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SKETCH OF SELMA, ALA

wounded. The rebel loss was five killed
z2 wounded and 40 captured.
we camped at Randolph; Selma was
10 Ihiies away. Forrest commanded in
ana we We're anxious to reach
MIN. We had old scores to nav. and
1eit that We were now fully solvent
Inc next morning we fell on the rebels
ana drove them with such force that
We shattered their lines and almost suc
ceeded In getting Forrest himself. Can't
iayior, 1th Ind. Cav, fought Forrest
with saber face to face, and Forrest was
wounded: but Taylor was killed by a
rebel. In the charge horse was killed
Dy cannon ball, and one of the gun
ners took handspike and killed the
rider. The fighting was fierce and at
close range, and lasted half an hour
he rebels broke and ram with us after
them. and Forests defeat became con-
fusion in their flight for Selma. Two
hundred prisoners fell into our hands.
and they lost 100 killed and wounded.
We pursued him to PlantersvilIe. got
Ioo prisoners and two batteries, and
Killed and wounded 125 of them. We
camped at Plantersville The CORPS was
heid close in hand. for Selma was only
il miles away, the next place for battle
In the morning, April 2, we started
Tor Selma before day. Everybody ex-
pected bloody fight. The great the
able, the savage leader, Forrest, was
now at bay and behind good fortifica-
lions.
The 4th Iowa was in the lead, the &c
battalion in front. and Selma in sight.
two miles away
The rebels fired a shot from a 30
FOUNDER to let us know that they were
ready to receive us. We formed our
lines and got ready for the contest We
were TO start at dark. A shot from a
cannon was to be the signal, and the
I'd battalion Of the 4th Iowa was to go
10 the left OF the line. through swamp.
pounce on the rebels in the dark and
carry the works at all hazards.
About o'clock Upton said to Capt.
Sam Pray. Il want a Sergeant nEd five
81 your best men," and the Captain sent
berg't White and ]. n. Hite, Case, Men,
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FROM THE RIVER.

with us after them. There was a race
between the three 4th Iowa companies
and Longs men to see which could
reach the next line first, and we lost:
put Longs men began to draw back a
little and Maj. Woods with his three
companies sprang up on the parapets
and capt. Dana, with Co. f, at a 3-gun
battery, and captured it. Capt Jones
ana Capt. Pray dashed in on the
Rangeline road and took five guns and
the 4th Ala, with it's Colonel Capt.
Jones was killed. There was a race
Tor the 3O-pounder gun, with Longs
men in the lead. We killed or can
tured all of the men who would not
leave the gun. Some of them were
boys not over II years old. The pris-
oners We're put in the prison built to
mold Yankees! Taber, Chief Bugler.
was Killed at the head of the column.
me rebels used pontoon bridge and
cut II adr1ft before we reached the
river. Capt. Abraham pursued some
miles, with the 1st battalion, and took
many prisoners and more guns Lieut..
Ogg, Co. d. went so close to the rebels
that they thought he was one of them;
out ne took two of their guns and
prisoners outnumbering his own men.
Co. Z went to the river and eastward
on the road that Armstrong had taken
and took 500 prisoners and 80 wagons
with their mules
The 4th Iowa went into camp at 70
O'Clock that night. They had taken
1900 prisoners, including two Colonies
three Majors and 76 other officers. nine
guns and eight caissons; 700 horses
and three battle-fags. Cos. l. and
took one whole regiment and five guns
of this number. There must have been
100 men in that regiment.
The whole command took 200 men
and az guns on the defenses, A siege
guns and 26 field guns in the foundry.
with $4,000 rounds of artillery am
munitfon and 100000 for smalI-arms.
with munitions of war and machinery:
arsenal, powder-milI, $4,000 pounds of
powder, with other military and naval
stores and supplies.
Wilson'S Cavalry took Selma by as
sault-the strongly fortified city-with
less force than half Of that of the
rebels. Less than 1900 men were en-
gagged in the attack; but there was
some fighting in the rear and Crox-
tons and LaGrange's Brigades were not
up with us.
Then came the hard work-to make
bridge over the river While this was
going on Wilson had a meeting with
forrest and found out that Croxton
was safe, but cut off from u.s. Forrest
anne on some of the 4th y. S. Cav.
ard surrounded and killed or wounded
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National Tribune that the 18th ILL., was
three months regiment. The 7th III.
was the first infantry regiment to
go in.''
Capture of the "NeutraI Guns,
Editor National Tribune. 7 have
been a subscriber to your valuable pa
per great many years, but have never
seen anything in it concerning the
neutral guns" that the enemy aban-
doned at Spotsylvania Court House.
leaving them standing between the two
lines, and directly in front of the First
Brigade, First Division, Second Corps.
L was one of the volunteers who
rescued those guns. Reporting to the
headquarters of Gen. Nelson A. Miles,
we received our instructions, and fol-
lowed slight ravine to the gun near
est OF access. unobserved by the enemy.
At that instant our artillery all along
the line opened fire with canister. in
order to keep the enemy down, and be-
fore they realized the cause of all that
sudden racket we had the guns safe in
our llnes.-John Kelly. Co. D. 140th
Pa, Cumberland, Md.
Execution Of q Spy.
Comrade r. d. Oliver, Co. B, 22d
Mich, Missoula, Mont, writes to verify
the statement of Comrade L. W. Arm
strong, Co. E, 10th ILL.,, as to the shoot
man had been back and forth between
the rebel and the Union lines. His
knees gave away when he was taken
from the ambulance and two men had
to assist him to where the coffin stood
MY regiment was at the execution.
Before heard the reports of the guns
Of the firing squad" adds Comrads
Oliver, "the man had fallen
European Crowns.
The lightest of European crowns is
the State Crown Of Great Britain, which
was made for Queen Victoria. AL
though it weighs only two pounds and
seven ounces, it's value is 100000. One
enormous sapphire came from the sig
net Of Edward the Confessor. In the
Pope's treasure house are two crowns
which are valued at 100000. One OF
them was the gift of Napoleon to Plus
VII and contains the largest emerald
in the world. The other, the gift OF
Queen Isabella of Spain to Plus TX,
weighs three pounds and is worth
100000.
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The Sd Iowa.

