The National tribune., 1906-03-01
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along the whol6
Line.
Wartime Hardtack.

Wartime Hardtack. -
Comrade T. A. Maltbie, Co. p. sfss
Ohio, Lima, o., says while rumaging
through his effects he found with his
souvenirs or the COS some old hard
IN July, 1855. In gazing at the aged
hard bread his memory was carrieds
away back to war-times, and recalled
the army verses which began. That
old hardtack so brown and dry
This Comraae Was There.
Comrade c. w. Hurd. ls1st ". Y.
watkins, n. Y. writes that he has been
highly entertained and interested by
reading Opening Of the Mississippi"
10y comrade John McElroy. Il was
there. he adds. being a member OF
the 161st n. Y. Dudleys Brigade. The
account given. even to the description
OF the ground. brings back wildly TO
my memory those stirring days. Other
histories give 1t only a passing notice.
! nope the accounts may go on even to
| the disastrous Red River campaign.
| am also deeply interested I'm the bio
graphical sketches OF Gen. John r.
reynolds, Gen. Braxton Bragg and 9th.
ers." Comrade Hurd wants to know II
there are books published which give
Union and Confederate armies, and says
he prizes The National Tribune highly.
Gen. Sheridan at Cedar Creek.
Capt. T. F. Leonard. Sd VT, Austin,
Mimi, says: Il noticed a statement in
your paper by some cavalryman that
| at the battle of Cedar Creek Gen. Sher-
loan rode up to the cavalry and then
rode back to Getty's Division (of which
Capt. Leonard's regiment was q part)
! about $50 rods. AS recollect il there
WAS no time that any Union troops
were between the Vermont Brigade and
the rebels at that battle from the time
we double-auicked between our troops
and the enemy in the morning, until
the rout of Early's army In the after
noon. And We were emphatically there
| all day.
Discharges.
John Metz Co. G. SD Iowa, Marys.
Vile, Iowa, has the following dis
charges: Elijah McKenon, Co. /, 146th
Ind; Samuel Strahan. Co. e, 37th Iowa;
Gerrat Vandercamp. Co. G, SD Iowa;
William T. Israel, Co. F. 10th Iowa;
Lemon Chambers. Co. c. seth Ohio
Fighting Regiments.
Frank Rogers, Ill Green ST., Spring
field, Mass, dissents from the practice
Of CHASING fighting regiments by the
number that they had killed. He sup
posed that a fighting regiment was the
one that had the most killed in front
of it. and not In its own ranks This
would apply to regiments such as Corse
had at Allatoona and such as Thomas
had at Chickamauga and to those which
stood before Picketts charge at Get
tysburg.
Comrade BENZ. Keller, East Boothbay.
Me, would like to learn whether the
comrade whom he helped during the
assault on Fort Fisher is still alive
Soon after landing. Comrade Keller
came across the wounded comrade and
succeeded in stopping the flow Of blood
by tying a handkerchief tightly around
his wounded leg.
y. Y. H. A., Valley Falls, N. Y, would
like TO hear from all comrades who
We're members Of Co. D. 4th y. 7. III A.
COmrade ]. A. Martin. Turtle River,
Mimi, would like to hear from some
member Of Co. D. 4th Mich. Cav.
Charles Bright. Co. A, 127th U. s. c.
T., Selden, Va, would like to hear from
any member Of the regiment.
c. W. Payne, r. F. D. 1. Victor.
Mont, would like to hear from MEM
bers of the 1st Wis. Cav through The
National Tribune.
COmrade Joseph ]. Gear, Co. C, 10th
Ind, Montevideo, Mimi, would like ID
read some "reminiscences from some of
his comrades who were with him and
had such scanty living at Nashville for
nearly two months in 1862" the time
Bragg and Buell. raced their armies
from Corinth to Kentucky. Buell. get
ting to Louisville first II being sick
was left at Nashville" says Comrade
Gear, land We formed a regiment
known as the list Independent Tenn
Vegetable soup and acorn coffee formed
our firing line. and Comrade Ellers, OF
an Ohio regiment, was our cook. Gen.
Negley was in command"
Jonathan Neal, Fair Haven. y. Y,
makes inquiry regarding his musket
which he left at Monocacy. July 3, 1864.
The name, j. Neal, Co. A, 9Th y. Y, was
cut into the stock. Comrade Neal was
severely wounded, taken prisoner, and
was left for dead by the rebels and re-
captured next day by Gen. Hunter.
Comrade II. b. Allen, Royal Center,
Ind, denies the statement Of w. A.
De Hart, Co. c, 18th Mich. that the
Second Brigade, First Division. Four
teenth Corps made the charge on that
sunny Sunday afternoon. March 10.
1865" He also disputes the claim that
the Fourteenth Corps captured Fayette-
vile. Comrade Allen. 10th Conn, and
also Of the 23d Ind, Seventeenth Corps,
says he was at the fight at Bentonville
on that sunny Sunday afternoon" at 10
a. m, carrying cartridges for Co. "A,
23d Ind, Seventeenth Corps.
Josiah Calvert, Center Belpre, O..
writes: IT notice in The National Trib-
une mention made of seven Baxter
brothers, who served in the army. Our
family can beat that by two. There
were nine Calvert brothers in the Union
army. l am one of them. All returned
home but one, who was killed at Shi-