The National tribune., 1899-07-20
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along the Whole
Line.
IN THE sHARPsHooTERs. PIT.

Line.
IN THE SHARPSHOOTERS' PIT.
j. b. Carr, Tooth Pa, Althouse, Ore,
says there were about 81 men detailed for
sharpshooterS at Petersburg one day. and
sent half mile to the rear where they
pitched camp. The fatigue guard built a
sharpshooters' pit about 100 yards from
the woods and the same distance in the rear
of the picket line. The rebel rihe-pit, were
about 500 yards off. Lieut. X. Adler said
to Comrade S. Banks and the writer that
they had bettergo out to the sharpshooters'
pit and try their new guns They got to
the edge of the woods and then had TO run
for the pit, the whole rebel army, it seems,
practIcing on them as they ran those 100
yards. 1t was a continual zipI zip, all the
time, and the comrade says he ran faster
than any locomotive, but he wasn't in it
with Comrade Banks. When the writer
reached the pit Banks was there laughing
heartily. He told Comrade Carr ne was
laughing to see him run. Comrade Carr
waved his cap gently at the end OF pole,
and the Johnnies peeked up along the line
and Carr was taking aim at one of them
when he saw 4 puff of smoke from his gun.
The bail fell a trifie Tow and spurted lot of
sand i'll the comrades eyes and that ended
his sharpshooting for the day. They took
another run for the woods about 2 o'clock,
and got there safely.
ZAGONYfS CHARGE.
c. Allen Purdy, Co C. Fremont's Body
Guard, Falmouth, KY. says that among
the fighting regiments" often men,
toned there should lie included Fremont's
Body Guard, commanded by Chas. Ia
go1yi, who made the charge at Springfield,
Oct. D, 1851, down the line with 100 men,
against 800 infantry on the left and 800
mounted men or the right. The writer
was in what was known as the Kentucky
Company. He recalls some incidents of
the charge and claims that the loss of the
guard, in proportion to the men engaged,
was as heavy as that of any other troops
i'll the field. There were 16 killed and 25
wounded.
j. L. Roberts, Millersburg, H., Co. d,
18th Ohio, writes: H. III. G.. Bradt Sd Wis
Battery, asks if some member of the Third
Brigade, Van Cleve's Division, Critten-
den's Corps. will give an account of a recon-
noissance, Sept. 13, 1863. Comrade Rob
erts says the brigade was sent out that
afternoon to reconnoiter the enemy's posi-
ton from Lee &c Gordon's Mills. We
drove the outposts and skirmishers until
they refused to go any farther, and as the
Sd Wis. Battery was with us they were
brought into use in trying to press the
JohnnieS onward Co. ID lost two men
from the rebels return fire. The Union
force fell back to Lee & Gordon's Mills
that night. Capt. Bradley and the Sd
Wis. Battery We're among the best. They
suffered severely week after that in the
struggle for Chattanooga"
SHERIDAN'S DIVISION WAS THERE.
Joshua De Wees, 9th Ohio, GAINESVILLE,
o., says: Il will admit our recolections of
the late rebellion are rather mixed at times
but have thought for more than 35 years
that Sheridan's Division was in the charge
at Missionary Ridge. / see, however, that,
in the issue of March Is, We were not in the
fight at all. The comrade says that none
. tnr I.I.t, vre,,x
credit, because, while Woods Division ad-
vanced, Sheridan's was halted and took
shelter Every man of the Second Divis-
ion, Fourth Corps, knows better. / have
never before seen any account of fSheridan's
Division being halted in the charge
ABOUT "LIMBER JIM"
David Lewis, Sergeant, Co. G., 9Th Ind.
Cav, Lovington, ILL.,, claims that Timber
Jim,' whose name is Thomas Goodman,
is not dead, as stated by Comrade j. j.
Lewis. Comrade David Lewis says: Il
became acquainted with him 13 years
ago in Cushman, III. He afterwards
moved to Strasburg, H., where he had
blacksmith shop. He is now on his way
to the goldfields of the Great Slave Lake"
Comrade Lewis inclosed clipping from
the local newspaper of his town which gives
short description of two prospectors,
prominent q. A. X. men, one of whom is
Thomas j. Goodman, who was incarcerated
in the famous Andersonville Prison. While
there, the paper states, he was appointed
leader of a vigilance committee formed
among the prisoners for mutual protection
against a band of fellow-prisoners who
were numbering and carrying On general
thug business among their unfortunate
comrades
OUT OF RALEIGH.
Leroy S. Falls, Co. A, Sth Ind. Cav,
Austin, Ill.,, would like to correct Comrade
Ditty, who, in an article of June 8, speaks
Uf "Comrade Falls. of the Sth Ohio" Com
rade Falls says: Let me inform him that
! vas member of Co. A, Sth Ind, and was
on the advance of the regiment that took
the lead out of Raleigh when the 18th Pa.
was stuck As to whether the Goth n. Y.
fired a shot or not will not contend, but it
was ordered into position. If the rebels
had formed a line to give battle the 9th Pa.
would have be en- in it and crowned itself with
laurels. l would rot detract one iota from
the 9th or any other regiment; all honor
and praise to them; but facts are facts.
The Sth Ind. Cav. stood back for none, was
always found in the front ready to do its
duty for the preservation of the Union"
ADVANCE ON PETERSBURG.
Isaac Chapman, Holliston, Middlesex
Co., Mass, is a little uncertain as to the
date of Gen. Gilmore'S march on Peters
burg He says he read in an article by
Gen. Kautz that it was from June to 8.
Comrade Chapman states that he was with
Gen. Gilmore in a battle about Aug. 10,