The National tribune., 1906-03-15

IeIt sIoot 10 hunt Tor Headquarters
Whiie wandering around l saw an In
diana battery, all the horses of one
piece being killed or disabled and the
gunners gone. Another gun had one
wheel shot to pieces and had been de-
serted by the artillerymen.
"In all this excitement 1 delivered
my message and found headquarters
on the move. I was then only prI-
vate and IS years old. If J. D. HaZ-
zard. Lieutenant and A. A G. for Cen
j. c. Starkweather, In that campaign,
is living, 1 ask him IL my statement Is
correct"
Credit to the District Volunteers.
Comrade William H. Cullimore, Co.
X, list Pa, writes from Baltimore,
Md, that he read in a recent issue of
The National Tribune the history of
that lighting regiment" The history
is all right SO far as It goes says
Comrade Cullimore, but there were
Is companies, three battalions two
Majors, and the people of Washington
would say US the regiment marched
along, Here comes Bakers First Cali
fornia Brigade 1t was well equipped
in every particular. and with the gall
liant old Senator Baker riding ahead
we were the whole thing.
In your account you gave us only
IA companies. But as I was in Co. r,
which was raised in Washington, D.
C., and was mostly composed OF the
recently-mustered out District of Co.
lumbia Volunteers-three months, first
call troops. Washington City Zouaves
Capt. Powell. / am sure / am right,
because Co. r carried the colors fora
long time.
I'm justice to the old District of CO.
lumbia volunteers, who were really the
only ones that kept the rebels from
capturing the Capital, and held the
city until the big regiments arrived, II
hope you will give this space in your
next issue"
The list Md. Boys Were There.
Comrade F. A. Hall, Co. c, 1st Md p.
ii. B., writes from Lisbon. Md: "In
your issue of Dec. Z, 1905. under the
heading of Who Saved Washington? -
your correspondent said: L was near
that fight, though not in it He seems
to be under the impression there were
no other troops at Monocacy but the
Sixth Corps. 1 can tell him the Sixth
Corps had nothing to do with holding
that bridge that he speaks of There
were few companies of my regiment,
1st Md. =. II. B., that held that bridge
that he speaks of. The Sixth Corps
was gallant band, but why ignore all
others that were there? Co. K of my
regiment were the last troops to leave
the field at Monocacy. l was captured
there with about l20 others and taken |
10 one of the Summer resorts kept ex-
pressly for Yankee prisoners at Dan
vile.
The first book that you sent me. |
Washington During War Time gives
me little information on this subject. |
| merely write this to inform your cor |
respondent that the old Sixth Corps |
did not do it all. Some time ago | /
read about the spy that was hung near
Frederick. Well, I know something
about that, too. AT that time [ be- !
longed to the Twelfth Corps. on our |
return from Gettysburg we came by |
way of Frederick, the object being to |
cover Washington. Gen. BufOrd, if my |
memory serves me right, ordered the |
execution of the spy. and he was cap |
tured in the Second Corps camp ped |
ding newspapers. / have written to |
The National Tribune often lately, and |
you shall hear from me again.
Who Was to Blame at FrankIin:
Comrade Charles T. Weber, Co. f, |
Tooth H., writes from Frankfort Sta
tion, ILL.,, that he was in Wagner's |
Brigade at the battle of Franklin II |
know" he says, who held the rebels |
at Spring Hill, and it looks silly for the !
men of the Twenty-third Corps to |
claim that they stopped the rebel army |
lilt.t. lIliilh II Is ABOUT time 10 ufOD
Franklin, for 1t can be proven by men |
who were there that Gen. Wagner or
his brigade are not entitled to all the |
fault 1t was told few days after the !
fight that it was n new regiment that |
broke first on the left of the pike, but |
Pap Schofeld tells us that it was his |
regiment, the Tooth Ohio. Now, that |
was not new regiment. We lost our |
Color-Sergeant, our Major and several |
men there, besides men captured i'll the |
works after the army left. All credit |
to Comrade Williams for his article of |
Dec. 21, and Comrade Harris, Sergeant, |
Co. Il, 2Sth Ky. ] saw men of the 2Sth |
Ky. sling their Spencer rifles on their |
backs and pick up our Enfields. be- |
cause they were out of ammunition !
for their own arms. Was that Wag- |
ner's fault, too, that the wagons were |
sent back so soon?"
Was n Soldier mt II.
The claim is made that Albert f. |
SpringSteen, now an employe of the |
Pension Bureau at Washington, was
the youngest regularly enlisted and
mustered soldier in the Union army iE
the civil war. He enlisted at Indian
apols, Ind, oct. Is, 1861, at the age
of / years and two months. Com
rade w. c. Riley. of Jerome, Mich,
who sends this item, says:
81 thank your paper very much for
the help you are giving us old veterans !
/ hope you will continue the fight in
our behalf. If the Government would |
do us justice it would give US one cent
a month for every day We served in
the army. If we cannot get that bill
through, then let us have the straight
service pension bill OF S12 per month
without age limit"
Comrade Riley believes the old SOL
diers who risked their lives for their
country should at least be treated as
well as the bondholders who only risked
their money. The bondholders were
paid back in gold. How about the SOL
diers?
Three Ohio Regiments.
In facetious vein Comrade John NJ.
Gilbert. writing from Lisbon, Ohio
says: 'I did not put down the rebel
lion, but l like to read those interest
ing war stories from those who did.
Though we followed them from Bowl
ing Green, Ky, TO Nashville and TO
Stone River, and to Tullahoma and Me
Minnvile, Tenn, without killing n reb-
el. / do not know why this was, unless
they wouldn't stand. In all my read
ing the columns of the noble old SOL
diers' friend and war books. I see but
little concerning the 18th. cath and
They were all close to me. Please let
me know IL either or all of them were
among the 800 fighting regiments"
Spanish Fort.
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