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More 10Th III. HIxtory.

Editor National Tribune: In the issue
of Nov. 5, 1908, Comrade e. M. Down
ing asks for a condensed history of the
10th H., and what you gave is correct.
I will try to fill in what you left out
The 10th was organized in April, 1861,
under Lncoln's first call, with Gen. b.
NJ. Prentiss as Its first Colonel, who
was soon made Brigadier-General.
After the three-months service IL was
reorganized for three years, with Jas.
ID. Morgan as Colonel, John Tilson
Lieutenant Colonel and Dallam as Ma
jor. We moved around considerably.
and were changed about so many times
that / cannot remember all the differ
ent commands we were in. We finally
got with the 10th Ill, and some time in
the Summer of 1852 our brigade was
composed of the 10th, 18th and 60th
Ill. and 10th and 18th Mich. The first
I remember of being in Davis's Divi-
sion, Fourteenth Corps. was at the bat
tie of Mission Ridge, Ga. Nov 25,
1863. Our regiment had been sect
tered along the Tennessee River above
Chattanooga. After the battle of Mis-
sion Ridge the division was sert with
Sherman to Knoxville TO drive Long
street away. Dec. 81, 1868, we re-en-
listed at Rossville. Ga, as a veteran
regiment, and went home on furIough
When we returned we took our places
| IN the Old brigade, and renamed WIFI
the same command during the Atlanta
campaign till just before the battle oi
Jonesboro, Ga. We were relieved by
the 18th N. Y, and transferred to the
Sixteenth Corps, under Gen. Dodge. WI
supposed the reason of the change wa
that Col. Tilson wanted some stars oI
his shoulders, and in the old brigade
there was not much chance to acquir'
them. We got to this new command
and found Major in command. Til
son took command of the brigade, com
posed of three regiments and a bat
tery-10th ILL.,. 25th Ind. and 32d Wis
Just before the march to the sea W.
We're put into the Seventeenth Corps
Third Brigade and First Division, ant
remained there until the end of tn
war. I am one of the originals of tn
10th ILL.,. and was generally with tn
regiment wherever II was.-L. w. Arm
strong. Co. e. 10th H., Randolph, lows
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Rrngg kne.y ThOEaes.

Editor National Tribune: L met an
old gentleman on the cars not long
since, who. seeing the button on my
coat paused, and, after extending his
hand, sat down beside me and Informed
me that he, too, had been a soldier, but
fought on the other side. During the
conversation he said he was present
at the battle of Chickamauga, was an
Orderly to Gen ID. H. Hill. I jestingly
asked him if he had the pleasure of
meeting any of "Pap' Thomas's men
as near as he could remember a con-
versation between Gen. Bragg and Gen.
Hill Late in the evening of the last
day, about dusk, Gen. Bragg rode up
TO where Gen. Hill and his staff were
raIlying his men, and, addressing Gen.
Hill, said:
"Gen. Hill. don't understand why
we have not routed the Federals, for
fully one-haIf of Rosecrans's army have
left the field in great disorder"
Gen. Hill responded: ''Those Yankees
up there (pointing towards Snodgrass
HID have almost destroyed my divi-
sion. sir, and are full of fight yet. From
prisoners just brought in / learn that
our old friend. Thomas, is in command
up there"
'Is that so. General?" Bragg said.
"WelI. you remember that Mr.. Thomas
always was a very obstinate man. Rut
he will be gone in the morning: so let
your men get a little rest for to-mor-
row." 1t will be remembered that Geo
II. Thomas was First Lieutenant and
ID. II. Hill Second Lieutenant of Braggs
famous battery during the Mexican
War-J. Huntley. Co. ID. 1st battalion
M'fd Cal. Vols, Gold Beach, Ore.
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The 12Ath N. Y. at Gettysburg.

