The National tribune., 1906-07-05

| poct oiiIIt Is ever on Int dltTI 10 ma
US, yet occasionally mail matter goes
astray. Since we left Decatur, Ga. our
| marching and railroad travels are in
the neighborhood of 500 miles. We are
now in bivouac about 80 miles from
Nashville. and are ordered to press on
via Columbia to Pulaski
! A week later ! concluded my epistle
from Pulaski as follows:
Dear Sister: We arrived at Pulaski
yesterday, against which point the dar-
| ing Gen. Hoods Confederates make
cavalry attacks; but it seems their suf-
| fering army, hundreds of miles from
its base of supplies. together with Gen.
Sherman'S forces marching onward in
| his tHood's) rear, he will get his skin
warmed, although his army, far out
| numbers our small army under Gen.
| Schofield. Both Generals were in the
same class at West Point
well, our Third Division, Twenty
| third Corps, it is rumored, are ordered
back to Columbia. Good-by from
your brother, Lewis"
Camp Decatur, near Atlanta, Ca.
Sept. 13. '64.
Dear Sister Lizzie: It is with graft
| ficatlon that 1 seat myself in a pup tent
| to answer your welcome letter of Au-
gust Is, same day we started on our
great raid in rear of Gen. Hoods forces.
which compelled him to evacuate the
Gate City of the South. 1 suppose you
have read ere. this of the fall of the
rebel stronghold, after four months of
almost continuous fighting skirmish-
ing, and digging breastworks from Tun-
mel Hill to Jonesboro.
Tongue cannot picture the horrors
of battle. You folks up North no doubt
had great jubilee over it. Every reg
iment and battery in our army has the
privilege of inscribing the words: At
lanta' and date upon its banners.
Thy brother, Lewis"
Camp near Blue Pond, Ala, Oct.
%, 1864.
Dear Sister: On the Sd inst. we
struck tents from a 80 days rest at
Decatur. marching much over the same
route back to Snake Creek Gap, close
by our first battlefield in Georgia The
rebels do not relish fight yet, which
relieves Gen. Sherman, and he con-
cluded to return and continue his
Marching Through Georgia. first hav-
ing the Fourth Corps to report to Pap
Thomas. later detaching our Twenty
eighth Corps under Gen. John NJ. Scho-
fed, to report to former at Nashville.
IL. F. Becker"
The fifth III.
Thomas II. Cave, Co. B. 44th H.. calls
attention to two errors in our publica-
ton of the history of the 44th ILL.,. one
of Fox's fighting regiments. in a recent |
issue of The National Tribune. In our
account no officers whatever are report |
ed as killed or mortaliy wounded. and |
this Comrade Cave says is a mistake. |
Lieut.. Silas L. Parker. of Co. B, was
mortally wounded at Stone River. and
Capt. B. F. Knappen, commanding Co. |
b. received wound at Kenesaw Noun |
tain. Ga, which resulted in his death q |
few days later. Comrade Cole. who was |
company bugler. stood by Lieut.. Parker
when he was shot, and visited Capt
Knappen in the hospital the day before |
he died. He knew both men well.
The Seth III.
George w. Eulse, GIadbrook, Iowa. is |
gratified with the history of the 36th |
ILL.,, to which he belonged. and was left |
on the field for dead at Chickamauga. |
The regiment was in the division COM
manded by the best General in the war
p. II. Sheridan. If we had had more |
like him the war would not have lasted |
so long. -,- .s-.s .s.
Grateful Comrade.
Martin Reigle. Bluffton. O.. belonged |
to the 49th Ohio and was severely |
wounded May 81, 1864. The Union at
tack was repulsed and many fell into
the hands of the enemy. The boys
brought off as many of their comrades
as they could. and night came on. The
enemy kept the field swept with
shower of bullets to prevent renewal |
OF the attack, but amid that Comrade |
James S. Gilpin, CARRIER, Okla, ran for
ward and succeeded in carrying Reigle
back to our lines. Reigre has recently
written a very grateful letter to Gilpin
recalling the circumstance and his
courage in making the rescue, which
saved him from Andersonville.
New York Neglected.
Y, thinks that New York is fast fading
away in the columns of The National
Tribune, and he hears nothing OF such
famous organizations as the Excelsior
Brigade, the Corcoran Legion, Tam
many Brigade and the Regulars. Why
is there not more said about them?
The 77th Ohio.
Henry Roth, st. Paul. Mimi, wants a
correction in his regimental history to
the effect that the regiment was not
out until March, 1856. 1t
was stated in these columns as January
1865.
Comrade Roth is correct, as the vet
Grams and recruits were consolidated
iHlO d DdlldllOH OF SIX ana
retained in service until March s, 1866
Sixth Corps and Gettysburg.
AS to the singing episode at Gettys-
burg, Comrade Abe Brown. Co. C, 139th
Pa, writes from Baden, Pa, to say ne
recently read in The National Tribune
an account given by a cOmrade III re-
gard to the Sixth Corps passing through
and singing through the
streets of the town. July 2. THE Sixth
Corps never saw Gettysburg as a COM
mand," says Comrade Brown. "As to
the distance marched by that corps,
t was AZ miles in "a hours, as we went
INTO the fight just "a hours from the
ime we started on the forced march
Gen. Wheaton's First Brigade. Second
Division. was leading the march, and 1
Is member of Co. H, 18Th Pa, Col.
Golfers regiment, First Brigade, Sec
md Division, Sixth Corps, went into the
light on Little Round Top when the
Regulars were coming back in disorder.
)ur left was about where Gen. War
ems statue now stands. But we were
ngaged on Round Top, firing about 10
ounds per man, after which we went
onward al right-oblique down into the
valley of death and got four prison.
rs. Our State marker now shows our
position on the I'd and Sd of July. Gen.
commanded the division and
'ol. Neven commanded our brigade. He