The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-09-15

Il was living in a border State-the
home of the Immortal Washington. Many
were the thrusts made by neighbors; harsh
the language used; black were the deeds
of the enemy!
"On the day that Virginia voted on the
ordinance of Secession nearly all the slave
States had resolved or voted themselves
out of the Union, and were making prep
arations for war. A neighbor, friend,
said to me, he much regretted my course
of action in the crises that | was of good
family; why 60 with the Abolitionist! l
would be shot; he did not want TO shoot
me, or see me shot; was going in bad
cause!
well. he went into the rebel army and
into the Union army; he was shot on one
of Stonewall Jackson's battefelds. Many
times have l thought Of the shooting of
the man who sentenced me to be shot
He became victim of the war he voted
WILL RAISE EELs.
Comrade Geo. Seiford, Cos. r and X.
LIST Mo. Eng, asks for information about
eel growing. lie says: when was a
boy On the banks of the Delaware River,
in New York, caught cells from April
till November. They are a good fish.
wish to go into the business of eel hatch
| ings. but do not know how and when they
| generate. | hope that some better in
| formed comrade will give me information
tn that I, ), ! need or will put me on the track
WHO WAS CAPTURED?
Picket Shots has this interesting letter
from Matte Lewis: when l was little
girl l lived with my parents in Newton
in the Shenandoah Valley. My father was
by Mosby's Guerrillas while trying to
reach the Union lines. Long after that
in the Fall of 1864, u. s. wagon train
passed through Newton. and Immediately
afterward IL or Is of Mosby's Guerrilas
dressed in Yankee uniforms, slipped into
town and stopped about a small grocery
Then, quite distance behind the wagon
train, came a Union officer, an orderly
and colored servant, standing at oul
window my mother tried to warn him by
waving him back, but failing to compre
bend the signal, he advanced and the
rebels, closing about the three, took them
prisoners. l would like to hear from any
of those parties, Federal or rebel. Who
was the officer? What became of him and
his orderly and servant!'
WHO EXPOSED RICHARDSON?
writes IF JOS. Tucker, Co. A, I'd N. G..
will write to me will tell him that when
took him prisoner at Beverly Ford
had no load in my carbine would like
to hear from him. l would greatly like
to hear from any of the boys of the com
pany-G2 to "a. Can you give me the
address of Lieut.. Harrigan, of Co. b, OF
Of Serg't's Joe and Tom Smith?
IF COmrade Covenoven will write tc
any of those mentioned they can tell him
all about the rebel spy Richardson. He
made his headquarters with our compan,
and messed with us-with myself and
others of the company-until arrested ami
hung He was with us going through the
town and !, being the bugler, did not
march in the ranks, and az l rode along
a lady called me to a window from which
she was waving to our soldiers, and
pointed to Richardson and told me he was
a spy! reported to Lieut. Harrigan--
and in due time l was short one picket
rope. l want to say to the Corporal that
40 years is long time for us old fellows
TO remember all details. kept no diary
and sometimes find my memory in donbt
about something that is called up about
those days"
AN UNINSURED VOLUNTEERS SHOT.
John Lester. a subscriber. writes: Il
take your good old patriotic paper, be.