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DID THE LETTER ARRIVE?
Trade. Commerce and Postal Service Betwee,
the Pickets.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: During
the month of March, 1863, while my regi.
ment lay near Falmouth, Va, we were
called on to do picket duty along the Rap
pahannOck at point where, on each side.
there was beach, then rising ground.
which prevented us from seeing any one
approaching the river on our own side.
while we had full view of the approa ches
on the opposite side. The pickets of the
contending armies were in full sight of
each other, and. the river being narrow.
we could. by little effort, talk to one an.
other, which we did, and agreed to have
good time; and each agreed to watch
for and to notify the other of the approach
OF the Officer of the Day on his regular
visit. Therefore We proceeded to enioy
ourselves. talking to one another at will:
and we had peace. The 9Th La, was do.
ing duty opposite US. We seldom, except
when notified of the approach Of the OFF,
Ger OF the Day, had a gun in our hands.
Some one on duty there before us had
shaped from a piece of wood a very good
model OF bOat-about two feet long-and
had htted to II mast, sail and rudder.
BY tying the rudder and the sail 80 an To
catch the wind and steer the boat, we were
able to do little trading. Sometimes our
boat became becalmed out on the river.
md would not 90 either way. Then We
had to wait for favorable wind, or. a we
generally did. throw stones to make waves
that would carry the boat to ito destina.
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told him that if he killed rebel I would
buy him plug Of tobacco. His post was
near Lieut.. \. A. Lee. When Petty saw
a rebel picket he said to Lieut.. Lee: "Shall
l shoot him?" YES" He shot the man,
and an it cost me 81 70, the plug of tobacco.
fired that morning. Very soon after that
shot Forests Cavalry advanced, in a
splendid line of battle, in our front. I let
them come quite close before ordered my
men to fire, which they did, killing and
wounding men and horses, and the cavalry
retreated. l was over the same ground
after the battle of Missionary Ridge. with
Of Sept. 10, to bury two of their men killed
that morning, and we captured two de-
serters who had been in the fight with
Forrest that morning, and we saw many
carcasses of the dead horses; and down
near the spring there were graves of p
rebels. As soon as the cavalry retreated
Forests battery commenced Smelling US
and the brigade on the hill, doing no dam
age Their infantry deployed, with a heavy
line OF skirmishers, and we fought them
back to the Lafayette road Gen. Thomas
had ordered our brigade and battery to the
rear. My orders were to hold and fight
the enemy back to the brigade. About this
time we heard heavy cannonading and
musketry on our right. The enemy had
oCus 4uOuIds lTOODS. i
marched my men back and Joined our bri-
gade one mile in the rear Col. McCook
had sent one Of his Aids to notify me to
get out; but the firing was so heavy
failed to get the order. This was the first
time the enemy fired explosive musket
balls at us. When they struck q hard sub
stance they exploded, making q loud re-
port. l now have one of the balls in my
collection. l carried and used that morn
ing Henry repeating rife-16 shots
the second one to make its appearance at
Nashville. Judge Daniel McCOok, ST., ex-
hibited the first one and gave me the ad-
dress to procure it, and bought one and
used it until mounted; then turned it over
to Fife-Maj. A. p. Weber Of nv regi-
ment, and 1t has a history. Judge Daniel
McCook, ST.. was killed by Morgan's men,
in Ohio. He was using the same rife he
showed me at Nashville. What l state
about opening the battle of Chickamauga
on Saturday morning, Sept. 10, 1864, !
can prove by all the soldiers living who
were present there that morning. Our
monuments erected on the hill near Reds
Bridge, which was the extreme front of
the Union army on that day, attest the
statement. The survivors of Col. Dan Nc
Cooks Brigade will ever remember the
name OF Gen. II. V: Boynton. who gives
credit to Col. Dan McCook's Brigade for
the honor they earned in that battle
ALLEN L. FAHNEsTOCK, Commanding Seth
ILL.,, Lieutenant Colonel
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CAPTURE OF The spy HICKS.
Daring Attempt to Escape to the Rebel
Lines.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Comrade
James J. Hall says: please call up Lieut..
Smith, 9th kans. Cav" will now, from
memory, tell how the spy Will Hicks was
captured. | was orderly at the Provost
Marshal's Office, under Capts. o. +. Morse,
Kenyon, and d. Monteith. Hicks came to
Pine Bluff in the Summer Of 1864. He
secured a permit to run barber shop and
to sell such goods as canned oysters, ETC.,
bold, and secured a pass to go about where
he pleased. There was no trouble for him
to learn anything he desired TO learn.
must say, to their credit, that the Order
lies about headquarters suspected him of
disloyalty and treachery.
Capt. Whiteman, 9TH Mo. Cav, was
Officer of the Day, and bad completed a
pickets. Being dissatisfied, on reflection.
after his return, he decided to make some
new disposition of an outpost, and rode
out again, in his shirt sleeves, with his
pistol OH his belt but no saber. En- route
he stopped for drink, hitched his horse,
and went into house, some 20 PAGES from
the gate, to get water. As he reached the
man getting on your horse" The Captain
turned and saw that it was Hicks and he
made dash at him. Hicks ran, pursued
by the Captain, who opened fire. Hicks
dropped, hoping that the Captain would
turn to secure the horse and give him a
chance to break for the adjacent brush
and escape. The ruse did not work; the
Captain captured Hicks and searched him.
In his boots were plans-excelient and
accurate-of Notifications and forces of
both Pine Bluff and Little Rock. He
brought Hicks to headquarters and turned
him over to Capt. A. d. Monteith, Provost
Marshal. The prisoner was turned over
to me by the Provost Marshal with orders
to deliver him to Lieut.. Like. who had
charge of the prison. carried the order
for Hicks to be taken before the Military
Court for trial: also, the order for his
removal for execution.
Comrade Hall ought to remember me.
rode roam horse. / feel like meeting
an old friend when / read letter from the
old 2Sth Wis. l would be glad to hear
from Charley LYMAN. Clerk at the Pro
vost's Office. and from James Lusk-both
of my company.-W. III. ATKERsoN, Co.
ID, 9th Kans. Cav.
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OPENED BATTLE OF cHIcKAMAU0A.
The Commander Of the seth Ill. Claims the
First Shot for His Regiment.


EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In your
issue of July IA 1 notice the article
Errors of War History" giving Gen.
Boyntons and Rodenbough's account Of
the battle of Chickamauga. l belonged to
Col. Dan McCook's Third Brigade, Second
Division, Fourteenth Corps, and at that
Lieut.-Col. ID. w. Magee commanded the
regiment. Our brigade was assigned to
Gen. Gordon Changers Reserve Corps, at
Chattanooga. l kept diary Of all that
happened, of any note, each day, while in
the service. Gen. Boynton is correct when
he states that Col. Dan McCook's Brigade
opened the battle of Chickamauga on the
Bridge, Chickamauga Greek.
Our brigade marched from Columbia,
Tenn, by way of Huntsville, Ala, arriving
in Chattanooga at 8 o'clock p. m, Sept.
rs, and camped that night. The next even
ing our brigade. with the Goth Ohio, was
ordered to march out and destroy Reeds
Bridge, on Chickamauga Creek. Gen.
Minty's Cavalry had been fighting near the
bridge. 1t was late in the evening when,
near the bridge, we came in contact with
the rear of the enemy's wagon train, going
to their camp, crossing at Reeds Bridge.
Their brass band was marching in the rear
of their train. We captured eight must
clans, with their drums and brass horns.
We could have captured their train, but
our orders were to destroy the bridge, and
we let the train 60 to their camp un-
molested. minus their band.
The brigade and Capt. Barnett's Illinois
Battery took position on the left of the
Lafayette road Co. B and Co. of the
Seth and 20 men of the 18th Ohio were
detailed for picket duty. Our line was on
the right of the Lafayette road. In the
morning we moved our skirmishers to the
top of the hill, just at break of day. l
had private by the name of Jacob Petty.
a good marksman, but rather eccentric. ]
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NINTH CORPS AT PETERSBURG.
A Maine Gunner's Remini SCIENCES Of White
in the Forts.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In your
issue Of Sept. 1 is an article. ninth
Corps at Petersburg" by Geo. NJ. Buck,
Co. c, Goth Mich. In the writer think
l recognize Serg't Buck, whom / knew
while in Battery No. o, and think he will
remember our boys who manned the two
12-pounder Napoleons in Battery 8 from
Oct. %, "a, to March ID, 60. | certainly
find in my diary the following names:
Lieut.. Baker; Sergts Hammond and
Hunkerford; Corp'ls Shafer and Wilber;
Johnny Bullen, the Drummer: Charley
Pangburn, Johnny McCallister, Billy
Brown, Thorn, Crazy, Smith. These boys
used to visit our big bombproof often !;
many are the Indian war dances and other
jollities We had there. We belonged to
the Second Corps, but were temporarily
attached to the Ninth Corps when they re-
lieved the Second on that part Of the line.
1t seems good to read those old familiar
names-Chesterfield, Goose Neck and
Spring Hill--as in our more than four and
half months occupancy Of Battery 8 we
certainly had many iron compliments from
all of them, besides the mortars in our
front.
/ think the Goth Mich. boys can say
that we gave Spring Hill better than they
sent, and kept them pretty quiet. When
we left Battery 8, on the night of March
Is, We were relieved by two guns of the
10Th N. Y. Battery; but history says that
Cos. G and l, of the 9Th U. S., had two
guns In there at the time Of the Fort
Stedman affair, March Is; and if they
were manned they must have largely con-
tributed to the defeat Of the enemy, as
they had two embrasures from which they
could sweep the ground with canister, be-
tween Fort Stedman and Spring Hill
or Colquits Salient, as called on the maps
The main lines, at Battery 8, were
nearer together than at any other place
around Petersburg, and as there was no
picket line in front we, all Winter, ex-
pected an attempt at its capture, and kept
one gun loaded with canister every night,
and the guard, with friction primer in
hand, to discharge it at first evidence Of
a charge, to awake the men in line. We
had about 20 officers and men in there,
and all became very strongly attached to
the 10th Mich. boys; and I think Buck s
article is the first have seen in regard to
Battery No. and the part it played
March %, 1866. f. RHODES, 9th Me.
Battery.
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Who Can Tell Her7

