The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-02-03
PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades Along tle
Whole Line.
Story of an Andersonviile Prisoner.

l.. s Graves, 112th H.. Quitman. No,
writes: :. have been reading with much in
terest the story of AndersonSile / was in
prison with its author, John McElroy. I
was captured at the siege of Knoxville, and
was in five different prisoners-Atianta.
Belle Isle. AndersonvIle, Charleston. and
Florence. | made my escape at GoldsbOro,
\. C.. and after II days aud nights reached
our lines. | had not walked for nine weeks
previous to my escape. / had been buried to
my shoulders at Andersonville TO kill droIsy,
scurvy and gangrene. After eluding the
rebels / crawled 90 miles down the Neuse
River to Gods army. / have not seen a well
day since came near freezing TO death on
Belle Isle the Winter of 1861
The Capture of Fort MeAilister
\. Il. Rehmel, Go. |, 3Gth Ohio, Muscatine,
Iowa writes "GeOrge Luber 41th Ohio.
franklin, o., makes the statement that his
brigade was chosen to capture Ft McAllis-
! ter. He probably means one of them. The
official reports state that il was the Second
Division, Fifteenth Corps, that was selected.
| My regiment formed part of the division
| do not contradict Comrade Luber aS to the
route taken by his regiment. He saws that
| they entered the fort from the river side.
/ Half the fort was at that time evacuated, he
| says | suppose it was aS the Both and
| 37th Ohio, and two or three other regiments
! to our left had already scaled the works and
driven the rebels from the guns. At the
entrance of the center magazine of which
ComTade Luber speaks quite a number OF
rebels surrendered to the Goth Ohio boys.
My recollection Is, that there was more than
one brigade in the fort.
Charge at yieksburg.
In the issue of Jan. Q, j. T. Walton, Of
the :iOth Ohio, writes OF the charge at Yicks-
burg, May -, 1868. He is right The 30th
Ohio was first. Capt. Grace. formerly First
Lieutenant. Co. Fl, 3Oth Ohio, commanded
the fOrlorn hope"
John Il. Iercher, Co. 4, 10th Ohio, Russell.
vile, o.. writes: " Nine regiments of Hazen's
Division Second, Fifteenth Corps) were de-
tailed to take the fort, without regard to any
designated brigade, and the 10th Ohio was
the first to plant the coors on and in the fort
amid the bursting OF tOrpedoes etc: also,
the 10th was first in the works; the 10th was
honored by special order to garrison the fort.
| don't claim that the 10th Ohio took the
fort, but had the honor to be one of the nine
regiments that did take it.
In the stOrming OF the fort our color
bearer fell pierced by bullets and shattered by
a torpedo explosion, and Michael Murray
was the first to reach his side. Selling the
colOrs he bore them over buried mine OF
torpedoes and over the battlements in storm
OF bullets and planted them high on the for
tihcatiOn Murray is now near Mount
Washington, o., helpless cripple, gettings
pension of Sl2 MONTH"
Worth "A Year, sub b,cription.
John X. Burke, Sedalia. Mo-. writes 81
have one copy of your paper which is worth
n years subscription to me. 1t is dated
letter to the Adiutant- General regarding the
battle before Atlanta. July -, 1864. That
day we made Il desperate charge just as wa
received reinforcements from Gen. Dodge.
Five rebel flags were captured. The one
taken by my regiment, the 99th Ind, was
the flag of the 18th and 18th Texas, consoli-
dated regiments, Hardees Corps.
That Battery at charlottesville.
Thomas G. Jones. Pittsburg, Pa, writes.
. George p. Stiles says the guns belonged to
Battery X. 4th L. ;. Art. COmrade Price,
10th Pa, says there were four guns, and
they belonged to the 9th Me battery Now,
If they were the 5th Ne. battery guns, there
were six brass pieces. commonly called Ma
pOleons That is the number we took in. and
the number we spiked and left there. About
two years ago | wrote for THE NATIONAL
tribune Il full account of the part taken by
the 5th Me. battery in the fight ut Chaneel-
lorsville. 1t would hardly be necessary 10
repeat 1t now, but would state that the bat
tery took position in the open field to the
right of the Chancellor House on Sunday
morning, May ), shortly after Gen. Hooker
left the House, reported at that time to have
been wounded.
The first four guHs were disabled in a
very short time. Nearly all the officers and
men had either been killed or wounded. That
left only the fifth and sixth guns. They used
all the ammunition, and, as they had M
orders to leave. lay down until the afternoon.
The rebels could not get their guns to bear
on the fifth and sixth guns, on account OF
the Chancellor House. This accounts for
our being on the field longer than the other
guns.
II do not know which of the comrades is
right in regard to the regiment last To leave
the field History says that Meagheris Irish
Brigade pulled the guns out with ropes II
is good while ago, and it is hard to remem-
ber but by reading The NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE our memory is often refreshed. Those
Yankees of the 9th Me- battery are very slow
at writing. | have never seen line from
T any of them. Wake up and let Us hear from
you. The battery has an honorable record
/ was No. on the fifth gun. "
Another AudersonviIIe Boarder.
w l.. Eaton, Honolulu. III. L., writes: II
am very much interested i'll all the serials
now being published, but more especially in
'AndersOnvillc' 1t was my misfortune to
be gathered in by some rebel scouts near At
lanta Aug. 4, 1854, TO spend one month in
the 'Andersonville Hotel; thence by trans
fer via Savannah to the Charleston Race
Course for another months soiourn while our
rebel friends were constructing bullpen'
for our reception at Ference, :. c. | was at
Florence five months. | was then removed
to Wilmington where | remained until after
the capture of Fort Fisher, when we were
hurried on train and taken to GoldSbOrO.
After remaining there u few days we all
signed what appeared to be a descriptive list,
color of hair and eyes. age, occupation,
hight. and were for the last time hus-
tied on board the ears, and ut daylight the
next morning we saw Il white flag on our en-
gine, and an hour later were inside the Union
lines near Cape Fear River, and about nine
miles from Wilmington, which city we
reached by steamer the same day. Soon we
were placed on the ocean steamer Florence
and taken to Annapolis, where we all re-