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Completely Satisfied
!, \ g Won enjoyed venice 2

And so you enjoyed Venice?"
Returned Traveler~-Oh. Venice was
Just to my taste. Why, when [
reached the Grand Canal l just sat
down and drank it all in.
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Nv Lucky Brother

/ have brother not so tall
haven't any other
SO he's what you may really call
A very lucky brother;
For when my trousers get too small
For me to wear our mother
Just takes them in" seams, legs and
all.
And gives them to my brother.
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Who aimeth at the sky shoots higher
much than be that aimeth at tree
George Herbert
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The old problem in agriculture was
how to make two blades OF grass
grow where only one grew before.
The new problem is how 70 make
grass and profitable crops grow where
absolutely nothing of value has ever
grown hefore-The World Mirror
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
The Gallant Hurtlctt.

Editor National Tribune: l read with
much interest in The National Tribune
a few weeks ago the interesting ac-
count of the heroic actions of Comrade
S. S. Burdett during the sinking of the
steamer Ohio. off Steep Point, Alaska.
The story attracted me. not only for its
thrilling interest, but because l once
had the honor, as we'll as the pleasure,
of entertaining in my home Comrade
Rurdett. In 1868 he was candidate
for Congress from the Missouri district
in which | lived. My home was at
Southern partisans, and he had come to
visit the County in the interest of his
campaign. He had served as Captain
in the Union army thru the war, and
was a radical Republican, and the eX-
Confederate5 and their sympathizers,
who had been disfranchised, were very
bitter in expressing their feelings to-
ward him. The only hotels of Pleasant
Hill We're operated by eX-rebel sold ers,
and this fact, together with the rebel
lious sentiment of the community,
prompted me to invite the comrade to
my home. He accepted the invitation,
and during his stay in the County re-
NAMED with us, and during that time
myself and family learned to love and
respect him. He was an entertaining
companionable gentleman, and at that
time we observed in him those sterling
qualities which he so Sallantly dis
played in his efforts toward rescuing
the passengers and crew of the ill-fated
Ohio-Capt. :. II. Rodgers, Co. *, 1920
ILL.,, Syracuse, Kan.
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News From Vicksburg.

Editor National Tribune: In your
history Of Abraham Lincoln, issue of
Sept 80, you give Gen. James +. Rus
ling's account of an interview of the
President with Gen. Sickles at p. m,
Sunday. July 5. 1863, in which it ap-
pears that the President was not at that
time aware that Vicksburg had surren-
dcred on July 4 we were informed
that Vicksburg had surrendered, and
while advancing as skirmishers, driving
the enemy from that position of the
field over which Picketts column had
charged. a wounded Confederate asked
me for a drink of water, which l gave
him. He thanked me, and then asked
me the news. / replied that Vicksburg
had surrendered, and he replied: Il ex-
pected il, but had Beauregard been in
command it would have been different"
do not understand how the news of
the surrender would reach the Army of
the Potomac and not the officials at
Washington.
In your history of the Peninsular
Campaign, in giving an account of the
battle of Glendale, you said that Gen.
Kearny was sick and not in command
of his division. That must be a mis-
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we'll as the other battalions in The 18th
q. S.
1 would like to relate q few expert
ences, and let others decide whether
-or not they are deserving.
About Dec. ], 1865. the list Battalion
was ordered from Camp Thomas, Co.
lumbus, O., to Fort Leayenworth, Kan.
From there We started to cross the
plains in Midwinter, provided with
: nothing better than thin cotton gloves
to hold our guns with in blizzard
weather. All cur hands were badly
frosted when we went into camp On
Smoky Hill River. The next morning
we were showed under, our supply train
could not move. and, of course, all buff
falo chips were two feet or more under
the snow. There was no timber nearer
than three miles, and it green water
elm, to make our coffee with As a
necessity we were put on one-fourth ra-
fions until such time as our train could
get back 10 Fort Riley and return with
enough supplies to see us thru to Fort
Lyon, Colo. which / think was five
weeks.
1 thought my experience in Hunters
retreat from Lynchburg, Va, was a
J.enic compared to this. We marched
sSto Fort Lyon the evening of Feb 22.
1856, and ] think that Col. H. B. Car
rsngton and his I'd Battalion were at
Lyon we relieved some companies of
the 9Th U. s. galvanized Yanks. and we
soon took up the march again to Pueb-
10. Colorado Springs, Denver, old Camp
Collins and Fort Laramie, about the
last of May or the first of June. 1t
makes me shudder yet to think of the
icy mountain streams that we had to
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lay down. remained quiet nearly 20
minutes. then dashed forward to find
the enemy's right; and to the best of
my recollection we found II. and were
not able to let go OF 1t until we could
do so under cover of night. If anything
was accomplished, we did, not find it
out.
Forty-one years after rode from
Texarkana to Austin, Tex. side by side
with an exConfederate who fought
face to face with us that day. I set out
to tell him this days story, and he cut
in and told Ii as straight as a string
and stretch it yourself. bugies and all.
Gems. Wood and Willich are both dead.
Bugles are splendid things in their
places, but what possessed those two
men to permit their use on that occa-
sion 1 wondered ever since.
Comrade Cope may not have referred
to this days work. Be that as it may,
what L have said is said.-SamUel w.
Bird, Adjutant, 35th ILL.,, S23 West 11th
street, Pueblo, Colo
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The 18th Ohio at Pickett.s Mills.

