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The National tribune., 1909-04-08
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY.
The Formation of Corps, Divisions, Bril-
Eades, Regiments and Companies.


Editor National Tribune: To settle a
dispute and at the same time separate
one OF the party from the cost of five
Iull ulnners, please answer briefly the
Following questions:
During the civil war, in the Northern
army, with its quota full. of how many
divisions, brigades, battalions and regi-
ments did an army corps consist? How
many regiments to a battalion, bri-
gade, division, a corps? How many
companies to q regiment? Number of
men to a company? The correct titles
of commanding officers of corps. divi-
sion, brigade and battalion? IL more
than one officer of same rank to any of
the bodies named please state number
I apologize for many OF the ques-
tions that should be unnecessary. The
one that demands them, however, is 1t;
we, the other four, feel sure, and he is
hard 1oser.-R. l.. Keller, Boston,
Mass.
The rule established at the beginning
Of the war was for a company to have
a maximum of one Captain. one First
Lieutenant, one Second Lieutenant, one
First Sergeant, four Sergeants, eight
Corporals, two musicians, one wagner
and SO privates. This made a total of
101 on the company rolls. Ten of these
companies formed a regiment, which
had one Colonel, one LieutenantC Colo
mel, one MAJOR, one AdJutant, one quar-
termaster, one Surgeon with the rank
of Major, two Assistant Surgeons, one
Chaplain, one Sergeant-Major. one
Quartermaster-Sergea one Commits
sary-Sergeant, one Hospital Steward
and two principal musicians. making 10
in all. Therefore. the regiment when
full numbered 1.025. Three of these
regiments constituted a brigade, under
the command of the ranking Colonel
or a Brigadier-General, and three of
these brigades formed a division under
the command of a Brigadier or Major
General, and three divisions constituted
n corps, under the command of a Ma
jor-Genera1. The corps had, in addi-
ton. engineers, artillery and other or
saniZations. which made its strength
about 10000 men. These rules were
not strictly adhered to. The cavalry
and artillery regiments had IL COM
panies, and some of the infantry regi-
ments had three battalions of eight
companies each Toward the close of
the war the necessity of handling men
in greater masses led to a general
Strengthening of the corps and their
component parts.-EGitor National
Tribune.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
The 11Ofh N. V

Editor National Tribune: Please pub
lish a history of the 10th N. Y. anG
its engagements. was a member OF
that regiment, and carried the battle
fag.-G. Miller, Lacona, N. Y.
The 10th N. Y. was organized al
Oswego in August. 1852, and mustered
out Aug. %. 1865. 1t was commanded
by Col. De Witt c. Littlejohn, who re-
signed Feb. 4, 1863, succeeded by Col
Clinton H. Sage, who resigned Dec. 10
Of the same year. Col. Charles Hamil-
ton then took command, retaining the
same till muster-out. 1t belonged to
Emorys Division, Nineteenth Corps, and
lost 16 killed and 1914 from disease, etc
1t took an honorable part in the battle
of Bisland.
We have no list of the engagements
of this regiment.-Editor National
Tribune.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
The 191st Pa.

Editor National Tribune: would like
to have a history of the 191st Pa, and
if not too much trouble. the losses by
company-John Fleigh, or Fleegle,
Ryot, Pa.
1864, from the veterans and recruits of
the I'd, 9Th, 9Th, Sth and 10th Pa. Re-
serves and mustered out June 2S, 1865.
1t was commanded all thru its service
by Col. James Carle, brevetted Briga-
dier-General March IS, 1865; belonged
to Ayres's Division, Fifth Corps, and
lost Al killed and 161 from disease.
We are very sorry. but we have not
the data relating to the history of COM
panies, and cannot therefore give their
losses.-Editor National Tribune.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
The S5th and 123d Pa.
(To be continued.)

