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THEY RODE WITH SHERIDAN.
Claim OF Trooper That the 18th Pa
CIV. Was the Escort on the Famous
Dash to Winchester.

Comrade G. d. Mullihan, Co. d. 18th
Pa. Cav, writes from Stuart, Fla, to
reply TO Comrade G.. W. Nattoon. of
Sheridan's Cavalry. According to Com
rade Mullihan, Sheridan's escort on Oct.
lS and 19, 1864, was commanded nv
Maj. w. II. Spera, l7th Pa. Cav, who
now resides at 1885 Madison avenue.
council Bluffs, Iowa J. w. Morley, Co.
ID, lVth Pa Cav, was also with Sheri-
dan on that memorable day, and both
rode on the field with him. They were
both eye-witnesses, and / hope they
will write TO the best soldiers paper in
the world and settle all disputes. Sew
eral years ago series OF articles were
published in The National Tribune
about a boy who rode a black horse
and went upon the field with Sheridan.
Nearly every regiment in Sheridan's
Department claimed that boy. But IL
was Comrade j. w. Morley, who now
lives at Rugg, Kalkaska County, Mich.
I'VE We're awakened on Oct. l9 by
the heavy firing at Cedar Creek. After
hasty breakfast the writer and aboI,t
100 men under w. II. Spera, all of the
18th Pa. Cav, reported TO Gen. Sherl-
dan for escort duty, and we started at
once with him for the front, for the
firing was very heavy before we saddl> d
our horses.
When we reached Milltown, in the
southern suburbs of Winchester, the
stragglers from the front had already
reached there and We're coming down
the Valley-a demoralized mob. Turn
ing 90 Maj. Spera, Gen. Sheridan said:
Major, send all OF the escort but
two sets of fours under a Sergeant to
report to Gen. Forsyth to stop these
stragglers and keep them out of the
town.
Mai. Spera turned to me and COM
manded:
Serg't Mullihan, take all the men
but the first two sets of fours, and re-
port TO Gen. Forsyth for orders
Il at once reported to Forsyth with
about rs men. He ordered me to throw
a skirmish line across the Valley and
stop all sfraaalars and kAap tham ont
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AT PORT HUDSON.
The 4th Wis. Cay.'s Experiences While
Protecting the Rear.