Editor National Tribune: / am very
much interested in McElroy's "Openinp
or the Mississippi" In his account of
the battle of Shiloh he does the Sd Iowa
an injustice. First, he says that Col
Williams, of the Sd Iowa. commanding
First Brigade of Hurlbuts Division, was
Killed. Col. Williams had horse SHOT
under him, and he was taken to the
rear, but he was not killed. Second, he
says that the field I'm front was SO COW
cred with dead bodies that the Sd Iowa
coming to the assistance of Pugh's Bril-
gade. opened fire, thinking that the
dead and wounded were the enemy ly-
ing down. The truth of the matter is
the Sd Iowa was on the right of VIII
iiams's or Pugh's Brigade from early in
the morning until after p. m. The Sd
Iowa did the shooting that put 263 reb-
els in one grave and made Hurlbut a
Major.Gensral. The ID Iowa left over
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At Gettysburg.

Editor National Tribune: In The Ma
tional Tribune Of Sept %. 1905, is an
article by G. F. Latin, on the singing
at Gettysburg July 2, 1868; also before
and after that date. Now, ! do not
raise any question as to the singing,
although l am inclined to doubt it, for
the first, second, third and fourth days
of July the rebels were in the village.
But what ] can not understand is how
the Sixth Corps marched through the
town on the I'd Of July, or any portion
of it, unless they went through as pris-
oners, as the Johnnies captured the
place July l. and held it until the 4th.
/ can not find any map giving the posi-
tons of the different troops during the
battle that shows that the Sixth Corps
was in or very near the village of Get
tysburg during those dates Comrade
Latin is correct about the march of 80
miles in 16 hours of the Sixth Corps to
get to Gettysburg, it being one Of the
heaviest the corps ever made. The
comrade may have mixed Gettysburg
with the village of Westminster, which
we passed through June 80, where 1t
seems as If every man, woman and
child were out to see the ops as
they marched past. 1 do not "mem-
Der hearing any singing, although there
might have been, and it would have
been strange If there were not. i wish
you would correct me on the assertion,
If / am wrong, that the Second Division,
Sixth Corps, did not pass through Get
tysburg on the I'd of July or at any
other time until after the 4th.
The First Division of the Corps was
placed on Little Round Top the night
of the I'd. where they remained until
the morning of the 9Th. when 1t led In
the pursuit Of Lee. Now, ! have not
written this to provoke controversy, but
to be corrected If ! am wrong in what
have always thought to be the cor
rect history of those mOmentous DAYS
The histories the comrade read 1 think
are faulty when they say the Sixth
Corps marched through Gettysburg the
I'd OF July.
In your issue of Dec. Z Leonard Fern
sler says that the Third Brigade, Third
Division of the Sixth Corps, was the
only part Of the corps engaged the
night of the I'd of July 1 think If he
will consult history he will find that
two regiments. the 95th and 96th Pa,
Of the Second Brigade, First Division,
Sixth Corps. had hand in that mix-up
that same night. / do not know how
many men they lost. The brigade was
made up Of the following regiments
The 95th and Goth Pa. 9Th Me-, and
121st N. Y. Options Regulars) a N.
Jennings, Co. II, 121st n. Y, Highland,
n
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denhall, Park, Ordway and Hickman,
with Upton. We went and looked the
ground over, SO that we could go
through at night.
The battle was opened in good shape.
There were Is or 20 guns trained on
the Summerfield road and perhaps IL
on the Rangeline road. Chalmers at
tackled the rear. The forts opened on
US In front and Longs men charged
the rebels in front, on the right. on the
Summerfield road; and the Sd Iowa
and the 10th Mo. and three companies
of the 4th Iowa., F and Enlarged
on the extreme left, on the Rangeline
road. The rebels opened all of their
guns on the two roads-and such a
noise as it was! In few minutes 800
of our men were killed or wounded,
Long among them, and three of his
Colonies. Our men dashed on and
plunged into the ditch, scrambled up
the bank, mounted the parapets, and
In the hand-to-hand fight one could not
for few minutes guess which way it
would go. The rebels at length gave
way and broke for their second line,
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RUINS OF SELMA