Editor National Tribune: Please give
snort history OF these regiments
VIM. F. Snyder. Cincinnati. Ohio.
The S1th Pa. was organized at York
town, during SRtember, 1861, and after
serving out fwo enlistments finally mus
tered out June 29, 1865. 1t was COM
manded by Col Geo Hay, who was dis
charged May 8, 1863, succeeded bv Col
John w. Schall, who was mustered out
oct. 13. 1864. Col. James Tearney then
final muster-out 1t took mart in the
battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania,
Cold Col Gasa GHarbog Petersburg, G Monocacy, Ce-
etts's Division, Sixth Corps. and lost 81
killd and 80 from disease. etc.
The 123d Pa was organized at Har-
risburg in August, 1862, for nine
months. and was mustered out Nav M.
1853. It was commanded by Col. John
B. Clark all thru its service, belonged
and lost 80 killed and Al from disease
etc.-Editor National Tribune.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
The Sth Mich. Cav.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
a short history of the Sth Mich. Cav
S. d. Payne. Kasota, MINI.
The Sth Mich. Cav. was organized at
Mount Clemens from December, 1862.
to May, 1868; the 11th Mich. Cav. was
consolidated with it July 80, 1866, and
the force mustered out Sept. 22, 1856.
1t was commanded by Col. John Stock
ton. who was discharged April Is, 1864.
succeeded by Col. Elisha Mix, in COM
mand at the time of muster-out. It
belonged to Johnson's Division, Cavalry
Corps, and lost AZ killed and 292 from
disease. etc,--Editor National Tribune.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
The 122d Pa.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
a short history of this regirnent-Al-
bert Fisher, Shamokin, Pa.
The 122d Pa. was organized at Har-
r'sburg from Aug. II to Sept. 10, 1862,
for nine months. and mustered out May
Is and 16, 1868. It was commanded
by Col Emlen Franklin all thru it's
service, belonged to Whipple's Division,
Third Corps, and lost Is killed and 43
from disease, etc.-Editor National
Tribune
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
The 9th Ill,

Editor National Tribune: VIII you
kindly publish a history of the 94th
Ill ?-M. C. Hedrick, Lockwood, Mo.
The oath Ill. was organized at Bloom
ington. Aug. 20, 1862, and mustered out
July II, 1865, the recruits being trans
ferred to the SD Ill. 1t was command
ed by Col. William w. Orme, who was
promoted to Brigadier-General Nov. 20,
1862, succeeded by Col. John McNulta,
in command at the time of muster-out.
1t belonged to Andrews's Division,
Thirteenth Corps, and lost nine killed
and 166 from disease, etc.-Editor Ma
tional Tribune.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
The 9Th Iowa Cav

Editor National Tribune: Please give
a short account of the 9Th Iowa Cav
Cade Rogers. Soldiers Home, Cal.
The 9Th Iowa Cav. was organized at
Davenport from Jan. 81 to March 5,
1863, and mustered out Oct. IT, 1865.
1t was commanded by Col. David S.
Wilson, who resigned June 81. 1864,
succeeded by Col. Samuel NJ. Pollock.
1t took part in the battles of White
Stone Hill, Tah-kah-o-ku-ty, Badlands
and the three engagements at Fort
Rice. Its loss was % killed and rs
from disease, etc.-Editor National
Tribune.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
The 22d n. Y. Cav.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
me a description of the 22d n. Y. Cav.
Alfred Hayward, $50 Usage street,
Manhattan, Kan.
The 22d N. Y. Cav. was organized at
Rochester in February, 1864, and mus
tered out Aug. 1, 1865. 1t was conn
manded by Col. Samuel j. Crooks, who
was discharged March 1, 1865. succeed
ed by Col. Horatio B. Reed, of the Reg
ular Army. in command at the time OF
muster-out. 1t belonged to Wilson's
Division, Cavalry Corps, and lost 2s
killed and 1S4 from disease, etc.-Edo
itor National Tribune.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
Disease Germs

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ness, that tired feeling, dyspepsia, loss
of appetite, general debility, and builds
up the whole system.
Get Il today In the usual liquid form or In
ehocolated tablet form called Sarsataoa.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08


Col. w. s. Jones's Brigade, the SD,
30th, 47th,a37th and 54th Ohio and SD
IND, dashed forward at the commence
ment of the attack under a terrific fire
or artillery and rifles until 1t reached
the partiaf shelter of creek, where IL
halted tooireform its lines. Then IL
rushed forward again, and zuo yarus
from the streelS, sat the edge OF neio,
came uponea a line of rifle pits, Whicn !.
took at the, point of the bayonet. Some
200 yards, further on 1t encountered
the main line ON the west side or Little
henesaw, and, receiving an eniiiade nre
upon both fianlts, as well as that from
IN front. it was compelled to fail PACK
to the rifle pits first taken, which II dld
after a loss of Isl killed and 145 wound
ed. O. -,
The Repulse.
Gen. Logan, in his report, says of the
conclusion of the assault:
After a most stubborn and deStruc-
tive resistance my attacking column
succeeded in taking and holding two
lines of the enemy's rifle pits, and ad-
Vanced toward the succeeding works of
the enemy, situated just below the crest
of the mountain. 1t soon became evi-
dent that the works could not be. ap-
preached by assault on account of a
steep declivity of rocks 20 and 25 feeG
in hight, and the nature of the ground,
which was of the most rugged and
craggy character, exposing at times
small bodies of my men to the concen-
trated fire of the enemy Commanding
officers state most positively that the
position could not be gained in two
hours without any opposing force. After
vainly attempting to carry the works
for some time, and finding that so many
gallant men were being uselessly slain
l ordered them to retire to the last line
of works captured. and placed them in
a defensible condition for occupancy.
The pioneer corps of the command were
at once sent to Gen. Smith for this pur-
pose. No less than seven commanding
officers of regiments were killed or dis
abled in this assault"
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
The 54th N. Y. National cuors

