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AT LAYS FERRY.
Some Thoughts of SD ii. Man About
Things That Happened There


EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In reply
to John w. Blume, Co. C, Goth Ind,
Will say that | was at Lays Ferry.
don't think that the rest of the brigade
was over 80 or 40 rods from the 66th Ind.
on that famous charge of theirs. | don't
wish to disparage the gallant old 66th or
deprive them of a single atom of credit,
but if they drove the rebels out of their
works on the south side of the river that
fact was never mentioned in my hear
ing. And another thing: They must have
been very easily driven, as the OOstanaula,
| should think, was at least 300 feet wide
at that point and very deep, and the rebels
had good breastworks with head with
head log on top, and if the rebels were
driven away. where does Piburn's swim
ming the river come in as an act of dar-
ing; and why didn't they take their guidon
with them?
remember the next morning they were
gone; that pontOon bridge was put down
and that our brigade was the first troops
to cross over. | don't remember now
what regiment crossed first, but do re-
member the sd was the last one over and
that either the I'd or 18th Iowa took the
brunt of the fight that day on the right
of the road, and lost about GO killed and
wounded in what seemed to me about 10
minutes.
l also remember that our regiment was
only about 100 yards in their rear, within
10 feet of the river, and that some pris-
Oners told us that they left their works,
to let a few of US over and COB
Bile us.
l remember the Atlanta campaign clear
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The Record Co. 90"