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Can Won
give me any information concerning the
knowltons, who were in the Revolutionary
War? Those who went from Maine,
Massachusetts and Connecticut-Jonathan
Thomas, and others? Also, of those who
were in the Mexican War; and those who
were in the War of 1872? Jonathan
knowlton was my grandfather; Thomas
knowltOn, who was killed at the battle
OF Bunker Hill, was my great-uncle.
nave been appointed Regent for the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
and l went to trace up all my ancestors
possible. Also; can you tell me anything
of Gen. Lyon, who was quite a hero in
the civil war? think his home is ia
Missouri. l will appreciate any informa-
tion;-MRs; J: d: ALEXANDER, Cisco, Tex.
lGen. Nathaniel Lyon-a Captain in
the I'd U. s., was killed while in comma nd
OF the Union troops at Wilson's Creek.
-EDIToR NATIONAL TRIBUNEl
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The Des Moines papers speak of the
long journey of Lieut.. Chas. e. Barker, to
the 25th Iowa-which he carriel in the
assault on Vicksburg. When he saw it
he said:
when that old flag Was new and
bright, i waded through blood, over the
dead bodies Of my best friends and
through storm of shot and shell to grab
u from rebel soldiers hands. There's
where it got the powder and blood stains:
there's where it was shot to tatters; but
We saved her, Joe.a
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AZ to "sooners" and others.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: beg to
call your attention to an article in your
issue of Aug. rs, "Sooners of 81" in
which the author launches into insliscrim-
mate and unauthenticated accusations of
the veterans who served during the latter
part of the war of the rebellion, question
ing their motives, etc. Now, Mr.. Curtis
Fl. Terry seems to have overlooked the
fact that You can not reap a harvest
without gathering tares;" but it is very
inconsistent with American ideas of fair
play to shoot through lamb to kill a wolf.
| know nothing of his personal grievances.
nor with whom they may have originated !:
but | do know that he has no right to
put his grievances upon others, who are
as equally entitled to credit, with himself.
II they are not, why not, nothwithstand-
ing they enlisted the latter part of the
war?
1t is needless to thrash old straw all
over again" by going into details that you
are fully cognizant Of 1t is obvious that
any man enlisting for any term during
the war of the rebellion, who served that
term honorably, or was for any cause
honorably discharged, is to-day an honor
able veteran of that war; and, further
more, they, one and all, deserve the ever
lasting gratitude Of their country. 1 con-
SiucT VIZ. CuTIISf II. terryS article an un-
provoked outrage, which shows the author
to good deal less advantage than it does
those he attacks.
The editor Of The National Tribune has
always been very courteous in opening the
columns OF his paper to both blue and
gray; but l fail to recall one article writ
ten by the most fabid Southerner, ex-soI-
der or citizen, that would stand any com
parisOn with the one written under the
heading of "Sooners Of '61," over the name
Of Curtis II. Terry 9th Mass.-SIMoN
WasTWAY, late Robert Wilson, Co. G,
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What He Did.

what dat. Judge, yer az me what m,
wocashun amp
Eyes, what is your vocation? l mean
what do you do for a liying?'
"Ah, yesser, yesser, l understands yer
now. What ! does for livin' is-my wife
takes in washing"
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PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades Along the Whole
Line.
BATTLE PREMoNITIoN.