Editor National Tribune: Please give
a short history Of this regiment t.-Frank
Holfelner, "a Poplar Ave, Buffalo, N. Y.
The only official record which we
have Of this regiment is that n WAS or
ganized at Rochester july 26. 1864. for
100 days, and mustered ont Nov. 10.
iss4.-Editor National Tribune.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
The 9th Iowa.

Tom Smith, Co. C. 9Th Iowa, Farley,
Iowa, wants some of the boys of his
old regiment to let him know that they
are alive and think occasionally of their
old butcher, who contributed so much
to their enjoyment by forage in the
canebrakes.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-10-21
DE LAMBERT FLIES THIRTEEN
MILES AND CIRCLES Elf
Eel TOWER.
USES WRIGHT MACHINE
oRvILLE WRIGHT is PRESENT
AND coNoRATuLATEs FELL
Low-AERoPLANisT.

Paris. = Count De Lambert, the
French aeroplanist. just before dark
Monday night accomplished one of the
most remarkable and daring feats yet
credited to heavier-than-air machines.
Starting from the aerodrome at Juvisy
in Wright machine. he flew to Paris.
about thirteen miles After maneu-
wiring over the city at an average
height of 400 feet, he ascended in
gradually diminishing circles and
passed several hundred feet above the
Eiffel tower. He then returned to
Juvisy.
Thousands who watched could bare
ly credit their senses when they saw
the aeroplane. tiny object, gliding
swiftly far above the tower, and the
sensation created was mere promound
than when Santos-Dumont circled the
structure in his dirigible balloon in
1900.
Count De Lambert was given a tre-
msndous ovation on his return to Ju-
visy.
Orville Wright rushed forward and
wrung the hand of the aviator as he
alighted, pale but radiant. He was
led to the pavilion, where his health
was drunk, the crowd meantime
cheering Justify and crying: Long
Live Count Dc LAMBERT" Long Live
Russia!"-De Lambert being of Rus
sian extraction.
The count held up his hand and
shouted: Cry Long Live the United
States. for 1t is to her that l owe
this success"
The aviator said that throughout the
trip he had entire control of the ma
chine. The only inconvenience he suf-
fered was from the throbbing of the
engines, and from difficulty in seeing,
toward, the end, in the gloom.
The official time of the flights was
40 minutes 80 seconds. The distance
was roughly estimated at thirty-one
miles and the height varied from 300
to 1900 feet.
Count De Lambert and Mr.. Wright
left the field together in an automo-
bile. Dragons were obliged to clear
a way through the crowd. among which
there were SO many enthusiasts who
showed desire to carry the aviator
in triumph on their shoulders.
Count De Lambert was the first pu-
pill taught by Wilbur Wright when In
France last year.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-10-21
New York Milyoral.y Campaign.

New York.-William R. Hearst, in
dependent nominee for mayor, and
Otto T. Barnard, the Republican
nominee, both of whom are heading
the fusion ticket, dashed through
Harlem Monday night and delivered
a series Of rapid fire speeches in sup
port OF their candidacy. Hearst made
four addresses and Barnard three.
Barnard confined himself to busi-
ness issues. Hearst spoke at length
and continued his denunciation of
William ]. Gaynor. the Democratic
nominee. although he found time to
refer to Barnard as machine candi-
date.
Mr. Barnard expressed keen regret
when informed that Governor Hughes
would take no part in the campaign.
"It is matter of very great regret
to me that the governor does not
seem to care to enter the campaign
for the overthrow Of Tammany in his
home city," he said.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-10-21
sanitary Inspector. Report.

