The National tribune., 1909-10-14
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Fort Hill. Vicksburg.

A. J. Florey, Sergeant, Co. A, Sth Ill.
| Eagle Point, Ore, corrects number OF
the correctors in regard to Fort ELL a
| Vicksburg. He says that Logans Divi-
sion belonged to the Seventeenth, moi
the Fifteenth Corps, and Fort Hill. thai
was sent skyward by Logan's Division
was in front of those troops. Logan
had only two brigades present, the First
and Third. The First Brigade was COM
posed of the goth, 31st and 124th Ill
and the 23d Ind. 1t was located just
north of the Jackson road. The Third
Brigade consisted of the Sth, 18th and
S1st H.. the 7th Mo. and the 32d Ohio
and lay just south of the Jackson road
Fort Hill was not on the northeast cor
ner of the works. but about the center.
| He knows nothing of so men being
| picked from the Fifteenth Corps to
make the assault, but knows that Lo-
san's Division made the assault just
south of Fort Hill, and he believes that
| the First Brigade led the assault He
does not think that Logan would have
asked for men from either corps to lead
, the division. Neither he nor his divi-
sion was built that way. They were
able to take care of everything that
came in their front, from 25-pound
pig to a rebel division. After the fort
was blown up ii became a slaughter
pen filled with the corpses of some OF
the best men. The rebels shot off the
star on each of the shoulder straps of
Col. Maltby, which shows how warm il
was.
Sheridan at Cedar Creek.
| Lewis Sleigle, Lafarge, Wis, says that
his regiment was detached guarding
captured cattle behind the Eighth Corps
at Cedar Creek. When the Eighth
Corps was driven back the regiment
started toward Winchester with the cat
tie. About six miles down the pike it
met Sheridan coming with his horses
at full run. He stopped and spoke
with Maj. Coats, commanding the regi-
ment. getting the first information as
! to what had happened. This was be-
tween 9 and 10 o'clock. The. regiment
sent two companies on with the cattle
while the other eight deployed to stop
stragglers and went back to the battle
field He saw Sheridan and his staff
about 8 o'clock move from the left, to
the center of the hne. Some say that
lis wrong. The lines were formed about
two miles back OF where the camp had
been by Gen. Crook Comrade Sleigle
counted 40 captured cannons, but does
not know whether he saw all. -
Tied Up by the Thumbs.
Alexander B. Campbell, 18th Wis,
Albion, Wis, says that he is one who
suffered torture by being tied up by the
thumbs, in January, 1865, at the prison
at Macon. He would like to know what
has become of the other six comrades.
They. had made three efforts to escape,
the first and second by way of tunneline
and the third by charging the guard.
and were betrayed each time. The
night of the contemplated charge seven
of them were caught, and the next
morning Capt. Curtell and Serg't McCue
had them punished by tying up by the
thumbs for hours. About midnight OF
Jan. 81 the Jofnnies packed the prison
ers in box cars and ran them down. to
Andersonville, arriving there about
| noon, Feb. 1. 1865. They remained
there until Monday, April id7a when
! they were sent to Baldwin Junction,
Fla, and released, entering our lines al
Jacksonville. Z. y.ss,
That Fort at Savannah. -,
z. L. Russell, 1920 ILL.,, Soldiers
Home, Quincy, ILL.,, replies to Co,nrade
John b. Wright that his statement as
to the silencing of a fort at Savannah.
Ca, is not plain. He does not desig-
nate any fort in particular. IL he has
reference to gun planted In the road
that led into the city, Comrade Russell
will say that the sharpshooters of his
regiment dug ditch across the road
deep enough to hide a man, ana when
the gun was run out volley was fired
at 1t, and the Spencer rifles spoke seven
times. The gun was silenced, two men
We're wounded in the ditch by rebel
sharpshooters, and one, VIM. X. Hunt
died soon after from his wounds. The
other, George Dew, still lives. The left
of the 1920 IL. lay by the side of the
road, and Co. b was on the left OF the
regiment.
The Battle of UtOy Creek.
w. L. De Murbrin, 11th KY, Chey-
enne, Colo, says that in the account of
the battle of Utoy Creek his regiment
was not mentioned. 1t was there and
two companies on the line of battle
lost 27 men killed and wounded. Lieut.
Col. Erasmus L. Motley was in COM
mani of the skirmish line, being divi-
sion Officer of the Day. This line
charged at the Confederate works,
where it remained several hours. Gen.
Reilly was then sent to attack the Con-
federate line, and thus relieve the skir-
mishers. Looking at his report one
would think that his brigade did all
the fighting.
Captured at High Bridge.
In your issue of Aug. &c Comrade ].
n. Waddle made two mistakes in his
statement in regard to what regiment
was captured with the 54th Pa. at
High Bridge. 1t was the 1890 Ohio,
commanded by Col. Horace Kellogg
Col. Washburn belonged TO the 1I6th
Ohio, and was not present at that bat
tie. My memory and history says it
occurred on April 6, 1865. / carry
memento of the occurrence by a scar
from wound received at the time
VIM. Bartholomew. Sergeant, Co. ].
12Sd Ohio. Lake City, Mich.
Providence Spring.
r. B. Wallace. 1st Colo. Cav, Mar
shalitown, Iowa, says that IL was his
privilege to be present with the Iowa
party at the dedication of the Iowa
monument at Andersonville Cemetery,
and he visited the old prison grounds
with two comrades from his Post who
had been confined there. They said
that terrible thunder storm with a
heavy rain came on. and after 1t was
over the spring appeared, flowing a
had been none before. This, he seems
to think, disposes of the crawflsh story.
J. r. Keyes, sth Ohio Cav, Conn
mander Thoburn Post, Martins Ferry
o., says that recently in collecting
names and records of deceased com
rades, he found one man who was stat
ed as having belonged 10 Co. p sth w.
va. He had never heard of such a
company letter before, and felt sure
that II must be a mistake, but the com
rade's granddaughter produced the
comrades medal issued by the State of