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By JOHN McELR0Y.

its and defects, but history will pro-
nounce him one OF the very greatest
strategists and logisticians that the
world ever saw. Nothing in the long
history of European wars equals Sher-
mans management of his immense
army operating over a field extending
for 500 miles, from the Alleghenies to
the Mississippi, and everywhere con-
fronted by vigilant. aggressive. re-
sourccful foe. In none OF Napoleon's
campaigns had he anything like the
difficulties TO contend with that Sher-
man met and surmounted. The entire
theater of the Napoleonic wars was less
than the area of Kentucky. Tennessee.
northern Georgia and Alabama, and the
movements of his armies were always
thru well-settied districts, which fur
nished all the food and shelter neces-
sary, so that Napoleon had little anxiety
as to the great problem of :ransporta-
ton, which was one of the heaviest of
Sherman's many burdens.
The Fight for Marietta.
The. situation was now one to give
Sherman the most intense anxiety. For
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The Sd w. Va.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
short history of the Sd w. Va. with
its Colonel and organization.-W. +.
Ross, Bristol, W. Va.
The Sd w. Va. Cav. was organized
from Demember, 1861. to April, 1866,
to serve one, two or three years, and
mustered out June 80, 1865. 1t was
commanded by Col. David H. Strother.
who resigned Sept 10. 1864, and who
was breyetted Brigadier- General Aug.
23. 1865. Col. John l.. McGee then took
command, retaining the same till mus
ter-out. 1t belonged to Averelrs Divi-
sion, Cavalry Corps, and lost 46 killed
Snd 1876 from disease. etc.-Editor Ma
eional Tribune.
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Patriotic People, Tho Isolated.

Comrade w. NJ. Neece, Co. I, 9Th Mo
cav. writes from Thermopolis, Wyo.
Altho We are away from rail.
road and had no instructions from
any G. A. r. Post or other such help,
we had grand celebration of the Lin
coin centennial. 1t was gotten up by
The Willing Workers, an organization
of patriotic ladies. being the oldest Or
Sanization in our town. The meeting
was presided over by Comrade George
3. Chase. who served in the goth n. Y.
Cav. We had some excellent music
and few brief but very entertaining
speeches on the life of our greatest
humanitarian. We have II or Ii old
soldiers here, who are here principally
to battle at our great hot spring; but
we are not able to organize a G. A. r.
Post yet"
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National Anthem.

Editor National Tribune: Will you
kindly inform me which is now the
National anthem. America" or the
Star Spangled Banner?"-William L.
Ross, Pittsfeld, Me.
OF course, the National anthem de-
pends upon the voice of the people.
and this is generally in favor of the
Star Spangled Banner" and which has
become semi-officially recognized By the
military and naval bands playing it.
The objection to America is that it is
not distinctly American, but is used for
National purposes by nearly every Ma
ton in Europe.-Editor National Trib-
Una
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CHAPTER XI.
Wide Dispersion of the Armies.

The consolidated returns for the
month of May. 1864. are an exhibition
al how much care must be taken in ac-
cepting the returns of the strength of
aiIsies The number of men present
and, available for duty at the imme-
diate front must always be surprisingly
smaller than the total number borne
upon the rolls. This fact is rarely TAX
en- into account by writers of history,
ana it lfaGsfto many of the most an
moving n1issIatements and false com
parisons.
At all times a large portion of an
army's strength must be taken to guard
its communications, depots and flaEks,
and. as the army advances into the enc
nly's country. this subtraction from its
imniedi2tc fighting strength increases
very rapidly. For example: In May,
1854. the Army of the Cumberland had
a grand total of present for duty. 49,
S73. with II siege pieces and $40 field
pieces. II had actually at the front and
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? The 88fh Ind

