The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-07-19

McCumber bill. lately published In Tho
National Tribune. will be slightly more
generous before IL becomes a law, and
will treat all the old boys OF the civil
war well, whether they served one day
or 80 days. Comrade Demmon would
like to hear from all those "cut off, by
the 9O-days enactment through the col
umns of this paper.
Army Of the Tennessee.
Taking exception to the claim OF DR..
A. y. Ellis that Nelson's Division saved
Grants army from destruction or cap
ture at Shiloh. w. J. Shelton, 10th Ohio,
Manchester, o., member of the Army
OF the Tennessee, says that the results
OF Sundays fighting, when Beauregard
ordered his troops TO fall back about
sunset, convinced that further fighting
was useless to dislodge the enemy,
should be proof enough that the battle
was won by the Army OF the Tennes-
see. 1t Is true that a part OF Nelson's
Division arrived on the firing line In
time for regiment to fire a few shots,
but the enemy was then retreating.
Comrade Shelton firmly believes that
the reinforcement OF Gen. Lew WAL
lace's Division alone was all Grant
needed to whip the rebels on that occa-
sion without further assistance from
Nelson or anyone else. While Gen. Nell
son was brave and gallant soldier, he
was not the hero Of Shiloh. Every di-
vision commander of the Army of the
Tennessee deserves as much, IL not
more, credit; for instance Prentis and
w. II. L. Wallace, who fell on that ter
rible field. Sherman. who almost ami
hilated Pat Cleburne's Division before
breakfast, deserves great credit. The
Army Of the Tennessee was brave, sue
cessful on every field. and always ready
to lend a helping hand. A part OF it
marched $50 miles to the assistance OF
the Army of the Ohio at Chattanooga,
and then, footsore and tired out, went
on to Knoxville to help Burnside out Of
trouble; still. 1t was always modest and
never sung it's own praises.
Cedar Creek.
Geo. s. Gass, Ringgold Cav, Mount
Pleasant, Iowa, referring to the battle
Of Cedar Creek, Oct. 10. 1864, quotes
18th Pa. Cav: I'VE were awakened on
Oct. 10 by heavy firing, and after q
hasty breakfast reported to Gen. Sher-
idan as escort to accompany him to the
front. When we reached Middletown,
In the southern suburbs Of Winchester,
we found stragglers from the front al
ready there" Comrade Gass knows the
locality we'll, and he says the distance
from Winchester to Middletown is Is Or
20 miles, and he thinks the stragglers
from the front must have done some
pretty tall running to have reached
Middletown at the time Comrade Multi
han says they did. He thinks there Is
a remarkable amount of controversy
over this battle, and to his mind no sat
isfactory report has yet been given. He
does not understand how the rebels got
into the Union camps, surprising the
men in their tents, without knowing the
countersign. He thinks Comrade Multi
han is correct in most of his account.
but that he certainly is wrong in saying
that Middletown is a suburb of VIM
chester.
The Bucktails.
Henry Miller, 190th Pa, Carlisle, Pa.
says that the 1st Pa. was the Goth Pa,
and the Bucktails were the 42d Pa. or
LIST Pa. Rifles. The 150th Pa. was never
called the I'd Pa. Rifles In the service.