The National tribune., 1899-01-05
PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades Along the
Whole Line
A Brave Guide.

T. A. N, 9th Tenn. Cav, Bonham, Tex,
writes: 1T was little way above Blue
Springs, Tenn. Our brigade OF cavalry and
Battery f, 1st Tenn. l.. A., had found the
! rebels strongly posted. Some of the cavalry
had dismounted and pushed them as far as
| they could. An Aid came back to Gen.
/ Gilem and reported the rebel left wing ex-
| tending not farther than the foot of ridge
on our right.
"A lady was standing in the yard of a
| house near by, with two small boys. Gen.
Gilem and Col. Miller rode up to the house
and asked her if there was path or byroad
leading around the fiell i'll the direction of
the ridge She said there was. Gen. Gillem
turned to one of the boys and said:
'.'Son. if you will show Col Miller the
road L will give you $780, The boy was
about IL years old and game little rascal.
He began climbing onto the horse of a
wounded soldier who had been brought back
from the front, slung the gunstrap over his
shoulder and rode up beside Col. Miller.
COL Miller gave the order, Forward and
we started at gallOp, the little boy beside
Col. Miller.
at was about mile, but we soon covered
the distance and were at the end OF the rebel
line The JOhnnies saw u.s. and began form
ing to receive US. Col. Miller gave the order
to charge.
The boy was with the Colonel when we
drew sabers and started, but | did not see
him any more during the day. But some
time after that | saw Gen. Gillem paying
him the money"
A Young Soldier.
John 7. Warburton, St Joseph, No., writes:
s'Durino the Fall of 1861 / was working on
the Elwood Kan Free Press 1t suspended,
and the proprietor, Fl. d. Hunt, the editor,
Albert l.. Lee, and journeyman printer,
Jack Merrick, raised a company for the 9TH
Kan Cav. They insisted on my going with
! them, so that all the parties in the office got
into service. | was under 10 years old,
and the officials would not receive me as
enlisted at that time, but | went with them
for about six months and then went back to
st. Joseph. On Sept. ], 1862, L enlisted in
Co. I, 18th Kan. After serving in the Army
of the Frontier under Blunt. and participating
at Cane HILL Prairie Grove, Van Buren,, etc,
we found we were in the Seventh Corps,
commanded by Gen. Steele, and mustered
out at Little Rock, Ark, on June 26, 1865.
| came to st. Joseph, Mo-, where l found
my mother sister and brother, but my
father, soldier, had died on June 90, 1864.
An Involuntary Bath.
George Sciford, Co. Il, LIST Mo. Eng,
Charter Oak, Iowa, writes: . Reading of the
crossing at Bear Creek reminded me that my
regiment built the railroad bridge across.
We had steam pile driver on a fiat car and
were working about the middle of the stream,
90 feet above water We drove the piling
eight feet apart, lengthways; then we made
a scaffold, in order to saw them off the right
hight. had spiked the end of a plank to a
pile. The boys were standing on the cap
holding up the other end with line. L
walked out OH the edge of the plank to the
next pile, and was mailing, when someone
threw a plank across. COrnwell and Bill
Clark got on, which caused the end | was
mailing to give away. The boys fell.
looked down and saw Bill Clark looking up,
both arms stretched out, sailing down. The
bows found the river and swan ashore"
Who Carried Them.
w. L. Luark, Co. F, Saith Ohio, st. Paul,
Mimi, asks: "WhO were the two scouts that
carried the second dispatches from Gen.
Grant to Washington during the battle of the
in NJ ay, 1864? Were they en-
listed men or civilians? Can anyone tell the
story?"
Charging at Missionary Ridge.
W. l.. Kester, Co. II, 18th ILL.,, Kansas.
H., writes: ''W E. Doyle 10Th Ind, claims
that his regiment was the first on top of
Missionary Ridge, and that they captured