The National tribune., 1900-10-25
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along the Whole
Line.
DID NOT MENTION HIS BATTERY.

a., w est quincy, NluSS., NIlltS. III sbul
issue of Sept. 20, Col. G. d. Westbrook
gives good account of the battle of Get
tysburg on July 2, in ION the Firing Line,
but Phillips's 9th Masa Battery is not no
ticed, although the left of the 9th joined
the right of the 9th (Bigelow'sl, and the
First Detachment of the 9th lost in that
battle seven men and nine horses and
drew off by hand the gun from near the
Peach Orchard past the Trostle house,
where we met the Timber of the caisson-
the Timber of the piece having been left on
our first line-and here the Sixth Corps
passed between us and the enemy. Here
Capt. Phillips exclaimed, Thank God,
there's the Sixth Corps We went short
distance farther on to higher ground, and
the first and fifth pieces of the 9TH Bat
terry went into battery and fired at the
enemy near our former position. These
are probably the two guns spoken of as
firing upon Barksdale's flank. The other
four guns of the 9th Battery went to the
rear and rendeZvOuSed near Rock Creek.
Our battery fired canister in this battle
and in no other during the service of the
writer. The 9Th went into battery right
obliquely, and that brought the first piece
on the left of the battery ;1d next to
| Bigelow's right"
| SOME ACTIVE SERVICE.
L. B. March, Corporal, 41st and SD H.,
Bloomfield, Mo, writes: Seeing in Picket
| Shots an article of Elihu Wiley, 3O:h
Ky, about Morgan, | must beg to say he
is certainly mistaken about the ODD Ill.
being with their command, as the 53d be
longed to the Fourth Division, Seven
teenth Corps, and is among the eight reg
ments reported by the Adjutant-General
as being the heaviest losers during the
war, and was with Sherman from start to
finish. On Jan. 4, 1864, General Order
No 203 consolidated the veterans of the
! l1St Ill II-ith ho Sll Ill tnt tod
the First Brigade, Fourth Division, Sew
enteenth Corps commanded by Brig. Gen
b. +. Potts, 18th Ohio. We took steamer
at Savannah, Ga, and landed at Hilton
Head. When we commenced our grand
march through the Carolinas, Sherman
pontoOned the largest streams and we
waded the others, saw the Confederates
take their last train out of Columbia and
set fire to the remainder of the stores they
| could not remove in their hasty retreat
We were at the last battle of the great
struggle at Bentonvilie, where Lieut.. VIM.
! ii. Palmer lost an arm and several of the
J3d were killed and wounded. We were
present when Johnston surrendered his
army to Sherman. Then we marched to
Washington, ID. c., via Petersburg and
Richmond, and were in the grandest re-
view that was ever witnessed in Washing
ton, May % and "a. After resting and a
general cleaning up of two weeks, were
sent 10 LOUISVILLE, NY, mustered out uly
%, and sent to Camp Douglas, ILL.,, and
on July 81, 1865, were paid off, disbanded
and arrived in Decatur July %, 1865, hay
ing been four years in actual service.
BIT OF SERVICE.
John II. Standiford, Co. L, 10th ILL.,,
Hartshorne, Ind. Ter, writes: About
was ordered to Natchez, Miss, after old
Forrest. We crossed the river, went in
camp during the day, and at night our
brigade was ordered to move. The 10th,
10Th and 18th Ill. marched all night. Our
advance guards ran over some guns the
rebels had planted across the road for sig
mails, but did not meet the Johnnies. Next
morning, Feb. u, we had a brush with
them, but they soon fell back up the river
toward Tennessee.
Our brigade commander ordered us
back to Natchez, and we there took n
boat for New Orleans, then took n Gulf
steamer for Dauphin Island, Ala. We
went in camp, drilled and practiced shoot
ing, preparing for the Mobile campaign.
The boys had good time going out to
the bay, gathering oysters and having oys-
ter soup.
"About March % we broke camp, went
up through Alabama by land, in rain,
through creeks and swamps, to Spanish
Fort. We threw up ritie-pits. Then our
ulNlSlDIi, lnt Il ouTiH. NlUtIttHlH tOIDS,
was ordered to Fort Blakely. We met the
Sixteenth Corps. The brigade threw up
rife-pits. On April two of Co. B's boys
were killed in the rihe-pits by shells, and
on the 9th old Gen. Candy ordered
charge on Fort Blakely, which we cap
tured, with about 5000 men and several
pieces of artillery. We had about a mile
to charge, through feled pines with
trimmed branches pointing our way. But
the old Fourth Division, with Gen.
Veatch, and the brigade. with Gen. Den
mis-, got there. Our (Second) brigade's
cOlors We're second on the rebel works,
the three regiments mounting about the
sane time On that day | saw more rob
els than / ever saw before. 1t seemed
like the whole world had turned blue and
gray.
We fell back to our rifle-pits. stayed
all night, and next day dropped down the
bay five miles, crossed over, took pos
session Of the beautiful city, the best forti-
fed place in the South"
AT PETERSBURG.
Mills w. Buck, Corporal, Co. X, 5Oth
Pa, Tyrone, Pa, says his regiment, in
February, 1865, was moved from directly
in front Of, Petersburg to Rush's Farm, |
about mile and half below Petersburg, |
where it relieved the 10th n. Y ut was |
our duty to stand picket on the flower bed |
picket-line from Battery Five to Point of |
Rocks, some miles farther When this |
line was established there was an agree |
ment between the rebels and us that there |
should be no firing, and this was faith |
fully kept. We had Il soft snap. Only |
one man, Pat Cummings, was killed here, |
by the bursting Of shell over Battery |
Five. | think we were the last regiment |
to enter Petersburg at that time, march
ing into the town about IL o'clock ON the |
day of the evacuation"
JENNIsoN's MEN.
Ambrose F. Crafts, Co. II, 18th Kan.
Cav, National Military Home, Kan, re-
ferring to recent articles about Col. Jnn-
nison, says the 18th Kan. Cav. was mus
tered in in September, 1863, and mus
tered out in October, 1865, with q. X.
JennsOn as Colonel, until June, 1865, and
Col. Cloud. The regiment met Price at
Lexington, Mo-, took part in all the en-
with him, and followed him to
Weber's Falls. 1t returned to Cave Hill,
Ark, where Buck Browns guerrillas
killed Capt. Mort, of Co. /, and others.
In revenge Jennison's men hung three Sc
cessiOnists and burned Browns house.
TO THE TUNE OF THE DEAD MARCH,
John Trunk, Cleveland, Tenn, writes:
in April 1864, l was on, duty at Null
draugh's Hill, KY, ON the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, with Co. IL, I'd Ohio
II. A. The boys had gotten out of meat
and felt badly about it. One morning,
however, a while after roll CALL we eX
perienced a surprise. About a dozen of
: bn onmra5ac uarn Snan sn1ninU I'M bn