The National tribune., 1898-07-14
PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades Along the
Whole Line.
At Fort McAiiister.

VIM. McCarty, Co. C, 10th Ohio, FL Paso,
Ill, writes: Gen. Sherman selected the
Second Division. Fifteenth Corps, COM
manded by Gen. w. b. Hazen, to take Fort
McAllister. We crossed the river and
marched to about so rods of the fort about
3p. m. We lay there for about one hour.
Hazen selected five regiments to take the
fort. The bugle sounded to fall in line
The officers then informed US we had to
charge the fort. We marched out of the
timber into the open field, and at a lively
rate about halfway to the fort. Our skir-
mishers fell in line with US, and we then
double-qucked till we came to two rows Of
torpedoes several were killed by the ex-
plosion of the torpedoesl, then reached row
of small tree tops, sharpened points toward
US.
"While crossing the limbs David Rod
erick, colOr-bearer, Co. C., 10th Ohio, was
shot dead about eight feet from me, and
Fred Oudenrief, Co. /, same regiment,
grabbed the colors from Roderick and car
ried them over the ditch, which was about
five feet wide and five feet deep, with a row
of sharpened points In center. He was the
first to plant the eolors on the walls of Fort
McAllister, about the center of the works
Our regiment lost 10 men killed, two after
entering the fort. Loss of the five regi-
ments about so killed"
Marks of Honor.
K. C. Rice, 125th Ohio, says, regarding
medals: "We we'll remember how the term
veteran originated. When the soldiers
term of three years was up, or nearly so, he
was allowed to re-enlist-veteraniZe, as il
was called. 1t took grit to veteranize. He
was every inch patriot who would re-enlist
and 90 back to face again those deadly bull
let's 1t was the missiles of death we dreaded,
not service l would have every soldier who
served three years or more decorated with
| medal bearing the inscription, Veteran
and the soldier serving two years, and less
than three, given one inscribed, Volunteer
and the one serving less than two years a
medal lettered, Soldier The Government.
should furnish these forthwith, and from rec
ords furnished by the War Department the
data should be had. Our soldier record is all
we have to reflect upon in our old age. We
know how it was then, and it is hardly fair
now to call the soldiers who enlisted for
three months, and only served so long, vet
eranS."
Scattering.
A. Wentz Co. A, 14th N. Y. III. A.,
Eustis. Neb., writes: In reply to Comrade
Franklin Frederick Co. A, 4Sth Pa, will
say that the Sd Md. was in our brigade Second
think), First Division Qedlie's), along
with the Tooth Pa. (Roundheads), 14th N.
Y H. A., 57th and 59th Mass, on June IL,
1864. Just when the Sd Md. was assigned
to this brigade / cannot tell at this late day,
but these regiments remained In same bri-
sade, First Division, Ninth Corps, to the end
of the war. / know that the above regi-
ments were all in that first attack on Peters
burg was there and saw them.
w. d. g., Liberty Center, o., writess
would it not be we'll to revise the Constitu-
tion of the G. r. at the National Encamp-
ment at Cincinnati in September so that all
soldiers and sailors of the United States who
have served an enlistment in the service Of
the United States, and have been honorably
discharged therefrOm, be eligible to the
GAR? 1t would greatly strengthen the
Order"