Comrade James r. Widows. Go. d. 10Th
Ind, writes: The story of the Fremont
ton of Comrade Haselgraves, told in your
Issue Of June 80, reminds me of a premo-
milton in our company. We were about TO
charge an intrenched battery at Resaca.
Ga, May Is, 1864, and went 70 fill oui
canteens. After the canteens were filled
Comrade David i. Furgate took from his
pockets some trinkets and handed them Il
a comrade, saying, 1 shall be killed in this
charge; send these TO my sister, and he
gave her name and address. We tried u
laugh him out of his fears. but he was not
affected. We made the charge, took the
battery and entered the entertainments.
Comrade Furgate with rs. He mounted
one of the captured caissons and sat on il;
loading and firing for few minutes, whe:l
a musket ball struck him in the abdomen.
inflicting a wound from which he died that
night
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lish description of the barracks or stock
ade in which the prisoners were held. in
Elmira, N. Y, during the war of the rebel
lion?"
Comrade d. B. Cravens, Co. /, 21st No.,
Arbela, Mo-, wishes some one to send him
copy of the poem: "Pickett's Charge at
Gettysburg" or let him know where he can
procure it-price of any volume i'm which
it can be found, etc.
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GEN. A. j. SMITH.

COmrade Ben Van Dyke. Go. d. 14th
Iowa, writes from Oklahoma: Il see in
The National Tribune of Sept. l. sug-
gestion to erect a monument to Gen. A. j.
Smith. Of the Sixteenth Corps. l served
under him on the Red River campaign. in
the Spring Of 1864 The brigade l was
in consisted of the 18th, 9th and 32d
Iowa and Oath Mo. A Drawer man than
General A. J. Smith never was; he was
always to the front with his men. Yes. old
comrades, let us erect a monument in
honor Of the hero of the Red River expedi-
ton! Come to the front. boys; The Ma
tional Tribune can get us together. |, for
one, will help. l suggest that we put the
money in the hands of the Editor of The
National Tribune, and he will see that it
goes into proper hands. By all means. let
us build a monument to our beloved Cen
cral A. ]. Smith.
[Gen. Grenville NJ. Dodge, President of
the Army of the Tennessee, has written
The National Tribune that monument
was erected by the Army OF the Tennessee
two years ago-EDITOR.I
II have in my possession a discharge be-
longing to William III. Stroud, private of
Capt. James f. Chappell's company U),
5Sth Ind. Vet. Vol. Inf. He, if living.
or, otherwise, his heirs, can procure the
discharge by writing to me. 1t was picked
up on tn streets of Philadelphia. Pa,
some 80 years ago, by Mrs. Samuel Reece,
who lived there at that time.
"Talk about pensions / received a pen
sion check in August for 20 cents; bal
ance due me on back pension. for increase.
Who ever got a smaller check than 20
cents? l have the check yet, trying to
find some one able TO cash it,
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SEND THEM TO HIM.

Comrade G. F. Latin does not give his
regiment, but he writes from Asotin,
Wash: Il would like to ask if any Com
rade or reader of the dear old Tribune can
send me a song which was going about in
the Summer "a, part of the chorus of
which ran thus:
lit was the House that Grant built,
Indeed it's true, as l tell you,
1t was the House that Grant built
"Also, would like to get the names and
addresses of any of those girls who sang
My Maryland on a street of Gettysburg.
the town."
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WHO CAN ANSWER?

II. Walker writes: Can you, or any Of
your readers through The National Trib-
une, give me any informal ton of the death
of Lieut.. Ralph +. Ellinwood? He was a
member of an Ohio regiment, and his home
was at Cincinnati His name is inscribed
on the Battle Monument at West Point.
Kindly obtain for me any information you
can as to the facts of his death, and in
what battle he was killed.
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WAS THEIR FAMILIAR PAL.