ton, next night Newburg, and next day
our brigade moved alone to Kinlock
and camped at Hubbard's Mill Next
morning moved down the Ripsey VAL
ley and camped at Clear Greek, on the
Jasper road. Then, by Bartonyille and
Hanbey Mill, east of Jasper, to Elyton,
and east to the Mulberry River, a fork
of the Black Warrior, and canned for
the night. Crossed the BlackWater; had
10 build RATS and float our pack train
over, which consumed the day. The
next thing was the East Fork of the
Black Warrior. All of the streams were
high. We hardly got into Camp before
Boots and Saddles" turned us out, and
We pounded through rain all night.
making only 20 miles. I never saw
denser darkness nor harder rain settle
down for steady business. The Locust
was full and still filling the adjacent
country when we crossed it at daylight
Made 20 miles that day to Elyton
There, on Hawkins's plantation, was the
one place where We found chickens and
grain-food for man and beast. We
round, also, bacon and hams, which we
did not scorn. We crossed the Ca
hawba on a railway bridge, using ties
10 make floor, and, with the 4th Iowa
In front, pushed on, hard but slow
through the mud toward MontevaIlo.
leaving Croxton's Brigade to guard the
train.
About p. m. the rebels made a
stand, but soon gave way. as they had
all day. Maj. Woods, on the left. with
Cos. + and L, came on the enemy and
mad a brush, one man being wounded
The rebels fell back. and we drove them
at high speed through MontevalIo. Lots
or corn and other commissary stores
Tell into our hands. We stayed till noon.
burning and destroying iron works and
other machine-shops. At noon the reb-
els made an attack on us, and we drove
them TO Six-Mile Creek, killing, wound
ing and capturing a large number of
tnem. We came on them again, had q
sharp engagement and saved a bridge
by charge. cutting off some of them
and driving the rest off The 10th Mo
raised their yell and the rebels ran
away. The Sd Iowa charged with sa-
bers, and when the regiment halted two
companies still chased them four miles
We thought good-by to them; but We
FOUND them waiting for us. At a sharp
turn a rebel regiment dashed on on,
train. causing confusion. but the LIST
and Sd battalions of 4th Iowa used
their Spencers and made short work
throwing the rebels into great disorder
Till they reformed behind a railway
bank The regiment went over that
quickly and sent them scurrying. The
4th Iowa here lost four killed and five
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every one OF them-25 men ant; off,
cers-Just like Indians. The river was
SO nlgh that our pontoon would ONLY
feach half way over il, and we filled out
with barges and boats Floating trees
caused much bother. We went to John-
son Ferry, II miles from Selma and
next day made % miles. We heard
from Croxton through prisoners. and
aprll D returned to Selma. On April
Longs Division crossed the bridge
ana on the 9Th LeGrange's Brigade
crossed. III was noon next day before
we could cross. The heavy pressure
made the bridge sag in the middle, and
the water was kneedcep. The men
had to wade in single file The bridge
broke While the 4th Iowa was on #
ana several We're thrown off. 1t was
after dark before they could cross
again. 1t was very dark and light was
necessary We set fire to some wooden
buildings, so that we could see. The
Attn Iowa was the last Of the corps to
cross and 1t was midnight when we got
over and went into camp.-W. II.
Hickman. Co. L, 7th Iowa Cav, Doland.
S. Oak.
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Editor National Tribune: notice
A. II. Kibbe in your columns excerpts
to some statements in Gen. Cox's
Battle of Franklin To call Cox's
book history is a misnomer. It was
written to esta blish a claim that Cox
was in command OF the troops the
whole day of that sanguinry battle,
when 1t is a notorious fact that Gen.
David Stanley, the ranking General.
took command Immediately after the
firing commenced, and continued in
command till after dark. Cox devotes
hundreds OF pages of his book to prove
that he was IT-Commander. All the
plumbers In holding the Lane and
Conrad Brigades in indefensible
positions till the battle commenced
when 1t was too late, can justly be
charged to Gen. Cox.-John Barnes,
Cincinnati, o.
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CAPTURE OF SELMA.
WflsoAA's Cavalry Pays OF Some Old
Scores to Forrest.