Editor National Tribune: Alexis Cope,
Columbus, o., says in The National
Tribune of Sept. 8: 'They always be-
lieved some one blundered in ordering
the charge" If he refers to May 81,
1864, l W sh to ask him or any other
man who took part in that fray if the
greatest blunder made there that day
was not in allowing Gen. Willich's bu-
giles to proclaim to the enemy every
move we made while seeking TO find his
right flank and turn it, Such is verify
the case. Our every move was ordered
by the bugle-'ForWard, by the left
fianki' Forward, by the left flank"
quietly as possible save for the blare of
those bugles. After keeping up these
movements for considerable time, we
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and drink that. One pint Of the rough
est cornmeaI that ever saw. cobs and
corn ground together. same as we fed
our hogs and other stock in the Cum
berland Valley, where / was raised. and
once in awhile little rico constituted
our daily ration. When this came
around 1t was gobbled up at once, as
nothing more was expected or received
for "a hours after. We were allowed
one camp kettle to 100 prisoners, and
a little green swanp-pine wood, that
would not burn, to cook with. This
would smoke the eyes almost out OF
their sockets trying to get it to burn,
and the result was a little warmed
mush instead of cooked mush. This
would sour and ferment in the stomach,
and was one of the agencies to make
those whom it did not kill feel miser-
able all the time. The Shelling of the
city went on as usual. Whether our
forces on the island knew where we
were located and avoided throwing
shells into us / do not know, but some
of the fragments did alight among some
of our men, but fortunately none were
seriously injured. BY this time prison
life had become so irksOme that we
rather enjoyed the change. as ii cer-
tainly broke the monotony of the usual
prison life.
Now, after our Government could not
relieve us in any other way. it conclud-
ed to place an equal number of Confed-
crate prisoners of war on Norris Island,
under fire of their batteries that were
shellng ours at that place. This
brought the Confederate Government
to time, for it was not long until they
proposed to send US back into the in
terror, provided our Government would
send the Confederates away from Nor
ris Island Our people were very will
ing and ready to do this, as it was real
ly what they wanted to do. and it would
never have been if our Government had
had to commence il.
The result was we were sent to a
prison camp near Columbia, S. G. In
this we had no shelter whatever. The
dead-iine was marked by small stakes
placed about 80 feet apart, and one
would have to watch carefully or he
might step over the line that these
stakes were supposed to mark off, in
which case he was liable to be killed.
as the guards, who were stationed about
80 feet outside of this dead-line, were
instructed to shoot any prisoner who
stepped beyond it.
| intended this article to show who it
was who commenced this cowardIy and
unnatural way to punish prisoners of
Government retal'ated in kind, which
they We're absolutely compelled to do in
order to get us out of this helhole. as
we called it.-W. Fl. Bricker, Cd Pa.
Cav, Carlisle, Pa.
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THE IMMORTAL 500.
The Union Officers Under Fire in
Charleston.


