The National tribune., 1899-01-12

GO Having noticed anecdotes of GOODNESS under
fire. / am reminded of youngster from Law
renceburg, Ind, who, while the 18th Ind.
was up to their waists in water at Carrick's
Ford firing at Garnetts forces and getting
storm of bullets in return, could not fOrbear
to loosely remark: This must be the
battle of Waterloo
He should Not be Forgotten.
A. A. Seaverns, Co. Z, 7th Mass, North
Scituate, Mass, says: 81 have been gratified
and instructed by accounts given OF regi-
ments, brigades, divisions and corps to which
the writers belonged 1t is perfectly proper
for comrades to claim Il share OF the glory
and credit of saving our flag from disgrace
and our Union from ACKNOWLEDGMENT, yet
they should not be so selfish as to claim all
the honor in having brought about success
full termination of the civil war. But oil
what avail would our vast armies have been
if we had not been assisted by about the
best and truest friend the soldier ever bad =?
He stuck to us through thick and thin,
especially when stuck in the mud. Had 1t
not been for him we would oftener have gone
TO our featherless COuches supperless, with
the assurance of about the same for the next
days breakfast Those who were fortunate
enough to have seen active service know full
cheerfully performed, all without pay, cloth
ing. bounty or medical attendance, or chance
for promotion And nyet Now little we
appreciate his valuable services, or even give
Thought that he wasf 80 grand factor in
the glorious struggle. We hope the time IS
not far distant when an appropriate monu-
ment will be erected TO his memory by the
| old veterans in token of their appreciation OF
the assistance rendered by the Old Army
Mule
| A Gallant Set.
| III. f. Chandler Co. f. 5gth Mass, Haver-
! hill. Mass. says: "Comrade Miles Buck,
| Co. X, 50th Pa, is mistaken III regard to
what regiments were in the First Brigade,
First Division, Ninth Corps 1t contained
the 29th, 35th 57th and 18th Mass, and |
| think a New York regiment and two regi-
ments of Z. s. Regulars. AS he says, the
boys of the First Division were a gallant
set The First Brigade was in command OF
Col. Sumner Carruth at the Wilderness, and
later on under Col. Pope, now Of Boston.
The First Division was in command of Gen.
T. G.. Stevenson, who was killed at Spottsyl-
vania.o
a Merry" Trick.
Z. a. Newman, Co l., 10th Tenn. Cav.
Bonham, Tex, writes: ''Do any Of the boys
of Battery f. 1st Tenn. J.. A., remember see
ing Capt Patterson hold the trail-spike on his
shoulder and order the gun fired when it
was double-shotted with canister? This oc-
CURED out on the spur" of the ridge at
BULBS Gap on Saturday morning, when Gen.
Breckenridge made the assault on our left.
was standing just a little ways behind the
gun Those two shots checked the rebels
The reason he had to hold the tral-spike up
was because the hill up which the rebels were
coming was SO steep hat the muzz!e Of the
gun could not be depressed by means of the
screw / went down the hill after the fight,
and / could have walked on the dead bodies
for several rods where those shots took effect.
"Was Gen. Howard close to Gen. Sedgwick
at the atter's death? Was the man seen
who fired the shot?"
Scattering
| W. r. Jordan, Everett, WASH, writes: " /
was in all the fights of the Potomac Army
up to the second days fight at Gettysburg,
where | was shot through the hip, in the
Wheatlield. was also wounded at Antietam
| / was one Of Co. ], 9TH Me-, going out in
August, 1861. 1t was one OF the first regi-
ments to pass through Baltimore after the
stonng of the 9th Mass. We were stationed
there some time, and helped to build the fort
on what was then called Snake Hill"
T. d. McGillicuddy, Cincinnati, O., recalls
Capt. VIM. Dick, of Co. T., 5th Ohio, who
was killed May 4, 1863 at Charlottesville.
He was man, says Comrade McGillicuddy,
whose record deserves to be perpetuated.
Dick enlisted at Cincinnati, and by April 6,
| 1868, had become Captain. On Aug 8,
| 1862, he was captured at Cedar Mount
ain, Va, held six months At Salisbury and
other prisons, exchanged, and returned to
duty March 10. 1863 He was killed while
CALAMITY leading his company at Chancel-
lorsville, Va. His faithful and devoted wife,
loyal Kentuckian, whose father, James S.
Davis, served in the Revolutionary War, and
her brother, James Davis, served from Missis-
| sippi in the rebel army, accompanied her
husband during the campaigns III which he
was engaged, and gave attention to the sick
and wounded on field and in hospital, until
she herself was wounded taking her dead
husband off the field at Charlottesville.
M. b. Loop, 6sth Ohio, writes: I" have a
| letter from L. B. Willingham, of Texas, in
response to an article Sounding the Alarm
in the issue of Dec. 1. Willingham tells me he
was the officer to whom Brig Zen. r. X. Scott
surrendered on the morning of July %, 1864,
not 1863, as the types made me say" He
says the circumstances of the surrender and
r. X. Scott's name are pasted on the sword
He further says Brig. Gen. Scott. if living,
or his relatives, can have this relic Of former
days by very little exertion.