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The National tribune., 1907-07-25
First Amputntion OF the War.

Editor National Tribune: In the
Bull Run Campaign" of April 25
was a reference to the battle of Philip
pi, June 3, 1861 1t does not mention
the 18th Ohio, commanded by Lieut.
Col. Dickey, of Mansfield. There were
of the 14th Ohio three companies which
were commanded by Col. Stedman. We
We're on the hill that overlooked Phil
ippi supporting Dumont's artillery. and
after the battle saw Col. Lander go
down the hill on his horse, and his
horse slid 30 feet before he got foot
ing, it was so steep. If this was told to
some persons they would not believe it.,
but seeing is believing. After the bat
tie we went down and camped on the
river bottom, and when dinner was
over four or five Of us went stroliing
over the ground. We saw little barn
and going to il discovered "A hole made
by a cannon ball and found a siX-pound
solid shot that came from Dumonts S
Battery. We picked it up in the third
stall, and finding blood there tracked
it to a ladder which led to haymow
and up there we found a man suffering
from a wound in the leg. j. ID. Rob-
inson, Surgeon of the 10th Ohio, VINO
died two years ago at Wooster, Ohio,
performed the amputation, and in his
Memoirs claimed it to be the first am
putation of the war, and received honor
for il as such The ball is now in my
possession. having kept it for 35 years.
never learned the wounded man S
name until ! saw the name, Mr.. Han
ger, in The National Tribune.-C. w.
Goss. Co. II, 18th Ohio, Van Vert,
Ohio
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What Became of Them.

Editor National Tribune: About the
latter part of September, 1864, our
command (kilpatrick's) lay at Powell
Rock Church, / should think about 10
miles southwest of Atlanta, Ga, when
a squad of 10 of us from Co. 3, 10th
ONO Cav, was sent on picket about a
mile south of camp for three days
The next morning after we got there
five of us went outside of our lines to
get some sweet potatoes, and we walk
ed into an ambush of IS Johnnies and
the other four surrendered, but / would
not surrender and took my chances. !
let about five or six Johnnies shoot at
me, but they did not touch me. / ran
ran right back, dropped down into a
fence corner and had hardly gotten
still when two rebels came down the
road, ran right past me, looked for me-
and, of course, did not find me.
| got back to the picket post all
right, when the boys told me they
heard the shooting (when the John
nies shot at me), but they thought that
we had shot a hog or sheep.
Now, what / would like to know is
what has become of the other four
boys?
Their names were Job Morgan Jim
Bostwick, Ira Jennings, and Will Dru-
ry, and all belonged to Co. b, 10th
Ohio Cav.
Jim Bostwick got back safe to Ohio
Job Morgan was killed when the steam
er Sultaaa was blown up.
l would like to know what has be-
come of the boys that were left. If
they are alive / would like to hear from
them.-W III. Morris, Co. b, 10th Ohio
Cav, Sunbury, o.
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THE NATIONAL WASHINGTON

front and dig a a.graye next to the one
buried last. They aid not any more
than get there tin they turned and came
running back perfectly wild. l saw
them coming, Ind Iran out to the end
of the plank to-stop them. 1 wanted
to know what was the matter. "Oh.
the divil is out there; the divil is out
there" -
"Oh." said To that's all nonsense.
Soldiers don't rum from the devil Come
on out. 1 will pull his ears for him"
They finally went back, and there was
the devil sure enough. The jackals had
commenced at the outer log and
scratched the dirt out to the coffin.
(Our ships carpenters always made
and had on hand coffin-shaped boxes
to bury in.) 1t had torn a great hole
in the coffin lid and torn out all the
insides of the last one we had buried
there. In between the ribs of the man
there sat five little scfeeching owls
swapping their teeth like they would
eat up all the Irishmen. / sent to the
hospital for a cage. and when we rolled
the logs back l went down and caugh,
and Gagged them. marked il divil and
hung 1t on deck for their ghost. But II [
Irishmen could never be induced to 60
there and dig another grave. And
strange to relate. l appear to be the
only one living out of our hospital crew
about 2S officers and Surgeons. besides
eight Sisters of Charity as nurses and
other nurses, and the unaccountablt
thing is that about every one lay par
alyZed from one to IL years before they
died. Was it that terrible malaria tina,
poisoned our system or the worry and
care to alleviate the suffering that pro-
duced this special disease that was the
fearful reaper?-Dr. James Wilson
Dayton, o., lis Hawthorn st.
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Tint Mysterieus Valley.