Editor National Tribune: Please give
short history of the SSth Ind.-R. H.
Edgerly, Elkhart, Ind.
The Ssth Ind. was organized at IN
dianapolis, Aug. 20, 1862. and mustered
out June Z, 1865. 1t was commanded
by Col. George Humphrey, who resigned
Oct. II, 1869. succeeded by Lieut.-Col.
Cyrus E. Briant. in command at the
time of muster-out. It belonged to
Johnson's Division. Fourteenth Corps,
and lost GA killed and $50 from disease,
etc.-Editor National Tribune
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fallen back merely to escape annoyance,
but that. after the Federal infantry had
been driven back to and then beyond
its line of breastworks. Lieut.. Gen. Hood
determined to capture the intranched
artillery referred to in his brief report.
1t crowned a high, bare hill, facing the
interval between his right and the left
of Hardees Corps. To direct his line
toward 1t a partial change of front to
the right was necessary. and that slow
operation, performed under the fire of
a formidable artillery, subjected his two
divisions to a loss so severe that the
attempt was soon abandoned--I am un-
certain whether by the decision of the
commander or the discretion of the
troops themselves; not, however, until
they had lost about 1000 men,
Sherman to HaIIeck.
The fighting was now costing about
200 men a day, and the situation could
not be better described than In a dis
patch which Sherman sent Halleck June
%:
I'VE continue to press forward on the
principle of an advance against fortified
positions. The whole country is one
vast fort, and Johnston must have at
least so miles of connected trenches.
with abatis and finished batteries. We
gain ground daily, fighting all the time
On the 21st Gen. Stanley gained posi-
ton near the south end of Kenesaw,
from which the enemy attempted In
vain to drive him. and the same day
Gen. Il. j. Woods Division took a hill,
which the enemy assaulted three times
at night without success. leaving more
than 100 dead on the ground. Yester-
day the extreme right (Hooker and
Schofield) advanced on the Powder
Springs road to within three miles of Ma
rietta. The enemy made a strong effort
to drive them away. but failed signally,
leaving more than 200 dead on the field
Our lines are now in close contact, and
the fighting is incessant, with a good
deal of artillery fire. AS fast as we
gain one position the enemy has anoth-
er all ready, but 1 think he will soon
have to let go Kenesaw, which is the
key to the whole country The weather
is now better, and the roads are drying
up fast. Our losses are light, and not
withstanding the repeated breaks of the
road to our rear, supplies are ample"
Gen. Thomas satisfied himself by per-
sonal inspection of the danger of push
ing Schofield and Hooker further to the
right. urging upon Cen. Sherman to at
tack strongly with the Army of the Ten
nessee on the extreme left He rea-
soned that it was conclusive that John
ston had shifted the bulk of his army
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keep his army close to the base of Kene-
saw. with his left flank extended far be-
yond the railroad TO prevent Johnston
from sweeping around and striking his
line of communications behind him.
Heretofore Sherman had been able to
pull Johnston out of his strongholds by
reaching out past his fanks and making
him extend his lines until they were too
thin to hold his ground.
1t was not so now. The bloody fights
lat Pine Mountain, Lost Mountain, Brush
Mountain, Gilgal Church. MONDAY
Creek, McAfee Crossroads, Powder
Springs Cheney's Farm, Koib's Farm,
Olley's Creek and Noyes's Creek had
compacted Johnston's line instead of at
tennating it, and made him stronger at
every point that he attempted to hold.
AS Johnston's line was only 20 or IL
miles long, while Sherman's had Of ne
cessity to be five or six miles longer,
Johnston had the immense advantage of
concentrating his troops upon any at
tackled point faster than Sherman could.
Besides. Sherman was so close under the
commanding peaks of Kenesaw that
johnston could watch every movement
and understand its meaning, so that the
manuvers which had been heretofore
possible under the screen of mountains
and woods were no longer feasible.
The Army of the Tennessee was to
the left of the railroad. covering Little
Kenesaw Mountain and reaching out to-
ward Johnston's right flank. The Army
OF the Cumberland was generally in
front of Kenesaw Mountain, with the
Twentieth Corps on its extreme right at
Koib's Farm, and the Army of the Ohio
still further to the right at the junction
Of the Sandtown and Powder Springs
roads. Both the Twentieth Corps and
the Army OF the Ohio were within seven
miles of Marietta, but the heavy resist
ance and determined assaults they had
encountered showed that II would be
extremely dangerous to push their ad-
vance further. They were already many
miles away from supports, and they had
evidence that Johnston had massed two
OF his three corps in their front. The
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best they could do was to make them
selves secure where they were. ana they
Immediately covered themselves with
heavy works within easy range of the
corresponding strong works which the
Confederates had thrown up in their
front.
Gen. JOhnston's Statement.
In his Narrative" Gen. Joseph John
ston gives with quiet malice his view
of the failure of Hood to carry out his
ideas in driving back Hooker and Scho-
field, and of Hoods Misrepresentation
as to that failure:
"As the extension of the Federal
army toward the Chattahoochee made
a corresponding one necessary on our
part. Hoods Corps was transferred from
the right to the Marietta and Powder
Springs road, his right near and south
of Cheatham's left. Gen. Hood was in
structed to endeavor to prevent any
progress of the Federal right toward the
railroad, the course of which was near
ly parallel to our left and center. Our
position consequently was a very haZ-
ardous one.
Next day a sharp but brief fire of
musketry on the left succeeded by that
of apparently several batteries, an
nounced that Hoods Corps, or a large
part of it, was engaged Soon after the
firing ceased Gen. Hood reported that
Hindman's and Stevensons Divisions of
his corps had been attacked and that
they had not only repulsed the enemy,
but had followed them to line of light
intrenchments and driven them from It:
but that, being exposed in this position
to a fire of intrenched artillery, they
had been compelled to withdraw.
Subsequent and more minute ac-
counts of this affair. by general staff
officers of the corps, converted the fav-
orable impression made by this report
into the belief that instead of achiev-
ing success We had suffered a reverse.
1t appeared that our troops had not
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the 5tb n. Y. at Manassas.

