The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-01-28

Please do not submit to such a thing,
Surely We have enough Robert e. Lees
and Jefferson Dayises living and antagon-
izing good government without recalling
the dead or reviying their dangerous and
Obstructive influence"
PROMOTE THAT CORPORAL
John Moore, Co. G, 10th Ohio Cav. Ell
more, o.. relates this interesting story: I'm
March. 1863. at Hyle's Landing, n. c.,
10 men of Go. G, 10th Ohio Cav, while
on picket duty. captured q Confederate
soldiers, with Lieutenant in command
,"Abont noon that day a young negro
woman came hurriedly to our picket re-
serve post and said that party Of rebel
soldiers was at her masters house, waiting
for their dinner. Examining the messenger
carefully we learned that the rebels had
hitched their horses near the barn, and lefE
their guns in the barn, which the coIered
woman said we could reach unseen. They
We're less than a mile away from US. be-
hind a strip Of woods. We decided to cap
ture the Confeds il possible.
"Corp1 Thomas Smith was in charge Of
the picket post. Leaving one man on the
post, Corpl Smith. Luther Reynolds.
Lewis Hemming. John Hunt, Jacob
Hunt. Samuel Hutchinson. Jacob Leitner.
Dig Credicat and John Moore went after
the rebels. being guided by the colored
woman. We got to the place. took all the
arms and hid them under some old to-
bacco stems; then quietly surrounded the
house. Every door and window was COW
cred before the rebels knew OF our pres
ence. Every hand went up at our COM
mand and we gobbled them without firing
shot. We marched them to our picket
post and then to brigade headquarters, the
negroes leading the horses and carrying
the captured guns"
THE FORT WAS EMPTY.
From Erie, Colo, Geo. Brown, Co. ID.
41th ILL.,. writes: IF anybody asks you
what regiment first entered Spanish Fort.
Ala, tell them 1t was the 47th Ill. We
were at the front on picket In the morn
ing at O'Clock everything was so still that
we got curious and our Sergeant jor
went to see what he could see. and he saw
nobody! He found box of tobacco and
divided with the rest OF US. Now, 4Ith.
come to the front; report yourselves for
duty and back me up!'
J. III. Registers. 9Th Mass. (colored)
Cav. Plymouth. N. c.. writes letter that
is evidence of intelligence aud education,
in which he says: II am very, very poor;
have an invalid wife. boy OF five years.
one girl younger and two older in my
family; am over GO years of age. of no
down. / get So a month pension, and
have applied for an increase"
j. Gravenhorst, First Sergeant, Co. A,
37th ILL.,. Mathewson. Okla, would like
to hear from old company. regimental and
brigade comrades. He specially mentions
26th Ind.
SCATTERING.
Joseph Scheibel. Brockway, Mimi.
would like to hear through The National
Tribune from members of Go. Is, Sd ~. y.
Cav.
III. ]. slocum, Co. B. 52d ILL.,, requests:
Il would like to have some comrade OF
the I'd Iowa tell us something about a conf
rade of that regiment who did service as
a spy and scout for Gen. Dodge"
Comrade Geo. w. Norris. 18th Ill. Cav,
Anna. ILL.,, wishes to find comrade. He
says: He left note for me at the In
ternational Hotel, San Francisco during
the recent Encampment, and signed il,
Your old eomrade of the l4th LII. Cav
and there he ended, forgetting to sign
his name. He did tell the clerk what hotel
he was at, and went there. but as did
not know for whom to ask. l failed. I
wish that he would write to me-"
Geo. w. Smith, Co. X, 115th Ind,
West Terre Haute, Ind, says: Il want to
know what has become of the old Persim-
mon Brigade. / don't suppose that am
now altogether ait" Where are the 9TH
ers? want to hear from them-the 11ath.
10th. 117th and 18th Ind. and 18th
MICH. battery.
J. f. Norville, Geriaw, ILL.,, writes: 81
am not an old comrade, but a son of F..
O. NoryilIe, Co. b. 103d ILL.,, who served
three years and six months and was in
many battles and went with Sherman to
the Sea. He is deceased, and il would
greatly crafty his widow and his son to
see in The National Tribune "reminiscences
of some of his old comrades who have not
forgotten him."
NJ. G. Dayton. Co. C. 50th N. Y. Engi.
neers, Quincy, Mich, writes: AT City
Point / talked with Confederate who
was captured at Petersburg in April, 1865.
and / would like to hear from him. ;
gave him postage stamp to prepay let
ter that he wished to mail to his wife.
mention this TO identify myself to him:
have no disposition to demand payment for
the stamp. He said that we could almost
see his home from the place at which we
talked. He had told his wife in the letter
that he meant to take the oath nf alle-
glance to the United States at the FIRST
opportunity. and return to his wife at the
frst eAance.n