Editor National Tribune: Feb. 5,
1855, Upton's Brigade was at Portland,
ready to start. but ice in the river pre-
vented till Feb. Z. The boats were
small, and eight were necessary to car
ry the 4th Iowa. Feb. 10 we passed
Paducah and entered the Tennessee
River, landing in a few days at Water
loo, near PASSPORT. Miss. Thence we
marched and Joined Wilson's Cavalry
Corps at Gravelly Springs, Ala
March 20 we crossed the river at
Chickasaw, and March % the brigade
was in the saddle and was off on an
other campaign. Each man carried 14O
rounds, and the wagons had 80 more
for him. We went through very poor
country in northern Alabama to Rus
SEVILLE and Jasper, camped near Bar
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The I'd Ohio CIV.

Editor National Tribune: I would
like to make q correction. In the issue
OF Dec. z Henry r. Fenton, of Bridge
port, Conn. wanted you to give short
history OF the I'd Ohio Cav. During the
latter part of its service this regiment
did not belong to Wilson's Cavalry Divi-
sion. as reported in the issue Of Dec. Z,
but was q part Of Gen. Geo. A. Clusters
Divtsion.-C. III. Crofutt. Co. II. I'd Ohio
Cav, Huntsburg, o.
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WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1906

10 per cent Of their number dead and
wounded on the field.
Also, in his short histories of notable
regiments, he does not credit the Sd
Iowa with veteranizing. It veteranized
In April, 1884. He gives the number of
killed In Co. F as 10. know of IL and
one field officer. making Is killed and
mortally wOunded.-J. J. Earle, West
Union, Iowa
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Wants Wartime Song.

Comrade Job 8. Hedger, Co. II, 10Th
ILL.,, Modest, o., would like some COM
rade to send him the words Of the war
time song, THE Battle Of Stone River"
which begins: Beneath the pines that
overlook Stone Rivers rocky bed
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The 9TH Ind. Cav.

Geo. B. Kilt Cos. E and X, 7th Ind
Cav, East Auburn, Cal. writes: Il
have taken The National Tribune less
than one year, and will never be with
out it again. What has become of the
7th Ind. Cav. boys? I know they were
not all killed during the late unpleas-
antness. 1 would like to hear from any
one of them"
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The 18th Ill.

Comrade ]. II. Willett, Co. I, 18th
ILL.,, Seminary, Miss, says he read in
recent issue of The National Tribune
that member of the 18th Ill. wanted
short history of the regiment. Com
rade Willett adds that he enlisted in the
18th three times; first in Co. for three
months then in April, 1861, for three
years, and in 1864 he veteranized, and
was mustered out July 10, 1865. The
regiment was attached to the Second
Brigade, Fourth Division, Fifteenth
Corps. 1--WE went into the Fifteenth
Corps after the battle Of Corinth. Miss.
I have never seen it mentioned In The
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Comrade j. G.. Parker, of Brockport.
N. Y, is anxious to find his telescope
rifle, which he says he worked on in
the gun shop and helped to make. 1t
was lost in 1852 or Whereabouts. He
says he shouldered this gun in the war,
and it weighed Is pounds, but as it was
not lost in battle, he believes it may yet
be located and returned to him. On
a silver plate on the stock is the in
scription -. c. Parker, Co. A, 1st
Battalion N Y s. S."