The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1902-04-24
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along the Whole
Line.
PENSION AND OTHER TOPICS.

PENSION AND OTHER TOPICS.
! NJ. A Cleveland, Box 64, gainesville,
| O., writes There would be something
| lacking if your paper failed of receiving
its weekly welcome in The Cottage by
the Grove" Indeed it seems more indis-
pensable as the years pass us onward to
| the final goal Thirty-Seyen years ago
| Grant was closing in on the lines OF
! Lee and | was engaged in reducing the
defenses of Mobile, our last charge at Fort
Blakely occurring OH the day Gen. Lee
surrendered, but of which we were lsno-
rant at the time. Well, III. c. Evans Is to
go after his five years of duty faithfully
performed, j. e.. in his own estimation.
For one, | would like to read that report
now in the hands of the President. How
ever. let us take heart for the stir up of
pension matters, for its effects may be felt
in the future and some changes IN the
laws. The bill of w. W. Skiles, Repre-
sentative from Ohio, seems about the right
thing, after waiting SO long for n service
pension of some kind-better, to my mind,
than Senator Quay's. | am greatly inter
ested in articles written by those of our
opponents who We're heroes in a lost cause,
and hereby tender my thanks to DR.. Can
non and G.. Dallas Mosgrove, the latter
closing his article on 'Morgan's Men in
words of golden import to us. | antici-
p
coming encampment. Let everyone go
that can, for it may be a last time to
touch elbows with the old boys, the oppor-
tunity of seeing Washington and visiting
old battlefields.''
THE IRON BRIGADE.
G. Il. Barnes, Co. l, 9TH Wis. Omro.
Wis. writes: LAS Hamilton G. Colby was
mustered out in October, 1864, he has no
personal knowledge of the history of the
Iron Brigade after that date. In De
cember. 1864, the 18th Ind. was taken
from the brigade and consolidated with
the Goth Ind. and the command was as
signed to the Second Corps. In Febru-
airy, 1865, Gen. Il. S. Bragg, with the oath
Mich. and two small Pennsylvania regi-
ments, that did not belong to the brigade,
took boat at City Point for Fort McHenry.
That was the last we saw OF the General
until the war closed. But the I'd, 9th and
9TH Wis We're left, and reported to Gen.
Meade We were ordered back to our pc
sition in front of Petersburg. The 9Th
Wis had retained the brigade flag. About
this time the 91st n. Y. was sent from
Fort McHenry and the brigade was reOr-
ganized with that regiment temporarily at
tached, and Col. Kellogg was brigade com
mander The brigade thus constituted
went through the campaign of 80. and
was at Lees surrender at Appomattox
Court House. The three Wisconsin regi-
ments above mentioned were all that went
through the war from start to finish as
part of the odd Iron Brigade l enlisted
in February, 1864, and any statements
Of events prior to that date, / will
not attempt to correct. | think, however,
that Gen. Bragg makes mistake in the
date that he took command. He says IN
June. 81 / believe that Gen. Cutler COM
manded the brigade until August, '64. /
fhA hot
tie of Weldon Railroad, and was there
wounded"
CAMPAIGNING WITH THE ARMY OF THE
POTOMAC.
Serg't C. P. Kiber, Co. L, Coles Cav
airy, Winterstown, Pa, writes: Il am glad
to learn that Comrade Shaw, Chief En-
gineer, Department of West Virginia, is
in the land of the living. | would like
him to tell, through The National Tribune,
what regiment supported Battery h, 9th
u. S. Art He says there were a few
struggling cavalrymen at Leestown, July
3, 1864. These struggling cavalrymen
were our full regiment of Coles Cavalry.
We supported Battery z all day long. Maj.
Shaw says the battle commenced at
o'clock. He is mistaken; it commenced at
8 o'clock We went into action without
breakfast; bad no dinner, and did not get
anything to eat until night, when we fell
back to ShepherdstOwn. Next day, July
1, we marched to Maryland Nights, and
from that on were engaged until noon of
July 7, when we fOrded the Potomac Mt
Harper's Ferry, expecting to meet the
enemy, but the rebels had left the night
before. We recrOssed the river and
marched to Smokers Gap, where we en-
gagged the enemy and captured a number
of wagons and mules"
coma .r,,,.
w. b. Chandler, of Patoka, ILL.,, writes:
~ see n claim made by Comrade S. +.
Hilderbrand, Co. E, both Pa. Apollo,
Pa, of four pairs of brothers serving in
one company. | will see him and raise
him six, as ten pairs served in Co. X, Sth
Ky. Cav, and the 18th pair enlisted. and
one was rejected; namely, ]. A. and S. p.
Anderson, w. S. and ID. Il. Boliver. J. c.
and J. b. Bclchcr l.. Il. and g. w. Col
man, Augustus and W. b. Chandler. J.
o. and W. j. Hendricks, A. ]. and NJ. C.
Nahum, ID. j. and ii. ID. McClarmore. l..
b. and j G. Oranges, J. w. and T. G.
Sawyer, J. III. and w. B. Woodward, J.
c. and NJ. ii. Henderson. ]. G. Hender-
son was received and the other one re-
jected. And it was not called the com
pany of brothers, either, as the cousins
were more numerous"
FIRST COLORS ON FORT GREGG.
John Stockdale, Co. A, 9th Ohio, West
Unity, Ohio, writes: MY regiment led the
charge at Fort Gregg. We had marched
from Five Forks, or Hatcher's Run, on
the morning of that date. We unslung our
knapsacks near some old Confederate
works, and charged Fort Gregg. We
jumped into the ditch west of the fort,
and / with some other boys of the 9th
Ohio, scaled the parapet and lay on the
outer edge. When q Confederate stuck his
head above the intrenchments, we would
fire. After we had scaled the parapet, the
199th Pa came up. The Colonel of the
l99th Pa. was near me, and loaded guns
which he handed to me to fire. Our colors
were the first on the Confederate works"
THE 18th PA. AT FORT GREGG.
d. b. Henry, Co. I, ,55th Pa, Cookport
Pa, writes: Il have read the article writ
ten by Maj. S. f. Shaw, Chief Engineer,
Department of West Virginia. | think he
is mistaken in the corps to which he be-
longed. At Fort Gregg, the West Vir-
GINA Brigade was in the Twenty-fourth
Corps. l think it was in the Second Divi-
sion of that corps. 1t was commanded by
Division. | was in the First Division,
Twenty-fourth Corps. My regiment was
in the rear of the fort when it sur
rendered"
BROTHERS IN A MISSOURI COMMAND.
j. Wesley Isle, of Edmond. Oklahoma.
Ter, writes that in Co. III, 9th Mo. S. NJ.
Cav, Jos. \. Isle served as Sergeant and
hiS brotbp Jun w DC II