The National tribune., 1909-11-25
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along the
Whole Line.
Wives OF 81.

Wives of 81.
Mrs. Susan E Allen, Yoncalla, Ore,
has her mind carried back to the days
when she was the wife of soldier and
| a neglected widow. Her first husband
was the last of his family of four broth
| ers that had all responded to their
country's call. Her mother was a wild
ow, and she had two brothers who went
| to the war. One brother came back a
cripple, and one of her husbands
brothers was sent home in his coffin
and one of her husbands nephews
starved to death in Andersonville Pris-
on. Her husband was in that terrible
battle of Gettysburg, and came home
in broken health, but received no pen
sion. He soon died. and left her a
widow with two daughters and a little
boy to fight the battle of life. She had
terrible struggle. and three years
afterwards married her second hus-
band, n wOrn-out soldier, whose path
way to the grave she smoothed as well
as possible. She would ask all con-
scientiOus people how they can justify
passing over such cases as hers and
not granting an age pension the same
as to the veterans.
Prisoners Exposed on Fort Sumter.
J. Shroat, SD Pa, Lock Haven, Pa.
Indorses what Capt. Bricker said about
the prisoners under fire at Charleston,
and says also that some of our men
| were put on the walls of Fort Sumter,
so as to shield those who were repair
ing it. They announced this fact under
a flag of truce TO Gen. Gilmore, who
replied that if these men were kept
there he would put number of Con-
federateS on board schooner and lash
her alongside of the Mon tor and run
into Charleston Harbor. The prisoners
on Morris Island had just as good food
as the troops did, with plenty of soft
bread and crackers, and they drank
the same water that the troops did. We
sent bread over to our prisoners, and
the Confederates sent tobacco to theirs.
Our prisoners never received the bread,
but the Confederates got the tobacco.
Comrade Shroats company made up
money to buy Col. Bolinger suit of
clothes and sent it to him. but he never
got 1t, and was in rags when he re-
| turned to our lines.
An Antieiam Bible.
3. +. Burt. Co. G, SD Pa, writes
that he has a pocket Bible which be-
longs to some New York soldier of the
Second Corps. He found the Bible on
the battlefield of Antietam. Sept. IS,
1862, after the battle of the 18th. There
! was an inscription on the nyleaf as fol-
lows:
IF every day you read a part,
Twill from temptation shield your
heart"
r. T. C.
The owner of this Bible or his friends
can have it by writ ng to Comrade Burt
Comrade Burt writes: Il see that
C0pnf9Ha Ga a
In The National Tribune of Oct. that
he was in 100 engagements, and that
he never skedaddled but once" Com
rade Burt wants to know what he calls
retreat, and is of the opinion that he
must have kept the Confederates on
the jump for four years. Good man.
he. | wonder If there were any more
in the Union army like Comrade Sam
SON."
Anyone desiring to write relative to
the r BILE may address Comrade Burt
at Port Allegany, Pa.
Planted the Flag on Fort Harrison.
l.. Graul. 1SSth Pa, who planted the
flag of his regiment on Fort Harrison.
| Sept. 27, 1864. died recently. num-
Der of the comrades of his regiment
and of the Sd Pa. III. A. attended his
| funeral. Comrade Graui and his wife
were in an automob lie when it was
struck by a railroad train at Douglass
vile. The vehicle was caught in a very
dangerous place, where "a view of an
approaching train could not be OBJ
tanned within 80 feet of the track. Mrs
Graul was killed at the same time. DIR.
SleSeI and wife were also occupants of
the automobile, and Mrs. Slegel was
severely injured and died few days
ago. Dr. Slegel was the only occupant
or the automobile who escaped death,
tan oil Il
The First F,ag on Cumberland Gap.
Corpf Enos Pierson, 10th Ohio.
Wooster, o., denies the claim of Henry
sinners that the 22d Ky. planted the
first flag on Cumberland Gap De Cour-
cey's Brigade was II miles from the
Gap In Powell's Valley, Jan. IS, 1863,
and about o'clock in the morning the
18th Ohio. in advance, with the 22d KY
and i2d Ky. following, arrived within
short distance of the Gap and found
II evacuated. De Courcey took his own
regiment, the 10th Ohio to the ton Of
the mountain, and unfurled the flag
whiie the artillery fired a salute. The
regiment then marched down and went
INTO camp on the side of the mountain.
One of the 9th Ohio Battery was SO un-
fortunate as to lose his hands by the
premature discharge of a gun while
firing the salute.
The Spanish Fort.
j. III. Bowman, First Lieutenant.
Attn I'll, has seen so much in The Ma
tional Tribune about the CAPTURE of
Spanish Fort, but he finds nothing def
mite as to the first command that en-
tered the fort He has been silent
waiting for this information, but he
feels now that it is his duty to inform
his comrades that he was one of the
men that captured the fort. Cos. A,
b, c and ID of the 47th ILL.,, commanded
by Mai. Edward Ronhanf. were tho
tirst to enter the fort from the right
wing OF the Sixteenth Corps.