Editor National Tribune: B. A.
Dimon makes the inquiry as to what
regiment fired that mysterious volley
at the ending of the battle of Chicka-
mauga. l know as'imuch about that
volley as any one living. having fired
one of the shots. 1.-The 21st Ohio re-
lieved the 35th Ohio, we being about
out of ammunition, We fell back n
few rods. 1t was but few minutes
until the Colonelt6f the 21st Ohio came
back and said his regiment was cap
tured. We could not believe it possible
that they were taken in without a shot
In a little while an officer came riding
up to the 35th Ohio.i Some one asked
him what troops Were on our right.
He said: Gen. Gregg's," and then
one told him, This, is the 35th Ohio.
ed him as a rebel by this time. Did he
surrender? No. Instead he wheeled
his horse toward his own lines What
were we to do? Let him go or wait
for orders to fire? We did neither, but
let him have it. The 9th Ind had
nothing to do with this affair. That is
the way that mysterious volley came to
be fired. AS for it being a treacherous
or murderous fire you can judge for
yourself.
All that l have written / saw and
heard. / was so close to the rebel
officer / could almost touch him with
my gun. ! was in the center of the
regiment, being of the color guard, so
you see the firing could not be from
any other regiment.-T. B. Morton, r.
ID. 5. Springfield. Ohio. Co. B, 35th
Ohio.
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The Yazoo Pass Expedition.

B. f. Gordon Co. d. 36th Iowa, Ed
dyville. Iowa, in answer to some COM
rade who wanted to know about the
Yazoo Pass Expedition, says that he
helped to cut the levee below Helena,
Ark, in the Spring of '63, which held
the mighty Mississippi River, letting the
water thru to Moon Lake. In a short
time afterwards a fleet of gunboats and
transports loaded with soldiers passed
thru this hole into Moon Lake, and
down the Tallahatchie. until they cam"
close to the enemy at Fort Pemberton.
Here they landed in the swamps. and
COmrade Gordon helped take two large
siege guns from one of the gunboats
and drag them out into the woods dur
ing the night to an opening where 4
good view of the fort could be obtained,
some 500 yards away. They rolled
some bales of cotton off the boats and
made a temporary fort around these
guns, and by daylight were all ready to
open the ball. All the next day they
shelled Fort Pemberton, not doing very
much damage, the enemy's shells kill
ing a few on the gunboats and hitting
their little fort of cotton bales, but
hurting no one seriously. A big shell
tore limb from a tree, which fell OIL
the shoulder of one of the boys. knock
ing him out for the day, but that was
the only casualty. That morning, after
cotton fort, the officer in command call
ed the men in line, some 375, and said
he wanted some of them to remain
there during the day and support the
guns. All willing to stay were to take
three steps to the front. and every man
stepped to the front The officer smiled
and said he did not need all, and di-
rected them to count off in twos from
right to left. He then commanded all
the twos to step three PAGES to the
front and all the others to go back II
the boats. so the twos held the job and
were obliged to stay there all day, but
did not burn IA cartridge from their
Austrian rifles, and the enemy at the
fort in plain sight. They bothered the
Johnnies all they could. however, who
soon had quite an army in and around
the fort drawn from the forces close II
Vicksburg. Then the Union boys load
ed their traps and accouterments on the
boats and went up the river to Helena
again, the starting point. the worst de-
moraliZed set of vessels that ever foated
on water, smokestacks knocked off and
nearly all the gingerbread work or
them gone. While they did not lose
many men killed on this expedition
hundreds were disabled by exposure and
died afterwards from disease.
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A Letter From IN Illinois Comrade.