John Heffetman. IS Washington ST.,
Flushing, N. z, makes a correction in
regard to the number at Manassas of
the 5th N. Y, Duryea's Zouaves. lie
says tie regiment went into the battle
462 strong, and lost in killed and
wounded 223. OF these the killed num-
bered t24. There were left for duty
only lis. 1t is true that there were
400 present for duty that morning, but
2S were on detached duty, and did not
take part in the fight, leaying 462 in
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The Blot of Intemperance.

Joseph W. Andrew. S5th Pa, Boul-
der, Colo, says that the comrades of
the Grand Army can take special pride
in the great work that they did to re-
move from our fair escutcheon the dark
blot of human slavery. There is still
great curse to be removed, that of the
drink demon, and he took comfort while
celebrating the centenary of Abraham
Lincoln, the greatest American that
ever lived. in recalling the decided po-
sftion that Lincoln took against intern
perance.
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The lith w. Va.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
me history of the 18th w. Vas. M.
Starkey, Smithtield, w. Va.
The 14th w. Va. was organized at
Wheeling, Aug. 25, 1862, and mustered
out June 2S. 1865. 1t was commanded
by Col. Andrew S. Core, who was dis
charged April 4, 1863, succeeded by
Col. Daniel ID. Johnson. in command at
the time of muster-out. 1t belonged
to DuvalPs Division, Eighth Corps. and
lost SS killed and 157 from disease, etc
Editor National Tribune.
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Secret Service Men.

Alex. Morrison. 150th ILL.,, Shoshone,
Idaho, thinks that the Secret Service
men or Special Agents in the Interior
Department are superfiuous IL not
worse. They are detrimental to real
progress in the West. Most of these
men are appointed without any concep-
ton of the needs or requirements of
the office, and are generally without
practical knowledge as to business mat
terS
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Has AIlison,s Discbaree.

Comrade A. B. Huntley. Co. X, 10Th
Mich, 1017 Portage street, Kalamazoo,
Mich, writes: Il have in my possession
discharge of Robert H. Allison, who
served in Co. c, 5th U. S. Art, Nov. 20,
1852. to Dec. z. 1865. 1t was found in
Kalamazoo, and 1 will be glad of op-
portunity to deliver it to him or to his
relatives upon request and satisfactory
evidence of right of possession"
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over to his own left to confront Hooker
and Schofield. and that the Confederate
right was consequently only weakly
held, and deuld Hot resist an attack by
McPherson's $4,000 veterans Of the
Army of the Tennessee. Thomas per,
sisted In this vie& and, indeed, believed
to the end of his hfe that it would nave
led to sigpal victory. but for some Iea- ..
son 5S. sherman coufa not be persuaded 10
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The. situation was now one to give
herman the most intense anxiety. For
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-18
Mature Sometimes Makes Mummies.