Protecting the Rear.
Editor National Tribune: In The Ma
tional Tribune of Dec. II. 1905. at The
request of Henry B. Fay, Rumsey
Mimi, a short history of the 4th Wis
Cav. is given. The name of good man
and officer is omitted in the list of
commanders, viz, Col Moore He was
Captain of Co. + when / enlisted in
that company in 1862, ranked next TO
Capt. Bailey, Co. d, and followed in
the promotions, becoming the successor
of Col. Bailey. He was with and COM
manded the regiment much longer than
Col. Bailey, who was on the staff of
Gen. Banks.
1 was not far from Col. Bean when
he was killed. We We're in the rifle
pits for six days after the assault of
May 81. Col. Bean was passing along
the rifle-pits, had just passed through
space between two logs which formed
part of the protection of the pit. when
q bullet passed through and, my mem
DRY is, killed him instantly.
The death Of Col. Boardman occurred
May S, 1864. Col. Boardman mot
Broadman) becoming impatient with
the dilatory and apparently incompe-
tent handling of the movement toward
Clinton, La, asked 10 take his regiment
and GO on. Consent was given. We
started in column. Reaching the Com
lite River the road descends to the river
bank then along the bank several rods
then turns and crosses. The Confeder-
ates had torn up the bridge and were
concealed in the thicket across the
river, and when the Colonel at the
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quarters of the Department at Cum
berland.
In few days a general order came
back signed by Gems. Crook and Kelley,
announcing the fact that the command
ing officers of the two unfortunate regi-
ments captured at Beverly had been
dismissed from the service by the Pres
ident, and ordering the commanding
officer at BuckhannoG TO have his en-
tire command in line of battle an hour
before daylight every morning, and so
remain till one hour after daylight
ending with the words I'VE are deter
mined there shall be no more surprises
in this Department"
The order was an astonisher, and
after 40 years Of calm reflection / am
still unable to find in II any evidence
of common sense or military genius.
No commander would have ventured
upon an attack of any post without in
forming himself of conditions and the
precautions TO guard against surprises
etc. This means that an attacking force
would have struck us two hours before
daylight after the above order was is
sued, instead of waiting till we were in
line of battle. If our safety depended
upon our being in line of battle il
would have been imprudent 20 break
ranks at all.
We We're, or should have been, sup
posed to exercise reasonable precautions
TO prevent surprises. and as an addi-
tional means Of vigilance the company
of cavalry was stationed there to per-
form scout and patrol duty. and thus
detect the approach of any considerab BILE
body of the enemy.
But an order is an order. and our
responsibility ended in a stolid compli-
ance with the terms OF this one. BY
dint of vigorous stamping in the crisp
snow ana an exuberant Indulgence In
hot-air expletives the boys extracted
all the comfort obtainable from their
environment.
This condition continued until one
day in February, when the telegraph
operator came to my quarters and an
nounced the capture of Crook and Kel-
ley the night before.
The situation struck me as being so
absurd that 1 turned to the Adjutant
and said: Quietly inform company
commanders that until further orders
they will not be required to have their
commands in line of battle an hour
before daylight; there has been one
more surprise in this Department.
II. e. RiZer.
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The 18th Ill.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
a short history of the 45th Ill.-G. II.
Madison, 1906 West 18th St, Pine
Bluff, Ark.
The 45th III. was organized at Galena
and Chicago from Nov. 20, 1861, and
finally mustered out July IL, 1865. It's
first Colonel was John +. Smith, who
ives promoted 10 Brigadier- r-General and
succeeded by Col. Jasper a. Maltby,
who was promoted to Brigadier- Gen
eral. Lieut.-Col. Melancthon Smith, of
the Regular Army, died from wounds
received at Vicksburg. Lieut. Col
Robert p. Sealy was mustered out Jan.
10, 1865, and Lieut.-Col. John o. Duer
was in command when the regiment
was mustered out. 1t belonged to
Logan's Division of the Seventeenth
Corps, and lost SIS killed in battle and
13S died from Dissatisfaction National
Tribune
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Eyperience. mt Stone Riyer.

Comrade ID. X. Mitchell, Co. D, 102d
Ohio, writes from Corsica, o.: az have
been subscriber of your excellent pa
per ever since 1t was started. and / am
always interested in the controversies
which the old soldiers have among
themselves in its columns. In order to
help solve the dispute about there hav-
ing been snow on the ground at the
time of the battle of Stone River, l will
say that two of my neighbors, d. K
Boggs and A. j. Harding, of the 18th
Ohio, were both I'm that battle. and they
were both severely wounded. d. X.
Boggs was shot through the hips at the
first volley that came from the rebels.
and he lay on the ground where he fell
for two days before he was taken in
hand. He says he did not see any snow,
but a very cold rain fell ana there was
some ice, and he was nearly chilled to
death before he was taken to the hos
pital after the battle was over.
"a ]. Harding was shot through the
ankle in the same fight, and he says he
did not see any snow. But at Clarks-
Vile, about so miles below Nashville,
where my regiment, the 102d Ohio, was
in camp, the snow was nearly two feet
deep, and went off with heavy rain.
which raised the Cumberland River
above its banks and was a great boon
to Rosecrans's army at that time, as the
transports could then ascend the river
to Nashville with army supplies that
were at Clarksville, the boats before
the freshet being unable to pass over
the shoals at that place. Our brigade
worked all night to move back from
the river banks what seemed TO be
millions of dollars worth of army sup
plies of all kinds, and which the surg
ing waters would have ruined or swept
away had IT been left there. 1t was soon
reloaded on transports, and sent up 10
Nashville, TO the great relief of the
army there. SO much for the snow at
Stone River. Now, who will give the
actual condition of the weather ON the
first days of 1852"
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Found His Comrade.