Editor National Tribune: Altho not
at the battle of Gettysburg, / have, as
usual, taken interest in reading histor1-
cal matter. l have paid close attention
in reading your account of Gettysburg.
| also know how hard it is to be ac-
curate in. such records 1 have a scrap
book, where are placed cuttings that
pertain to important events, and pre-
sumo many others do the same. L dis
cover what must be an error in your
issue of Oct. 20. You give list of the
Union and Confederate losses. In Union
losses no mention is made of the 124th
N. Y. The 124th, 125th and 12Gth N.
Y. were there. I question if the 134th
n. Y. was. Col. A. Van Horn Ellis,
124th N. Y, was Captain of Co. in
the list N. Y. S. Nj. at the first Bull
Run. This was our battery company
of two Dahlgren howitZers. l see he
is among the killed; also Maj. James
Cromwell. I have in the Post of which
L am the Commander quite a number
of the 124th N. Y, and know of war
conversations that the regiment lost
quite heavily in proportion to the num-
Der taken into battle. I think the
134th you have must be the 124th, for
in reading the account / have not seen
any mention of the bath n. Y.-Robert
Welch, 203 Tompkins avenue, Brook
lyn, n. Y.
Inc i11tn AZ. 1--oie'iSe hio9Soni9
was at Gettysburg, very much there,
as was repeatedly stated in The Ma
tional Tribune. 1t took 290 officers and
men into the fight and lost % killed, 81
wounded and five missing. Among the
killed were Col. Ellis and Maj. Crom-
well.
The 134th N Y. was also at Gettys-
burg, in the Eleventh Corps. and lost
even more heavily, with 50 Killed. 134
wounded and SO missing.-Editor Ma
tional Tribune.
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Sfaes Emneny Worth Telling of Experiences and Adventures
IN the Great National Struggle
THEY DIDN'T BEAR HIS HEART.
a Boy Picket Who Had Good Reason to
BE Scared,

Editor National Tribune: My first ex-
perience of any consequence on picket
duty was in March, 1862, the night be-
fore the second days battle at Pea
Ridge, or. rather. Elkhorn Tavern. In
the evening a detachment of 35 or 40
men went out on the Cross Hollows
road, some two or three miles from
Sugar Creek Crossing, to relieve the
outpost pickets, arriving there some
time after dark. The usual instruction
and information was given by the re-
1ieved officer in regard to position and
movements of the enemy. We eau
tiously settled down to the business of
the night, and the videts were placed
in position. We had three or four
posted at different points as watchers,
there being sufficient number of US
SO that two hours was all a man had
for his guard. Everything went leis-
ureIy on. The reports of the videt sta
toned on a high bluff overlooking
Sugar Creek, which lay off to our right,
were that rebel camp of Indians was
just across creek from where ne was
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MUSTERED OUT.

