The National tribune., 1898-06-23
p'cKET SHOTS.
Along the

the north and became a regular blizzard, with
snow. The boys were all soaked through
then the clothing froze to their bodies.
The rebels fired off and on through the
night, so we had to stand in lne-of-battle.
At dnybreak the rebels tried to break our
lines. There-wa hard fighting all day We
lost ~ killed of our, regiment Our company
tK) had present in the morning So men.
We lost 16 killed; the balance were wounded
or taken prisoners. On Feb. Is the fort sur
rendered, with Ia, 900 prisoners.
Secured Supply of Tobacco.
G. w Hanes, Co. F, 25th Ind, Monrovia.
Ind, writes: Il find in Headley's Great
Rebellion, page $40, Vol. H., the statement
that the Seventeenth Corps never entered
Columbia, S. c. This seems strange to me,
/ was in Go. +, 25th Ind, Third Brigade.
First Division, Seventeenth Corps, Gen. j.
III. Mower coinmadjng the division. / know
that we went through the city and camped
two miles north l, with many others, were
back in the city that night. Before we
crossed the rivers we were on the bluffs op-
posite the city, and saw the old loved Stars
and Stripes run up on the Statehouse A
hearty cheer went up from all who were
watching. ] got enough tobacco that night
in the city to last me until the war ended,
and | still had piece when / got home"
Monitor Winnebago at Mobile Bay.
James III. Dean, Amsterdam, N. Y. writes:
" In the issue OF May 26 was published a
letter from Jos. r. Lynn, which stated that
the Z. S. monitor Winnebago arrived at
Sand Island, Mobile Bay early on the morn
ing Of Aug. 5, 1864, and opened fire on Fort
Gaines, and on the following morning was
in line to enter Mobile Bay Now, history is
all wrong if Lynn is right. But history and
my diary say Farragut's fleet entered Mobile
Bay Aug. 5, 1864. Lynn also mentions in
his letter about three monitors Tecumseh,
Winnebago, and Chickasaw but is silent in
regard to the monitaS Manhattan.
HIS Son Camping Chickamauga Field.
Harry CaldwelA 143l Ind battery, Garrett.
Ind, writing un9er4 tic of May "a, says: ii
never for one moHken bought would have
son a soldier. Ee4 tsieless. it is SO. He
answered to the3cn and is camping ON our
Old hard-feught feiA Apff Chickamauga, about
three miles northsoe3h 3he spot where nv hat.
terry fought two davN He is in Co. X I57tb
Ind. / feel proud Oh my boy-proud of his
courage in going tdSTar. He is five years
older than l was whe& I enlisted,
kcaS ering.
M. W. owen, HH4e, VT, writes that he
forud at the WNsfing gton Encampment IN
September 1892, u badge inscribed "Co. I.
lst VT. Vol. Cayn
Jas. Stafford, CO. e, 1aath ILL.,, Fargo, Tex.
writes Capt Culver, in his letter in the
issne of April %, is right about who CAPTURED
the guns at Resaca. The First Brigade.
Third Division twentieth Corps, did the
work, and held the guns until relieved. I
was among the first to reach the guns. One
OF my company, L. L. Strait, was killed near
the battery"
Capt. II. F. Stephenson, Springfield. Ill. |
writes: . received a few days ago a silver
dime dated 1853, from a Confederate soldier |
1T Elmwood, Tenn. Stamped on the reverse
side is II. V. ii. CO. E, 7th Ill. Cav am
very anxious to find H. V. H., or some of his
amlly, to restore the coin to them''
ii. }. Wells, Battery A, lst Mich. L. A..
Woodfords, Cal, writes: 8 | know to a GER
alnty that the battery lost no guns at Stone
flver. drove the lead team on No ) piece
or three years"