The National tribune., 1899-12-28
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along the Whole
Line.
CROXTON'S BRIGADE.

William Phelps, 164 Mcpherson avenue,
Toronto. Canada, writes: "Croxton's men
were in too many battles and went through
100 much hardship to get lost themselves,
,ut when the brigade started out on the
last raid we went through a section of
country where we got no news Of what was
going on until we reached Blue Mountain
Station on the Alabama & Mississippi
tailroad, on the night We fought Hills
Brigade, April %. Next morning we
heard Lincoln was shot; that peace was
proclaimed, and our cavalry in Macon;
and we met squads of Johnnies on their way
home. 1t had been rumored in Macon
that our brigade had all been cut to pieces
and lost. The 4th Mich. had been sent out
to find us. / had it verified only a few
weeks ago, when down at the United States
Consulate. Col. Sewell introduced me to
gentleman, a GAR man. He asked
me what regiment. ! said: I'd Mich Cav
He laughed, and said: Why, you were the
fellows that we secuted all over the County
for, as you were given out as lost He
was 4th Mich. man. I remember, when
we got to Macon, that some of that regiment
came over to see some of Co. NJ, and told
us about it.
THE IRON BRIGADE"
Manlius Holbrook, Sergeant. Co E,
ID L. S. S. s.. Island Brook. Quebec, re-
garding the Iron Brigade" says that the
I'd U. S. S. S., commanded by Col. Fl. A.
V. Post. instead of being in the rear, as
stated recently, were invariably at the
front of the brigade, and in the advance
on Fredericksburg in the Spring Of 1862
Cos. A and f. were deployed as skirmishers
and were the first Union troops to arrivs
on the banks of the Rappahannock. Com
rade klmme Is very much in error when
he saws the I'd L. S. S. s., 18th BROOKLYN.
to the First Brigade, First Division. First
Corps, for they certainly did, and were
commanded by Gen. Anger until after
Antietam. The brigade suffered great
loss in that battle. Having been wounded
at that time the writer does not know what
just after that, except that when he returned
to the regiment he found the boys wearing
the badge of the First Division. Third
Corps. He reminds the comrade that it
does not follow that because certain troops
composed brigade at one time they did
so dur ng the whole war.
AT MISSIONARY RIDGE.
G. F. G. Meyer, Co: K, 18th Ind. Cor
nelius. Ore. saws his brigade, the Fourth,
of the First Division. Fifteenth Corps,
composed of the 18th and Tooth Ind, 46tfi
Ohio, and 26th ILL.,, commanded by Col.
Loomis. marched to the field BY . way
out Of sight. Of Missionary Ridge, and
of hattle and advanced. Col Reuben
Williams. of the 18th, went ahead
little with his Orderly, and presently
shots were heard. and the two came back
faster than they went forward. About
10 o'clock the brigade was little to the
sionary Ridge. the rebels there fring
upon them. The officers would not order
a charge, because they feared the rebels
would open up with canister from the
tunnel upon the line as soon as it got near
the railroad track We learned after.
I'd that ny,ly ut hot tpt -
draw the rebels from Lookout Mountain.
or the right of our line. Two charges were
made, he says, by the brigade on our left
to drive the enemy from a steep hill that
connected with the Ridge, but repulses
resulted.
A PATRIOTIC FAMILY.
J. W. B. Cole, Audubon, Iowa, sends q
sketch Of the military career of eight Avery
brothers. with one of their sons. three
brothers-in-law, and one uncle, 13 In all,
Four brothers and one son, Walter Avery,
Stephen D, Frank L., and George and
John, served in the 5th N. H.; George being
killed. OF the four others Joseph served in
the 18th N. H., Lewis in the 4th N H,
d. P in I'd Mass, Samuel A. in the 18th
Mass. OF the brothers-in-law, G. W Calef
served in the 1st r. l. Cav, Joseph Webster
and J. Nicholas, in the Sth N. H., Robert
McDaniels, Sd N. 81. Some of these wers
wounded.
RowLETT'S STATION.
Wesley T. Hadley. Co. |, Both Ind,
Sheridan, Ind, saw an account of Buell's
march to Shiloh by member OF the 49th
Ohio. The writer says his regiment was
in the same brigade as the 49th Ohio.
He recalls the fighting at Rowlett's Station,
in which the 32d Ind. behaved so gallantly
in repulsing the Texans. losing In killed
and wounded 2S, while the rebels lost so.
A DEPLETED REGIMENT.
A. II. Jones, Co. E, 25th Wis, Schailer,
Iowa, regrets the fact that he seldom sees
anything from his comrades. He recalls
A march down the YaZoo River in June
through fields of corn as high as a mans
head, and with the sun pouring hotly
lown; that march, he says, injured the
regiments members very much After
being sent to Helena, Ark, in July or
August, the regiment had only 20 men
'or duty, a reduction of the regiment from
nearly 1000 men. There was a terrible
in the regiment by sickness.