BASH-At New Alexandria, Pa.
Nov. Ia. 1908. Lebeus p. Bash. aged 6s.
He enlisted Oct. 5, 1851, in Co. f, 11th
Pa; served till July /. 1865. Two sons
and daughter survive him.
FAIR.-Near Admission, Ala, Sept.
26, 1908, Andrew J. Fair. in the esd
year of his age. He served in Co. x,
194th Ohio. His widow and three chill
dren survive him.
BUCK.-At Chicago, ILL.,, Nov. 4,
1908. Henry c. Buck, aged 63 years.
He was born in Benning County. VT,
Oct 5, 1915; came to Illinois in boy
hood; at the age of 16 enlisted in Bat
terry I. 1st Ill. L. A.. on Feb. 19, 1862;
was discharged July 26. 1865, as Cor
poral. Interment at Mounce, Ill. An
aged brother survives him.
ALBRIGHT.-At Spring Mills. Pa,
Nov. L. 1908. John Albright, 49th Pa.
WALIZER.-At Howard, Pa, Nov.
s, A. j. Walizer, 49th Pa.
DOWNING.-At Wichita, Kan, Nov.
IA, Capt. Benjamin II. Downing, 10th
Fa.
McGEARY.-At Salina, Pa, Aug. 27,
1908. Joseph McCeary, aged 70. He
served in Co. L, 6fst III. His widow.
four daughters and two sons survive
him.
CHAMBERLAIN U. S. Navy
Yard, Bremerton. Wash. Oct Is, 1908,
Charles d. Chamberlain, aged so years.
He enlisted Sept. 2S, 1864, in Co. B, Sd
Mich. Cav, and was promoted to Cor
poral; served till May %, 1866.
CAMPBELL.-At Brookville, Pa,
Feb. 5, 1908. William Campbell. He
enlisted Oct 90, 1861, in Co. /, 105tli
Pa; was discharged on Surgeons GER
tifcate May 81, 1865.
LEWIS.-At his home in Corona,
Cal. Aug. 8, William F. Lewis, at the
age of 20 yaars. He served thru the
war in the 9th Ohio battery. He is
survived by a widow and a large family
of children.
STURTEVANT-At Corning, n. Y,
Oct. 8. 1908, e. A. Sturtevant. aged IS.
He enlisted in 1851 as drummer in the
seth n. Y; re-enlisted Sept. 5. 1862.
and was promoted to Chief Musician of
141st n. Y. with which he served un-
I'll the close of the war against rebel
lion: went with Sherman to the see.
and was one of the men who at the
battle of Paachtree Creek carried his
fallen commander, Col. Logic, from
the field. He was many times Com
mander of Rathbun Post, 277. G. A. r.,
of Corning. His widow, three daugil-
ters and son survive. him.
STREETER.-At Melvin Village, ".
H., Sept. 5, 1908, Albert w. Streeter.
aged IS years. He served in Co. C.
11th Pa. Cav, from Aug. IT. 1864. to
Aug. 10. 1865. His widow survives
him
DWYER.-At Graceville. Mimi, Oct.
IT, 1908, Patrick Dwyer. He served in
the 9th Mass. His widow survives him.
REA.-At Stockton, Cal, Nov. 4,
1908, Samuel Rea. He was born in
ireland March 25, 1928; came to the
United States in his youth; in 1861 en-
listed and served 43 months, being
Captain of Co. C, 18th Wis. when dis
charged at close of the war against
rebellion. At the time of his death he
was Patriotic Instructor of Rawlins
Post, 23, G. A. r., Stockton, Cal. His
widow and several grown children sur
viva him
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How a woman Made, Money.

A woman writing to the Globe from
Mexico says: while 1 am Way down
in Mexico|I do not want my friends
who read the Globe to think 1 am out
of the world, for L am making more
money now than 1 ever did in my life.
Four years ago took up fruit claim.
They give you the land if you will pay
for setting out five acres of tropical
fruit trees within five years. The De-
partment of Improvement set out my
banana trees, 1000 on five acres, and
attended to them for two years, or until
the first. crop was ready to gather, and
it cost me Only $500. The Department
of Improvement will care for your trees
and gather and market your fruit con-
tinuously for one-third of the crop. So
L just let them attend to my orchard.
In 1907 the Department paid me for
my share $1,2S1.30 in gold. For the
first six months of 1908 / had received
$7OS.76 in gold, and expect the second
half of the year will bring me a little
more. You get your money every three
months, as bananas are picked and
marketed every day of the year. You
do not have to come to Mexico to toke
up land You can nay for planting the
trees in installmenrs of $5 month if
you wish, and need never go to Mexico
yourself
Write to the Jantha Plantation Co..
Block 103, Pittsburg. Pa. for Fruit
Claim blanks, as literature printed in
English. regarding Mexican home
steads, is distributed from Pittsburg.
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The 9gfh n. Y.