H A Johnson, of Worcester, Mass,
forwards to The National Tribune the
following letter which he received from
an Illinois comrade who recently pur-
chased the book, The Sword of
Honor"
III. A. Johnson, Worcester, Mass.
My Dear Comrade: The book, The
Sword of Honor" come to my hand at
II o'clock a. M, June "a. 1907. and it
Is now o'clock a. M, June 25, 1907,
and ! write to say that l have just fin
ished reading the last word of the
book. To say that the book interested
me would be putting it mild.
/ have quite a collection of books
relating to the civil war, and i am not
thru buying yet, for l am intensely in
terested in everything relating to the
late war q have taken The National
Tribune for "a years and intend to
take it while / live. 1t is not bad med1-
cine / enjoy taking it, l was 20
when / enlisted; l am II now, and am
enjoying good health. / served in the
army for three years and five months,
was not a prisoner for one minute. L
desire again to say that / appreciate
your book very much. Your comrade.
Vim. McAdams, Sr., Kansas, Edgar
Co, Ill.
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The Spy, Davis.

Editor National Tribune: In your
issue OF May 2, 1907, / notice a COM
munication from one Joe Crenoweth
Co. E, 9TH Iowa. concerning the execu-
tlon OF one Davis, a rebel spy at Pu-
laski. Tenn. in the Winter of 1863
Now, perhaps. | can cniigbten the COM
rade with regard to sail execution, as
the regiment to which j belonged (the
111th 1ll) Joined Gen. Dodge at East
port, Miss. early in November 1863
and marched across with him to -Pu-
laSkf, Tenn. Here we were ordered
into Winter quarters, and some days
later Dodge'S scouts captured the spy
referred to with the papers on his per-
son. | very well recoilect the scene of
the execution, as my regiment formed
one side of the square around the seat
fold upon which he was executed Now
as to how he obtained the papers,
found on his person, the writer of this
article will make the following state
ment: In the forepart Of October
1895, in company with my son-in-Iaw
| went on an excursion over the l.. &.
n. r. r. as far down as Cullman. Ala.
and on our return trip we stopped off
one night at Pulaski, Tenn. After sup
per l entered into conversation with
the clerk or proprietor of the hotel
where we were stopping. who, upon
finding out that | had been a Union
soldier during the civil war and had
btS'i ttl lstu d SOOu GueS-
tons to ask me, and among other
things, if / had any recollection of the
hanging of the spy He then asked me
if j ever knew how the spy got the
papers found upon1'his person. Upon
my assuring hiff1 That l did not, he
gave me the following statement He
said that Gen. Dodge had IL small negro
boy about hisn headquarters to do
chores, and that Irhe General had
drawn a plat of his camp and of the
position in which his troops lay for his
own convenience. The wind blew this
plat down fromH where it had been
placed and out of the tent, to a place
picked it up ahd looked at it, not
knowing what it was. but as it looked
pretty he put it in his pocket and went
off with it up n,the, country where his
old master lived, think he said, to-
ward Columbia. Now, his cid master
saw the boy locking at the plat and
comprehending What it was took it and
put it in his own pocket. In short
time this spy, passing thru that way
stopped over night with the old man
who now had the plat of Dodge's
camp. In the morning when he wen,
to leave the old man gave him the pa
per, telling him that it might he of use
to his commander (who was Forrest)
few hours after leaving his host he
was captured and brot to camp. Now
the sequel to this story is this: About
two months or so before my interview
with the hotelkeeper at Pulaski the
old man who gave the spy, Davis, the
plat died, and on his deathbed told
how it happened that Davis came to
get the paper found on his person when
captured. At the time this story was
related 10 me they were just beginning
to raise funds to erect the monument
of which Comrade Joe speaks. What
inscription was written thereon ] have
never learned-John A. Wilson, Co 3
111th Ill, Marissa, Ill.
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Stories Fmneny Worth Telling Of Experiences and Adventures
in the Great National Struggle.

enemy either in battle or skirmish'
(Ohio in War, page 255.) Not man
of them got medal never thought of
ii, tho that certain Maine regiment
got one for each member for staying
in Washington, ID. c.. at the request of
President Lincoln, and part of them
Skedaddled away back to the land of
pine knots. Still. they took the medal
while six non-vets of our regiment
fought at Atlanta after expiration Of
their time and were killed. All the
non-rets went in, some of them against
their officers protest: but they did not,
according to Fox, belong to fighting
regiment, so it made no difference
W. H. II. Minturn. Co. G, 39th Ohio.
tThe sudden rush of sizzling hot
weather, big plumbers bill, or some
thing like has riled Comrade Min
turns usual fine temper Col. Fox does
not say that the 800 did better fighting
than any others. He says their losses
show beyond doubt that they did
considerable fighting. Editor Ma
tiOnal Tribune.)
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The ll2th Ill.

