The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-03-15

diana battery, all the horses OF one
piece being killed or disabled and the
sunners gone. Another gun had one
wheel shot to pieces and had been de-
serted by the artillerymen.
I'm all this excitement / delivered
my message and found headquarters
on the move. I was then only a pri-
vate and Is years old. II ]. d. Haz-
zard. Lieutenant and A. A. G. for Gen.
J. c. Starkweather, in that campaign,
Is living. ask him If my statement Is
correct"
Comrade William H. Cullimore, Co.
K, list Pa, writes from Baltimore,
Md, that he read in a recent issue of
The National Tribune the history of
that fighting regiment" The history
Is all right SO far as 1t goes" says
Comrade Cullimore, "but there were
Is companies. three battalions. two
would say as the regiment marched
along. Here comes Bakers First Cali
fornia Brigade 1t was we'll 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 I'm Co. r,
which was raised in Washington. D.
G.. and was mostly composed Of the
recently-mustered out District of CO.
lumbia Volunteers-three months, first
call troops. Washington City Zouaves,
Capt. Powell. I am sure I 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.
Conrade F. A. Hall, Co. c, LIST Md. p.
II. b.. writes from Lisbon, Md: I'm
your issue OF Dec. Z, 1905, under the
heading of Who Saved Washington -
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. p. 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. X of my
regiment were the last troops to leave
the field at Monocacy. 1 was captured
there with about 120 others and taken
to one Of the Summer resorts kept ex-
vile.
'"The first book that you sent me-
washington During War Time gives
me little information on this subject
l merely write this to inform your cor
respondent that the old Sixth Corps
did not do 1t all. Some time ago L
read about the spy that was hung near
Frederick. Well, know something
about that, too. AT that time 1 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
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 Mt Franklin:
Comrade Charles T. Weber, Co. F.,
l0Oth H., writes from Frankfort Sta
ton. H., 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
there. l think it is about time to drop
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 a new regiment that
broke first on the left OF the pike, but
Pap Schofield tells us that it was his
regiment, the Tooth Ohio. Now, that
was not a new regiment. We lost our
ColOr-Sergeant. our Major and several
men there, besides men captured in the
works after the army left. All credit
to Comrade Williams for his article of
Dec. Fl, and Comrade Harris, Sergeant
co. b. 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 +.
Springsteen, now an employe of the
Pension Bureau at Washington, was
the youngest regularly enlisted and
mustered soldier in the Union army in
apolis, Ind. Oct. Is, 1851, at the age
OF II years and two months. Com
rade w. G. Riley. of Jerome, Mich
who sends this item, says:
81 thank your paper very much for
the help you are giving us old veterans
l 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 $12 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: II 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 Nc
Minnville, Tenn, without killing reb-
ell. l 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, see but
little concerning the 10Th. cath and
104th Ohio and their achievements.
They were all close to me. Please let
me know II either or all of them were
among the 800 fighting regiments"