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his horse that he had to haul the
headauarters cart and told me l could
go out with Lieut.. Cockley, of Co. q,
on a scout and capture a horse for my
self l went ahead of the advance
guard by myself Probably a mile in
advance / came up within about 10
steps of two Confederates. mounted on
horses. in front of house. They were
talking with some women. l ordered
them to Surrender, and a fight took
place, all shooting at the same time
After the first shot one of them gall
loped off up the road; the other stayed,
and we both continued to shoot at each
other until the advance guard came IN
sight when he dashed off up the road
The women told Lieut.. Cockley all about
il, and said the two men were named
Edwards, and belonged to the 4th Ga.
Cav The Sergeant of the squad and
myself rode on up the road, and IN
front of the next house saw another
man. who was mounted on mule. He
belonged, to the same regiment. He
went up the road as fast as the mule
could carry him, the Sergeant and my
self after him. He finally jumped of
the mule and took to the brush. l got
the mule, saddle and bride. The sad
die and bride had been captured by
them from one of our officers. Some
of our boys learned in the neighbor-
hood that the man Edwards. who ran
off first was wounded. If the Ed
wardses or the man whose mule l cap
tured. or anyone else in that neighbor-
hood knowing about that little scrap,
should see this / would be pleased to
have them write me about it. / would
like to know IL the men are still living
and if one was badly hurt. At that
time was about II years of age--W.
T. Green. Co. ID. 10th Ohio, Anna. Tex.
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The 4th Ohio at Gettysburg.

Editor National Tribune: We do not
wish to be mean with J. L. Dickelman,
Of the 4th Ohio, but he Most certainly
must be off his base wheh he would
have US believe that his regiment
charged from the Peach Orchard to the
base of Cemetery Hill, struck the Tis-
ers, drove them from the crest of Gene
hollow, over and beyond the stone wall,
into and thru the Wheatfield. never
halting until we arrived at the stone
wall, where they were ordered to open
fire on them while they were retiring
thru the Wheatfield. Now, those or
you who have ever been on the oatt'c-
field of Gettysburg, don't you take it to
be a long run and charge from the
Peach Orchard to Cemetery Hill, out
thru the Cemetery, down to where the
TIGERS charged up to Batteries and
B of the 1st Art, down to the stone
wall? Then, it appears, they got thru
the Tigers and started them back in
the other direction, ana drove them
upwards of two miles, out thru and
over the Cemetery to the Wheatfield.
1t certainly was a wonderful charge.
And to think of waiting As years to
learn that such a charge was made ut
that battle! 1t is no wonder that the
men threw away knapsacks and blank
cts when they were making a charge of
tuiiy HVe Hliies! AS IoT myself, l. never
knew that the Tigers ever saw the
Cemetery, let alone the Wheatfield. Sam
Gray, of Battery F, 1st Pa. L. A, that
was in that hand-to-hand battle over
their guns, told us that the Tigers were
defeated right where their battery was.
and what few escaped did so by taking
to their heels back into Gettysburg. 1t
appears to me that Serg't Dickelman is
suffering a delusion. 1t is true one can
imagine a great deal in As years, and
to those who don't know the lay of the
places it is quite interesting reading. If
the comrade will get a map of the field
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A Prisoner OF War.

