The National tribune., 1898-04-07
PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades Along the
Whole Line.
Foraging Before the Battle.

ForaGing Before the Battle.
z. C. Burdick. Co. G, 1I6th H.. Marshall
town, Iowa. writes: ''I should like to know
how many are living who were detailed from
the 116th ILL., for loraging the day before the
fight at Bentonville, y. c. We had Travelled
all the forenoon and got nothing At noon
we came TO a plantation and bad the ex-
slaves get dinner for rs While we were eat
ing one comrade got up ana left. As he went
out of the door we noticed he had an old
Austrian musket, aud knowing none of our
men had guns of that kind, we began to feel
suspicious. We rushed out to find him, but
he was nowhere TO be seen. We left the
negrO-quarters, crossed the road. and started
through a vacant field of nearly 200 acres.
"ASwe passed overalittle hilland camenear
the fence on the east side of the field, Capt.
Foster, who had charge of the foragers, looked
back and saw the JOhnnies forming ON the
top of the little hill we had just left He
gave orders for everyone to look out for HIM
self. There must baye been two or three full
companies of cavalry. They called for Us to
halt, then started their horses on the run,
firing their carbines and reyolvers as they ad-
vanced
Z" If Yankees ever ran we did at that time.
1t was not more than 10 or IL rods to the
fence on the east side of the field. We
tumbled over and luckily it proved so
swampy that the mounted Johnnies could not
enter, but gave us a parting salute of good
volley.
They got one of our number, John Stack
house, of Co. X. As he was jumping the
fence his gun, which was slung on his
shoulder, stuck between two rails and threw
him back. The 800 JohnnieS gobbled him.
TOIt o1C
always gave Gen. Wheeler the credit of this
onslaught When we got to the front next
day, our division had gone north to Benton
vile to help the Fourteenth or Twentieth
Corps. We found the brigade headquarters,
and Capt. Foster reported to Col. Jones, COM
manding the brigade"
Tribute to 4Old Rosey."
f. w. Gilbert, Co. K, 33d Ohio, Los
Angeles, Cal, writes: "The last time / saw
Old Rosey' alive was on SUNDAY morning,
Sept. 20, 1863. / was wounded and was go
ing to the rear, when / passed his Head
quarters. He was sitting on his horse with
drawn sword in his hand, pointing the direc-
tion his Orderlies should take in going with
messages to the 'front.' Shot and shell were
flying over our heads. / attended his funeral
in Los Angeles the other day. / saw him IN
his coffin, wrapped in the flag he so bravely
defended, and surrounded by the blue and the
gray. 1 saw tears from faded eyes go down
over wrinkled cheeks of many veterans, some
with empty sleeves, some with crutches.
some carried by companions. The battle IS
over-the victory won. Farewell, Odd
Rosey.n
J. G.. Cooper. Ionia, Mich, writes: The
n.l- A..
Island, July 10, 1863. We charged Fort
Wagner on the 11th and again on the 18th
1 was member of Co. F"
B. c. Wheelock, Co. A, 18th Mass, Doug
las, Wyo., writes: "COmrade ]. w. Me-
Cool, of Riverside, o. T., says that VIM.
Doughty is mistaken in regard to the troops
at the battle of Fair Oaks. McCOol says the
brigade was composed of 101st Pa, 133d Pa,
18th Mass, 10th Conn.,, and 93th y. Y. He IS
very much mistaken in regard to the 10Th
Mass. at the battle of Fair Oaks. The 18th
was in Gen. Gorman's Brigade, composed Of
the 18th Mass, 1st Mimi, I'd n Y. and 34th n.
Y The 18th Mass. supported Ricketts's BAT
terry in the peach orchard at the battle OF
Fair Oaks, May so, 1862"
James Martin, Nashville, Ill, writes: Z" I
would like to know if any brethren of the
ally those who were converted at Huntsville,
Ala. during the Winter of 1864, 80. 1 be-
Ioneed to Co. 1, SOt;i Ill and was a member
of the church. Our Chaplain, John ". Lane,
was pastor He lives somewhere In Kansas.
We had good meetings at Huntsville, and
after leaving for East Tennessee we would
march all day and hold services at night
George A. GleghOrn, Postmaster at Egypt,
A IL h. land
battery at very early age He was born in
October, 1916 At the age of 10 he enlisted
and served until July, 1865. He was in q
number of important battles.
Oliver Hicks. Co. B. sd Ohio. Washington,
Iowa writes: MY regiment was in the
Second Brigade Third Division, Fourteenth
Corps, at Jonesboro. Gen. Morgan COM
manded the division, while gallant Dan.
McCook had command of the brigade. Gill
bert Fleming. a member of my company,
captured flag belonging to 4 Georgia battery.
NV company lost two men killed and three
wounded"
Comrade Peter Van Dell. of Lierre,
Belgium. writes us to say that If any comrade
will send him any weekly Republican news
paper, printed in English, French or Dutch.
for q wear. he will send in exchange two
French books, one Il, 900 Receipts, and
the other The Farmer Veterinarian"
w. f. Worthen, Co. II, 9th Iowa Cav,
Neb., writes Il am very much
interested in Picket Shots and Fighting
Them Over but have never seen anything
from members of the Second Brigade, Second
Division, Seventh Corps. Why don't some
comrade tell of our campaigns in the alligator
swamps of Arkansas? There must certainly
be some member of the 9th Iowa Cav. or Sth
Mo- Cav who can tell of our wonderful
exploits in capturing chickens and yams."
The address of c. w Mckinley, Co. B,
34th Ohio. whose article on the attack on the
picket-line at Cedar Creek was recently pub
lished in THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, is
Catawba, KY.
Coughing His Life eAway.-AppIs