Editor National Tribune: ] would be
pleased to see a short sketch OF the
18th III. in the columns of The Ma
tional Tribune the best paper publish
ed.-James A. Long, Bradford, Ill.
The 18TH Ill. was organized at Peoria
Sept. 90, 1862, and most of the members
mustered out June 20, 1865. with the
remainder transferred to the 6oth Ill.
The Colonel was Thomas j. Henderson,
afterwards Brigadier-General and for
many years member of Congress from
Illinois. He is now on the Board OF
Fortifications. The regiment belonged
to Cox's Division Twenty-third Corps
Army of the Ohio. and lost so men Kill
ed in battle and 154 from disease
Editor National Tribune.
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"FOX'S 300"
One of the Left-Outs Puts Up q Big
Crouch.

Editor National Tribune: Will you,
thru your ever-reliable paper, inform
me who Col. Fox, author of the great
book that enlightens all the world as
to who the 800 fighting regiments were.
regiment did he lead in the great strug
certain Grand Army speakers walk to
pause, and then manage to say, 1t was
my good fortune to belong to one of
the 300 fighting regiments. according
to Col Fox" Who is Col. Fox? But
for his book his hide would be of as
little value as that of any other. The
story of 800 fighting regiments. What
do you think of the old Confederate
comrade who spoke at a certain Blue
and Gray gathering i attended recently
when he said: 1.-The little 100000
starved Confeds. kept your 100000
mighty busy for four years" Then
comes Col. Fox and confines the fight
ing to 300. Is ii any test of fight
ing regiment to go in and in less than
20 minutes lose every third man, and
then pound away until ii drives the
enemy back to their holes, as our regi-
ment with the 27th, Add and 63d Ohio
did in front of Atlanta? My regiment,
the 39th Ohio, had between Aug. /,
1861, and July 9, 1865, over 1880 men
in its ranks. History says: Few regi-
ments have had more extensive field
of operation than the 39th Ohio, and
perhaps none have rendered more eff
cient service, and 1t had the good for
tune never to turn its back upon the
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CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY

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of bottle. fruit. mailing. etc. Address
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Avenue. New York. Let people see and
taste the fruit and you should sell hum
drcds of directions at 81 each.
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ed States will never count them in in
any pension measure their Legislatures
may pass for the benefit of their SOL
diers, and they are given the grand
shake by their own State. Comrade
Kaufman does not think the Pennsyl-
vania soldiers living in other States
nave been treated fairly. He was mus
tered into the Pennsylvania State SER
vice in 1861, and has never received 4
discharge from the State.
From Either Department.
VIM. II. Stahler. Superintendent Of
Frenchtown Cemetery. Frenchtown, ".
j.. was member of Co. NJ, Sth Pa.
Cav. during the war. and at the baltic
of Yorktown was detailed to the Medl-
cal Directors Office. General HeadGuar-
ters, Army of the Potomac. At Brandy
Station he was transferred to the Mcdi-
cal Purvcyor's Department. Army of the
Potomac. He would be pleased to hear
from any member of either of these
two Departments.
Grape shot.
B. S. Ruckman. 1st Ohio Indp't Bat
terry. Plymouth. o.. reading an article
in The National Tribune about the use
of grape during the war. says he was a
member of the 1st Ohio Ind'p't Battery,
and they used the four-inch rifle can
non. They always had Il supply Of
grape and canister with each gun to
use at close range. If it had not been
for this they would have been driven
from their guns at Lynchburg. June is.
1864, when the rebs charged on them
at . o'clock in the afternoon. Again
grape and canister were used when the
rebs fired on them from ambush at Sa-
lem June 21. At the battle of VIM
chester. July %. 1864. they were in the
fort on the Romney pike. When our
limos Irir
last to leave the fort. and were ordered
to give the Johnnies six rounds apiece
of grape and canister which order was
promptly executed. When they left the
fort the rebs on their left were going
thru the main street of the town.
Scattering.
Thos B. Sailor. Co d. I'd Pa Cav,
Mount Vernon, Ohio, does not see how
the boys could get along without The
National Tribune, the soldiers paper.
He likes TO see letters in it from the
comrades. He thinks there are a great
many Foraker soldiers. Foraker is
claimed to be the real friend of the
comrades. black or white Outside of
Government employees there are a great
many Foraker voters. He would like
to hear from the rank and file, and not
from those who are in politics AMI
anxious to be leaders. Please speak out
thru The National Tribune. boys. Com
rade Sailor would like to hear from
some of the comrades of the I'd Pa.
Cav. who were captured at Dumfries.
sent to Richmond, and boarded at Ho-
tel Libby and Castle Thunder Those
were jolly times. never to be forgotten
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A Happy Bald-Hended Nan.