II. e. Brewster, Marlboro, ". h.
says that thanks to The National Trlb-
une, he saw the name OF a comrade
whom he had not seen for AZ years
when he parted from him on the bat
tlefield, one being taken prisoner while
the other escaped. Comrade Brewster
wrote letter and received one in re-
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vile and other prisons.
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RECITALS And "REMINISCENCES.
Stories Emnenty Worth Telling of Experiences and Adventures
in the Great National Struggle

| 10 back up your corrections with solid
proofs, for l have written this with my
diary, kept regularly through my en-
tire service. before me. But l hope We
shall not reproduce a Spanish Fort or
who killed Cock Robin controversy. In
getting subscriptions for The National
Tribune about the only objection ever
made to me is some Of the endless con-
troversies over who got first into the
fort or killed General. l am intensely
interested in the scenes and work
around Port Hudson, and in reading the
description of those assaults the two
trips to Clinton, etc, have lived over
again TO some extent those awful days.
j. n. Liscomb, Quartermaster-Ser-
geant, Co. E, 4th Wis. Cav, 675 Valen-
cia St, Los Angeles, Cal.
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GEMS. CROOK AND KELLEY.
The Joke Was Decidedly Upon Them

Editor National Tribune: Comrade
Mosgrove's story in The National Trib-
une, Jan. Is, of the capture of Gems.
Crook and Kelley from their beds in
Cumberland In February, 1865, recalls
an incident that may be worth relating.
I was stationed with my regiment, Sd
P. H b. Nd, and Co. A, Sd w. Va. Cav,
at Buckhannon, w. Va. during that
Winter. Two regiments of Ohio cav
airy held Beverly, the next post east,
until, one fine morning late in January,
Gen. Rosser, with brigade of Confed-
crate cavalry, made a descent on them
about an hour before daylight. and
captured the entire command save a
few stragglers, who reached Buckhan-
non about noon. l at once wired n re-
port to our brigade headquarters at
Clarksburg, whence it was sent TO head
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Before Vicksburg.

Comrade John p. Cogswell. Co. F,
10th Ind, National Military Home,
Kan, writes to say he has been read
ing some of the daring exploits of
members of the Sixteenth Corps at
Vicksburg'' He adds that only the
Thirteenth, Fifteenth and Seventeenth
Corps were in the works at Vicksburg,
while the Sixteenth Corps was at Big
Black River during the siege. Our
brigade was commanded by A. j. Smith,
and we saw some hard fighting. The
brigade consisted of the 23d Wis, SD
and 96th Ohio and the 10th Ind. Our
Second Brigade comprised the 18th Ky,
1S0th III. and the Goth Ind
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The Cnliber of n Substitute.

Comrade F. d. Hutchinson, Co. C,
18th Mich, Yampa, Colo, writes TO
substantiate the story of the spring that
burst forth from the ground in the
stockade at Andersonville, but disal-
lowing the "Providentiar' theory of it.
He says: "If Providence caused that
spring to burst out, then by his espe-
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bullet shoppers We're providentially
dropped in there to drink its waters. 1
know a substitute who was taken in,
and who said he never did believe there
was a God until he saw and drank
from that spring 1 told him that was
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Entitled to Pension Preference.

Comrade Geo. Joachim, Capt. Bur-
maps Battery, eth Ohio, Charleston. w.
Va, would like to hear from some of
the boys OF Gen. Hurlbut's Division and
their experiences from Pittsburg Land
ng to the surrender of Vicksburg He
kinks 1.-The '61 boys who stood the
orunt of the war are entitled to prefer
snce in the pension legislation.
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The 1Ith and saith Ind.

D. II. McGOgy, saith Ind, Shenan-
doah, Iowa, writes to make an addition
to the history of the 11th and saith Ind,
given in a recent issue of The National
Tribune. He says both of these regi-
ments served longer than the three
months with which they were credited.
The 54th was reorganized in October,
1852, and served to December, 1863.
The regiment went with Sherman's
fleet to Vicksburg, and took part in the
battle of Chickasaw Bayou, after which
it went as far as possible and back to
Piccayune Cotton Sheds, where ii was
mustered out Dec. Is, 1868.
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Looking for Missing Comrades.

