The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-01-17
From Alert Comrades Along the Whole
yEH Line.
BUDGgs gRf "REMINISCENCES.

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, most cut OFF the head of Il rebel, who hat
hold of them. Comrade Frazier says he i.
, with Comrade Evans ON the rebel flaa
question.
j. NJ. Cain, Co. l, 3ith Ind, Wolf Island
Mo-, enlisted Aug. >, 1861, was in camI
at Anderson, Ind, until November, when
the regiment went to Camp Morton for q
few days They received their arms ut
Jacksonville, and then guarded New
Haven, an outpost of Louisville. They
had several spats'' with rebels and did
some foragng. a detail captured three
rebel officers, of Morgans command, at Il
house whose owner had Il still, where these
rebels went for liquor. The regiment soon
joined Gen. Nelson's forces at Muldragh
HUI, Ky, where, their camp being un-
healthy, some 300 men of the regiment
were lost TO the service through serious
illness or death. He tells of the trip to
Donelson, where they arrived at the last
OF the hight. From there the regiment went
to Paducah. The .comrade relates other
incidents, including some hard fighting his
regiment was i'll. The writer was mustered
out, after being in the Nicksburg cam
paIgn and i'll operations in the lied River
region, on Sept. q, 1864, at Indianapolis,
Ind.
| GOOD SHOOTING.
NJ. Ryan, Co. II, 10th Ohio Cav. Cleve-
'''''i ''' hiitNS- lHluh uDuuI TIE -DpSL
marksman | ever knew of while in the
army was Lewis Henning Go. G., 10th
ONO Cav. lie was an 'off-hand shot
lie used Spencer 7-shot rifle. At Jones'
boro rebel officer was riding I'D and
down the lines about 1000 yards away
Many men were shooting at him. When
he got in front of'the 10th Ohio Cav. Hen
ming adjusted his sights, took deliberate
but quick aim, and fired, and the officer
tumbled from his horse. Henning usually;
shot 'crOss-fire,' or from the left shoulder
At Snake Creek Gap, on the skr1nish
line, rebel skirrilislier was throwing lead
INTO our line III great quantities with I'M
necessary diligence. Henning and some
more of us were watching All at once
Henning raisedh his gun and fired In
loadlng the Johnny had exposed the top
of his head. We heard no more from him
When we drove the rebels back he was
there with hole through his cranium.'
AT SABINE CROSSROADS.
John Bagley, jr., Co. B, Doth Me-,
Lowell, Mass, NOTED communication
Sabine Crossroads. Wood said the fight |
ing ceased at shutdown. The writer says |
he was knocked down by rebel bullet |
after it got quite dark, and he and his com |
rades fired at the flashes of the enemy's |
guns. I'VE were, double-quicked about |
five miles to the front, and got there about |
sunset. We met our forces retreating and |
some said the whole rebel army was at |
their heels. We marched up on rise of |
ground and formed line. My company OBJ |
was in the dooryard of a building We /
waited until the last of the rea: guard had /
passed, and then we opened on the rebels.
They had gotten quite close, thinking they
had our army on the run. But they had
met the First Division of the Nineteenth
4 md fhnx oil h.xr TOD e.,
awhile. Gen. Banks rode by our regiment
and said to our commander: Colonel, your
regiment has done so well you can cover
the retreat to Pleasant HILL"
THINKS CoMRADE LOOP MISTAKEN.
james L. Crooks, Sergeant, Co. d, 10th
Ohio, Toledo, o., writes: "In your issue
of Dec. Is Comrade NJ. b. Loop, in Cam
paigning With the Buckeyes says in
part that on Monday, Feb. l QS64 pre-
sumably), Sherman was planning the Me
ridian raid. OF my own knowledge Sher-
man was ordered east with his army, a:Id
arrived at Chattanooga in time TO take
part Ill the Missionary Ridge fight. How
could Sherman be raiding in Mississippi
when he came to the relief of the Army
of the Cumberland in November and re-
manned there until the opening of the At
lanta campaign"-
SCATTERING.
Joseph Raby, Co. ID, I'd Wis. Cav. Han
over, Wis, writes: Il noticed some time
ago about branding. Comrade John C..
Lyon is mistaken in one detail about the
logging and branding in the LIST Iowa
Cav, ut Hemstead, Tex, in August, 1865.
A man was branded, as Comrade f. ID.
Smith, I'd Wis. Cav, said, but he was not
Il teamster. was a special guard to look
out for him, and had orders to shoot if he
tried to get away. He gave his name as
Stone, a Confederate Captain. WHY he
was branded l do not know. He was
court-martialed and sentenced to be
shaved, and % lashes on the bare back.
and the letter X branded on his left cheek
with hot iron. | helped hold the white
ciotn on his face while a Sergeant put the
hot iron on"
ID. j. Sutherland, Saginaw, Mich.
writes: Il want to tell about a relic /
had given me few weeks ago-a piece
of rebel flag and the letter it was sent
home in, captured at the fall of Fort Dom
elson by Lieut.. Briggs, U. S. gunboat Con
cord, Mississippi hOtilla. 1t was sent to
MISS Maggie Baxter, of Chicago, Ill. now
Mrs. Maggie Van Tifiin of Saginaw.
was telling her some of my war expert
ences, in particular of the trip down the
Ohio and up the Cumberland in March.
IS62, Just after the fall of Fort Donelson.
sad she: L have a relic from the fall
OF thit Tort, and You Shall have it, The
Lieutenant says in his letter that they
tried to burn3the flag and did succeed
in burning the bluei field. | think it was
an old Government flag, taken from some
of our forts" ri,siGo
+. w. Fleming, Co. III, 10Th VT. FIT
Scott, Kan, says:Dr'I have Just returned
to the Adjutaht General of Ohio the dis
charge papers of2J. Il. Colwell, of Ur
bana. He was enlis February, 1864.
in the Regular ARMY as a music bow in
Co. Il regiment not known. He once
lived here. and gave me his discharge to
keep for him until called for. | think il
was in 1872" q eel
James Brokens,C Burlingame. Pa.
writes: 81 saw in your paper where |
of the Sth' Ind. stated that tbe
18th Pa. Cav had to be helped in n figbt
at the Fork Roads, Raleigh, N.
would like the writer to be more snecifc
as L fail to remember such a circum
stance"
J. b. Croft, 18th U. S., Somerset. O..
writes: why is it We do not hear from y
of the old 18th y. s.? They can !
not be ashamed of their record. and tbe
names of their officers is a fine list" He
would like to read incidents of IFS b;s-
tory from the Peninsula to Appomottoy
He would also like to hear from the Dur.
yea Zouaves.
Comrade A. S., Clyne, Ellensyille N
T., answering an inquiry for addresses of :
members of the wood squad" at Flor |
,nce, has written III. J. Creighton. 1331 d
W. 9th St, Anderson, Ind. relating some 7
Incidents of Christmas Day in rebel