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The National tribune., 1901-12-26
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A Soldiers Diary OF the Civil War.
A Soldiers Diary OF the Civil War.
By LYMAN S. WIDNEY, 34th III.
1901, by The NATIONAL TRIBUNE.

In the midst Of the storm came an srler
10 draw 10 days rations, in readiness for
moving at short notice; so it was neces-
Sary for one man of each mess. myself
among the number, to crawl out into the
rain and darkness, cross n roaring creek
on Il foot-log visible only by lightning
flashes. wait an hour or more each for his
turn, retrace our steps with a heavy load
of provisions, pack them away, and crawl
back into our ''pup-tents" to resume our
dreams, somewhat the worse for exposure.
Before morning the heavy rain changed
TO cold "drizzlc,' and we had to turn
out early TO build fires and dry our cloth
ing and blankets. The batteries in front
of us continued to exchange compliments
over our heads-a very noisy perform
ance, but harmless so far as we could
learn.
The afternoon Of May II we We're called
to arms by an attack on our extreme left.
II was made by Whceler'S cavalry and re-
sisted by Stoneman'S; the infantry were
not engaged, and, as usual with cavalry
encounters, was not Sanguinary. Late in
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HILL FACING a HEAVY SKlRMlSH
FIRE BY THE ENEMY"
the evening one of our guns dashed UP to
the front of the Gap and fired a shot,
changed position and fired again, changed
once more and fired q third shot, by which
time the enemy's guns inside the Gap were
thoroughly aroused and began to send out
a stream of missiles like hornets disturbed
! by a stone aimed at their nest. Our gun,
| like many q boy we have seen, scampered
out of range without waiting for full re-
turns.
As our brigade was pushed up close TO
the Gap, almost like cork to a bottle, we
| spent much time speculating as to whether
we should be required TO squeeze our way
through it. Needless to say, we were not
enamored with the prospect, so, when the
! positive order came for us to march away
we did so the morning of May II with
! light hearts. We could see that the move
ment was general and rightly judged that
| there must be back door to the ridge
through which We might steal or forcibly
enter.
! We found Hooker's Corps ahead Of US,
and behind ours came Schoheld's, all
stretched along a single road winding
/ down the valley, with Rocky Face Ridge
on the left frowning upon us. Our prog
ress was slow, as the road was rough and
| in many places traversed good-siZed hills.
| Shortly after nightfall we were halted on
one of these hills TO prepare supper, and
as the entire column was halted for the
same purpose, we looked down upon one
of the most inspiritiDg scenes Of our ex-
perience.
! Far up and down the valley thousands of
! fires suddenly farcd up and specter-like
! figures moved around them preparing n
hasty meal A ruddy glow bathed the
rugged sides Of the ridge, bringing out in
bold relief the inaccessible features of this
mighty rampant that rose between the
contending armies.
After supper the scene was still further
enliyened by the waving Of many thou
sands Of frebrands in imitation of signal
! lights and the effect was grand beyond eX-
| preston. But there was a fear with many
of us, while enjoying the spectacle, that
this display was a reckless advertisement
Of our purpose to seek another entrance
through the ridge, and consequent
ly, that we would find 1t well
guarded. Greatly to our surprise,
however, after resuming the march
and proceeding eight miles, we reached
Snake Creek Gap and entered it In dark
ness and silence. Mcpherson had seized
it the day previous.
It's prccipitous sides abutted so closely
there was scarcely width for q "fle Of
fours," so we stumbled for several miles
along rough and rocky way, much Of il
along the bed Of dried-up stream, each
man following the sound of his comrades $
footsteps ahead. Shortly after midnight
we emerged from the inner end, and spread
our blankets on the level ground to catch
a few hours sleep ere we should rise to
meet the enemy, with no Rocky Face
Ridge to separate us.
CTO be continucd)
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LOYAL WEST VIRGINIANS.
The Famous 9Th Cav. and Its Service in the
Army Of the POTOMAC and On the Plains