II. Dayton, a chemist, living at 1904
Magnolia Ave, st. Louis, Mo-, accident
ally discovered a mixture that made his
hair grow. He tried it on his bald headed
friends with the same result. He is So
proud of it that ne has had the recipe
printed by the Thousand, and is sending
it to all who write and inclose stamp.
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and said it. When one thinks of the
military talent and fame acquired after
by men who were in that particular
battle, it would have been glory enough
to have died upon that field-Bull Run.
w. r. Murray, list n. Y. S. NJ.
Burnside's Brigade, Hunters Division,
Army of Gen. Mcdowell, Brooklyn,
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The Finding of an Old Sword.

Sylvester Channel, Co. X, 9Th w. Va,
Parsons. w. Va. sends us a newspa per
clipping announcing the finding of an
old sword on a piece of woodsland near
Elkins, w. Va. The sword was made
in 1862. and bears the initials I'D. b.
1t is supposed to have belonged to q
Lieutenant in the STth Pa. who was
accidentally shot near Beverly. w. Va,
by some member of his regiment who
had aimed at n deer. His comrades
made a bier of hickory poles and car
ried their dead companion eight miles
before they found suitable place to
bury him. Mr.. Daniel Liner. 18TH Va,
was crossing the mountains al the time
of this occurrence. and was close at
hand when the Lieutenant was shot
and he feels certain that this was his
sword.
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Right and just.

Andrew II. Sloan. Co. 3. Goth Mass.
Warsaw. Ind. thinks that the age bill
of Senator McCumber is right and just,
but he also thinks that the few re-
manning ex-prisoners of war should Re
allowed 81 per day for the remainder
of their lives. They would all have
greatly preferred fighting in the field to
suffering in the prison pens as they did.
Congress has never acted on his bill
for the benefit of the ex-prisoners. If
the leaders want the boys to stand by
them they must stand by the boys now.
Comrade Sloan has discharge from
the State of Massachusetts, and two from
the United States. He was n prisoner
of war ia days, and has lost his right
arm.
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The I'd N. Y. Cav.

c. McCutchen. Second Lieutenant. Co.
F, I'd N. Y. Cav, Tarrytown. N. Y, in
reply to the request of Comrade w.
NJ. Townsend. Syracuse. N. Y, SAYS that
the I'd n. Y. Cav. was connected with
the Army of the Potomac during the
war, was never in Louisiana, and con-
sequently never encamped on the Red
River. Upon consulting the Adjutant-
Generals report of the State of New
York Comrade McCutchcn finds but two
Townsends members of the Cd N. Y
Cav, one Nathan Townsend. of Co. F,
and Warren Townsend. Co. G. both of
whom enlisted five months after that
little scrap on the bridge" referred to
by Comrade w. NJ. Townsend.
The Pennsylvania Pension Bill.
Abram c. Kaufman. Co. II, 7th Pa.
Reserves and Co. l, 19Oth Pa, Water
man, Ill, wants to know if the services
rendered the Government in the sos
by those who afterwards left their
States was not of as much honor and
benefit as that rendered by those SOL
diers who have remained in their States
up to the present time. Thousands ol
the boys, returning to their homes after
the war, married the girls they left
behind them,'' and to better their con-
dition in life moved to other States. and
especially to the great West Those
Pennsylvania soldiers now residing out
side the State are abandoned or cut of
by the Cochran Pension bill and are
made to feel pretty small. Their adopt