L. B. March, Corporal, Co. B, 41st H.,
Bloomfield, Mo-, writes: In your issue
of Oct. | saw an article from one of
Co. O. Rochester, Y. Y, in which he
takes exception to the write-ups of the
different regiments in your valuable paper
as to the accuracy of the way in which
the comrades tell Of the hard-fought bat
ties, marches, etc, of 81 and TO. Co.
@ must recOllect that the intellect of the
army to a great extent belongs to the
boys that carried the musket and went
through the war as high privates in the
front rank. He further says his own reg
iment had many able writer's, but as yet
he has never seen any write-ups about
them from their recOllections. He seems to
think some of the Generals or Corporals
write all the valuable articles about the
war for your paper. l am inclined to
think Go. @ belonged to some invalid
corps up in Maine. He certainly did not
belong to Sherman's pontooners that ST
and Shorty had charge Of"
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MAKES A FEW CORRECTIONS.
A Comrade Tells Some Things About Fort
Hindman and Chickasaw Bayou.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: l have
been reading Thomas NJ. Dickson's (S3d
Ohio recollectiOns of 1aZoo River and
Fort Hindman in the issue of Oct. Is.
In the interest of correct history of our
campaign down the Mississippi, up the
YazOo White and Arkansas Rivers in
December, 1862, and January, 1863, |
cannot allow his account to go unchal-
lenged for minute.
| presume he refers to the expedition
in command of Gen. w. L. Sherman for
the capture of Vicksburg in December,
1862. and the battle of Chickasaw Bayou.
He says: My regiment arrived with the
expedition that left Memphis in the Win
ter of G3 and "a, at Milliken's Bend on
Jan. 4, '63. The next morning We en-
gagged the enemy, posted on high bluffs
with a bayou between us, and we lost
over 100 killed and wounded"
Now, | contend that there was no such
engagement on or about that date any
where in the neighborhood of Milliken's
Bend or the YaZoo River. The battle of
Chickasaw Bayou was fought on Dec. %
and % and the army left the field and
started up the Mississippi River Jan. l
and ., 1868. If the cOmrade was really
engaged in the above battle he is confused
as to dates.
| belonged to the First Division, Fiji
teenth Corps, on above date, and was pres
ent for duty with my regiment dhe 10Th
Mo-, where we lost 160 men in less time
than it takes me to write it.
Again, the comrade is off in his ac
count of the taking of Fort Hindman and
its location. He says: 1--WE got off for
Fort Hindman about Jan. IL on boats"
Then he surely could not have been in
that engagement, for it actually occurred
on Jan IL. ! was there also OH the above
date. and know something about it.
Comrade Dickson would have us believe
Fort Hindman was on or near White
River. Here he is badly mistaken geo.
graphically. The fort was situated on
the Arkansas River, two miles above the
village of Arkansas Post, the Oldest set
Element in the State of Arkansas.
In the taking of the fort there was
repulse of our forces on the left center,
but there was no retreat. The real en-
gacement ON Jan. IL lasted just three
and a half hours, when $500 prisoners
fell into our hands, about 20 pieces of
artillery and large amount Of stores,
etc.
Although Comrade Dickson is very
much mixed on dates and localities of the
stirring scenes of 81 to '65, yet he no
doubt took as active n part as the other
man with better memory in the battles
and marches during the war for the Union
nearly 40 years ago.. r. TIsDALE, Ser
geant, 10Th Mo-, Chillicothe, Mo.
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Upper and Lower Brandon are estates
upon the south shore, founded by the Har-
rison family. These, still occupied by their
line, are ideal Southern homes. Lower
Brandon is said TO be a duplicate of the
English house in which Queen Victoria
was born.
The center of interest clings always to
the site of old jamestown, which comes
into view upon the north shore. Here is
the crImbling tower of the first place of
worship of the earliest American colony.
A long wharf of modern build is project
ed into the shallow river having been
bnilt by the late Edward E. Barney, n
citizen of Ohio, who bought jamestown
and established the present steamboat SER
vice.
A single square manor-house faces the
wharf, in the midst of broad, level fields.
To the westward, among the underground
and grass, may be traced the brick foun-
dations of the houses built by the redOubt
able John Smith and his followers. Close
by the river, in silent company with q
Confederate fort, is the historic tower,
and adjoining it is the ancient cemetery,
still surrounded by its brick wall and
filled with the dead who lived when Berke-
ley held tyrannical reign here and the par
tisans of Bacon laid siege to the little
community. Some were sleeping here
when the Pilgrims of the Mayiiower were
yet TO land at Plymouth Rock.
Some years ago Mrs. Barney presented
to an historical association of Richmond
the title to this sacred ground. Among
the quantity sculptured gravestones is that
of Lady Berkeley.
Many expeditions came here, and Of all
the thousands who hocked to this Ell Do
RADIO but few survived the deadly fevers
which ldrked in the soil and water. One
year before the arrival of the English col
onists at Plymouth Bay the first cargo of
negro slaves brought TO America were
brought upon shore at jamestown.
Through 20 years this tenacious com
munity fought, fourished and declined 1t
held place upon the map until, in 17U5,
Williamsburg, the center of the Middle
Plantations, was decreed as the Capital
of the Colony. Then old jamestown be-
came but little more than memory But
the sun shines brightly upon It's ruined
tower, the birds nest in its recesses, and
none disturbs them save the negro stur-
geon-fsher and the infrequent traveller who
loves history keenly enough 10 give day
from his busy wanderings to musings upon
the site where the outcast cavaliers of
the Motherland once fondly thought they
had laid securely the cornerstone of
city and nation. L. II. 7.
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II is a remarkable tribute to the for
bearance of the Federal troops engaged
in the suppression of the great rebellion
that SO many of the splendid old home
steads along the James River remained
unscathed through the devastation OF con-
fict and are still in evidence, as the seat
of the purest form Of aristocracy that
has ever hourished in this country. This
group of time-honored estates is rich in
colonial traditions and has given US the
majority of those Executives which made
Virginia famous as the Mother of Pres
idents."
As the traveller proceeds from Richmond
down past the many scenes whose names
are so familiar - Rockets, Drewry's
Bluff, Malvern Hill, Dutch Gap Canal,
Bermuda Hundred, White House, and
scores OF now silent scenes once thronged
with tented battnlions-thcre come into
view a succession of dignifed old home
steads half concealed by dense environ
ments of LEAKAGE which speak eloquently
OF other wars and other men, whose
swords flashed along these shores in the
pioneering work Of driving back the tame
less Indians and forcing foothOld for
the coming millions of an old and worn
ont Europe.
The steamer upon which we voyage is
the Pocahontas, reminding the sojourner
of this Ecntle-mindcd daughter of the for
est and her untimely death at the close
of her triumphant reception in England as
the wife of the young colonial merchant,
Rolfc.
We pass westoyer, built by Col. Will
lam Byrd, the founder of Richmond, and
Varina (Aiken's landing, the home Of
the Randolphs, one of whom was Presi-
dent of the first Congress held by the Col
onies ut Philadelphia, and another Gov
ernor Of the State Of Virginia. The Ran
dolph estates included Tuckahoe, Dunge-
ness, Chatsworth, Wilton, Earina, Curls,
Bremo and Turkey Island.
Shirley, built in 1G42, was the birthplace
of Annie Carter, who became the wife of
Light Horse Harry" Lee, the beau-ideal
cavalryman of the Revolution (who
sleeps in a far-Southern grave upon Cum
berfand Island in Georgia. and the moth
Ell of Col Robert Z. Lee.
Bermuda Hundred, once 4 great depot
of supplies, commentaries the adventures
of the Colonists who were wrecked Ell
route to Virginia upon the reefs Of the
"still-veScd Bermoothes."
At City Point is the Epps Homestead,
where Gen. Grant maintained his Winter
quarters before the fall of Petersburg,
while at Sherwood Forest, the buildings
OF which are of wood but still in good re-
pair, President Tyler was born.
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MORE ABOUT A. j. SMITH.
He Was a Great General, Comrade Says,
But Praise of Him Should Not Be Oyerdnne