Editor National Tribune: I was at
Helena and at VickSburg when the first
gun was fired at one of the L. S. boats;
was in the Coldwater trip; also up the
Yazoo, in fight at Snider's Bluff: then
to Arkansas Post and back to Vicks-
burg. Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Ray
mond. jackson. Champion Hill, Rack
River and to the rear of Vicksbdris, and
took part in the great charge, and was
on the field from O'Clock in the morn
ing until 9 in the evening, attending
the wounded. assisted by George j..
Wetherel, Assistant Surgeon of the e6th
Iowa. At this time l was in charge OF
the First Division, Fifteenth Corps,
supplies for the Medical Department.
After the second battle at Jackson the
army went into camp at Black River.
The picture of the assault on Fort Hill
looks very natural. When the army
left Black River we went to Memphis.
then to Corinth. From Corinth we
marched to Iuka. and had some small
scraps OF fighting all along until we
arrived in Iuka, where We met Wheeler
and Lee and some of Rorty'S command
From this on We had plenty to do. After
waiting for the railroad TO be fixed up
from Corinth to Iuka the army moved
on slowly for the enemy way close by
all the time. After two small battles
we were ordered forward at Midnight,
and fighting commenced Mt once. and
at daylight we met The rebels in force
They had pits dug in a cemetery. The
station was called Barton Station, near
Tuscumbia, Ala. At this time l be-
longed to the operating corps. and after
taking care of our wounded here and
sending them TO the rear was ordered
TO the front with the supply wagon. for
the rebels had fallen back, but the
fighting was still going on. I had not
gone over one mile when the rebels
surrounded our wagon and We were
prisoners of war. Now, / have been
writing for five or six years of the inch
dents and battles that l took part IN,
and especially the different prisons that
| i was in and the treatment of or men
and the food that they received each
| day. There were seven of us sent to
Knoxville for short time, then to
Rome, from Rome to Atlanta stockadc,
from Atlanta to Libbey at Richmond,
| then to Castle Thunder. from here TO
| Danville, then in the Spring back to
| Richmond. l was taken in October.
1863, and was paroled in Richmond the
! last of April. 1864, and was carried out
| TO the boat landing on stretcher, and
landed at Annapolis May 2, 1864, on
Sunday morning. During the time that
/ was prisoner | met a rebel Surgeon
and Hospital Steward, and reported the
sick men, and received what medicine
| they saw fit to give for the men. ! was
SO weak and sick that l could scarcely
walk, and reported myself on the sick
| list to the Surgeon, when he remarked:
II thought We would bring you TO. you
- Yank."-J. E. Gilman, M. D., Mon
| ticellO. Iowa
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Lieut. Pembroke Pierce, 185th N. Y.
Suffern, n. Y, would like to hear from
or secure address of Capt. McClelland,
166th Pa. who was severely wounded
at Five Forks. April 1, 1865.
Dlster Post. x46, Dayton, Ohio, Gus
tavus Smith. Commander. celebrated
Lincoln's birthday. Judge B. F. Nc
Cam, President Y. NJ. c. A. and Judge
W. s. Martin, delivered addresses. Tho
Steele High School double quartet. Miss
Mabel Wright, piano: Miss Helen
Good recited. Lincoln's address at Get
tysburg. The stage settings, electric,
were fine. Dister Post. AS. will have
one of the best furnished rooms in
Ohio. in the new County Memorial
Building.
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The. Missouri State Flag.

Col r. T. Parker, of st. Louis, claims
that Missouri has a real battle-stained
State flag. 1t had this prior to 1861,
and when Gov. Jackson and Sterling
Price went into rebellion against the
United States Government they sum-
moned the Missourians to defend their
State flag. This was carried in all of
Gen. Prices operations until the battle
Of Pea Ridge demonstrated that Mis-
souri, was lost to the Southern Confed-
eracy. Thereupon the flag was furled,
the Missourians, led by Price, largely
enlisted In the Confederate army, and
thereafter carried the regular Confed-
crate flag.
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Scattering.

Comrads T. H. Wade. Co. F. 18th
Ohio. Hoxie, Kan. wants some comrade
to give an account Of the skirmish near
Davis's Crossroads, Sept. II, 1888, BIT
a few days before the battle at Chioka-
mauga. He wants to know the numbers
Of the organizations. He adds: I'm
this corner of tho country the comrades
seem to be about unanimous for the
McCumber roll of honor bill and for
the civil war officers annuity honor roll
and for the widows equal pensions bill.
1t does seem as IL Congress ought to
take time to be just and pass these
measures"
Comrade w. II. Connery. Co. q.
4th Ohio Cav, and Co. T. Sd U. s. Cav,
Byers. O.. asks: who has the song.
I'll be gay and happy stilP'? Also. THE
Dutch Quartermaster." an grafton de-
livered before the Maryland Encamp-
ment several years ago.
Comrade Hugh Thompson, Co. A.
31st Ohio, Macon. Ill. Is over 6s years
old; has not been able to do a days
work in 20 years; IL assured by the
doctors that he never will be any bet
ter; has $12 a month pension. and has
just been refused any increase. which
surprises him greatly and astonishes
his physicians.
Comrade Geo. B. Tebbs writes from
Harrison, Ohio, and tells an interesting
incident. Down in Tennessee. in 1853.
l.. D. MCGOWAN, 9Th KY, upset q bee
hive and loaded his arms with slabs
of honey. Joe Haddock and Geo. W.
Bowlby, of the 9Th Ohio, came along
and Bowlby unceremoniously relieved
MCGOWAN Of a slab or two. anG Nc
Gowan, having his arms full. was
forced to submit. MCGOWAN Is now
clergy and Chaplain of John Camp
bell Post, 204, at Harrison. Bowlby 10
Commander of the Post. and Haddock
a member. The comrades have been
neighbors for 20 years. and only q week
or two ago discovered their respective
relations in 1863, when Haddock, in
the presence of Rev. MCGOWAN, re-
minded Bowlby of the honey incident.
Then MCGOWAN told them he was their
victim.
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The Eight at Dallas.

