The National tribune., 1909-04-29
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along the
Whole Line.
Gen. lie Due.

Gen. lie Due.
Gen. William G.. LIE Due wants 1t dis
| tinctly understood that his post-office
address is Hastings. Mimi, and not
Nebraska, as recently appeared by a
| typographical error in The National
Tribune. He has lived in Hastings.
Mimi, for more than so years, and
does not want any mistake made about
his place of residence. The town was
named for Henry Hastings Sibley, who
was the first Territorial Governor of
Minnesota. and he wishes that the Post
master-General would exercise his pow
er and deprive all the other post offices
in the country of the name.
The 135th Ohio in Prison.
N. c. Brown, Union Station, o., sends
| us a yellow clipping from the Western
Christian Advocate of a letter contrib
uted by him to that paper, Feb. Is,
1866, upon his return from prison. He
belonged to the 135th Ohio, which was
captured after an obstinate resistance
| in the Shenandoah Valley by Gen. Nc
Causland's Brigade. All who were in
Andersonville in the Summer of 1864
will recall the bringing in of those 100
days men into the crowded prison ana
the alarming mortality to which they
fell victims. Comrade Browns letter
gives vivid picture of what he and
his comrades endured before they were
released in November.
| Remembers Lincoln.
| Charles II. Sedgwick. Parma, Mich,
has two kilograms sent by Abraham
Lincoln, which he found in an old shed
back of the Office. He remembers of
seeing Lincoln once. He was playing
In the old post Office at the corner of
the alley in Springfield, and when Lin
coin came out the boys looked up and
said: "Hurrah for Lincoln" His re.
membranee OF the addition to Lincoln's
house is that Lincoln came back,
stopped in front of the house, gazed at
the addition with wonderment, and said
to boy playing near: my son, where
does the Widow Lincoln live?" Mrs.
Lincoln was watching thru the closed
blinds and she threw the blinds wide
open and said: Come right in here,
and will show you where she lives"
A Wartime Letter.
William Kelly. Pierce, Neb.. sends
us q copy of q local paper which con-
tains a very interesting letter to his
sister, written by his brother, James
Kelly, who was Captain of Co. B, 18th
Iowa, from in front of Kenesaw Noun
tain, July 1. 1864 In it he tells a story
of building works during the night
close to those of the Ccnfederates, from
which to open the battle the next day.
AS soon as it was light enough to see
shooting began, and went on vigorously
all day until about sunset, when one Of
the company called out, Cease firing"
which the Johnnies seemed perfectly
willing to do. Then they began talk
| ing back and forth, and finally two
Yanks went out halfway to meet some
eight Johnnies and trade papers. They
had chat together as to the prospects
of the war. in which both sides affirmed
their belief of success.
| Went to War Young.
| Comrade A. d. Shidle, Route /, Old
Fort, o., writes: II was born Jan. 8,
4 1850; enlisted Feb. 1. 1865, in 195th
regiment (Ohio), beiEe then Is years
and 20 days old. I would like to know
If Mrs. Mckee and Mrs. McKinsey are
| living, and where? I was in the hospi-
tai a mile or two west Of Alexandria
from September, 1865, till mustered out
| in December, and those ladies were in
charge of the patients In the hospital.
room, and knew those ladies well, and
it would be a great pleasure to hear
| from them"
i Total Disability Pension.
Enoch Cox. 7th WA. Cav, Spring
Oak, w. Va. says that the pension laws
are now about complete, except the
allowance of $50 a month for total dis
ability to perform manual labor. The
men who are drawing this amount have
suffered untold misery for AZ years or
more, and they are now near the grave.
This rating ought to be increased, and
| 1t will be if proper effort is taken to
secure it. The greater amount will
not be for long. as these men are rap
idly passing away.
Funeral Expenses.
/ UnV I.tf Do L.
ed Creek, Pa, says that in Elmira, N.
Y, the veterans in case of death get
| $35 for a casket and SIS for head
stone. He wants to know IL there is
a similar allowance anywhere else in
| the country.
| Abraham's Star.
H. G.. Perry wants for his father,
who belonged to the oath N. Y. Cav,
poem which was published in one of
the Washington papers, entitled "Abra-
hams Star" The occasion of this was
a star, which appeared March 5, 1865.
during the day.
| Scattering.
Comrade e. r. Churchill, North
Platte, Neb., who omits to state where
he or his brothers served, writes that he
is now T3 years old the oldest of five
brothers, all of whom are now living
and all of whom were in the service OF
the United States in the war against
rebellion.
Comrade James Sweger. SIS South
Duke street, Lancaster Pa, who served
in Co. C, Sd battalion, 18th U. s., wants
to hear from old comrades, especially
from those who We're present in Ala
bama when Morgan attacked a detach-
ment, in 1862, at a destroyed culvert
near Huntsville and made capture of
more than half of the party. He es-
~ % ~ lIlfn tot, a Al.
company after parole and exchange in
Tennessee.