The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-02-01
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along the Whole
Line.
Sinking Of n Transport.

Sinking Of a Transport.
Editor National Tribune: BY a broth
er of one of the members of Co. X
l4Oth, Pa, l am Informed that at the
close OF the war a large number of
Federal prisoners of war were released
In North Carolina and sent to Fortress
Monroe, and were there put on three
vessels to be conveyed to Annapolis
Md; that one of these. the Governor.
encountered a storm on Chesapeake
Bay, and sank. with the loss OF all on
board. Can you give us any confirma-
ton of this, and the date of the sink
ing of the vessel? An answer will be
of interest to many of your readers
Is. F. Powelson, Boulder, Colo.
large number of prisoners, prob
ably 1000 or 5000. were sent through
the Union lines at Wilmington in March,
1865, and sent North as rapidly as pos
sible by the transports from that point
TO Annapolis. Md. One of these trans
ports, the Gen. Lyon, took fire off Cape
Hatteras and burned. with considerable
loss of life. Probably this is the trans
port to which you refer. We know of
no Governor having been destroyed
Editor National Tribune.
An Interesting Museum.
Comrade w. S. Wolfe. 49th Ind. who
Is the owner of the Hotel Wolfe, at
Carmi. H., writes us: LAS wrote you
some time ago, / have secured q COM
plete file of The National Tribune from
1885 to present date. 1 have also Sc
cured copies of Vol. 1, Nos. 4, 5, 6, Z, S,
and Vol 2, Nos. 1, ., 3, 4, and 5. At
! that time the paper resembled a Sum
| day-schoOl paper. / have nice corner
in my hotel office which l have set aside
| for war relics. 1876. If any of the
| old comrades have any relics which
| they would like to have preserved. and
| will send them to me with histories of
| the same, l will give them prominent
| places in my collection and take care
| of them. Can't some one send me an
| old canteen. and l would like also to
| have a picture Of Comrade John Nc
Elroy. Dc not be backward, but send
them along. will pay express charges
Emergency Men.
| John McManus, Co. b, 59th Pa.
| emergency regimenD. Soldiers Home,
| Erie, Pa, protests against the injustice
that is being done to the emergency
men. During the war five brothers left
| his home to enter the army, four of
| them being among the early enlist
ments. They were in the three-months
service, in the 7th Pa. Reserves and 8th
Pa. Cav The one who enlisted In the
Reserves was eight months in Ander
| sonville. and the one in the Sth Pa. Cav.
died in Salisbury After the first three
months service his elder brother had To
| stay at home TO support his mother, but
went out again in the emergency troops,
June Is, 1868, and became a Second
Lieutenant. John McManus was too
young to be accepted in the regular
troops, but guarded prisoners about 20
days, and broke down his health so that
he was i'll for two years. He is classed
among the militia and denied pension
by the Government.
Who Captured Spanish Fort:
Comrade F. A. Bird, Madison. Wis,
sends copy Of the following order re-
ceived by him which he thinks will
throw some light upon the dispute in
regard to Spanish Fort:
Headquarters Thirteenth Army
Corps, near Spanish Fort, Ala, April 9,
1865
"F. A. Bird, A. A. O. NJ, First Brigade,
Second Division, Thirteenth Army
Corps.
"Sir: You will make an inventory
of all the stores that the enemy left in
| Spanish Fort, and 1 will transmit you
! corresponding invoices of all such stores
as captured by Col. Bertram's Brigade.
Great care should be taken in making
this inventory.
ALEX. n. Shipley, Lieutenant-Colonei
and Chief Quartermaster, Thirteenth
Army Corps
Served With Fitzpatrick.
Jesse Blankinship, Co. G., LIST Ala.
Cav, writes from LandersvilIe, Ala,
giving a brief account Of the engage
ment between his company and the
Confederates near MilledgeviIle, Ga.
He says: ION the morning of March 10,
1865. just at reveille. the enemy
charged us, three lines deep, and all
was rout and confusion. Gen. Kill
patrick ran off to a nearby swamp, but
returned to his duty. Serg't Vines
coatless, shoeless, with pistol in hand,
rallied us. and we formed line of bat
tie, driving the enemy back. Three
times they charged us, but after the
third attack they gave it up as bad
job, and retreated in disorder"
He would like to hear from some
comrade who was in AnderSonville
Prison. description of it and of the
spring of water that is said to have
burst out there.
Father Locke.
Comrade II. H. Weber, 7th Me- Bat
terry, New Bedford, Mass, says that he
has been recently on a visit to his old
home at Boothbay and Bristol, where
his sister revived his memories of Faith
er Locke, who always stopped at his
fathers house when in South Bristol.
He remembers Father Locke helping
the family physician pull an obstinate
of Father Locke's songs made in
1866-'67, one of which was about his
little daughter living near Portland,
Me.
The 81st Ohio.
George w. Harris. Bucyrus, O., is |
dissatisfied with the statement that the
61st Ohio was in Schurz's Division of
the Eleventh Corps, since it afterward
formed a part Of the Twentieth Corps
in the Army of the Cumberland, and
took part in the battles of Wauhatchie, |
Lookout Valley. Lookout Mountain,
Mission Ridge, Resaca, Dallas. Kene-
saw, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, and
the March to the Sea. A short history
of the regiment was published in 1902
by Comrade Theodore Mullen, of
Marysville, o., for private circulation, |
and any ex-member Of the regiment can
secure one by addressing him.
A Fighting Family.
William H. Cobbledick, First Lieu
tenant, 8th Cal, 1898. had no idea that
his relatives had served in the Union
army until he visited Cleveland, o., and
on the beautiful soldiers monument
there was astonished to see his own