William G. MaXey, Commander, hugh
Wilson Post, Caldwell, Idaho, says that
McElroy's history of the Atlanta cam
paign is very nearly accurate as to the
main facts Comrade Maxey was there
in the S0th ILL.,. Third Brigade. First
Division. Fourth Corps AT Dallas
Hooker's men were in 1t hot, and his
regiment relieved some of them after
night going on all fours, following the
officer of the Day in single file. crawl
ing and creeping over dead men. guns
and knapsacks to the relief of the skir-
mishers and picket line. This was
about 80 yards from the enemy's works.
Each man had scooped up little
mound in front of his head with his
knife or whatever tool->he could get.
After taking the pickets places II was
all a mans life was worth TO speak
aloud The enemy fired at the least
sound, but generally the shots went
over. The record in Washington is
bumfuzzled. The men who made the
reports missed the mark, because they
| saw everything from hill far in the
rear. The Fourth Corps fought at Dal-
las, as Sherman or Thomas, il they
were alive, would testify. The rebels
had good works. At the close of the
| day the Fourth Corps was rushed. in
and began sharp skirmishing, which
lasted until O'Clock in the morning.
Then quiet came. Later 1t was discov-
II
cred that the enemy had gone, and the
works were. silent 1t was O'Clock OF
the next morning before the pickets
/ got orders to report to their commands.
They had been a wedge end in forcing
/ the enemy's lines, but the Generals gave
them no credit. McElroy also fails to
state Rocky Face Ridge as the First
! Division of the Fourth Corps and part
of tn Fourteenth Corps saw II on the
north and west sides. They made the
Johnnies get back and up the old
rugged mountain. altho they were shell
tered behind big rocks, while the Union
/ boys were in an open valley. Much oi
the good work was done by our artil-
lery under a severe fire of sharpshoot-
ers 1t was heroic work. Sight the
gun on the trail, jerk the cord and load
in the smoke, only exposing a single
man behind the trail to take sight anG
|, pull the lanyard. All this time bullet.
were singing around constantly.
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Knap's Battery, Too.

Editor National Tribune: notice in
McElroy's account of the battle OF
Kolb's Farm, Ga, June II or %, he
gives most of the credit for checking
the rebel charge to Winegar's and
Woodbury's Batteries. Now, I wish #
says that Knap's Battery is entitled t.
some credit for the part they performed
on that occasion. Our battery was a
mle TO the right of Williams's Division
abput 500, yards from where the John
mes emerged from the woods. We had
been firing on a rebel battery on a hill
IN 'front.'. When they came out In thres
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The 18th Ill,

Daniel S. Culver, 18th ILL.,, Sawtelle,
Cal, has a rush of righteous indigna-
tion over the omission by some writers
in The National Tribune of the 18th
Ill. from the Third Brigade. Third Diyi-
sion. Seventeenth Corps. 1t was very
much in all the operations of Logan's
Division, and on the morning of May %,
1868, 1t went out at in the morning
with instructions to open up the fight
and advance as close to the enemy's
works at Vicksburg as possible. When
the assaulting columns came up the
regiment was 10 fall in with them and
take part. If there was any regiment
in front of his in that assault he did
not see it. and he was there for more
than four long. terrible hours on that
day The Third Brigade was composed
of the Sth. 18th and 81st ILL.,. 7th Mo
and 32d Ohio. 1t was commanded thru
the siege of Vicksburg by Brig Gen
John L. Stevenson, and Logan COM
manded the division.
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stories Emneny Worth Telling of Experiences and Adventures
in the Great National Struggle.