But Praise OF Him Should Not Be Overdone
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In your is
sue of Oct. IL / read an article signed by
Robert Blackburn, S9th Ind, in which the
writer does considerable more than justice
to Gen. A. j. Smith. l am not at all en-
vious of the fame of one of the most elf
cient fighting commanders this country has
ever produced, andiI would much rather
meet A. j. Smith in life than any other
officer | ever fought under; but | beg leave
to state that l was at the front with
Banks's army, and had the disagreeable
duty to perform of guarding the only two
prisoners captured by our forces at Sabine
field. Banks was the commander-in chief
of his own as we'll as Smiths army Sun
down closed the battle of Mansfield and
the UniOnists retreated to Pleasant Hill,
Is miles, where they went into camp.
About daylight my regiment, the 10Th
Wis, together with the whole of Cam
eron's Brigade, were ordered to Grand
Ecore.
Soon after we took up~our line OF march
we passed Banks and Smith, accompanied
by their respective stats. and while pass
ing them | heard and believe our whole
company heard, Smith Say:
II can whip them here, sir; right here,
sir"
Emory, with three divisions of the Nine
teenth Corps, helped Smith do that trim
ming" Banks may or may not have per-
sonally directed the battle, yet he was
there and presumably helped Smith with
the trimming at Marksville Plains. 1t
was then that we saw the whole army.of
Banks and Smith drawn up in line of bat
tie, and from deserters learned that but a
small force of Taylor's army was in our
front. AT all events there were but two
or three discharges of cannon at the enc
my, when they fed.
At Yellow Bayou, while the army was
crossing Old River upon n pontoon of
steamboats, anchored in the river, Joe
Mower had n sharp battle with the enemy,
who had come upon our rear the night be,
fore. / never learned Mowers losses, but
there was heavy eannonading and musket.
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fire all the forenoon of Nav Il.