Editor National Tribune; ] noticed in
the National Tribune of May 13 THE
Immortal 600." The articletstated: THE
Memphis papers contain not ces of the
Reun.O of the Immortal 500, and say:
The Society of the Immortal 500 is
made up from the 600 Confederate offi-
GERS, prisoners of war, who We're by
the order of Edwin Nj. Stanton, Federal
Secretary of War, taken from the mill
placed under fire Of the Confederate
batteries Smelling the United States
troops on Morris Island, $. c., i'll Au-
gust, 1864. These men were kept under
the fire of the Confederate guns for AZ
days, and fed as a ration four rotten
hardtacks (army crackers), with the
addition of one ounce of fat meat and
one-half pint of mush or bean soup,
each "a hours. They managed to get
water by digging holes in the ground
and waiting for it to ooze out OF the
earth. 1t was dirty and tasted bad, but
it quenched their thirst and kept them
alive
These Memphis newspapers fail to
state why Secretary Stanton ordered
these Confederate officers to be paced
on Morris Island under fire of their own
guns Shortly before this happened the
rebel authorities selected 600 United
States officers, who were confined at
Macon, Ga, as prisoners of war IN
their military prison at that place, and
sent them to Charleston,1S. c., and con-
fined them in the jail yard there under
fire of our guns, then shelliug the city
| from Morris Island. L. being one of
| this 600, can give you some light upon
this subject, and can tell the; public. at
| least, who commenced this iunnatDral
warfare. SIC
We 500. full count say this to
show that this numberI of men would
crowd Jail yard of ordinary size to its
full capacity. and leave no room for
such exercise as men should have-had
| no shelter over our heads. The scorch-
ing-hot suns rays beat down upon us
and reflected back from the sandy soil
beneath our feet like the heat from a
| furnace. We thought at first that we
could not stand it. but soon learned
| that we could do no better, and con-
cluded to make the best OF it. ! should
add that many of us were barefooted.
| we having either been robbed of our
shoes when captured or they had from
| long service worn out. Some were al
most stripped OF their clothing, and
had neither hat nor cap upon their
heads. So this intense heat burned Our
heads and roasted and blistered our
feet Tho water was from two dug
wells inside the jail-yard walls. and
was so impregnated with salt, said to
have been on account of their being
| located on the coast, that the only way
we could drink II was to parch our corn
meal and make coffee Gas we called iD
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wade, IN the foothills of the mountains.
We took post at Fort Laramie. relieving
some OF the 11th Ohio. Here we were
put to work building additional quar-
ters, thinking it would be our turn in
the quarters the next Winter. We had
just got into them and our officers were
having ball the night before Christ
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Mai. Van Voste. the commandant, de-
tailed Cos. E, b and G to go. First
Serg't Grant, of my company tE), was
at the ball, calling off or something. He
came over to our room. woke me up
and told me about it. AS / was Quar-
termaster-SergeaHt it meant much work
for me. Our officers remembering our
suffering the Winter before, for want
of proper preparation, allowed us trans
portation for two blankets each and
one buffalo robe to two men. We had
to buy the robes at fancy prices from
the post traders store at our own eX-
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take, as Gen. Kearny was VERY much in
evidence during the day, hrst at the
skirmish line and Afterwards along the
line of battle. 1 think IN Justice to one
of the best officers of tile iefrff war that
you should correct that mistake before
the same Is accepted as correct.-J NJ.
Doubleday, Co. d, goth Lnd.,l Caldwell,
Kan. r ~ -.
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SOLDERING ON THE PLAINS.
Suffering and Hardships Experienced
During the Late '60s-Dispatch Bear
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Editor National Tribune: noticed in
Col. II. B. Carrington's letter in the
Sept. issue of The National Tribune
that he apparently has little use for the
1st Battalion, 18th U. s., and the pro-
posed special legislation for its benefit
I have no ak to grind, for Uncle Sam
gives me SIS month for previous ser
vice. However, there must be some of
the old 1st Battalion who are not so
Ms4 treated, and who deserve aid as
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
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The Regulars at Stone River.

Editor National Tribune: In response
to the inquiry made by Comrade Thos.
Mcnamara. L beg leave to say that in
the National Cemetery near Murfrees-
boro, Tenn, there sands q beautiful
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memory of those Of the Regular Bri-
gade, Army of the Cumberland, who
fell at the battle of Stone River, Dec.
81, 1862. The money for this purpose
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The 116th Ohio.

W. D. Christy. NJ. D., Creston. lows,
says that he has found the official ros.
ter of his regiment, the 1f6th Ohio,
and finds that 1t lost, killed in action.
9S; wounded, 334, OF whom Is died,
and rs died from disease, making
total loss of 507.
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