I or four lines We turned our battery on
them, and, as the saying goes, we hit
them on the end, and every shot told,
as we could see their ranks open up,
then 'close, only to give away again.
We wished this to last for a week, as
the battery in our front did us no dam
age. We fired about 500 rounds. Capt.
Wheeler, who was Chief of the Artillery
Brigade. was killed at this time. We
also claim little credit for the killing
of Gen. Polk, if there is any credit in
doing such things. w. McCIuskey.
Pa
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THRICE DISTINGUISHED.
Who Opened the Fight in the Wilder
nPSs9

Editor National Tribune: In your pa
per of March IL / see communication
from the 155th Pa. Association, claim
ing that they fred the shot that opened
the battle of the Wilderness. The one
who wrote that could not have exam
ined the official records. The fact is,
they did not get up on the morning of
the 5th OF May early enough to take in
the opening of that battle. The records
show that the 5th n. Y. Cav. has the
distinction of opening that great cam
paign. From my diary, kept at the
time / find this noted:
MAY (IS64).-Broke camp at 1
a. M and moved down to Germania
Ford with the whole Cavalry Corps, un-
der Gen. Sheridan; crossed at daylight.
Not rebel in sight. We followed the
old main road to Wilderness Tavern.
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Cheer Him With Letters.

Comrade John w. Ratcliff, Sergeant,
5th KY. Cav, Boyd. Tex, writes: The
week, welcome, cheerful, entertain
ing visitor. I am almost alone here in
Texas, so far as comradeship goes Four
Of US meet to sign our pension papers;
that Is all. 1t would be a pleasure to
me to get letter occasionally from
some good. loyal comrade. I promise
70 answer gil sueh letters that get.
1oYl. doh't fell me-"
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he will agree with us that it is not like
ly that that charge was made by the
route he speaks of.
1t would be well IL Mr.. Warfel, of
Williamsburg, Pa, when he is making
good his errors in former accounts con-
cerning the Sith Pa. at Winchester,
makes good that Gen. Milroy was not
dishonorably discharged; that the
troops at Berryviile did not fall back
in defense of Washington, and that
there was no 124th Ohio at Winches-
Ter; that the battle did not open at
Middletown, and that it was not on the
18th that the battle opened, either. The
Squire has forgotten just what did take
place. If we have edited him our
writing has not been all in vain.-S. Il.
AyeriIl bradford Pa
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march from Atlanta to Savannah, Ga,
l had three horses shot from under me
and one horse and my carbine cut in
two by a cannon ball at Macon, Ga. As
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Salisbury Prison.

If A. ]. Langmade, Sergeant-Major of
the Seventh Division at Salisbury. will
be kind enough to give the survivors of
that awful place his address, we shall
be glad to let him hear from us. re-
member him well, and can hear him
yet calling out, Seventh Division for
SOUP His ideas in regard to Salisbury
Prison are correct. i was in the Ninth
| Division. whose HEADQUARTERS were just
south of the building used as hospital,
| in charge of William f. Davis, of the
| Cincinnati Gazette. whose tender SYM
pathy for the sick and suffering must
| be remembered by every survivor. This
division. on Nov. Is, 1864. contained
LOCO stalwart young men, but on Feb.
| 22. 1865. the day of our release, but a
| handful of those brave boys was left,
most of them having been carried out in
| the dead-cart to unknown and un-
marked graves on the hilIsde-Robert
l.. Drummond, Co. H, 1th N. Y, So
| Genesee street. Auburn, N Y.
Prayers Asked.
Comrade A, c. Lawrepce, 6s1 Trip
lett street. owensbor9,S Ky, says that
| he has tried hard totlfYe a Christian
| life and promote the Interest of the NJ.
E. Church, of which hei'is a trustee.
Their church is buriehed with debt,
and most of the members are poor.
L MANY VI .lieHi di veterans, anu ne HAS
been praying and StudSfng day and
night how to relieve thefnn He has done
all that he can. and has Put the matter
in the hands OF the Lord. He wants the
prayers of all OF the comrades for him
and his brethren in, the ehurch.
,at.n
Leander Hdsnyder.
Mrs. Margaret A. Snyder says she
was married to ,LeaAder T. Snyder in
Colorado Springs. CaIo., Dec. 22, 1880,
and knew that ne had been a member
of Co. A, I'd Mo. Cav, III which he had
served thruout the war. They separat-
ed in 1883, and she has since been Iiv-
ing in Colorado Springs She has learned
that her husband is dead, but can get
none of the particulars. She wishes if
anyone knows anything of the matter
that they would write their knowledge
to her.
Who Knew Luke High?
Comrade David Allen, ouartermaster
of Gen. Strong Post, SO. Jetmore, Kan,
writes: Many years ago Luke High.
a veteran. supposed to be from Indiana,
died and Is buried here. None can
give his company. regiment rank, or
other military history, Cannot some of
his old army comrades supply the in
formation? We desire II for his tomb
stone and for records Of the cemetery
land the Post"
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