The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along the Whole
Line.
What Company and Regiment:

WHIT COMPANY duu
NJ. Luther, Co C, 18th Ill. Cav, White
Pigeon, Mich, referring to the story
about Quantrell by Charles D. Field,
says that he had terminate of that
| name who was when last heard from,
Waterman in the Census Bureau at
Washington. Why don't he give his
company and regiment, as he is prob
ably Comrade Luthers old chum. Com
| rade Luther says that the regiment
| left Bloomfield, Mo-, several days be-
hind the division, and were guarding
mail and sutler wagons, all well loaded,
and some ambulances. Maj. Lippert
was in command of about $50 men of
the regiment and others who did not
belong to the command. They march
ed fast, and there was a swarm of guer-
rillas hanging around them all the time.
During the march two sutler wagons
failed to get in one night, and were
captured and robbed by the guerrillas,
with the drivers taken prisoner. One
sutler wagon was left because the team
was needed elsewhere. and Co. C, which
was the rear guard, got its contents and
reveled in canned fruit, Catawba wine,
cheese, etc.
Defense of Gen. Mcclellan.
A. B. Dennis, Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
says that we have fallen into the fault
finding habit with regard to Mcclellan,
and are unjust to comrade, who was
also one of the greatest military leaders
of the age. He has been waiting for
some officers who served under that
| lOvable Commander-in-Chief to answer
the structures on Mcclellan, but no one
has yet appeared. He had three BROTH
ers who served under Mcclellan in all
his campaigns. One fell badly wound
ed at Fredericksburg and another was
MORALLY wounded in the Wilderness.
Comrade Dennis himself served in the
TIN Ohio, and was surrendered at Har-
per's Ferry. He holds Halleck and
Stanton entirely responsible for that,
and Gen Mcclellan was not to blame.
After his exchange he served two years
and eight months in Co. L, 1st Ohio H.
A, in Kentucky. Tennessee, Georgia and
North Carolina. He has voted for all
the Republican candidates for Presi-
dent, therefore his sympathy with Nc
Clellan is not political, but arises sim
ply from desire to defend man who
has been unjustly criticized.
Gen. Richardson and His Division.
George Schultz, SID N. Y, Gadshill,
Mo-, wants to make correction in re-
gard to Antietam. Splendid old ]. B.
Richardson, of Michigan, did not COM
mand his division on the day of the
battle. He was grand old war horse,
and his men all admired him to the
utmost. Sept. 16 the brigade to which
Comrade Schultz belonged, the Third
of the First Division, was about half a
mile in rear of Antietam Creek, sup
porting some heavy artillery. Gen.
Richardson was with them, and seated
under walnut tree behind one of the
big 24-pound howitzers. A 2O-pound
rifle she'll came over from the enemy,
burst above his head and a piece of
the she'll struck him in the shoulder
Comrade Schultz helped put him into an
ambulance, and he died soon after. As
to the brigade commander, he will say
that Gen. Meagher led his brigade and
gade was under command of Col. Paul
Frank, of the SD N. Y.
At the Crater.
]. c. Vanderslice, I'd Pa. H. A.. Cam
den, N. j., says that the comrade who
was mistaken in saying that the Tenth
Corps made the charge. 1t was the
First Division Of the Ninth Corps that
charged after the fort went up The
Fourth Division of the Ninth Corps, the
colored troops, supported the First Di-
| vision. The matter was decided by
drawing lots, as Burnside did not want
the First Division to make the charge,
since they were under the cover of the
Danville & Petersburg Railroad, keep
ing up constant skirmish fire to draw
the attention of the Confederates. They
all took 80 rounds of cartridges when
they went out on this duty, and expend-
ed them all.
The Ex-PrisOners' Bill.
S. G. Burdick, S5th N. Y, Cuba, N,
Y, wants every effort made to pass the
lex-prisoners' bill. OF his regiment nine
companies were captured at Plymouth
N. T., after four days Of fighting There
were surrendered AIT men and 90 Off
GERS, of whom one officer and an men
died. There are now living 10 officers
and S5 men, of whom five are over az
and 10 over 20. All the rest are he
| tween 81 and 70. yet but five in these
get enough under the McCumber bill TO
keep them from suffering had they nc
other resources. The per diem bill is
the only just bill that has been advo-
Gated, and will do more justice than any
other.
Ex-Pris0ners Of War.
James B. Berkey, Salem, Ind, wishes
that every Senator and Representative
could be gotten to read the speech given
In Blaine's Biography, made by that
statesman on the occasion of the am
nesty BILL in which Jefferson Davis was
arraigned for the sufferings of the pris-
oners at Andersonville. Comrade Berkey
| favors the addition of SO a month to
every ex-prisoner's pension.
Mothers i'm Israel.
I. Williams, 9Th WIS.,, Corning, Kan,
lovingly advances his mother for con-
sideration in the mothers in Israel class.
She is now SO years old, and had two
sons in the army, both of whom are yet
living. She also had two sons-in-law.
one of whom Is still alive. One son and
| two sonS.in-laW served In the 18th Wis