The National tribune., 1906-11-22
Wen Deserved Their Fate.

| - SAcoS1is W. ~ ciIi,
Leeds, Mo-, was present at the hanging
Of ths- six raiders at ,Andersonville, July
IL, 1864. The day they were hung they
were marched in at the big gate with
| the dead-house in front Comrade
GTogger stood near the gate in that big
passway or street that led from the
gate down 10 the creek next to the
deadline AS soon as the doomed men
got inside and saw the gibbet in front
Of them. with the six nooses hangina
| % it. they began to realize that business
was meant, so one of them broke away
md ran down the street where Com
rade Grogger was standing He got no
farther than the creek, when he was
caught and dragged back, for ne
wouldn't walk. He was scared so badly
that his face was deathly pale. with
beads of perspiration on his forehead.
Comrade Grogger recognized him as a
fellow named Curtis. who was Sergeant
about 20 deserterS from our army
Comrade Grogger was prisoner there
at that time. The rebels had these men
in a small brick building by them
selves. On May I. 1864, Comrade Grog-
ger and about 200 other prisoners were
sent to Andersonville, and he did not
know till he saw Curtis that he had
been sent there also. They were all a
bad set of men-bounty-ju jumpers and
robbers. The man who broke the rope
and had to be hung twice was not. as
Chmrade John S. Howard thought, the
one who ran away. The fellow who
broke the rope had red hair and beard
conirade Grogger thinks they all richly
deserved hanging, and should have been
hanged long before they were.
Had All He Wanted.
John Allen, alias Adamson. Co. f.
141st Pa, Towanda, Pa, sends us a
short account of his prison experience.
He was captured Oct. 4, 1863, and
hustled to Richmond, where he was
confined in a tobacco warehouse From
there to Belle Isle. where he wintered
In March. 1864, he was sent to Ander
sonville. and was one of the first 300
men to occupy the place. The stockade
was not completed when he first went
there, and he remained there until
they began distributing the prisoners
among the different pens. He being
among the first in, was also the first
out. He was taken to Savannah. wherel
was completed for the occupancy of
prisoners. Here he remained until
Nov. 19, 1864, when he was exchanged |
under Col. Mulford's 1000 sick andt
wounded. Comrade Allen thinks it
strange that Comrade Holland does not
remember the spring 1t certainly
broke out at the time the stockade |
went down, Aug. 9.
Weather ut Gettysburg.
w. w. Robertson. 11th N. Y. Bat
terry, North Tonawanda, N Y, thinks
Comrade J. 3. Potter, SD Pa, wrong
in his statement about the weather at |
Gettysburg, July 3. 1868. Comrade Rob-
ertson has not lost his diary for 1863,
as has Comrade Potter, and upon con-
date July 3, 1863, "Cool and cloudy.
He thinks Comrade Potter is a day
early. for under date of July 4, 1863.
his diary reads. Commenced raining
about 8 p m. and rained until night"
Only One Man.
Marion Woofter. Co. D, 10th w. Va,
Alum Bridge. w. Va, in answer
to the inquiry as to how many
men We're with Sheridan when
he started from Winchester for Cedar
Creek, claims that there was but one
man. and he was one-fourth of a mile
away when the battle line was struck
Gen. Harris was the first man Sheridan
spoke to when he struck the line of
battle. Harris was commander of the
First Brigade, First Division, Eighth
Corps.
The 10th N. Y.
William H. Purdy, Co. D, 116th N.
Y, Buffalo. N. Y. says he does not
understand why his regiment is not
classed with the 1900 fighting regi-
ments.' 1t was in every battle and
skirmish of the First Division of the
Nineteenth Corps from start to fin
sh. Among the commissioned Off
,ers five were killed, two died of dis
ease, three discharged for disability
officers and privates 50
we're killed. Al died of wounds, 81 died
rom disease, 90 were discharged for
disability, Al transferred to Veteran
Reserve Corps as unfit for field duty
md 43 line officers commissioned from
he ranks This he believes to be a
statement
Came Near 1t.
w. j. Frazier Co. D, 18th Ohio, Cof-
eyville, Kan, says his regiment came
within. few seconds of being one of
he 900 fighting regiments. 1t was near
where Gen. Mcpherson was killed at
Atlanta. Ga. and Col. Wiley gave the |
,rder to Right about-March," falling ,
back far enough to let a rebel brigade
pass. They then gave them such a
volley as would certainly en-
tile them to the honor of being one of (
he fighting regiments of the Confeder-
tie army. Frequently the commanders
If regiments got ratified and failed to
,ive the command in time, and thus
many men We're killed thru this regIectj
If their officers.
The Battle of Chfcf<amauga.
DIR. II. A. Kelso, Wilder's Brigade, !
Paxton, ILL.,, writes: II am deeply in
crested in your history of the war. and
specially the account of the battle of
which has never before
,een written up so well and vividly. .
such writers as Albion Tourgee claimed
hat the battle never could be described,
,ut you have done it. Your history Will
70 into our schools and libraries.
Found on Antletam Battlefield. {
G. W. B. Morrison, Hagerstown. Md,
las bone identification pocket piece,
uch as many soldiers carried during {
he war, on which is carved J. Frew,
20. C, 14th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. This !,
vas found on the battlefield of Antie-
am a few days after the engagement. !
Morrison will return the relic
o Comrade Frew or any of his family. $
Prison Experiences. t
G. Henderson, of West Salem, O.,
kinks that it is the duty of the men
Who endured the horrors of the South {
rn prisons. of whom he was one, TO
nces 1t grieves him to see how little l
aspect the rising generation shows l
hose who endured everything for their l
ountry's sake.