The National tribune., 1899-06-29
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along the Whole
Line,
AT MISSIONARY RIDGE.

Joshua Devices, Co. D, 9th Ohio, Barnes
vile, O., writes: "The discussion about the
battle of Missionary Ridge has amused
me very much. w. l.. Kester, 125th Ohio,
claims that Lady Breckenridge and Lady
Buckner were not captured on Missionary
Ridge at all. Comrade N. G.. Keim states
it correctly when he says that these guns
were placed to the left of Gen. Bragg's
Headquarters. We know, for they were
discharged in our faces, and were still
smoking when We reached them. 1t is
true that they were turned on the fleeing
rebels on the east of the Ridge. l sup
posed it was some of Harper's and Stanley's
BrigadeS that met us there around these
cannon. If Hazen's men were there they
had lost their bearings, and our brigade
commander, Wagner, or our division COM
mander, Phil Sheridan, had perfect right
to order them to their regiments. This
comrade states that Sheridan's men came
up ard drove them away from the battery
that they had captured. If HaZenS men
wore the rebel 'butternut,' and were train
ing the guns on Sheridan's Division, they
were the first to reach them, for butternut
was the uniform of the men there when We
took the cannon. l am told that these two
guns are still on the spot. If Hazen's men
and rushed after the routed enemy onto
Pigeon Mountain. / remember the rebels
having two pieces OF artillery in pass that
annoyed us very much. Many who es-
capped death on Missionary Ridge proper
succumbed on Pigeon Mountain. Our
loss was 156; 35 being killed on Nov. 25,
1863. 1 remember the 10th Ind. was one
of the regiments with us at this last stand.
We were in many warm places with the
18th, 10th, and 57th Ohio, and also the
Tooth Ill. and the 23d, oath, and 2sth KY"
AT wAUHATCHIE.
Neil Sutherland, Co. F, 33d Mass,
Strathcona, Alberta, Canada, writes:
"Corp1 NJ. G. Berry, Co. II, 33d Mass,
writes in the issue of May IL that he never
that he was the left man in the whole line
of battle in the night attack at Wauhatchio
U thought it was called Raccoon Ridge,
where Col. Underwood was severely wound-
ed and Adj't Nudge killed. If what Corp'l
Berry says is true, 1 have told many
falsehood since that night, as claimed that
I, being a small man, was the last man on
the left in Co. F, which was on the left of
the regiment. Will Capt. ID. M. Prescott,
Serg't Hill, or any other member of Co. F,
Surely, Capt. Prescott remembers one
prisoner (not a brigade. as stated by Corp1,
Berry, that We took there. do not think
the Adjutant rode, as the horses were left
at the foot of the hill, but / remember the
mistake Corpl Berry mentions in our
and how Gen. Stein asked our Colonel at
the foot of the hill when we fell back, what
we were doing there, and our Colonel said
that we thought we were firing at our own
men. The General then ordered us to
charge bayonets and take the hill, which
we did.
Going back to the Gettysburg cam
paign, does Corpl Berry or any other !;
members of the 33d remember how some of
us were not relieved from picket duty when
the army moved on towards Gettysburg?
And how, when convinced by citizens that
orr army had left u.s. we relieved ourselves
and succeeded in getting into Gettysburg
the night before the battle began, and how
we slept in a barn that night when our
army was six miles away. Corp1 Berry's
was the second communication l have
seen from the 33d, and something that I
have been anxiously looking for; and all
though l do not agree with all that these
two have written, still they are my BROTH
ers." ,.....
FRIENDS AMONG THE GRAY"
r. H. Gum, Sergeant, Co. G, 5Oth ILL.,,
Edgerton, Mo-, writes: In THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE, of which have long been an
reader, / see accounts of many
battles, skirmishes, and incidents in which
l took part. Living in Missouri l often,
come in contact with the boys who wore the
gray, some of whom l count among my
best friends. When l came to northwest
Missouri at the close of the war, l found
the "blue' and the gray vieing with each
other in the building up of the desolate
wastes OF the State, and l can truthfully
say that the results of their efforts are
realized by many in this section as well as
the State at large. 1 was a soldier from
the grand old State of Illinois, and march,
ed all over the South, but did not capture
any batteries alone, nor put down the rebel.
lion without help"
Hoods Sarsaparilla is the specific remedy 70.