The National tribune., 1900-01-25
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along the Whole
Line.
PENSION LAWS.

No pension should be less than S12 a
month A law like that would lie good
remedy for the present evil.-ROBERT w.
JOHNSON, Amity, Ark.
| wish you to set my name down for a Per
Diem Pension Service bill; for there is moth
ing will do justice to the long-term men as it
will.-E. NJ. ATKINSON, 4th and I'd w.
Va, Emporia, Kan.
At NASHVILLE.
l. n Marshall, Co. C, 18th Ohio, Bige-
low, Kan, says that at the battle of Nash
vile he was near the brick house with a
stone wall around it and an orchard in
front. Our camp was to the left of Fort
Negley, and near the colored troops. A
stone arched bridge was in front of us across
a little stream, made large by damming
it below. l had helped build the breast
works behind which Hood fought that
day. Capt. Garner is right about the sleet.
At that time Co. A was sent off for some
purpose, and one of its men slipped and
shot himself in the head. l would like
to get the address of Joe Foley, 18th Ohio,
who was at the blockhouse below Shell
mound, Ala, just after the battle Of Nash
vile. We had a shanty at the far end
of the line of tents" )'* b.
SAVED THE ARMY.
". J. Frazier, Co. ID, 18th Ohio, has been
wondering for many years, he says, what
down the rebellion. He saw by the issue
Of Nov. 30 that it was the 36th Ind. beyond
doubt. OF course, as Comrade johnson
says, the bulk of Grants army would
have been captured at Shiloh had it not
been for the 36th.
SCATTERING.
John Weisenburger, Liberty, ILL.,, tells
of war-times in Livingston County, Mo-,
and of recruiting there for the war of the
rebellion. He was in the Missouri State
Militia at one time. He speaks of the many
boys who went out from that section being
engaged in the battle of Jpnesboro. Weis-
enburger knows great many people Of
wartime history, both in Missouri and
Illinois, and knows interesting personal
"reminiscences about them.
S. H. Inman, Big Glow, Kan, asks some
comrade to tell the n lmeS of the forts taken
in a charge at Rice's Station. The writer
was in Co &, 18th W. Va.
S. o. Hinkley, Kendallville, Ind, says
that Comrade Oscar Hinkley, Co. D, 74th
Ind, celebrated his 51st birthday not long
ago. The comrade mentioned rose to be
in ~ hard-fought battles, and was severely
wounded at Nashville. This was all before
he was II years old.
Curtis Terry, North Adams, Mass, read
about the genuine Timber Jim," told of
by comrade recently. The writer says
ne knew Jim Intimately he WIS not III
Cahaba Prison. He was taken at Ply
mouth, n. c., thence to Andersonville, not
in 1863, but in 1864. The writer was
captured May 16, 1864, and Jim about
three weeks afterwards. He had been on
a gunboat with jim, and in many fights.
Stephen X. Pound, Livermore, Pa, says
he belonged to Col. Thomas +. Gallaher's
5ith Pa, who brought Morgan to "A stand
still near New Lisbon, O. Gen. Shackel-
ford's cavalry coming behind him, Morgan
SURRENDERED to that General, the senior Off
Ger. He likes to read the letters from the
comrades. and hopes they will tell the best
narratives and anecdotes they know.
Jackson Dyer, Co. +, S9th n. Y, Harris
burg. Neb., read the article entitled "A
Dangerous Passage" at fredericksburg,
in which Lieut.. Northrup's mention of
the 89th as having crossed in four pontoon
| boats, charged the enemy, and captured
100 prisoners before the pontoon bridge
had been put into position, is questioned.
He says: we crossed the river in boats,
and no Michigan soldier can claim the
credit for that. The regiment was in many
other tight places, TOO"