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: 1 have
been reader Of your valued and loyal
paper for some years, and have enjoyed
every copy. | always look for something
about the boys from West Virginia. At
last / saw letter from K. s. Andrews,
3G4 Lincoln Ave, Chicago, who had
charge of the boys during their mutinOus
term at Fort LeavenWOrth, Kan. In the
main his statements are correct, and |
think a short history of the regiment will
cause the reader to justify the boys to
some extent for their conduct
The 9th w. Va. Cav. entered the serv-
ice i'll 81 as the I'd and 3D. w. Va. In
fantry, doing duty in West Virginia 1t
was brigaded with fan Indiana and an
Ohio regiment, and was under the com
mand of Gen. MilrOy, whose snowy
white hair won for him the name Of the
Gray Eagle" .l.
The boys all loved Gen. Milroy, and
could always depend upon being in any
fighting in the neighborhoOd.
MilrOy'S Brigade moved southeast, and
was engaged in the is days fighting along
the Rappahannock, eliminating in the
second battle of Bull Run, in 90. This
battle was most discouraging to the loyal
North; but they had gotten partially used
to defeats, as up to that time our army
had bowed its head in defeat oftener
than it had shouted for victory. But the
dark cloud soon begai to move, and the
silver lining began to Rppeur. and contin-
ued to enlarge until the s5mber side was
no longer visible.
The Cd and Sd and the gallant 9Th ".
Va. Infantry were the only West Vir-
ginia troops in the Army of the Poto-
mac. The removal of the West Virginia
troops from the State made it necessary
for Eastern troops to take their places. as
troops were indispensable in the State.
These Eastern troops had great deal
of trouble with our people, treating them
all as rebels. AS matter of fact, the
majority of the people Of our State were
loyal. How could it be otherwise, when
statistics show that West Virginia fur
nished q regiments of infantry and cav
airy and eight batteries of artillery dur
ing the war? Out OF the quota called for
by the President-34, 900 men-the State
furnished $4,000 from first to last.
Our Governor applied TO President Lin
coin to have the West Virginia troops
The National tribune., 1901-12-26
HOWARD AT CHARLOTTESVILLE.
A Proyost-G Guards Story of the Disastrous
Rout of the Eleventh Corps.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: | have
read in The National Tribune a number of
accounts of the Charlottesville fight. |
may, perhaps, throw a little light on the
cause of the Eleventh Corps running; they
did run for all they were worth; any other
corps would have done the same under like
circumstances.
William e. Schofcld, Captain Co. A,
SD Ohio. was Provost-Marshal of the
Eleventh Corps. He was my original Cap
tain. About midnight of May 1. Capt.
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EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: During
the Vicksburg campaign l often heard the
soldiers Of the Sth Ind. sing a negro song
something like this:
THE crops they won't be sOwed,
The meadows they won't be moved,
| 'Kase there's nobody left for to send thens
There is scarcity, it seems,
OF cabbage, pork and beans,
'Kase there's nobody left for to send them
Chorus:
But what can a poor darky do etc.
| have never seen this song in print
Will some "Old Coffee Cooler kindly fur
nish a copy?-V. V. WILLIAMS, a 20-yea1
subscriber, Co. B, 18th Ind. Bedford, Ind.
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GEN. sTEUART's CAREER.

