The National tribune., 1907-08-22

If he ever missed days duty on any
account Comrade Billings never heard
of it. Comrade Low still enjoys good
health
Does Not Know It All.
A j. Harris. Co. a. 10th Kan. AL
martha. No. wants to inform Comrade
John II. Brown that he does not know it
al; with regard to the Sixteenth Corps
not taking Fort Blakeiey- His regi-
meat was on the skirmish line along
with the 5Sth Ill. and Co. c. of the
2Ith Iowa. They belonged TO the Sec
ond Brigade. Second Di:;sior. Sixteenth
Corps. Comrade Brown said the Six
tee.th Corps took Spanish Fort. If il
did the Secord Brigade did not know
ComraGe Harris were the first over the
breastworfs. 4 WAS the skirE:ish line
that took Fort Elakeley. II any OF the
old fe:h Kan. see this Ccmrade Harris
wishes they would write &c him.
Jensie Il. Grant as Presidential Cnndi-
dste.
W H. Gray. Captain. 29th Mo. 6I0D
Odel! Ave. st. Louis. Mo. notices that
Nr Jesse Il. Grant is possible Demo-
cratic candidate for nomination for
President. and IS inclined to think he is
the coming man for the race. altho he
is en- the wrong ticket to win. He is a
d.
Brought Him Letters.
Comrade Martin Douglass, Co. G.
S6th IEd.. Eaton, o.. says The National
Tribune is the paper to resurrect and
revive the old boys. His article in the
issue of June 6. The Same Old Spy"
brought him letters from comrades
from whom he had not heard since he
was discharged, June 8. 1865.
pafrfOffc Auccstry
E. H. Hoose, 319 Chestnut St. Phila-
delphia. says that he served in the
1S9th n. y, which was in the Fifth
Corps. and received the surrender of
Gen. Lees army at AppomattoN Court
House. His father was in the 18th n.
Y. II. A.. stationed at Bermuda Hun
dreds. his grandfather was in the War
of 1912. and his Great-grandfather was
with Washington in the Revolution.
The eSth n. Y. at Gettysburg.
Alex. Fake. 6Sth NJ Y. $50 E. 145th
St. New York City. y. Y. says that his
regiment was on Cemetery Hill at Get
tysburg. rext to Sherman's Battery,
from the first day to the end of the
Gen. Sam Spear.
J. r. Perkins. 1st N Y. M'td Rifles.
Omaha, Neb.. says that Gen. Spear was
a Brigadier-General when ne was at or
near Darbytown. The 11th Pa. Cav
made a good record. and Spear was a
fine officer. There are about Is of the
11th Pa. Cav. boys in Nebraska. as far
as Commissioner Perkins knows.
A Teamster Wants Information.
Peter Dunno. 1920 Ann St, Pittsburg,
Pa. served in what is known as the
Post Teams in and around Nashville
in 1S64-65 There were 65 men from
Pittsburg in the detachment, who were
sworn in at Nashville and served three
months. He wants to hear from any of
them, to get such evidence as may help
him get a pension.
Capt. Henry A. Webb.
Fred Johnson. Ironton, o., wants, on
his own account and in behalf of sew
eral comrades. to know about Capt.
Henry A. Webb. 21th Ohio, who was
killed at Corinth. Miss, Oct. 4. 1862.
He had come to Lawrence County, o.,
from some Yankee State. The informa-
ton desired is as TO his former home
and relatives.
The First Amputntion.
A. NJ. Elmes. 18th u. s., Concord
Junction. Iass., denies that the first
June 3. 1861. Cne of the officers at the
Re rmatory Prison at Concord juno
ton. Alonzo Jay. 9Th Mass. had a finger
taken off at Baltimore. April 19. 1861.
Burning of Columbia.
VIM Barr. 9th Iowa, Oelwein, Iowa,
wants to close the. discussion as to the
burning cf Columbia by affirming the
correctness of Gen. Sherman's report.