The National tribune., 1898-12-29
PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades Along the
Whole Line.

From Alert Comrades Along the
| Whole Line.
| A Soldiers Mishap.
Charles B. Maxwell, Corporal, I'd Mass.
IL. A.. Boston, Mass. writes: Early in the
Summer of 1862 Nims's battery went on
hoard the river steamer Charles Robinson at
| New Orleans, en- route for Baton Rouge.
Now. the company guidOn was a stalvart,
| fine-looking young soldier, about six feet
two inches high, and brave as any. But that
was not all. Charles II. Senter was always
very anxious his horse should have plenty of
water especially when there was water all
round.' When about half way to our
objective point, Charley was dry, and he did
not know but his horse was suffering for
water as badly as he was himself; so he took
one of those oak buckets marked U. S. and
bound in iron, with six feet of rope attached,
and heavy enough when empty to pull over
an ordinary-sized man, and approaching the
port side forward, rs is the custom OH the
river boats, threw his bucket, and-well,
some one saw him go oyer, and the cry
Man overheard - was heard by the Captain
of the boat, and skitf lowered and put off
to the rescue But before they could reach
him he had been carried down stream more
| than half mile. Y,.,
"On this occasion he exhibited his usual
| good Judgment; instead OF struggling against
the strong current, he just ,eoolly swan down
stream and towards the shore, which he
would have reached in a short time. When
we consider that the river is more than
half mile wide at that point, with a current
said to be six miles an hour, it was fortunate
ho wit no cid
wheel He went over with his oyercoat on,
all equipments, even the bayersack, not to
mention the big, new, army hat, the only
visible evidence of where he was at
Charley said his foot slipped, but some Of
the deck hands said they, done seen him
irow de pail right beio' himself, like fool
man; eff he done fro hit up stream, he would
pull in de pail, instead o. de pail done pull
him in.'n
Gen. Sedgwick's Death.
n. X. Ployd, 10th Pa, Germantown,
Pa, writes: " In answer to inquiry regard
ing the fall of Gen. John Sedgwich, l would
state that Sedgwick was West Point grad
uate, and rose to the position of Major-Gen-
eral The fall of this devoted hero on May
8, 1864, was terrible blow to the Union
army. At the time of his death he was III
command of the Sixth Corps. The army
was fighting near Spottsylvania Courthouse,
Va. The artillery was engaged. and Sedg-
wick was cautioned by Gen. Malone, his
able Chief of-Staff. not to go near certain
battery, as every officer who had shown him.
self had been hit. Forgetting the injunction,
however he was soon on the ground indi-
Gated. AS the bullets whistled by, some of
the men d, dyed. Sedgwick said laughingly,
What men dOdging for single bulets?"
moment later he fell, the blood squirting
from his eye in steady stream. He smiled,
but did not speak. His body was carried to
Gen. Meade's Headquarters, followed by a
sorrowing staff A bower was built for it of
evergreen. where it lay until night, mourned
over by his oihceIs and soldiers. Thus fell
the great and noble Sedgwick, who was loved
and hOn0red by every defender of the dear
old flag. The Sedgwick Association has
erected a monument near the place where he
fell. The remains Of the hero lie in the GEM
etery at Cornwall Hollow, Conn.,"
Gen. Howards Commands.
A. A. Jones, 9Th Tenn, Toledo, Iowa,
writes: 81 notice in the issue of Dec 8
that M. l.. Richardson, Co. X, 4Sth Ind, is
mistaken when he undertakes to correct a
former statement, made by Corp'l l.. +.
Becker, 104th Ohio, who said Gen. o. o.
Howard commanded a corps In Shermans
army on the campaign through Georgia.
''Comrade Becker is right in his statement,
and l have only to say that CoGlrade Rich
ardson has been too hasty in the matter. AS
l remember, not very long since the writer
was taken to task for saying the Twenty
third Corps was in the Western Department,
and this exception was taken by q 100-days
man who enlisted in, Co.lH, 10th Ohio, in
May, 1864, and was mustered out in Septem-
Der. 1864. The above l0O-days man said
the Twenty-third Corps was in the Eastern
Army, and / know what am talking about
when / say O. o. Howard commanded the
Fourth Corps from May /, 1864, at CT alta
nooga, till the battle, OF Atlanta. Ca, July
y; that after Gen., IMcPhersOn's death in
this terrible struggle o. O. Howard was put
in command of McPhersons Army of the
Tennessee.
1.-THE writer was member Of the brigade
that the 10th Ohio was in, namely, First
Brigade, Third Division, Twenty-third Corps,
and we never took a backs seat for anyone, as
our record will show, on the campaign from
Rocky Face, Resaca, Cassville, Allatoona,
Lost Mountain, Kenesawt Mountain to At
lanta, Ga, and our return latter Hood into
Tennessee, and including the battles of CO.
lumbia, Franklin and Nashville, Tenn.'
Manning Andersen, 18th Ohio, Dumont,
Colo, writes: Gen Howard went to Chat
tanooga in command of one of the corps,
known as the Eleventh Corps, in company
with the Twelfth Corps both commanded 10y
Gen. Hooker, while the Army of the Cumber-
land was cooped up in Chattanooga by Bragg
army. After the fight of Missionary Ridge
and Lookout Mountain these two corps were
made one and known as the Twentieth, and
commanded by Hooker on the Atlanta cam
paign, and Howard was put in command OF
the Fourth Corps, to which my regiment be-
longed."
Corrections of Comrade Richardson's state
ment have also been received from several
comrades.