Gen. Stcuarts home is on South River,
Nd, but he spends much of his time at
the Carrollton Hotel, Baltimore, He is a
native of Maryland and a son of Maj
Gen George II. Steuart, who was wound
ed at the battle Of North Point, and who
commanded the Maryland State troops at
the outbreak Of the war.
Gen. Stcuart graduated mt West Point
in 1918 and served on the Indian frontier
as Lieutenant of the old I'd Dragons.
During the Kansas slavery trouble he was
Captain of the 1st Cav. and several times
came in contact with John Brown. At the
opening of the war he resigned his com-
mission in the United States Army, and
on the organization Of the 1st Nd. Inf
was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the
regiment. He was promoted 10 Colonel
and was severely wounded at Cross Keys,
and made Brigadicr General.
At Gettysburg on July 2, 1865, his bri-
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gade carried the Federal works on Culp's
Hill, the 2d Md, under the late James r.
Herbert, planting the first Confederate flag
on that eminence and losing 90 per cent.
in killed and wounded. When the Fed
erals surprised and captured the Bloody
Angle" at SpottSylvania, in May, 1864,
Gen. Steuart and his division com,
mander, Gen. Edward Johnson, went to
the front to try to re-establish their line,
and both were captured. Later he was sx-
changed and commanded a brigade OF
Pickett's division until the surrender oe
AppOmattOx.
MR.. SMITHS SHARE IN THE WAR.
Mr. Smith enlisted in the Federal army
at the age of 10, in August, 1861, and
served until the close of the war. He kept
diary during his service in the army, but
the larger part of it was lost. 1t was
stored with the company baggage at Brs-
Gen. "Dick" Taylor. Mr.. Smith had
three brothers in the Federal army, one
of whom was killed in the assault on Port
Hudson in May, 1863.
Rev. Edmund T. Perkins, who gave the
Bible to Gen. Steuart, was Chaplain-at.
large of the Army of Northern Virginia.
For % years since the war he was rector
of st. Paurs Protestant Episcopal Church,
in Louisville. He died in Louisville the
9th Of last July.
GEN. SEDGWICK's DEATH.
ApropOs of Gen. Steuart's capture ss
SpOttsylvania, the following illustrates
one of the saddest features Of the civil
war. In Kansas before the conflict the
Generals commander and devoted friend
was bluff old John Sedgwick, Uncle
John" as he was Familiarity known. at
Spottsylvania the Sixth Corps of the Fed.
eral army, which occupied that part Of the
line almost directly opposite Steuart's bri.
gade, was commanded by Gen. Sedgwick,
and three days before Gen. Steuart's cap
ture Gen. Sedgwick was instantly killed
by Confederate sharpshooter of Ewell's
Corps, to which Steuart's Brigade was ate
tached. "Uncle John" had no more sim
cere mourners in the whole Federal army
than the many prominent Confederate of.
fcers who had served under him on tha
plains.
The National tribune., 1901-12-26

Walter ByingtOn, Sherack, Mimi, would
like some comrade TO send him two songs,
'Lorena" and a Soldiers Daughter"
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SENT THROUGH THE BLOCKADE.

The Bible is a small leather-covered
book, about 31a by 512 inches. 1t is an
Oxford edition, published in 1862 for the
British and Foreign Bible Society, and is
one of those sent to the South through the
blockade. At the outbreak of the civil war
nearly all the large publishing houses We're
in the North, the South having little or no
facilities for printing. In the early part of
1862 the British and Foreign Bible Society
granted the Confederate Bible Society I'M
limited credit in the purchase of Bibles.
TestamentS and tracts. Thousands of
these were shipped to the South on swift
blOckade-runners.
The late Rev. Moses d. HOge, the emf
nent Presbyterian divine, who was sent
abroad in the interest of evangelical work
in the army, secured $4,000 of these Bi-
bles. Many of them are yet treasured by
aged veterans of the Lost Cause"
The National tribune., 1901-12-26
Stops the Cough
A Wartime Song.

laxative Bromo- Quinine Tablets cure cold IN ere
day. No Cure No Pay. Price % cents.
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ITS EXTENSIVE TRAVELS.

During its career of four decades Gen.
Steuart's Bible has Travelled farther and
experienced more vicisSitudes than the av-
erage mortal is heir TO. Born with many
others of its kind in the presses of Eng
lands great university, this product of re-
ligious fervor and human ingenuity was
stored deep in the hold of some low block
ade-runner and carried across the seas
safely into port-prObably Charleston, S
c., or Wilmington, n G. Carried by rail
to Richmond, it found its way to the front
and into the possession of Gen. Steuart
Then, packed in 4 numbering army wagon,
it went with the army on that last retreat,
when men and horses fell by the wayside
from hunger and exhaustion.
And then, on that April morning, with
brave men in blue and gray falling and
dying around it, it was torn from its hid
ing place and fell into the hands of an ap-
preciative stranger After a short journey
in Il soldiers hayersack, it travelled by
mail TO Castlemon, n Y Since then it has
been carried from Castlemon to Quincy,
ILL.,, thence to Adrian, Mich, back to Cas-
tlemOn, TO Wichita, Kan, and to Long
Beach, Cal. Last week it started on its
long journey across the continent to the
Monumental City.
The National tribune., 1901-12-26
LET ME- TELL YOU
How TO Get Well.

