The National tribune., 1907-04-04

grand shape-a distance Of $50 miles,
This was Dec. 16. just three months
| from the time We left Memphis. with
out single days rest. We then fol-
| lowed Hood as far as Columbia, where
our corps turned to the right for East
port. Miss. distance. $50 miles. We
| thought We were going TO get rest here,
but We were mistaken. We marched
and secuted around. also built a line
| of breastworks. and after we had fin
| ished these we were ordered to Mobile.
Ala. This was Feb. 1. 1865. Distance
| from Eastport to Mobile, 79s miles.
| From Mobile we went to Montgomery
and baek-3s0 miles. This was made
| in April We started from Fort Blake
| ley the 18th of April. I think. This
ended the longest march made without
| rest during the war. beginning April
Is. 1864. and ending In May. 1865.
Seven and a half months we were on
the almost constant go. covering a dis
lance of 3.053 miles. IF any comrade
can beat this. let him speak up
That Longest March.
W. II. RickUan. Co. l.. 4th Iowa Cav,
Doland. S. D., gives an account of the
Sixteenth Corps's long march, corrobo-
rating all that Comrade Malone has said
except In a few instances. He says
when they got to Elgin Mills on their
| march north to head off Price they
| found the heat and drinking water ter
| rible. When they reached Westport they
i had then marched over I 900 miles. and
| this Is where the nth Kan, who claim
] to have made the longest march during
! the war, started from. The 18th Kan.
scarcely did anything but run and dodge
| around to keep out of the way of Price.
II Moonlight had done what he was
| sent to do he would have been in front
l of Price and stopt him till they got up,
i and had taken Price, but instead Moon.
4 light was four five miles away at
| Mound City. There he stayed until the
/ Sixteenth Corps fought the battle of
i Mine Creek, drove the rebels back, and
4 took all of the prisoners Then when
| Moonlight saw that they had done the
work he came marching down. and 1t
| Is wonder he wasn't court-martialed.
! The 18th Kan. man could not have
known that the Sixteenth Corps was
| after Price all the way from Little
4 Rock or he would not have claimed for
1 his regiment the longest march Of the
\ war. The Sixteenth Corps beat him
i about 400 miles. They were in the
| saddle nearly four months before they
made stop Of any account.
! "Five-Fingered jack
1 H. E. Seelye. Co. A, 9th Mimi, Anoka,
1 Mimi, says he was a prisoner of war-
at Cahaba, Ala, at the time John
Thorp. Co. F. 59th Ill.,. and his COM
rades were brought in. Seelye and the
other prisoners heard that there was an
arrival Of fresh fish. and went to see
| who they were. Found "Five-fngered
Jack" Duffy. Ducat and others. Now.
| if John Thorp is "Five-tingered Jack"
| he remembers him well, and II Thorp
1 will take the trouble to write Comrade
Seeiye he will doubtless remember him.
as he was one of the police Of the pris-
| on. A comrade by the name of Pat
1 Kelly was also on the prison police
| force Seelye and Kelly bunked to-
| gether and came to Benton Barracks
| together. He has never seen Kelly
| since, and would be so glad to know OF
his whereabouts. Would also be pleased
| to hear from any comrade who knew
him.
| The 1sth Ky. ut Franklin.
| James T. Morris, Co. I, 18th KY,
i Portsmouth, o., says he has n.ver seen
4 anything about the part taken by the
i 10th KY. in the Franklin fight. When
they were being paid off in Pulaski.
Tenn. they became aware that old Hood
was trying to cut them off at Columbia,
SO they started on 2 foot race to see
| who would get there first They won,
4 and held Hood at Columbia two days.
| then fell back to Franklin via Spring
Hill, where they had a scrap with
\ Wheeler's Cavalry. At Franklin they
4
war. They then crost the Dick River.
! and went to Nashville, where they paid
old Hood a compliment by running his
| traitorous ragamuffins. Comrade Nor
ris was with bully Pap Sherman" in
the Atlanta campaign to its finish.
| Relics.
/ A. s. Brooks, 40 Barcelona ST., PEN
sacola, Fla. is greatly interested in rel
les, and says he can go Frank Young
and DIR. Wade Price two better when it
comes to a question of old coins He
| has one coined in 1894. the second is
sue coined by the United States and
called Liberty Cap" These old cents
were coined from 1893 to 1857. In
4 1856 the United States began coming
4 the flying eagle cent of white metal
which ran three years. Those Of 1856.
good date. he will give dollar for. In
! 1859 we began coming another white
cent. which ran six years. He has
| them all In 1884 We began the COIN
| ing of the little red cent now in use.
| He has one Of each data at his home.
1 Comrade Brooks has also his last cart
/ ridge, but no teeth to tear it; his sol
der candle-stick. his knife. fork and
/ spoon, and two cartridges he picked up
at White House Landing.
TIE Oldest Soldier.
| 1t is claimed for Amos Martin, OF
New Castle. that he Is the Oldest sol
| der living. He was born in Scotland
1 in 1898, and came to this country when
child He served in the Mexican War
/ in the 18th u s., and after his dis
charge settled in Pennsylvania, enlist
ing from that State in the war of the
rebellion. He celebrated his 109th birth
+, day recently, and Is sufficiently active
to walk to the Squire's Office and exc
cute his pension voucher.
Wants to Hear.
i D. w. Payne. Co. G. 1880 Ind. Ma
son, ILL.,. wishes to hear from some OF
the boys Of his company.