so that
when my lines came upon tile lines of the
enemy behind barricades, my front was about
southwest, and by the time we got the lines
Strengthened up, and the enemy's driven
back, and the position of the enemy dis
covered, night came on.
Yet my lines, nth Pa, saith and sOth H.,
and 9th Ind. in front line, pressed forward
under heavy canister-fire from the enemy's
guns to within three hundred yards of their
barricaded lines, when the fighting ceased ut
dark
One of Gen. Newton's brigades had moved
up toward my left, and his skirmish. line
connected with the left of my front battle
line. The barricade of the enemy ceased
opposite the left of my lines. During the
night the enemy withdrew.
A true copy:
ID. S. STANLEY, Colonel, 22d Inf
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Edward Whitcomb, Commapder of Post
l30, Friend, Neb., writes that handsome
watch was recently taken from tramp pas
sing through Friend. On tho case is in
scribed: TO Col. Thomas j. jackson, by
the survivors of Fort Pillow Massacre, April
IL. 1854" Commander Whitcomb would
like to know how the tramp secured 80
valuable relic, and one that ought TO have
been handed down from generation TO gen.
GRAFTON.