Mature Sometimes Makes Mummies.
Natural naturalization, the chang
ing Of the human body into dried
condition without artificial treatment.
is an extremely rare phenomenon. In
a case reported by Hon. s. Wolffsohn
Of British Honduras, middle aged
cody who disappeared between Jan
uary and March, 1907, was found more
than a year afterward, on May 6, 1908,
in a corrugated iron hut as a perfect
ly preserved mummy. The hut. in a
somewhat isolated spot at Sibun, was
raised on blocks four or FIVE feet above
the ground and had door and three
shutters, one shutter being open, while
one had fallen out. The body was
clothed in a cotton underskirt, dark
jersey and duck trousers, two pieces
Of rope around the neck proving self
strangulation. The desiccation SEEM
ed to have been favored by combina,
ton Of conditions. the season having
been extraordinarily dry and the small
iron house excessively hot. though we'll
ventilated, while the body was thin
and attenuated as a result of mental
disorder
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-18
Cockades and Buttons.

The cockade originated simply in the
Knot Of ribbons or strings by which
the broad flaps of the seventeenth cen
fury round hat were cooked" or
drawn up to the brim in fine weather.
aud thus originated the three cornered
hat as we'll as the cooked hat of later
times. There was nothing specially
military about the usage. as the ig-
norant assert The same strings sur
vive in the loops of the hats of bishops
and other ecclesiastical dignitaries in
Great Britain, in the strings of the
hats worn by French cures and Spal-
ish and Italian padres and in the cords
which are still seen on the, hats Of
some livery servants.
It naturally became the custom for
military men to cock" their hats with
the livery color Of the prince they
served and as the HanOverian color
was the convenient one Of black the
''black cockade' became associated In
the minds of the people with military
uniform. In an old Scotch song Of
Shirramuir, citing "Woodword's Her
aldry." we read Of the red coat lads
with black cockades," and a knot OF
white ribbons was naturally chosen as
the badge of thei1 opponents. When
the old use Of the strings was forgot
ten the knot, in the form Of a rosette
Of ribbon, survived, just as did the
buttons on the backs of our coats,
which were intended to fasten back
the flaps in riding or marching.-"Jus-
tice Of the Peace"
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Very Misleading.

Battersby came across this interest
ing item In the household department:
IF men would answer their wives
kindly and courteously when asked
for money 1t is undoubtedly true that
the amount requested would not be
half as much as 1t would be If the
husbands reply was surly and antag"
onistic."
Battersby read this item over twice
to make sure be grasped it's meaning
and Just then his wife entered the
room. ~>
George" she said. Il want some
money!" .>...
Battersby smiled affably.
Eyes. my DEAR" he pleasantly re-
marked. land how much do you
want?"
Mrs. Battersby stared at him in
amazement ~
81 said / wanted some money"
This time she spoke with much dis
tinctness.
"And I asked you how much you
wanted" Rattersby merrily reminded
her.
FIFTY doliarsr' she snapped.
Battersby~ almost tainted he had
imagined she was after S. and that
his genial tone would cut the amount
to $3.50
But he handed over the fifty with
out further ado-and then tore the
misleading item into tnfinitesimal
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Plain Dealer.
A Wedding Hint.
The tall girl smiled in some embar-
rassment.
Haven't you any secondhand shoesT'
she said to the shoe clerk.
But. miss he demonstrated.
mo. no.; you misunderstand," said
she. II don't mean to wear. just
mean old shoes, too worn for use, that
customers have left with you. You
see. there's a wedding up at our house
tomorrow. and we want something to
throw at the bride and bridegroom"
II see." said the clerk.
He rummaged in a black hole and
drew forth an armful Of dilaptdated
footwear. The girl selected some
threes. two and ones.
''These will do. Thanks ever SO
much" she said, and SO departed.
big footed people are always work
ing that on us" said the clerk after
ward. "That girl wears Fights. She
couldn't very we'll throw such mud
scows at the bride, SO she chose some
little and dainty shoes here-ones and
twos. Oh. yes, it's an old trick with
the big footed. Los Angeles Times,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-18
,-'. . ~ .gEfr y 49, i 4 Wharf
saraeen's Head Tavern.