Denver.-In the period beginning
June /. 1909. and ending October l..
Labor Commissioner E. v. Brake and
his six inspectors have inspected
1859 buildings as to their sanitary
condition. ventilation. facilities for es-
cape In case of fire, and safety appli-
ances on machinery. These inspec-
tions have been made under the pro-
visions of the factory inspection law
and In 526 cases the inspection fee of
$40 has been charged. Commissioner
Brake states that there are 5000
places which should be inspected. but
the facilities at the disposal OF his
office have not permitted the work to
be carried on to that extent yet.
The detailed list OF places Inspected
IL as follows: Bakeries. 4S; laundries.
66; hotels. boarding and bunk houses,
414; mercantile establishments. 1T:
manufacturing establishments, 544:
auto and motor shops. 40; brick yards.
81; canning factories. IT; cigar facto-
ries, 7.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-10-21
WITH 500 ACRES OF LAND PENi'
TENTiARv COULD BE MADE
eELF-suPPoRTlNo.
MUCH IS RAISED NOW
INTERESTING FACTS REGARDING
coLoRApo's INSTITUTION
AT CANON CITY.

Denyer-"Give me 500 acres OF land
and in 10 years the state penitentiary
will for no appropriation"
This was the confident remark made
Sunday by Warden T. J. lyman. OF tho
state penitentiary, to w. E. Collett,
secretary of the Colorado Prisons AS
sociation, as Mr.. Collett was visiting
the prison. So successful have proved
the crops of the orchards and gar
dens attached to the penitentiary and
worked by the TRUSTEES. that the insti-
tuition has been fully supplied with
everything in the fruit and vegetable
line which 1t needed and considera-
BILE amount of the output has been
marketed. By recent arrangement,
some 20 acres of land adjoining the
prison Is to be put under Irrigation
and Warden lyman believes that II he
had 480 acres more to work on he
could operate the entire pententiary
on the, profits derived from orchard
and garden produce.
"Out OF prison population OF 1872.
one-half are working outside the walls
as TRUSTEES" said Secretary Collett.
II doubt II there is another prison in
the country where such a condition
exists. Warden lyman seems to know
Just how to handle them and It is sur
prising to see what they will do for
him. During the recent cold snap
there we're scores OF convicts working
In the apple orchards OF Canon City.
h~Ix - h. 4.
killed by the frost One prisoner
came back to the penitentiary while
was there who had been working
for long time on a ranch over 100
miles from the prison, working there
Just like an ordinary hired hand.
''The hospital at the penitentiary is
being pushed to completion and War
den lyman is establishing school for
the prisoners. with special teacher
to superintend the general instruction
and educated TRUSTEES to teach the diff
ferent groups.
"The officers dining room has been
abolished and the room is to be used
for an enlarged library. The officers
get SO month more, now, and eat
in town. This does away with the old
competition there used to be between
the prisoners to get work in the Off
GERS kitchen. where they would be fed
on officers food. The food OF the
entire place is better now than for
merly.
"A new steam heating plant is be-
ing put in and all the cells are being
paved with cement, instead of the old
flag-stones.'
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-10-21
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

The date of inaugurating free mai
delivery at Glenwood Springs, Colo.
has been postponed from October 15
to December / next.
January 81 next will be critical
date in the history of the National
Guard, for thereafter no portion of the
money appropriated by Congress for
the support of the militia can be paid
to any organization that fails to con-
form to the standards of the regular
army.
been requested by the National Geo
graphic society to renounce its first
claim to an examination of DR.. Cooks
observations made during his search
for the pole. saying that American
scientists are impatient at the delay
and feel that this is matter that
should be settled in America. A mes
sage was also sent to Commander
Peary asking for his records.
The National Geographical Society.
in response to a proposal from the
Peary Arctic Club, adopted a resolu-
tion agreeing to join the American
Geographical Society and the Amer
lean Museum of National History, III
requesting DR.. Ira Remsen, president
of the National Academy of Sciences,
to appoint commission to examine a
report on the Arctic records, observa-
tions and data of Commander Robert
E. Peary and DR.. Frederick A.. Cook.
Although Attorney General Wicker
sham has refused to state his views
on the dismissal of the removal pro-
ceedings in the Panama libel cases at
indianapolis. it was suggested at the
department of justice that the action
on the removal proceedings affects
only the question as to the defendants
in that proceeding being brought to
Washington, and that the government
can go ahead with other phases of the
Panama case.
1t is believed that Gen. Frederick
Dent Grant, now In command of the
Department of the Great Lakes, will
be the successor of Gen. Ball as CHIEF
of the staff of the army. Gen. Leon
ard Wood is candidate for the posi-
tion also.
The big boost in income from inter.
nau revenue continues and the reports
received SO far indicate TO the treas
ury officials that the internal revenue
collections during the current fiscal
| wear will exceed last vear,e hv h.
tween $12,0o0,000 and s15.0OO.O0
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-10-21
WESTERN NEWS.