Comrade r. II. Martin, Orderly-Ser-
seant, Co. I, 10th Ind, of Delphos, o,
writes:
Can any one give me the address of
the following-named comrades: Serg't
John \. Wilson and Private Geo. w.
Beckett, Co. /, 10th Ind, and William
Lindsay, Co. d, 9th Pa. Reserves. Will
son and Beckett left La Gro, Ind, after
the war for some point in the West.
Lindsay left Delphos, o.. in 1887 or
1888 for Philadelphia, in charge of some
stock shipped to that point. since which
time 1 have heard nothing of or from
him. If still living, it would give me
great pleasure to hear from them"
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1 am not going to ask you to
take my say-so for this. but am going
10 give you the proof. Gen. Lauman did
not command brigade, as you say, but
tne Fourth Division, Sixteenth Corps
temporarily attached to the Thirteenth
corps, and was relieved of the COM
mand of that division on the same day.
ana shortly after his repulse, by the fol-
lowing order;
Headquarters Thirteenth Army
Corps, July IL. 1863.
Special Orders, No. 10.
Il. Brig.-Gen. ]. C. Lauman is hereby
relieved from the command of the
Fourth Division. Sixteenth Army Corps
and assigned to the Thirteenth Corps.
He VIII turn over his command to Brig
Gen. A. p. Hovey, who will place it in
position and ascertain its condition and
casualties, and report to Headquarters
Thirteenth Army Corps
II. Brighten. J. g. Lauman, on be-
ing relieved from his command, will
proceed to Vicksburg or Gen. Grants
headquarters and report.
BY command of Maj.-Gen. Z. o. C.
Ord:
walter b. scates. Lieutenant-Colonel
and Assistant Adjutant-General, Thir
teenth Army Corps"
Now, let us go q little further. and
see what becomes of the Fourth Diyi-
sion:
Headquarters Thirteenth Army
Corps, Vickshurg. Miss, July %, 1863.
Special Orders, No. 251
81. Brig Gen. NJ. NJ. Crocker having
been ordered to report to the Major
General commanding the Thirteenth
Army Corps, with view to the COM
mand of the Fourth Division. Sixteenth
Army Corps, is hereby assigned to the,
command of that division
III. Brig.-Gen. A. p. Hovey, tempo
rarily assigned TO the command of the
Fourth Division, Sixteenth Army Corps.
is hereby relieved from the command
OF that division, and will turn 1t over to
Brig.-Gen. Crocker.
by order of Maj-Gen. Z. o. C. Ord:
- -, Captain and Aid-de- Camp"
Headquarters Department of the
Tennessee, Vicksburg, Miss, Aug. Z,
1868.
Special Orders, No. 214.
~. The Fourth Division, Brig-Gen.
NJ. NJ. Crocker commanding, is hereby
transferred from the Thirteenth Army
Corps to the Seventeenth Army Corps,
and will report accordingly
VIII. Maj.-Gen. James B. McPher-
son, commanding Seventeenth Army
Corps, will send the Fourth Division of
his corps, Brig. Gen. NJ. NJ. Crocker
commanding, to Natchez. Miss, as fast
as transportation can be furnished for
that purpose, to form the garrison of
that place.
"By order of Maj.-Gen. U. S. Grant:
'T. S. Bowers. Acting Assistant Adju-
tant-General."
l think, comrade, this should settle
the matter. l am not attempting to
prove that Gen. Lauman was not at
Natchez, for know nothing about that
part of the dispute, but think 1 have
shown conclusively that he was not
there in command Of his division-B
II. Martin, Co. /, l6th Ind, Delphos, o.
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Kentucky Troops Mt Franklin.

Comrade George Seibert, Co C, 2Sth
KY, writes from Louisville that al
though his memory is growing dim, he
will never forget the fight at Franklin
or the night his command spent at
Spring Hill. He says the 2Sth Ky. was
the first to get in at Spring Hill. Just
as the rebel cavalry were coming in on
one side" adds Comrade Seibert, 1--WE
double-quicked in on the other. The
Johnnies found it was too hot for them
and left. We held the position all
night, and had no fires to keep us warm.
The rebs We're so close to us that we
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about daybreak we hurried on to
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noon. While constructing our works the
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our guns, which, fortunately, We're
Spencer rifles. On they came, and as
we had no orders to fall back, why. we
just stayed there. They say some of
our men ran until they came to the
river. but not our regiment. I never
saw the river until midnight, while we
were on our way to Nashville.
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