The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-05-07
PICKET SHOTS
Prom Alert Comrades Along the Whole
Line.
IOWA BRIGADE AT SHILOH.

" IOWA BhlGADE Al ohiLOhs
D. C. Beaber, Co. I, 14th Iowa, Fossil,
Brigade. David NJ Strain, of the 18th
Iowa, says, We landed at Pittsburg
Landing, Sunday morning. April 8. dis
embarked. and received 40 rounds of
cartridges and n lot of musket caps, then
marched up the hill and halted to wait for
orders. We did not have long to wait.
We were ordered to a position on the
the capture Of the Sth. 18th and l4th
Iowa, and the 5Sth H. 1 want to say
to Comrade Strain that his regiment did
not occupy line of battle made vacant by
capture of regiments named. The Sth
Iowa was not captured as a regiment.
neither was the 18th nor 18th, until 5:3O
o'clock in the evening Sunday, April %,
and only then because We were without
ammunition and entirely surrounded.
EXCHANGE ROUGH AND READY.
G.. L. C. Meyer. Co. Il, 10Th Ind,
Cornelius, Ore, writes: Il must contra
dict the statement of COmrade John w.
Waite. Co. G, 9th Iowa. in The National
Tribune of March 10, page 3, column ..
After Atlanta's Surrender COmrade
Matte says that Gen. Hood sent men
from Andersonville, all belonging to the
Army, of the, Potomac. Some of US 18th
Ind. boys who were captured in the bat
tie of Atlanta, July D. between the rail-
road and where Gen. Mcpherson was
killed, we're exchanged on Sept. ~. 1864,
Mt Rough and Ready Station. There were
no guards from either side there that
day..
THIS MOTHER GAVE FOUR SONS TO ARMY.
Comrade T. H. Eaton, Lisbon Falls,
Me-, replying to the inquiry in recent
issue of The National Tribune, as to the
mother who furnished the greatest num-
~ 49, 20, he. -psa fhaf
he and his three brothers, William Henry
Eaton, James r. Eaton, w. Daniel
Eaton, all served on Maine regiments.
Three returned home at the close of the
war. William Henry Eaton, the oldest
of the four, died in the service.
BIDwELL's BRIGADE.
C. 81. Enos, 122d n. Y, Rock Creek,
Mimi, writes: I'm a recent issue in
which description of the battle of Fort
Stevens was printed, 1 see slight mis-
take in the composition of Bidwelrs Bri-
gade. In place of 22d n. Y. it should
have been 122d n. Y. The writer says:
Every commanding officer was killed or
wounded in the brigade That also was
a mistake. as our Colonel "a w. Dwight
came out all right, although several other
officers of our command We're wounded"
A YOUNG SOLDIER.
S. S. Martin, writing under date of
April 26, makes claim of being the young
est soldier who carried musket in the
civil war, he being on that date SO years
old. Comrade Martin was born in Lee
County, Iowa. He enlisted Jan. 20. 1865,
Mt Keokuk, Iowa, for two years, in Co. K,
18th Iowa. He joined the regiment at
Spanish Fort in April, participating in the
siege. He marched with his regiment
from Montgomery, and there celebrated
the 18th anniversary of his birth. He was
mustered out Jan. 20. 1866. Comrade
Martin is a member of G. II. Thomas
Post, Ottawa, Kan.
4 SCATTERING.
Gilbert Waldron, Juniata, Iowa, says
that he never sees anything in The Ma
:tional Tribune from members of the 9th
Ohio. Comrade Waldron served three
years in Co. A.
Peter Price, Co. Fl, 124th Ohio, Print
ing Department, Chicago City Post-ofiice,
writes on behalf of party of veterans to
learn what became of Col. Corcoran, of
the Goth n. Y, after he was wounded
and taken prisoner at the first battle of
Bull Run. Will some comrade of the 69th
N " kindly write Comrade Price,