Editor National Tribune: To correct
a mistake that / saw in The National
Tribune of about one year ago: Some
one sent you a statement as to the death
of the last man of the 99th N. Y. To
prove to you there are quite few liv-
ing Yet is my object in writing. The
99th n. Y. was also called the Naval
Brigade and Union Coast Guard, with
headquarters at 29 Grove street. New
York City. They held a Reunion in
June of this year. A number were
taken prisoners at Smithheld. Isle of
Wight County. Va, in fight against
great odds, and penned up in the town,
surrounded by water and the citizens
of the town, with no avenue 10 escape
unless by jumping into the cold water
A few took that way, about 10 all told
taken to meet their doom in Southern
prisons, and after period of Al years
and 10 months l have located two oi
the 99th N. Y. and got welcome let
ters from them. One of them is Orderly.
Serg't Linnahan, Of Capt. Rowe's COM
pany. He is at Marshfield, Coos Bay
Ore. The other is Duncan Mckay, now
at 632 East 26th street, Portland, Ore.
and by being a subscriber of The Ma
tional Tribune I was able to find them
| The National Tribune is paper tina
| every old soldier ought not to be with
out. Thru ii came across the names o.
three of Capt. Young's Battery of Pitts
burg.-F. w. Rogers. Philadelphia, Pa
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THE HEROIC CUSHING.
A Plain Old Veterans Thrilling Story of
the Fight Mt Gettysburg.

Editor National Tribune: I enlisted in
Co. K. 4th Ohio, April II, 1861, at
Marion, o.; re-enlisted in same for
three years at Camp Denison. Ohio.
June 6: was transferred to Chas. S..
Morean's Battery A, 4th U S. Art, in
October. 1862. AS my discharge shows.
went thru 81 engagements with the
battery. + was discharged by Rufus
King. Ouartermaster. at Cold Harbor
Va, June 6. 1864. Capt. Morgan was
Chief of Artillery in the Southwest. and
the battery was commanded by First
Lieut. Alonzo Gushing. who was killed
at GETTYSBURG. Cushing was a small
sized man with blue ewes. smooth face
and auburn hair. and looked more like
school girl than warrior: but he was
the best fighting man ever saw Our
battery arrived on the field July 2. and
took position on left of the Second
Corps. ] was sent to the rear with the
fourth cafsson. We went back over the
hill close to Gen. Meade's Headquarters
When the heavv cannonading COM
menced on the Sd we went further tc
the rear. About the same time that
Pickett was ordered to charge 7 was
ordered to the battery 7 was informed
by the courier that I would find the
battery on the right Of the Second
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KiIpaarick's Division.

Editor National Tribune: L note in
the issue of Nov. 5, in answer to Com
rade G. S. Geibe's inquiry of the 9th Pa.
Cav, you give it as belonging to Gen.
McCook's Cavalry Division. That is all
o. K. so far as it goes, but you cut
them out of the honors they won in
following Gen. Judson fitzpatrick, with
his Third Cavalry Division, from Allan
ia to the sea. and thence to Raleigh,
N. c., and the surrender OF Gen. john
ston's army. The 9Th Pa. Cav. don't
need anyone to blow their horn. for they
always made good wherever they were
sent, but honor to whom honor is due,
and none more so than to the men who
followed Kilpatricks Division Flag.
When we burned the bridges behind us
there was no retreat. The only order
was, Forward" 'Rahl 'Rah, for the
old cavalry division, the Union and
Taft, and don't forget The National
Tribune. A. Gilberg, Sergeant, 5th
Ohio Cav, Poplar MINI.
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Tie 18th U. g.