Comrade A. ]. Wright, Sergeant, Co. L,
18th Mo. Cav, writes Il notice with in
terest, in a late issue, the account of Re-
union of the 18th Ind. Cav. 1t would have
given me much pleasure TO have been there
with the comrades, although | did not
serve in that regiment. l had many friends
among them, and was in the same division
participated in the same battles and was
with them in many hog-skirmishes and
chicken-pickings. They were good boys in
every one of these important lines of action
in war"
SCATTERING.
Comrade Henry A. Arnold. Co. I, 18th
Me-, writes: "Who were the first troops
that went into Fort Gregg in 1865
Before We started in the Spring cam
paign of 1868, 100 men were taken out
of the 18th Me. and armed with seven
shooters, and Second Lieutenant Paine,
Co. q, was put in command of the de-
tachment. | always understood that he
was the first man over the works."
Comrade Chas. Williams, 10th Pa, Port
Clinton, Pa, desires any comrade who
knows how, to write to him and tell him
how to make imitation hOney-something
the bees will take home and work into
real honey"
Mary Il. Cox, Hutchinson, Kans., writes
to learn in what regiment and company her
husband. now deceased, served, as he lost
his discharge and she does not remember
where he served. He enlisted from Indian
apolis early in the war, when about IS
years old; was discharged in 1858; his
name was John q. Cox, but he sometimes
omitted the =. Was about five feet six
inches in stature; large, brown eyes !;
brown. curly hair. If you knew him, write
to his widow what you know
Comrade Jacob B. johnson, Co. /, Sd
o. 8. G. T., writes: ION July 81. 1863.
l. with 20 or more others, went to Bridge
ton, N. j., to recruiting Office and offered
to enlist as part of the quota of New Jer-
sey. They told us they had no authority
to send c0lored men to shoot white traitors.
The next day we went TO PHILADELPHIA
1O11 or 1910, Chestnut street-where we
were accepted without hesitation, and were
mustered into the U. 8. service.
Mrs. G. Scherer writes: Can you pub
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HOSTING THE FLAGS.

Arrived at the Post Office, a three story
building, We ascended the stairway, the
crowd following to the upper unfinished
floor. The only mode of getting upon the
roof was through q hatchway reached by
climbing post with lateral strips nailed
on Leaving the two men at the foot of
this ladder, | and young Elicit, with one
fag-the other having been snatched from
the soldier carrying it and torn to shreds a
few minutes before-climbed up and out on
the roof; but finding no fiagpole, L returned
to the upper floor and found a piece of
hooring about six feet long, This | split
across the corner of hatchway, and Elicit
and myself splieed the two pieces together
with a ball of bandage which he luckily
carried In his pocket Fastening the flag
upon this, We carried it out to the front
OF the building on the roof, and hung it
from Hue out over the street We were
greeted with wild yells from the street be-
low. and several pistol shots were fired at
Us from the opposite side of the street. bur
We were untouched. Returning TO the
room below, We found it filled to suffoca-
ton with half-drunken soldiers and raying
citizens, and for half an hour or more We
held them at bay by sheer bravado. stand
Ing about the foot Of the ladder, and al
most momentarily expecting an attack
upon us. During this time Mayor Park
several times came up and urged that we
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TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1904.
Should Be Thoroughly Investigated

1t is now reported that the girders
which support the dome cf the state
capitol are TOO weak and that there
is danger OF crush at any time. This
is a report made by Mr.. c. c. Wilson,
q Columbia architect. who is employ
ed by the new commission to COM
plete the state house.
The governor is right in. having
al work suspended until the truth OF
the report Of Mr.. Wilson might be es-
tablished. II Mr.. Wilson's statement
is correct the wonder is that the crash
has not come sooner. To place 1S7
per cent. more weight on girder
than is safe is very dangerous sltua-
ton. 1t is a very unfortunate condi-
ton and we trust that Governor Hey
ward in securing an expert architect
will get some one who is not only
competent and is known to have a
reputation and whose statement may
be relied upon, but one who is not in
the remotest degree interested in any
of the cross firing that has been 60
ing on between the various commit
tees and commissioners on the state
house. and one who is not seeking a
Job as architect and will, therefore,
not in the slightest way Be inter-
ested, directly Or indirectly, in cap
tious criticism of any other architect.
We do not pretend TO say that this
mas been the case in any of the re-
ports, but it is fact that there has
been certain amount OF prejudice
and bad feeling growing out OF the
various committees and commissions
which we have had on the COM
pletion of the capitol. 1t is very un-
fortunate
The people would like to have the
unbiased and unprejudiced statement
of an expert. Ii the work is defec-
tive let us know it.
Mr.. F. P. Milburn, who was the
architect on the completion of the
state house. employed by the first
commissioners says he will have
something to say in reply to Mr.. Will
sons statement Let the light be
turned on and let US know the facts.