The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-04-16
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along the Whole
Line.
BATTLE OF THE CRATER.

William Gott. Co. Il. list Mich. s. s.,
Flowerville, Mich, writes: Il have read
the sketch of the Battle of the Crater in
The National Tribune of Jan. s. l claim
to have been the first soldier on the rebel
works ON the left of the fort. Some COM
rades, writing of this affair. have made
mistakes. If l remember correctly. only
one brigade of white troops of Wilcox's
Division crossed the rebel works. Coz
bartlett was in command. The 1st
Mich :. s. and the Goth Mich. were in
the charge to the left of the fort We
were there from early in the morning until
O'Clock in the afternoon, when we were
taken prisoners. l saw the colored troops
as they marched toward the Crater. They
We're in columns of tours, with guns at
right shoulder shift. They formed on the
bank in the rear of the rebel works,
When ordered to rise up they were met
with yolley from the rebels. which threw
them into confusion. Many of the colored
troop We're taken prisoners that day and
were III the same prison with u.s."
a WORTHY CLASS.
Comrade p. =. Brady, Co. +. 2Sth ILL.,,
Osawatemie. Kan, writes that he entered
the army a healthy, strong boy in 1861.
and was not mustered out until the close
OF the war; that owing to the hardships
and exposures of army life, he has never
since enjoyed a well day. After the enact
ment of the law of June 81, 1890, he
made application for pension, and is now
upon the rolls at So. Comrade Brady is
totally disabled for the performance of
manual labor. and he believes that the
Act of June - should be so amended as
to pension at $50 per month those who
are unable to perform any manual labor.
THE MOBILE EXPLOSION.
In reply to the inquiry of Noah NJ.
Reichclderfer in The National Tribune of
March 10, William Harding. Co. a, 33d
Iowa, st. Charles. Iowa, writes: THE ex-
plosion occurred May %. 1860. at about
2 O'Clock p. nj. At the time it was said
that about $50 tons of fixed ammunition
| We're stored in the old cotton house. It
| was stated by Mobile papers that be-
tween 100 and 500 people We're killed,
wounded and missing. Eight blocks were
destroyed. l was in the city when the
explosion occurred"
LEE STATUE.
| John Q. Evans. Co. d. 9th Wis. Vine
| land, Mimi, writes: IF the statue of
Gen. Robert L. Lee is placed in the Ma
tiOnal Capitol, would it not be appropriate
to place two others-one of Benedict
Arnold, the other of Judas Iscariot:'
SCATTERING.
| Comrade William Davis. of Lake Crys-
tai, Mimi, served is months in the Japan
Expedition under Commodore Perry. His
ship was the L. S. S. Susquehanna, under
command of Capt. Buchanan, later of the
Confederate States Navy.
Martha C. Snider. wife of Comrade
Snider, Co. G, Both Iowa, Leland. Idaho.
wishes to learn what mother furnished
the most sons to the Union army during
the war of the rebellion, and also to the
army during the war with Spain.
Walter f. Atwood, 245 Market St,
Lowell, Mass, requests that some COM
rade send him the poem, ''The Veteran
and His Grandson or ''Why We Wear
the Badge" by Capt. Jack Crawford.
j. X. Bardelmer, McClusky, Illinois,
requests that some comrade send him a
poem, the first lines of which are as fol-
| lows:
The last wild charge to scale the nights,
1t was grand though awful sight.
Though thirty years have passed away,
1t seems to me but yesterday.