Editor National Tribune: VIII you
kindly publish short history of the
18th L. S.. and oblige-O. Il. Davis.
Alton, Iowa.
The 18th U. S. was authorized by the
act of May 4. 1861. as a three battalion
regiment. Its first Colonel was II. y.
Darlington. Afjutant-Csene-al of Ohio.
and its LieutenaHt-Colonel Oliver L.
Shepherd, who had command OF the
regiment until Jan. 81. 1863, when he
was succeeded by C. S. Lowell Sept.
21. 1856, the I'd battalion became tine
9th L. s., and the Sd battalion the
36th U. s. The regiment was one of
the 800 fighting regiments belonged to
Kings Brigade, Rousseau's Division,
Fourteenth Corps, Army OF the Cum
berland/ and lost killed in action I31
and died of wounds 81. total Of 2tS.
It's total of killed and wounded was
S54, with 206 captured and missing. OF
whom 53 died in Confederate prisons.
Editor National Tribune.
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7tin Pm. CIV.

Editor National Tribune: The 31st
Annual Reunion of the 7th Pa. Cav.
was held in Williamsport, Pa, Oct. 20
and 21, 1908, with 76 regImental COM
rades present. Lieut-COl. c. L. Green.
of Cincinnati, o., was present. Thirty
four deaths since the meeting in 1907
were reported. The officers elected
were: President, Lieut. H. II. Snyder,
Co. l., Port Royal, Pa: Secretary and
Treasurer, f. r. Hutchinson, Pittsburg,
Pa The next Reunion will be held in
Pittsburg on the fourth Tuesday and
Wednesday of October. 1909. Hon.
Emerson Collins, of Williamsport. Pa,
was the principal speaker. Any sur
yivor of this regiment who desires to
become a member of the organization
may remit 81 to the Treasurer, F. r.
Hutchinson, 2169 Wylie avenue, Pitts
burg, Pal. d. Loveland, Co. h, Will
liamSnnrt. Pa
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Corps, at the grove and angle. My horse
made good run for about mile.
found my piece. the fourth, still on her
wheels and all the canister We had piled
up around her. l had been on the
ground but a few minutes till / found
the gun hot and firing slow. "A very
few minutes passed until the smoke
raised, and we saw the head of Picketts
column within 800 yards of us. We
had the opportunity of our Ives-just
what an artilleryman wants. We had
a flank fire on them and enough caniS-
ter to stop them, but before they got to
the stone wall in front we were out of
ammunition and my gun was dismount-
ed. Lieut.. Gushing was on the right
We both got to the piece in front about
the same time. l found the piece OUT
of canister, started back to the timber:
looked back and saw Gen. Armisted
with his hat on his sword and yelling to
his men. and Cushing being held up by
some infantry officer. IL I had stayed
at the gun as long as Cushing did
would have been there yet. Our guns
were all disabled, limbers and caissons
blown up, men and horses killed and
wounded, and the battery in command
of a First Sergeant. afterwards Lieut..
Frederick Fuger, a 10-year man, and
as fine a soldier and officer as ever faced
an enemy. / was on duty that night;
ITO guard were a few dead men. We
took Lieut.. Cushing and three or four
men off the field. 1t .rained all night
Now, as to Cushing's wounds-one
piece of shell struck him in the thighs
another piece struck him in the shoul-
| der. but he stuck to the guns until a
| ball struck him right under the nose
| He fell on one side of the piece and
Gen. Armisted on the other His right
thumb was burned to the bone. serving
vent without a thumb pad. We were
all tired. powder-burned and bruised
so we laid the dead men together. an6
lay on top of them all night The nexi
| morning we took Cushing's fatigue
blouse off. and his cook got that after
| took off the shoulder straps. i car
ried them till the next Winter, and gave
| them TO his brother at Brandy Station
Thomas Moon, Lance Corporal, Bat
terry A. 4th U. S. Art. Cochranton, o.
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An Atlanta Physician Is Curing
Catarrh by a Simple Home
Remedy and will mail q
Trial Treatment
Free,

Those who have long doubted
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learn that DR.. Blosser. of Atlanta, Ga.'
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If you wish a demonstration of what
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Ga, and you will receive by return
mail a free package and an illustrated
booklet. Write before you forget it.
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The 1st Tex. Cav,

