The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-01-25
PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades Along the Whole
Line.

FROM Alert Somraoes Along the Whole
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Capture onsResta.e.
Comrade j. Martin Brown, Co. F, 18th
KY, Harrodsburg. KY, relates an inter,
csting "reminiscences of HIS capture by
the rebs and how they let him go again.
He had gotten pass TO go to his home
on Fishing Creek, Ky.s foE three days
stay. On the secondy day, while eating
dinner, his mother lQokM through the
door, and exclaimed oh. look at the
men coming in theeroaa out there"
they proved to be SJohnnies, and as
Comrade Brown went oSthe door they
showed two big navy revolvers under
ms nose and commanded him to get on
horse behind one of them. He did
SO, and they further commanded him to
guide them to where the Yankee pick
cts were. He rode with them until
they came in sight of a school house,
when he said: '"rhere they are: VOL
fcrd's Cavalry" The rebs fired three
shots in the direction of the school
house, then went back over the road
at n full run. Arriving at Browns home
they released him, evidently believing
he was too young to be a soldier as he
was only 16. When he returned to his
regiment and told Gen. Shoepf of his
exploit that officer invited him to take
dinner with him. Comrade Brown be-
lieves Congress committed a grievous
sin In returning the rebel flags, but he
adds philosophically that Uncle Sam
has given the old soldiers pensions to
keep them from want. Therefore Con-
gress should be forgiven and the john
MES allowed to rejoice with their flags
which were killed by the boys in blue.
and are SO dead that Gabriel cannot
resurrect them when he blows his final
bugle call"
The 18th Va. Cav.
II am not a soldier writes C. W.
Mcdaniel, Latrobe, o., but my father
was, and like to read your paper My
father was w. H. Mcdaniel and he
served in Co. c. 4th Va. Cav, and Co.
F, 18th Inf. He has answered his last
roll CALL l would be glad to hear from
any of his old comrades who served
with him or his Captains. One of them
was named Snyder. We think your
paper is all right" - Ia,
Claims Of n Kansas Post.
II wish to inform McCook Post 81,
of Kansas" writes Comrade E. T. Hoyt,
Surgeon of Loomis Post, 2, of Michigan,
from Quincy. Mich, that it is away
behind in the matter of their Quarter
master or Officer of the Guard i'm the
GAR. holding office the longest. We
have In our Post an IRISH lad who came
across the Detroit River in 1861 and
enlisted in the 4th Mich. Cav, and
served with that regiment until it was
mustered out in July, 1865, and assist
ed in the capture of Jeff Davis. He
was never day sick and always ready
for duty, and when C. 0. LOOMS Post
was organized, Jan. %, 1876, he was
elected Quartermaster and has been in
office successfully 80 years. He is just
as patriotic now as when he first en-
listed. His name is Thomas Lennon
Come on, boys. Do you think you can.
beat that record?"
Siege Of Morris Island.
Comrade William, A. Barnhill, Co. I,
104th Pa, Bristol, BucKs County, Pa,
referring to the siege Of Morris Island
and Fort Sumter, says: "Our brigade,
composed of the 104th Pa, sgd Pa,
18th Me-, seth N. Y. and Tooth NJ Y,
spent nine months in that siege. /
would like to read a description of that
siege. Where are the 18th Me. boys,
those big. fine, noble specimens Of man
hood? Let us hear q word from them,
And what about our noble Gen. Quincy
A. Gilmore, an Engineer who arranged
his guns and made Fort Sumter look
opinion Gen. Gilmore was one of the
leading Engineers OF. the civil war. The
mounting of 200 and 30O-pounder Par
rott guns on solid ground is one thing,
but when 1t comes to mounting 200
FOUNDER in marsh Is feet deep, it is
another. He did this to get gun to
bear on Charleston. Lieutenant was
detailed for this purpose and told to
requisition whatever of material and
men he needed. The following day he
requested the Depot Quartermastero to
furnish him. with 100 men Is feet tall
to wade through mud Is feet deep. He
then asked the Surgeon If he could not
splice the men IL necessary The Lieu
tenant was placed under arrest, for this.
bit of pleasantly / was one of the de-
tail that mounted the gum"
Opening the Mississippi.
Comrade j. G.. Eaton, Ladora, Iowa,
writes to say he has been a subscriber
of The National Tribune for about 20
years, and that he cannot get along
without it. He has been much inter-
ested in the articles Opening the Mis-
sissippi River" and especially with the
map and the battle of Helena, Ark.
THAT was where / first smelled rebel
gun POWDER" adds Comrade Eaton IT
was a member Of the 33d Iowa. The
regiment was called out at a. m. on
July 4 and marched to Fort Curtis,
where we waited for the Johnnies. We
did not have to wait long ere they were
on hand and we had q warm time un-
til nearly noon. The map is SO true
that I can see where I was in the rife
pit above Battery D, and where the
comrade at my left was struck on the
forehead and died instantly. Soon
thereafter we fell back to Battery D,
and later we made charge and cap
tured quite number of prisoners with
two stands Of colOrs. H. w. Tracy and
the writer rushed out upon the Little
Rock road. In a nearby ravine we saw
a Johnny with a white rag attached to
a ramrod. We called to him to come
up out Of that, and he came toward us.
Then another and another Johnny
came out Of the ravine from among the
boys and brush, until we had "a Of
them. There was one Captain and a
Lieutenant. The prisoners said they
belonged to Fagan's regiment. They
were too much scared to say more"
Anders0nville.
In regard to the spring of water
which made it's appearance in the
stockade at Andersonville, and was
such a boon to the impoverished Union
prisoners, Comrade George F. C. Meyer,
Co. K. 18th Ind, Cornelius, Ore, who
was prisoner there, furnishes The Ma
tional Tribune with an extract from
his diary. 1t shows that on Aug. 8,
1864, the prison pen was visited by a
terrific thunderstorm which made two