The National tribune., 1906-03-08
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along the Whole
Line.
was On the Hunter Raid.

icy, out Wnen We got 10 LyncnDurH
they were too thick for us. The fight
there opened up In the morning, and
in the afternoon we had to 'crawfish,
and that in hurry, as the Johnnies
gave us no time to stop and fortif Z.
We retreated about IA days and nights.
So we were good fighters-and run
ners. / have never seen any account
of this brave regiment. Now, l would
like to ask the editor of the best paper
printed if he will inform a comrade
who loves The National Tribune if the
152d Ohio has been overlooked"
Survivors of Libby Tunnel Party.
writes from Pleasureville, KY, to as
certain the address, if living, of the
following officers who worked with the
party of Is in the famous Libby Pris-
on tunnel: Col. Rose, nth Pa; Maj
Mcdonald, Tooth Ohio; Capt. Clark
18th ILL.,; Capt. Lucas, 5th KY; Capt
Randall, I'd Ohio; Lieut.. Fisher, 7th
Ind: Lieut.. Davy, nth Pa; Lieut.
Sterling. 29th Ind; Lieut.. Foster, 30th
Ind; Lieut.. Mitchell, 18th Ill.
Comrade johnson was one of tina.
party, and is therefore naturally anx-
ious to hear from the survivors, with
view to having Reunion at the next
National Encampment
FavOrs Tribune Service Pension Bill.
Comrade John Potter, Department
| Chaplain of Iowa, writes from Tantor
Iowa, that he has been a reader of The
National Tribune for 25 years, and
thinks its stand on the Service pen
sion" is reasonable and right, and comes
| nearer doing justice to all the comrades
than any other proposed measure
which should be an unanswerabIe ar
gument and insure its passage by Con
gress.
One of the 10th Ind. Boys.
Ind, of Milford, Ill, says there is moth
| ing on earth more pleasant to him thar
| to receive his copy each week of 1.-The
soldiers best friend,'' The National
Tribune, and read in it's columns the
articles from old comrades fighting
their battles over. II was glad" says
Comrade Morgan, ito find in the issue
| of Dec. 2S call from Comrade j. T.
Applegate, of Co. Il, 10th Ind, my old
regiment. | have never had anything
| to do me so much good as that did. II
was the first article / had ever seen in
your paper from a member of my regi-
ment. Wake up, comrades, and let us
hear from you. Come again, Comrade
| Applegate. Well, comrade, we did run
against snag at Logan'S Crossroads
KY, on that memorable 18th of Jan.
work ever accomplished by a small
body of men. But we did our whole
| duty on that occasion as well as others
Comrades of the 10th Ind, do you
remember the foot-race we had with
Rragg's army from Nashville, Tenn.
| to Louisville, Ky, distance of 1SE
miles in seven days."
In conclusion, Comrade Morgan says
he did not do as much ''as some other
f..Il Il Il.
/ but l did my best
The Rebs Threw Hot Balls.
! Comrade Levi North, Co A, 31st Ill.
of Marissa, H., would like to hear from
a comTade who assisted him to carry
IS big stacks of bundles of rice from &
rice mill back into the woods at Sa,
vannah, Ga, for the purpose of feed,
| ing the mules. Comrade North adds
| The rehS threw hot balls at it to SCI
| it on fire to keep US from getting it
and some of them came near hitting
me. The red-hot cannon balls left {
| bad. odOr in their wake. But we go
the rice all the same, and it made u:
| and the other mules fat"
How He Felt on Battlefield.
81 thought the world was coming t.
an end" writes Comrade Pat Durkin
| 143d Pa, from Abilene, Kan, describ
| lIS HIS IecllIlSS dl Iit Snlckt
mauga when he saw six or seven reb
el lines of battle" approaching. HI
says his Colonel, who was on horse
! back, ordered the men to lie down
and l said TO myself, 'Good-by, United
| States when the bullets rained ovel
us. 1 was taken prisoner and held il
rebel prisons Is months. / am close t.
| T3 years of age, and have scurvy in me
| yet as a result of my prison fare"
| n "a 70 tn
| from old comrades of the 1890 Pa. ant
| those who served with him in the 16tI
| U. S. Regulars.
He Captured "a Georgia Regiment.
"I am the boy that captured all o
! the 1st Ga. except George Z. Johnson,
/ writes Comrade r. II. Anderson. Co. c
| 23d Mo, from Gallatin, Mo. He add
| that he talked with Johnson, but dit
not succeed in getting him. MY Cap
| tain always called me Richard thu
Third How l would love to meet an.
or all of the 1st Ga. boys. / call then
| boys, because there were none of then
| over II years of age at the time o
| their capture in rear of Atlanta, il
August, 1864. There are surely som,
| of these boys alive yet. George E
| Johnson lived at Macon. Ga. at tina
| time; or, rather, he enlisted from tina
place. How / would like to take then
/ by the hand once again. They tOl(
| me they were all that were left of tn,
regiment, all the rest having been killed
or wounded"
| Loss of the Transport Governor.
| In reply to the inquiry of Comrad
| Powelson concerning the transpor
steamer Governor, Comrade William
| Simmons, Historian of the Naval Vet
Grams (Naval Post, 400, Philadelphia
| Pa, writes that this vessel was al
army transport carrying 800 marine
| under Maj. Reynolds, and went to Sc;
| with the Du Pont Expedition from
| Hampton Roads, Oct. 20, 1861. When
Off Cape Hatteras in a storm of unusua
severity the Governor was lost. goini
down with six privates and one Cor
poral. On Nov 1, 1861, the other ma
| rines were rescued by the frigate Sa
/ bine, Capt. Cadwalder Ringgold com
| manding, for which service he received
vote of thanks from Congress. TIL
| Governor at the time of its loss wa
commanded by Capt. G. L. Litchfeld
The marines were from the Marin
Barracks at Washington, ID. c., an,
went to Hampton Roads, on the gun
boat Pawnee, from which vessel the.
/ were transferred to the Governor"
i Son OF Veteran Is Missing.
/ Comrade John Bagiey, Jr., Co. B
| Goth Me-, writes from his home at Troy
! Me-, that he is anxious to learn of tn,
Whereabouts of his son, George Sheri
| dan Bagley, who disappeared from
Lowell, Mass. about six years ago
since which time he has not heard from
him. The son was born at Troy, Me.
| and is about SO years of age. Conrad,