Editor National Tribune: Please give
a history of the 1st Tex. Cav.-Capt.
Henry ID. Bonnet, Del Rio, Tex.
The 1st Tex. Cav was composed of
eight companies, and was organized at
New Orleans from November, 1862, to
February, 1864. and mustered out Nov.
4, 1865. 1t was increased to IL COM
panies Sept. 10, 1864, by the consolida-
ton of the I'd Tex. Cav, and Hamilton's
Bodyguard was added to it Jan. 25,
1865. II was commanded by Coils. Ed
mund J. Davis and John l.. Haynes, the
latter of whom was in command at the
time of INSTRUMENTATION National
Tribune.
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18th "a. CnT.

A Reunion of the 10th Pa. Cav. took
place at Gettysburg, Pa, Oct. 20, 1908.
with 21 members of the regiment pres
ent. AS is our custom, we marched
by conveyance" over the entire battle
field, except to the extreme left of our
line. The battlefield covers an area of
10000 acres, or % square miles Of ter
ritory. The United States Government
has secured some 5000 acres, over
which a system of permanent highways
has been made or are in process of
construction, giving easy access to the
most prominent points of interest On
the extreme left of our line, where the
cavalry, under Gregg on the Union side
and Stuart on the other. fought each
other with persistency until Stuart was
forced TO retire, July 3, 1863. the Gov
eminent has not yet secured possession
of the ground, and the public roads are
not in very good condition, and for
that reason guides and owners of con-
veyanees are reluctant to carry tour
lists over that part of the field. In the
battle our regiment occupied the eX-
treme left of the cavalry line, on what
is known as the Deardorf farm. The
enemy was intrenched in a large barn
several hundred yards from our line.
This was on July 3. The reasons for
our late arrival at Gettysburg Were
that we were the last troops to cross
the Potomac from Virginia to Mary
land. We had just driven force of
rebel cavalry thru the Loudoun Valley
to Smokers Gap, and aid not reach
Gettysburg until the evening of July 2.
too late to take any but a slight skir-
misfing part in the conflict. On the
morning of July 3 we were assigned
| to the extreme left of the cavalry, as
| indicated. We were protected by a rail
| fence and some bushes and small trees.
Our casualties were slight. The enemy
seemed not to have been so fortunate,
as Mr.. Dearborn Informed us some years
ago, when we held our Reunion in his
barn. that after the fight 135 dead Con-
federates were left in the barn to be
buried by our troops. Our monument
| erected some years ago, stands about
| the center of our line, and in front OF
it we were photographed. At our Camp
| fire many "reminiscences of the regi-
ment's experience We're rehearsed.- We
were very glad, indeed, to meet each
| other again, but could not refrain from
! q thought of sadness that all of ouI
boys could or did not find themselves in
position to be present.. d. Miller
| Newton Hamilton, Pa.
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The Sd Iowa Cay.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
a short history of the Sd Iowa Cav
Alfred Spence, Reeds Spring, Mo.
The Sd Iowa Cav was organized at
Keokuk from August to September.
1861, and finally mustered out Aug. O.,
1865 1t was commanded by Col. Cyrus
Bussey, who was promoted April II.
1864, to Brigadier-General, succeeded
by Col. Henry c. Caldwell, who resigned
June 25 of the same year. Col. John
w. Noble then took command, retaining
the same till final muster-out 1t be-
longed to Washburn's Division, Cavalry
Corps, and lost 81 killed and 234 from
disease, etc 1t took part in some 4S
or more battles and engagements
Editor National Tribune.
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TIs 10Th Wis.

Editor National Tribune: Kindly give
the history of the 39th Wis.-David
Lloyd, Speermore, Okla.
The goth Wis. was organized at Mil
waukee June 3, 1864, for 100 days. and
mustered out Sept. %. 1864. 1t was
commanded by Col Edwin L. Buttrick
all thru its service, and lost three killed
and 2S f-om Dissatisfaction National
Tribune.