The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-08-02
Army Of Ohio nj shiloh.

Second Division. The Second Division
arrived on the field between 10 and IL
a. m. Between IL and / o'clock Gen.
McCook and staff and Gen. Glib
son were standing right in the
rear or his company, and he heard
Gen. McCook say to Gen. Glib
son, Gibson, that line in your front is
giving away. You will have to receive
that fire" There was Kentucky regi-
ment fighting Kentucky regiment and
his regiment went in for the balance OF
| the day. His brigade was composed If
the 18th and 49th Ohio, 39th and 32d
Ind. Col. Which commanded the lat
| ter, and got permission to take his regi-
ment into the battle independently,
which he did all day. This much of the
command was on the field for the time
stated, he knows; he was there himself.
and very undesirable place to be it
was. For the balance of the command
he cannot speak.
They Got There.
Manning Anderson. Co. G, 18th Ohio,
Dumont, Colo, says William Fisher, Co.
B, 57th Ohio, Arcadia, o.. is mistaken
when he says his regiment crossed the
tennessee River in canoes before the
battle of Missionary Ridge. They cross
ed In pontoons, which were used the
next day to complete the bridge for the
balance Of the Fifteenth Corps to
cross. Comrade Fisher makes another
mistake In saying Sherman's men built
pontoon bridge across the river. The
bridge was built by the Pontoon Bril-
gade of the Army Of the Cumberland,
commanded by Gen. James st. Clair
Morton. who had been a Captain on
Gen. Rosecrans's staff. COmrade An
derson belonged to the brigade, and
helped build the bridge. He was told
by one of Bragg's men after the war
that Sherman's Corps crossed the Ten
nessee River in balloons; others said the
whole Fifteenth Corps was loaded into a
huge siege gun and shot across. Com
rade Anderson said that whether it was
out Of cannon by balloon or bridge,
the Fifteenth Corps got there, and did
their part in grand style.
The 18th Ky.
]. A. Conner, Protein. Mo-. feels that
his regiment, the 18th KY, has not re-
ceived proper mention in The National
Tribune. 1t belonged to the Third Bril-
gade. Third Division, Fourteenth Corps,
Army of the Cumberland The first
Colonel was William Warner, who COM
manded the regiment at the battle Of
Richmond, was shot through the breast,
and afterwards resigned on account Of
disability. The number of killed and
wounded Is more than reported in The
National Tribune. The regiment was
not then attached to any brigade or d.
vision, but was on post duty and scout
ing and hunting bushwhackers. Lieut.
Col. John ]. Landram succeeded Col.
warner In command Of the regiment.
War Claims.
John Shoemaker, Burlington, w. Va.
16Sth Ohio. says that Senator Elkins
announces that he will collect damage
claims for the churches in West Vir-
ginia, and particularly one Of 1895 for
the old church in Burlington. Comrade
Shoemaker thinks that this is excessive,
since the church could not have cost
more than $50 in the first place and all
the damage that was done to 1t was
caused by its use for two or three
months as hospital. Thirteen soldiers
died in 1t.
War Relics.
Joshua Croft, Sergeant, Co. M, 14th
Pa. Cav, Wakeeney, Kan, writes: I'll
cannot see how any old soldier can get
along without The National Tribune. II
cannot. ! have The National Tribune IN
file since 1889. / think that every SOL
der should receive $12 per month PEN
sion. Apropos OF war relics, I have
two-one my railroad ticket, which
reads. Soldiers ticket from Harrisburg
to Pittsburg.' the Washington part Of
the ticket having been torn off by the
conductor; also. my Sergeants stripes
which / wore during the war. ] would
like to hear from my old comrades"
Hospital Mates.
M. c. Dayton, Co. c., 60th N. Y. En-
gineers, Quincy, Mich, was in the hos
pital at Washington, D. c., May, 1868,
recovering from typhoid fever. While |
there q sick comrade, who had the next !
bunk to his, was visited by his father,
who had come to the hospital to help |
care for him. Comrade Dayton, who
was convalescing and able to be about,
loaned his bunk to the tired, wornout
comrade reads The National Tribune
and sees this, he would like to hear
from him.
Good idea.
H. Pangburn. Co. H, 117th N. Y,
Buffalo, y. Y, thinks the idea advanced
| by Comrade d. Bennett, of Lestershire,
| y. Y, that widows OF veterans should
be allowed to marry veterans, a very
good idea, as both pensions would go
quite far in paying the expenses Of a
home. He thinks IL this were allowed
many an old veteran like himself, now
| confined to the cherries life Of a board
ing house. would marry and be able to
| spend his last years In comparative
| comfort.
| Saw One When d BOY.
| In answer to Comrade Asa w. Stay
| toms question, "Why is 1t we never see
or hear Of female Albino?" DR.. s. j.
| Wedding, President Of the Hartford
Pension Board, Hartford, KY. says that
when he was a boy he saw in a circus
/ show two Albinos, a man and woman.
/ The woman was well developed, with
the characteristic milky hue OF hair and
skin, with deep red pupil and pink or
blue iris.
| The Parrot Swindler.
0. r. Mcdaniel, saith ILL.,, Shumway,
ILL.,, says that the fraud who has been
working the veterans in various parts
Of the country for small sums OF money
and promising to send them parrots has
been in his neighborhood. He is about
65 years old, six feet high. little stoop-
shouldered, walks slightly lame and
claims to have been wounded at Chicka-
manga. He claims to have belonged to
the 18th Ind.
, Widows' Pensions.
: A. r. Engler, Cabool. Mo-, strongly
Improves Of The National Tribune's ed
thorfaI IN tho Caryfca papsion hill ord