The National tribune., 1900-05-24
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along the Whole
Line.
STORM OF LEAD AND IRON.

STORM OF LEAD AND IRON.
a. w. Crawford, Sergeant, Co. E, 11th
ILL.,, Sitka, Mich, writes: MY company at
Fort Donelson, on the morning Of Feb. Is.
1862, had So officers and men in line of
battle. In the assault on McClernand'S
Division of Grants army in the forenoon
by Pillows and Buckner's Divisions, the
company lost in killed ID and wounded "a.
Thirteen of the dead were buried in the large
grave that contains the bodies of II COM
rades Of the regiment who died during that
fearful storm of lead and iron."
s9th III, 1908 G street, Washington,
d. c., writes: Il noticed Comrade Wallins
record of casualties. Willich's Brigade
was well-known, and the 89th I'LL. was with
out at Nashville, June 10, 1854. The
seth was one of the Fighting Three Hun
dred.' At Pickett's Mills led my COM
pany in the charge with 45 men; got back
| with Only IL. My diary for the next day
states: One Of the missing men came to US,
and l went on picket with IL men, l was
private, Corporal, Sergeant, Second Lieu
tenant, Captain, and in said company
there were 81 men mustered in, 81 muster
ed out; total, with recruits, 1876. Our Re-
union will be in Chicago at the date Of the
National Encampment."
SCATTERING.
John W. Price, PIG Morgan Place, Johns
town, Pa, has a small Testament picked
up by comrade on, he thinks, the field of
Fredericksburg. 1t was given by friends
in a town in Massachusetts to Thomas A.
Southwiek, 18th Mass, who was killed at
Balls Bluff.
Warren w. Irish, West Falls, N. Y,
wishes to correct statement to the effect
that about so of the 10th N. j. Cav were
with Gen. Wilson on his raid in June, 1864,
as they were members of the 10th n. Y.
Cav. The article in which this occurred
is in the Fighting Them Over columns of
Feb. 1, 1900.
G. P. Beach, Co. A, s6th Ind, Spice
land, Ind, says that Comrade j. NJ. Ihorp,
2Oth KY, is in error when he says that the
1st, 9th and 20tf>ky. belonged to Ammen's
Brigade. Ammen commanded the Tenth
Brigade, Fourth Division (Nelson's), and
of the 9th and 24th Ohio and 36th Ind;
afterwards the 18th Ky. was added, then
changed for the 23d KY, and thus the
brigade remained for year. The regi-
ments Thorp speaks of belonged, the COM
rade says, to the Nineteenth Brigade, and
never was in Ammen'S Brigade. The
36th Ind. was the first to cross the river at
Shiloh on Sunday evening.
James Il. Clark, Cotton, Mo-, has the
discharge of Samuel S. Zane, Co. d, 11th
w. Va.
Wright French, Louisville, Tenn,
he writes, on Nov. 13, 1864, after Bulls
Gap. He was taken with about $50 others
and sent to Danvile. On the Friday night
before Christmas, 1864, the writer and two
others escaped. He writes this in hopes
Of being able to assist same comrade by
information.
l.. G. Landing, Sullivan, Mo. has the
discharge of Alexander F. Moffat and
John Moffatt, Co. f, 10th Mo.
John w. Hopkins, Co. +, 1st Pa. Cav,
who was killed at Fredericksburg, was the
third Colonel of his regiment. He was
promoted after the engagement at Fal-
mouth, Va, April, 1862. He was a grand
commander and a magnificent soldier.
Ezra Cole, Grand Rapids, Mich, was
A. Fenis, in reference to the town of Wilson,
n. Y. He says that all his family We're
born in that little patriotic town near the
shore of Lake Ontario. At the age of p
he enlisted in Co. b, Sth n. Y: H. A., Col.
Peter A. Porter commanding the regiment.
At Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864, the writer
received gunshot wound in the left thigh.
He rejoined his regiment near Petersburg in
December, and remained with it until the
close of the war. In January, 1871, he
Porter Post and his better half joined the
W.R.C. He would like to hear from any
of his comrades.
P. NJ Wagner. Tyler, Tex, writes: Il
have noticed quite controversy regarding
the capture OF the guns Lady Breckin-
ridge" and Lady Buckner" at Missionary
Ridge, while the capture of a noted gun at
Vicksburg seems to have been overlooked
in communications to the paper. Who
captured 'Whistling Dick?"
George Rube, Penn Yam, N. Y, has the
discharge of George w. James, Co. L, 4sth
Pa, discharged by reason of gunshot
wound in the left lung, on June II, 1865.
Mrs. b. A. Albright, box So, Sebring, O.,
wants to know if any one can tell her by
mail where are any of the veterans of the
Sth Ohio, especially Co. D. She has a
picture of one that perhaps his family
would like to have, a man named Messen-
ger. In answer to query to the Editor,
Mrs. Albright is requested to look at the
notice of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE'S
book offer in this issue.
j. A. Williams, Warwick, Mass, says that
while N Camp Nelson General Hospital,
Kentucky, in September, 1868, he had
charge of hospital tent containing about
20 beds. Among the sick was a boy named
Sprague, of the 7th r. l. Hho had had a
fever and had deep sore on his back.
The writer was much Interested in him,