The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-03-22
PICKET SHOTS
Fsem Alert Cemrsdes Along The Whole
Line.
In the Youngest ss,Sier Glass.

In the YounEest SsldfeP Claas.
For several years 1 have been read
Ing The National Tribune" writes
Comrade Warren blackburn, Go. f, |
18th KY. from 1910 Prairie avenue.
Chicago. land have seen I'm its columnsI
many challenges as to who was the
youngest soldier enlisted I'm the Union
army from 1861 to 1866. 1 herewith
hand You my record. and as I have
never yet found any claim that is bet
ter, l think l can safely knock the
chips off the shoulders OF the other
Fellows as being the youngest enlisted
man Cor boy) that has a credit mark
of more than three years service OPP
posite his name in the records Of his
regiment.
II was born July 10, 1s4s. at Mount
Sterling, KY; enlisted in Co. Z. 18th
KY, April 10, 1862; age. Is years. nine
months; served with the regiment dur
ing the war: mustered out June %.
1865. having served three years, two
months and 13 days. During that time
/ spent but two days on the sick list.
l was with Gen. Rosecrans's army
when 1t was bottled up in Chatta-
nooga by Gen. Bragg's forces: was
with Sherman's Bummers through
North and South Carolina and Geor-
gia; helped to spoil the suffers tents
In Manchester, Va; was in the Grand
Review at Washington in the Spring
OF 1865; from there to Louisville, KY.
for discharge by reason of General Or
ders. I am q member Of George II.
Thomas Post, 5, G. A. r., OF Chicago.
AID am In favor Of service pension
Youngest soldier.
jeremiah W. Dornsffe. Sergeant, Co.
l, 50th Pa, claims in the Burlington
(IoWa) News to be the youngest SOL
der in the war. He was born Feb %,
1849, and enlisted Feb. %, 1864, on
his 18th birthday. and became a non
commissioned officer. He is 4 MEM
Der OF Stannard Post, .. Department
of Vermont. G. A. II.
For a Service Pension.
j. w. Burnham, Sergeant, 10th
Mimi. who gave the country years OF
service carrying q musket and then
became an officer OF colored troops,
saw altogether five years and so days
of army life, during which he took
part in every important battle or move
ment, except the battle Of Tupelo, when
he was in the hospital. He says that
the service of the enlisted men not
only saved the country. but made i'll
over into newer and manifoldly
greater country, the greatest in the
world. Fairly good pensions have been
given to the men who could show that
they We're broken down in the service,
but how about the great host OF strong
men who came through victorious and
able, but have since been broken down
In the battle OF life because disabili-
ties really incurred in the service have
prevented them from holding their
own with their younger competitors?
We ought to have q service pension
for them.
From q Missouri Soldier.
Comrade Zeno T. Barker, Co. 3,
49th Ohio, writes from Wellsville, Mo-,
that THE National Tribune Is truly
the ex-Federal soldiers friend. / am
Missouri soldier. and suffered many
hardshfps as well as being at the siege
OF Mobile for IA days. I was on the
march to Montgomery, Ala, and serv-
ed under Gems. Candy and A. j. Smith
to the end of the war. We Missouri
soldiers feel proud OF our record att
home putting down treason as much
as we do when we were called down
into the far-away South to put down
one of the worst and most bitter re-
bellions that country was ever cursed
with. But, all praise to the Most
High, our labors came to an end att
last. Reunited. we hope. for all time.
l thank you for your efforts in behalf
Last to He Captured.
Comrade Chas. Hamlin writes FRONT
No. 100 Francisco street, Chicago, tol
put In claim as the last soldier oil
the Army Of the Potomac TO be cap
tured by the Confederates. He says
he was taken prisoner March 25, 1866.
by the rebel skirmish line in front of
Petersburg, Va. There are probably
living to-day" says
Comrade Hamlin, Awho remember see
ing me going through Gen. Gordon
On mn nd with hO1
back. They tried to put me into the
rebel ranks. had no gun or cartridges.
Had been armed they would have
tried to compel me to use 1t on their
side.
II have read about the youngest
soldier OF the civil war. Now. let US
hear from the last prisoner taken
'Thsy Shot Like Yankees"
Comrads J. C. Barnwell. Co. X. 1891
ILL.,, writes from Ozark, ILL.,, to say that
he recently read in The National Trib- |
the 141st n. Y, written by Comrade |
E. A. Kriedler. In reference to the |
statement that "the Indiana and south
ern Illinois boys had q dialect like |
the negro. Comrade Barnwell says,
however true that might have been, |
according to Comrade Kriedler's ideas, |
the soldiers from Indiana and south |
ern Illinois 'shot like Yankees, and we
could have hit men from five to 20
feet tall almost anywhere"
Comrade Barnwell concludes with |
the wish that "the comrades may live
a thousand years and take the best |
paper in the world-The National |
Tribune" He says he is 76 years of
age, and Is "enjoying life all right"
The Truthful 9th N. Y.
George L. Utter, Cincinnati, O.. has
been reading a thrilling story Of ad-
venture in the East Indian jungles,
where the writer saw an elephant that
had two heads. The writer claimedl
to have served during the war In the
9th N. T., and Comrade Utter wants
1t understood that the 9th N. Y. was
SO conspicuous for the absolute truth
Of everything said by its members that
1t was known as the Truthful 27th N.
" and this imnaIS him IN dauht