The National tribune., 1907-08-01

tiicA bioht anu p.btttutu
to load up with supply. They then
went to the railroad, where they found
a carload of sugar burning which the
1 iConfederates had fired. the sirup run
ming on the ground shoe deep all
! around the car. They then vert to
camp on the Camden road. about a
quarter of a mile out. and after supper
started again for town. He was with
: in 10 steps of where the fire started,
and saw it start. 1t began about dusk
!, in the south portion of the city. and
burned both sides of Main street. They
remained in town until about 3 a m.
when they were ordered into camp by
Gen. Fitzpatrick. After making sew
eral Intellectual attempts to get them
to go to camp. Gen. Fitzpatrick report
ed back to Gen Sherman. who sent
some infantry to enforce his command
Il The infantry succeeded in getting them
back to camp about a m. Just as
they were making some coffee the bu-
gle sounded to fall into linz. and they
left the place. Comrade Chase was an
eyewitness of the burning of Column
| bia and knows what he X talking
about He is now 7S years old. and at
that time belonged to Gen. John a.
Logan's command. Co. A. gath Iowa.
! e. W. Locke Not Spy.
r. N Camp. 23d Ill. Port Allegany,
Pa says Comrade Martin Douglass is
mistaken as to E. w. Locke being a
spy and hung as such. f. w. Locke was
| a ballad singer who spent three years
i in the Federal armies singing to the
| soldiers and working in hospitals. He
published q book in 1870. entitled
| Three Years in Camp and Hospital.
which is most interesting work. Geo
| ID. Russell & Co, of Boston, We're the
publishers This firm also published a
book of songs BY E. w. Locke. and
/ Comrade Camp has a copy containing
/ the authors autograph on the first page.
! The man who wrote and sang We're
| Marching Down to Dixie's Land" We
Are Marching On TO Richmond" etc.
was no rebel spy. Several of the men
executed as spies during the war gave
the name of Locke, but they were not
| E. w. Locke. Mr.. Locke himself in his
book says that he was imperSonated By
spies several times, and when he would
appear again to the boys in blue they
would greet him by saying. "Oh. we
heard you were hung" Mr.. Locke sang
| his ballads to 500 different regiments.
sold his songs and postage stamps,
wrote letters for the boys in hospitals.
and was a great favorite wherever he
went. One of his legs was crippled in
youth, SO he could not enlist as a sol
dier, but he followed the Army of the
Potomac and the Western armies for
three years. doing all he could on field
and in hospital to relieve the sick and
wounded. E. w. Locke was no spy.
but one of the most patriotic of men.
and of this all will be satisfied who read
| his book.
"In md During the Rebellion"
f. c. Starkey. Yountvilie. Cal. asks
| in regard to the following item which
appears in the Associated Press:
Soldiers in frontier service during
the civil war and not engaged in actual
effort at the suppression of the rebel
lion of the Southern States cannot draw
a pension. Those who are doing so will
be stricken from the pension payroll
according to a letter from Commits
sioner Warner. Local G. A. R men
say If this ruling is enforced it will
drop many old soldiers. residents of
the Pacific Coast. now on the pension
roll.'
The Commissioner of Pensions has
made ruling to the effect that there
is substantial difference between
service during the war of the rebel
lion'' and service lin the war of the
rebellion. That is. he holds that only
those are entitled to pensions under the
McCumber and similar acts who ac-
tually contributed to the suppression
of the rebellion. Services during the
war which were not connected with
that war are not to be counted. 1t was
on this ground that the men who en-
listed from the Northern prisons to go
west and fight Indians are denied PEN
sions.
The Goth New York ut Wauhatcbic.
G. H. Blakeslee 1st-29th, Ill. Eddy
vile. would remind Comrade Lewis, of
the 60th n. Y. that he has evidently
forgotten some things in A. years The
official records show that the 60th NY
was not in the Twentieth Corps at the
battle of Wauhatchie, but in the
Twelfth Corps. commanded by Gen
Second Division of the Twelfth Corps
and he was there all right. His son
was killed fighting with Knap's bat
terry. but it is all sentiment about what
Geary said at the time. Commander
Rlakeslee's recollection is that Geary
did not pick up the body of his son,
but bending over the stretcher on
which it lay, kissed him. 1t was not on
beautiful afternoon but in the very
early morning of Oct. 2S There was
no cry of Forward as Geary's Diyi-
sion did not pull out of there until some
time after. In fact, it occupied that
position Nov. "a. 1t moved from there
for the attack on Lookout Mountain.
At that battle the two brigades of
Geary's men did all the fighting on the
west side of the mountain, nearly de-
stroying Walthalrs Confederates AT
l p. m. they were Joined by brigade
of Osterhaus's men, and from that time
until night honors were equal
A Service Of Five Years and SO DAVIS.
James W. Burnham, Plainview.
Mimi, markeS a claim of continuous SER
vice OF five years and so days. He en-
listed Aug. 16. 1862, in the 10th Mimi.
IN which he became a Sergeant and
then was commissioned Lieutenant in
the 121st U. S. c. T. and 18th u S. H.
A. A number of regiments were consoI-
idated into the latter. Sept 80. 1865, he
was transferred to the 125th u. S c. T.,
in which he served more than two
years. mostly in command of Co. H.
His first service was mostly against the
Indians in Minnesota and Dakota Then
he was in the Sixteenth Army Corps, in
Missouri. Kentucky. Tennessee, Arkan-
sas and Mississippi, with a year in Texas
after the war fighting Indians.
Grape In Field Artillery.
A. P. Carr, Co. B, 18th Ind, Span |
away, Wash. referring to the difference |
of opinion among the comrades as to |
the use of grape in field artillery. says |
that he followed old Battery B. 4th |
U. s.. for nearly three years. AT sec
ond Bull Run Battery b came into ac-
ton on run to repel a cavalry charge,
which was big one. He stood within |
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