Send no money; simply state the book
you want. 1t will tell you what 1 spent
a lifetime in learning.
With the book ! will send an order on
your druggist for six bottles of DR.
Shoop's Restorative; and he will let you
test It a month. If satisfied, the cost is
$3.50. If it fails / will pay your druggist
myself.
| will do Just as ] say. Over half q mil.
lion people have secured my treatment in
that way, and 80 out of each 40 have paid
for it because they were cured. Not n
penny Is accepted if it fails.
There are 80 chances in 40 that I can
euro you. No matter how difficult von,
case, take the entire risk, for those half.
million cases have proven what my rem
edy can do.
My way is to strengthen the inside
nerves. | bring back the nerve power
which alone makes each vital organ do lis
duty. No other remedy does that: and in
most chronic diseases there is no Other
way TO get well. Don't let doubt OF
prejudice keep you from asking about It
Book No. on Dyspepsia
simply state which Book No. on the Heart
oook you want, and Book No. on the Kidneys
add ress DIR. Shoop Box Book No. for Women
bai, Aaclne, Wis. Book No. 5 for Men, (sealed.
| Book No. on rheumatism
MIG cases, not chronic. are often cured by one Of
two bottles. At ali druggists.
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Simply state which
book you want, and
address DR.. shoop, Box
6al. Racine, Wis.
The National tribune., 1901-12-26

Milo cases, not chronic. are often cured by on
Two bottles. At ali druggists.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-16
FREE DELIVERY.

The free postal delivery will prove a
hard problem for the postal auth orities
to tackle. 1t has taken the carriers
some days longer than was anticipated
to find out all the ramifcl.io is of Il cir
routes, and it will be still harder for
them when they begin i deliver letters
among a population when IS forever
changing it's abode. On cartain lines
of route the work of the men will lie
comparatively easy, nut in others it VIII
be immensely difficult.
To the holder of box privilege it is
doubtful whether the free delivery sys-
tenn will be any advantage. There may
be but one delivery a day, whereas at
the Post office, letters coming in are
placed in the boxes several times a day.
As regards foreign mails, If tie steamer
is late, there is the opportunity of get
ting the letters at any time during the
night, while the mail CAREER will not tie
able to get round till come tine the
next day.
However to those who do not have
and do not care to have box privileges,
boon. The box holder is man whose
work is in town and who goes or sends
to the postoffice several times a day.
He is in constant receipt of letters,
most of which he needs to read and at
tend to in his office or place of BUSH
ness.
But there are many people who only
receive occasional letters, and these do
not care to go down and enquire at the
general delivery every day to see If
there is anything for them in the cor
respondence line. The consequence
is that they leave their letters lying in
the post office lor a month or more,
and some never make enquiry until the
list is published in the papers. To such
people the free delivery will be an i'm.
mense boon. They will not have to
wait until there is something that takes
them into town and then call at the
post office to see if anything is on hand
but will receive their letters as they
come in by each mail The delivery
may be twenty-four hours late, but il
will be great deal better than what il
used to be formerly.
That the system will not work tho
roughly well at first may be taken fol-
granted, it takes sometime to get the
wheels creased as it were But as time
goes on and the men get accustomed tc
their work, and the receivers get ac-
customed to the manner in which let.
tiers will be left. the free delivery sys.
TEN will grow in favor among all sec.
tions of the population.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-16

That Honolulu and Hilo should have
municipal government is what every
citizen desires. But it is one thing to
have a charter which has had the ad-
vantage of being drawn up or super
vised by Judge Taft, and very differ
ent thing to have one prepared by Rep
resentative Daft. Local self govern
ment which is going to throw all the
burden upon one class of citizens, or
which is so crassly stupid that it would
never hold water in the courts is not
wanted.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-16
A PROBLEM.