The saracen's Head, Snow Hill, now
closed, reached back to Respectable
ANTIQUITY, In "Dick Tarlton's JESUS
# is, referred, to as 1.-THE saracenls -
Head without Newgate." and $40"
calls IT "a fair and large inn FOR re-
CENT of travellers" which "hath t.
sign the sarazen's Head" Its pre-
eminent interest. however, Is naturai-
" Dickensian, and the novelist mas
given a vivid description OF the o'a
inn as it was when Nicholas Nick'eDy
and his uncle interviewed there the
master of Dotheboys Hall. There are
various accounts of the origin OF the
sign Of the Saracen's Head. One Is
that it was set up as a compliment "
the mother of Thomas Beckett, VINO
was the daughter Of a saracen. Id
se,den's liable Talk" we read. "Wheh
orr countrymen came home from
f;phtins with the Saracens
thew pictured them with huge olg'
terrible faces, as you still see the slsh
Of the saracen's Head s."-London
Chronicle.
No Need FOR TAX.
"Does the baby talk yet?' asked a
friend Of the family.
mo" replied the baby's Disguised
little brother; 1.-The baby doesn't neeo
to talk"
doesn't need to talk?"
"No. All the baby has to DO Is TO
veil. and it gets anything there is IN
the house that's worth having"
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"a 4. ~ ' \ Z 80
Thu 0uAAia AAA.

The truth Is that throughout all the
wonder workings Of the beehive the
queen is little more than an instru-
ment. a kind Of an uutomaton. merely
doing what the workers compel her
to do. They are the real queens in
the hive, and the mother bee Is
the real subject. The. workers have
made her for their own wise purpose.
just as they make the comb and the
honey to store in it. The egg she is
Matched from is in no way different
from any worker egg. If you take
one from a queen cell and put it in
the ordinary cell it will hatch out a
common female worker bee, and an
egg transferred from worker comb to
a queen cell becomes a full grown
queen. Thousands and thousands Of
worker eggs are laid in hive during
the season. and each of those could be
made into queen If the workers
chose. But the worker egg is laid In
a small cell. and the larva is bred on
a bare minimum of food at the least
possible cost in time, trouble and
space to the hive, while when new
queen is wanted cell as big as your
finger tin Is built. and the larva is
stuffed like prize pig through all its
five days of embryo life until, with
unlimited food and time and room to
grow in. it comes out ut last a perfect
mother bee.-Van Norden's Magazine.
Painters as Household Pets.
IA British official in an out of the
way Persian district invited me to
stay at his house for night" mar.
rates a globe trotter. 81 was comfort
ably settled upon sofa just before
dinner when my rest was suddenly dis
turbed by loud bang at the sitting
room door. which. flying open, admit
ted two enormous animals, which at
first took for dogs.
Both Of them made at once for my
sofa. and. while the larger one curled
comfortably round my feet and COM
posed itself to sleep. the smaller one
seated itself on the floor and COM
menced licking my face and hands, an
operation which had dared I should
strongly have resented.
"But those white. cleaning teeth and
flashing green eyes filed me with
something akin to terror. To my re.
lief, my host entered at this juncture.
"tMaking friends with the panthers,
I see,' he remarked pleasantly. They
are nice, companionable beasts $3.50.
'"That may have been true at the
time. The fact remains, however, that
three months afterward one Of them
devoured native child" -London Tel
egraph.
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Scare People Into Recognizing
Danger of Tuberculosis

BY Department Of Health
HEN one-seventh of the worlds deaths caused by
! SUMPTION it is TIME WE DID SOME SOARING of
~ the people the subject of tuberculosis Some people,
opposed antuberculosis crusade soaring
the people into consumption.
Aopas homeopathic this crusade against con-
sumption.
NO ONE KNOWS UNLESS EXAMINED BY A
COMPETENT PHYSICIAN whether HE THROWS OUT
1uRERcuLE BAclLL, COUGHS
The household feather buster most potent means OF scattering
nsnmnton GERMS It doesn't remove the dust; only REDS
TR1R1ITEs IT. The FEATHER BUSTER SHOULD BE REL
EGATED TO THE MUSEUMS AS AN INSTRUMENT OF
DEATH and its manufacture prohibited by law Use damp cloth
instead.
CONSUMPTION is DURABLE treated in time, and ever In
severe cases there is possibility recovery The city and state
should not allow the conumpv become OF danger to
others duty the pass laws providing for the super
vision by local all Of tuberculosis and
saniarums Of ncpien of the disease