ry-fire all the forenoon of May II.
4. j. Smith needs no one to herald his
fame, but there were others. Comradc
Bob, / was also concerned with Smith in
the capture of Spanish Fort, and Il. X. 5.
Candy and Gordon Granger and Il. S.
Dennis were there and Fred Steele. Smith
and his grand old Sixteenth Corps did
their whole duty in the capture of Mobile.
l and my whole company and regiment
very often expressed the wish that Smith
might be Commander of the Department
of the Gulf. He was n great Cen
eral, and Joe Mower was his right arm.-
GEORGE Z. WOOD, Co. |, 18th Wis, Ray,
Wash.
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With the 18th Mo.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Allow me
a small space in your paper to correct a
wrong statement. 1 noticed recent
sketch of the 18th Mo-, including a state
ment that its losses during the war were
seven officers and "a men, and that the
regiment was organized Nov. IA, 1861.
The regiment was organized in June
and July, 1861. l was discharged as First
Sergeant of Co. B. Said company was or
ganized on June II, 1861, in st. John, Mo-,
and was as noble company as ever went
on a battlefield. l have preserved the old
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Reporters Have Convincing Interviews with People Regarding

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through, for 1 was there all the time, do
ing my duty cheerfully, the same as every
other boy in our company, and have al
ways felt proud of my record as a soldier
and what little did toward putting down
that gigantic rebellion.-H. j. SLOAN, Co.
3, sd H., Fir, Wash,
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Women Well Men Made Miserable by Kidney
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Louis, Mo-, to a reporter of the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-06
NEWS NOTES FROM HAWAII.
Two New Cases of PlRgue-rhe Dis
abled steamer Cleveland
Reaches Hiio.

HONOLULU. March o. VITA san Fran
cisco. April 6-rWo cases ~ plague wore
reported March d one was q Japaness
fisherman. the other a white man uaueI
JOAN Hurley. Since that date 10 cases
have appeared,
Word has reached here that the dis
abless steamer Cleveland reached {Ho
safely March gS TIE distance x 80 miles
Vas made uu Ser fal Ia ten days
Three hundred ur more steeraEe paa-
senssrs ain probably sal from here on the
next steamer far san Francisco.
Or. CarmicAael has decided that IN view
of the recognition nnV given the prcphy-
isctic a. preventive remedy. effective FOR
from thirty 20 forty days. hs viii give per-
r,its FOR sseerage passage to persons Who
take the prophylActie ard are IN god
health. have their baggage diain:ccted and
are otherwise under sanitary conditions
\ riot occurred at Paauhau pAnbt!ou
March =. \ captain o. police and four
osacers arrested eight japanese Tor gam
bling. About DO japanese. armed with cane
knives and clubs. -1rEoGn6sd the officers
and forced them TO release their prisoners
A disastrous cane fro swept over gSa
acres on the Hawaiian Commercial &
Sugar Company plantation March -
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HOUSE WILL ACCEPT THE
PUERTO RICAN BILL.
Republicans I'm Cnucus Agree TO
Concur in senate Amendments
as They stand.

WASHINGTON. April 5.--The Republic
ans Of the house, in caucus tonight, decii-
ed to take the shortest route to a termi-
nation of the Puerto Rican tariff problem
by concurring III all the senate amend
rnents and sending the bill directly to the
president There was a feeble protest from
Cooper OF Wisconsin. chairman of the
insular committee and Moody of Massa-
chusetts. who favored standing out against
some of the features of the civil govern
ment scheme attached to the bill by the
senate. They objected especially to the
senate provision making all the members
of the upper council of the Puerto Rican
legislature appointees OF the president and
clothing them with the power TO grant
franchises, but the sentiment OF the eau
Gus was overwhelmingly against them.
None OF the Republicans who voted against
the original house bill was present at the
caucus tonight, Az soon as the Republic
ans absent from Washington can be sum-
moned here. as early as Monday II possi-
BILE the matter Will be brought up before
the house under a special rule.
Previous TO the caucus, the seven Re-
publicans who opposed the original bill
Messrs. Mccall of Massachusetts, little
field of Maine. Lorimer of Illinois, Crum-
packer of Indiana, Heatwole OF Minnesota
Lane of Iowa and Warner Of Illinois.
held a conference and decided not to re-
cede from their former position, Conse-
quently they considered 1t useless to at
tend the conference tonight,