The vacation school which is talked
of on the mainland, is a subject which
may well be discussed here. Our popu-
Iation is entirely different from the
population of the mainland, and its OPP
pOrtunities are not as great in some
directions, though in others they are
greater. We have found the advantage
of a vacation school for teachers, which
is largely attended, and which does an
immense amount of good. but we have
not yet tackled the problem of the va
cation school for children. 1t is no
slight problem because it involves ex-
pense and energy.
Taking the mass of our poorer classes
of town children, and considering for a
moment, it is no wonder that they take
to pilfering, to crap playing and what
not in these directions. What is there
for these children to do. If they stay
at home they get in the way of their
mothers and the household work and
either get put to some uncongenial
task or get slapped for being where
they should not be. This occurs among
the lluuSlllOuS HOIleS, where innings
are better ordered than in others. But
there are homes, it is a misnomer to
call them homes, where there is no or
der, where there are no regular meals,
no regular sleeping hours, no domestic
life whatever. To children who come
from such places the school is a god
send. The hours spent in school are
the happiest of the twenty-four. 1t
is not that such children are rarticu-
larly studious or particularly good in
school, but their school life gives them
interest. There is order. there is vari-
ETY., sewing and planting are good fun,
and furnish matter, for both thought
and pleasure if arithmetic and writing
prove something of a bore.
To put the matter in plain words the
homes Of many children are very UNI
happy, and the homes of more
are unfit for their moral and physical
development. The school, during its
terms of session is an oasis in the lives
of such children, and they flock to 1t
eagerly but when vacation comes, a
blank comes 1t may be attractive to
have a week or so off without the disci-
pline of the school, but there is nothing
to do in order to fill the time
There is NOTHING to do but to loaf round
the streets and to steadily deteriorate.
This is an actual condition which any
one can verify who will look under the
surface Of the life in this city, 1t is
a condition which ought to be met, but
which no one here has up to the pres
ent. seemed to realize.
The length of vacations here have
been modelled upon the length of vaca-
lions on the mainland and of the old
world. On, the mainland 1t is now be-
ginning to be understood that vaea-
lions suitable for one form of society
are not suitable for all forms OF society
The long vacation here, moreover, is
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-16

The festive Filipino is of somewhat
a blood thirsty character. Recently
couple of Filipinos, with some intimate
friends entered house for the purpose
of robbery. They incidentally amused
themselves by "boloing" to death five
of the inmates including a child of three
and girl of eleven, and wounded five
others. 1t was pretty neat crime. as
crimes go in the Philippines, and two of
the festive "bolo" men have been duly
hanged, but the remainder of the party
escaped.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-16

The honey crop this year. for some
reason or other, is reported as very I'M
satisfactory. One owner complains
that his bees have Joined the plumbers
and have gone on strike. Why there
should be this shortage is not clear
The blossoms which they chiefly live on
have been as numerous as ever, but the
product of honey has been almost nil
There is quite little industry in honey
and some twenty tons or so are ex-
ported annually besides what the To-
cal market takes. Hawaiian honey is
remarkably sweet, but it is fiavorless.
it is mixed, and it's sweetness renders
1t quite valuable.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-16

There is no reason why chicken rails
ing should not pay. The city is Woe
fully in need of all kinds of poultry,
and the supply consists of lanky legged
hens and tough turkeys. If poultry
could be raised on a large scale, prices
would come down and a better article
would be put on the market. Poultry
efforts in the past, however, have not
been remarkably successful, and there
has been considerable money lost over
it. If any one succeeds he will be one
house goods of this description are ut
terly unsatisfactory.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-16

manifestly not in the interests of the
mass of the children, but in the inter-
ests of the instructors. AS far as the
mass of the children is concerned a
short, instead of long vacation would
be much better. The instructors, how
ever. claim that they, personally, must
have long rest. 1t is a matter which
need not be argued now. though there
are strong differences of opinion upon
the point.
Things being as they are how is such
condition to be met: one method
proposed is to open up vacation schools,
and make them as attractive as possi-
BILE by giving a minimum amount of in
struction and maximum amount of
organized recreation. To obtain teach
ers for such work would be a very hard
task indeed, for it would require far
more than the ordinary teachers outfit,
The people who undertook to carry on
such an enterprise would have to be
specially fitted and unless people who
are specially fitted are self sacrificing,
they are expensive people to employ.
In dealing with vacation schools, there
fore there are two elements, the diff
Guilty of obtaining the right personnel
and the difficulty of expense. In this
community it is hard to decide which is
most difficult.
Something in this direction might be
done when the boys public playground,
or the boys brigade playground is
started. But that will not reach, by
any means, all that should be reached
though it will reach many. Mr.. Rich
ards scheme, however, leaves out the
girl element entirely, and the girl ele-
ment is perhaps the more important to
keep in hand. There has, up to this
time, been comparatively little effort to
influence the hoodlum girl element. Mrs
Henry Wilcox has made a noble and
self sacrificing attempt, but it ISIS 9
fight single handed, which she is carry
ing on.
The problem of what we are to dc
for the young is not only problem, OF
merely supplying a mental education
but it is how to bring the children OF
the State up so that it's youth shall be
useful, and still further is it a prob.
lem to save all we can out of the waits