| Rev. Bayard Craig, ID. D.. OF Denver,
has accepted call to the pastorate
of the Lenox Avenue Union church of
the Disciples Of Christ In New York
City.
In speech at Phoenix, Ariz.. Presi-
dent Taft told the people that he
would help to carry out the pledge Of
the Republican party to grant state
hood to that territory.
Tacoma has adopted the commits
sion form of government by a vote Of
about to /. The new charter pro-
vides for the election OF Mayor, four
Councilmen and Controller. and the
first election will be held next April.
The body OF the late Mrs ]. Addi-
son Hayes, the daughter of the Con-
federacy. who died at Colorado
Springs last July. will shortly be re-
moved from vault in Evergreen
cemetery and taken to Richmond, Va.
for interment in the family lot.
1t is announced at Portland that
the Oregon Trunk Railway, the new
line building into Central Oregon, will
bridge the Columbia River near the
mouth of that stream and connect
with the Spokane. Portland & Seattle
Railway, known as the North Bank
Railroad.
A special cable to the Seattle Post
Intelligencer from Skagway, Alaska,
says four men and one woman were
drowned when four-horse stage in
which they were attempting to cross
the Klenhini river near Walls. forty
miles north of Haines. upset and was
swept down stream.
While most people are killing
snakes, Professor l.. A. Adams, cura-
tor of the Colorado State Normal
school, is said to be raising them by
hundreds, of the harmless kind, and
will liberate them in the fields about
Greeley to aid farmers in destroying
mice and other field pests.
A San Bernardino dispatch says
that Willie Boy. the Piute Indian des-
perado for whom three posses Of fifty
men have been searching the San
Bernardino desert, was found dead on
the summit of the Bullion Mountain.
where he made his final stand. He
had killed himself with the last shot
from his rife.
A fashionably dressed bandit who
robber the savings bank of d. Il. Err
skine & Co., in Highland Park, ILL.,.
an aristocratic village on the Lake
Shore, twenty-five miles north of Chi
cago committed suicide by shooting
when driven to bay by the Highland
Park marshal and a posse of citizens.
Preliminary plans for a detective
bureau were formed by the Western
Hotel Mems Association at Its conven-
ton just closed at San Francisco. The
following officers were chosen: Sam
F. Dutton of Denver. president; Rome
Miller, Omaha. vice president; Ed
ward T. Naples. San Francisco. sec
retary and treasurer.
The government, of Austria and
Hungary, on account OF the greatly in
creased immigration OF its citizens to
the Rocky Mountain region, has estab
lished consulate in Denver with
power over five states and two terri
tories. George de Grivicic. consul gen
eral of the Rocky Mountain district
has opened offices in the Jackson
block. Denver. He will have jurisdic
ton in Colorado. Montana, Wyoming
Idaho. Utah. New Mexico and Arizona
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-10-21
WxomIna stoekmen on rrIaI.

Basin. Wyo.-George Sabin, Thomas
Dixon. Ed. Eaton. B. Brink, M. A. Al
exander. Charles Ferris and William
Keyer, prominent stockmen OF Big
Horn county, were placed on trial
here Monday, charged with the muir
der of Joe Alemanda and Joe Emge.
sheep owners, and Joe Lazier. herder.
These men were slain in the Spring
Greek raid. on the night of April End.
when hundreds of sheep were killed
and manned and the bodies Of the
men burned in the camp wagon.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-10-21
GENERAL NEWS.

Richard Harding Davis has been
sued for $4,000 by Anna Eva Fay. the
clairvoyant. who charges that her
reputation was DETAINED In one OF Da-
Wis novels.
The attorney general of Illinois has
decided that life insurance agents
have right to write policies on their
own lives and to make proper reduc-
tions from the gross premiums of
their commissions.
The Cossack villagers of Pavlovsk.
Russia, have condemned and lynched
seven men for murder. The victims
of the men lynched we're three women
and a child who were lured to lone
ly inn, tortured and killed.
The Rhode Island Republicans have
renominated Adam ]. Pothier for gov
ernor. The main features of the plat
form were an Endorsement of the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill and praise of
Senator Aldrich.
\ Although New York City has only
s per cent of the country's popula.
tion, its street cars carried in 1907
nearly IS per cent. of those carried by
the street cars Of the entire country.
At College Park the other day Will
bur Wright introduced an element of
the spectacular in the otherwise ON
notonous training flights at the gov
ernment aerodrome when he raced his
machine with a swift Baltimore &.
Ohio express train. To the spectators
1t appeared that the train was gain.
ing ON the aviator