The National tribune., 1900-10-25

army, welcoming the first batch of oui
corps that we met. Gradually we worked
our way to our regiments and companies
| | found my company the night of July
I, tired out with forced march. As
| had no gun | was told by Col. Fraser
that | could hold his horsei Yes-wel,
did not hold his horse. l found n cOmradC
suffering with a sore foot, ! took his gun
and accouterments and went into the fight
next morning. | got wounded some time
in the afternoon. That was July 3, 1863
About the 18th | got to General HOspita!
at Summit House, Philadelphia, where
lay for over a year, finally getting well
enough to go home on furlOugh."
TAKING \ REBEL CITY.
L. S. Bruno, Co. H, 29th Ohio. st. Ed
ward, Neb., writes: Il have seen numcr-
Gus articles lately in regard to the fall Of
Savannah and the capture of several
rebel bOats. | happened to be there at
| that time, but don't recollect the circum
stances, although it might have happened.
| We were camped not very far from the
river before the fall of the city. | know
we We're called up Christmas morning AMI
started for the city, which, ! think, was
about four miles away. When we got
about half way there we met the Mayor
and officials coming out to surrender the
city to our Colonel, Myron T. Wright. We
passed on into the city, and Col. Wright
sent me, with 10 men, down the river TO
Fort Jackson to raise the old flag OH that
fort once more, which / had the honor of
doing. At this time there was large
rebel gunbOat steamed up close to the fort.
If | recollect right some battery of our
White Star Division came down and
opened fire on her, which she paid no at
tentiOn to whatever. That night she was
sunk or blown up, and the crew escaped
to the Carolina shore. Comrades, do you
recollect it as 1 do? Let me hear from
some Of YOU"
SCATTERING.
Robert Southwell, Co. A, 21st Mo-,
writes: Il have read with great interest
what Comrade J. w. Lacock, Co. G., ODD
Ind, had to say in Hurting Hood Back
from Nashville / never read a more
correct statement of the battle than he
gives He states it so plainly that it
seems to me that it was only yesterday
that the battle was fought. | was COM
rade of the old gallant Sixteenth Corps,
and was a member of Gen. Garrard's
Headquarters and was there myself, and
the description that Comrade LacOck gives
is correct picture of battle. Let us have
word or two from some of the other
comrades of the old Sixteenth Corps"
G. w. Sumter, Hawley, Mimi. writes
lllsit ut NOlll llht ttuIeSSNS Oh COIIlTducS
who crossed the plains in 1S49 with the
Mounted Rife regiment, Col Loran com
manding. The wagon train was divided
into three divisions. l was under Col.
Jacob Backenstats"
w. Il. Sutherland, Lieutenant, Co. I,
Both ILL.,, Huntington, Ark, noticed in the
issue Of Aug. % that W. l.. Kester. Co.
III, 10Th H., in regard to the battle of
Stone River, stated that Gen. Sill, com
IN hTfU lnI hn
cOmrade evidently is in error, as Sill com
manded the First Brigade, Second Divi-
sion, Twentieth Corps, commanded by
Alexander Mcdowell McCook, the divi-
sion being commanded by Phil Sheridan.
The brigade was composed of the Both,
SSth H., 24th Wis, and 2lst Mich. Had
Sill lived he would have been made a Ma
General.
II. l.. Mills. "a National German
American Bank Building st. Paul, Mimi,
has the original discharge of Horace w.
Webster, Co. ID, 47th Mass.
Henry NJ. Gray, Delta, Colo, wants to
hear from comrades who served at Ball
town, Mo-, under Col. Bayne, from Sept.
/, 1860, to March l, 1861. He wants
the letter of the company and number of
the regiment.
C. X. Levie, Mt. Zion, Ind, wants the
song entitled "the Presidents Grave"
toIHDOStu upOu lut VI
Emil Priebe, Poysippi, Wis, wants the
address of the lady who was Head Nurse
at Memphis, Tenn, Adams Hospital,
1S63-'64
James Dorsey, Soldiers Home, Los An
geles, says he was in Stewards Battery,
belonging to the Add n Y, but being de-
tailed for 60 DAYS and staying for five
months.
There is strong call for a little his
nr CEatpb nf tho hninUc Of hn
First Brigade, Second Division, Sixteenth
Corps, commanded by Gen. Rice and COM
posed of the 10th Ind, 18th Iowa and sd
III. VIII some comrade come forward in
w. II. Green, Co. I, 18th Mich, Wash
ington, d. C., enlisted Feb. Z, 1865, at |
Hudson, Mich, at the age of IA, and is |
still under the half-century mark as an
ex-soldier. He has been taking THE Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE for long time, and |
thinks he cannot do without it.
William Kirtley, 4th Iowa Cav, Jeffer
son, Iowa, says his brigade participated
in capturing Columbus, Ga. I'VE had to
was on the same side. We dismounted
and formed battle-line, the 4th Iowa be
ing in the advance. We started down the
bill on the run" The company U) lost
its way and the writer and another COM
rade, Joseph Jones, entered the bridge
alone, to head oil from the bridge about
400 rebels and four guns. They shouted
for the rebels to surrender, and in the
darkness and confusion some Of them
made haste to declare they did. Just then
Jones was shot. Fortunately it was but
4 few moments before the company and
regiment came up. The brigade was COM
posed of the 4th Iowa Cav, Sd Iowa Cav.
md 10th Mo. Cav. The comrade thinks
It took lot of nerve to stay there alone
md that he ought to have recognition for
holding up the Johnnies till assistance
.ame.
Benjamin Van Dyke, Co D, 18th Iowa,
Fountain, Okla, speaking of the struggle
n the Hornets Nest at Shiloh, remem-
1ers it wildly. He also remembers the
ribulatiOns under Banks up Red River
He thinks all the comrades should sup
port their old comrade, Mckinley, in the
coming election.
Cephas w. Cook, Co. G, 18th Ind, AR.
hur, Wis. refers with pride to his army
service and the gallant comrades who {
his regiment. He went in July
D, 1861, II. ID. Washburn being his Cap
ain, and Thomas Patterson his Colonel
he was discharged at Indianola, Tex, ,
Dec. 81, 1868, and again sworn in to
erve and be discharged finally at In
Annapolis, Aug. 30, 1868. Fremont. Pope, {
Curtis, Steele and Grant were his COM
nanders during the first three years, and 4
lie was in for about everything that hap ]
,ened. Later he served in the East. He y
s afraid the people do not appreciate the
Id soldier, because the country is now G