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Trfbon, Brockton, Mass. says he was
Commander last year at the age of SO.
1 also was Commander of my Post last
year, when aged 50. 1 would like to
know his exact age. I was born Jan.
80, 1926. I am now Adjutant of the
Post. Served with the Sd N. 7. L. A,
Twenty-third Corps"
Scattering.
Comrade VIM. H. Wilder, Alton, N.
Y, to assist the widow of Comrade Ira
Thomas in securing a pension. wants
evidence of his service Comrade
Thomas enlisted at Honesdaie. Pa, in
December. 1861: was mustered at Har-
risburg and was killed at the battle of
Fair Oaks, May 80, 1862. His widow
does not remember what his company
or regiment was. Will comrades who
served with him write to Comrade VIII
der?
John McGough, Co. F, 18th Kan.
Cav, writes from r. f. d. I. Rayville,
Me-: please advertise for the follow
ing comrades of Co. F. 10th Kan. Cav:
William Wheeler. who lost leg at the
battle of Newtonia; John waddell, VIM.
n. Tharp, Asbar Short. James p. Ford,
Martin Rutlif. Chris Ringhausen. VIM.
Hatley. Geo. T. Culley, or any OF those
who were on the Powder River expedi-
tion when We feasted and tasted on
mule beef"
Comrade Franklin Rice, Cortlandt.
n. Y. writes: 'I wish you would ask
Congress thru your paper to pass a bill
in the interest of soldiers of the civil
war who have lost the use Of both legs
and cannot stand up or walk. This
class has been neglected all these years.
A soldier who lost one leg gets SIS a
month. He can put on an artificial
limb, and If his general health Is good
he can go into society and do almost
any kind of work, but the man who has
lost the use of both legs must stay
where he is put"
Comrade Edgar A. Craig, Cabool,
Mo-. says: Il would like for you to
publish a song that an old man sang
thru the Army of the Potomac in '62
and '63. Part of it was: Dupont and
Sherman took sail for Dixie's land"
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In Many Battles.

Editor National Tribune: I have re-
ceived O'Dea's picture of Andersonville
and 1 hasten to tender you my sincere
thanks for the same. / served in the
civil war in Co. G., 115th N. Y. for three
years; was taken prisoner at Harper's
Ferry, in September, 1862; sent to Chi
cago; exchanged the same Fall. and re-
turned to the front: fought in the bat
ties of Olustee. Fla, Deep Bottom
Chapin's Farm, Cold Harbor. blowing
up of fort in front of Petersburg, and
the taking of Fort Fisher. I have been
"a subscriber to The National Tribune
for many years, and consider ii the
only paper in the United States that
fights for the rights OF the old soldiers
and their wives, and / think that every
old soldier should take 1t. 1t is better
than any of the histories printed. and
/ shall always try TO have dollar for
the renewal of my subscription. thank
you again for the picture May you
live long to fight the cause of the old
F. Salisbury, 2S3 Elm
street, Holyoke, Mass
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Severity Was Necessary.

Editor National Tribune: see in The
National Tribune where Comrade G. G.
Byers. of Co. E, 14th Pa. Cav, gives an
account of Gen. Averills position in the
Newmarket race from Martinsburg to
Cross Keys. which is all right, but he
says he could not see the necessity of
the burning of the grain and hay. 1t
did look like a harsh act, but it looked
harsh to see our comrades strung up on
trees by the roadside. Something had
to be done to stop that awful warfare.
Fire is great purifier The Valley had
been and was the great storehouse and
granary of the rebel armies in Virginia,
and in order to cripple Lee it was
deemed Indispensable to carry out this
policy of destruction. The Valley had
also harbored the worst class of guer-
rillas then to be found in the country.
Men were farmers by day and robbers
and murderers by night. Under the
guise of loyalty they entrapped ard
murdered Union soldiers, and from the
outset of the war had been successful
spies on our armies. To strike at the
root of this deviltry it was necessary to
do something that looked awfully Sc
we're to the common soldier. While il
sometimes struck friend as well as foe.
il was the right thing to do to restrain
citizens from harboring those BUSH
whackers. Many of the Inhabitants who
were bushwhackers at night had pro-
lection passes given to them by Cen
erals who had been in the Valley before
Gen. Sheridan. This work of burning
was done by the critter back men. ]
don't now remember the regiment or
company that those soldiers were men,
bers of whom Mosby hung near Berry
vile. IL my memory serves me Alright
they had cards tackled to their coats
saying such would be the fate of all
others taken by Mosby.-M. b. Wilcox,
Co. E, 18th Pa. Cav, Blanchard, Iowa.
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Were Taught Perseverance.

Editor National Tribune: I noticed
a short item of a Connecticut soldier,
Hiram T. Peck, 10th Conn, which no.
tice reminded me of my boyhood days.
We went to the same little country
school in Berlin, VT, when mere boys.
The Peck and Crandall families were
quite large at that time. The Peck
family were older than ours, and had
scattered, except Hiram T. Peck, who
was a couple of years my senior, about
the age of my second brother, the late
Maj. r. B. Crandall, 9Th VT, who was
killed by a rebel sharpshooter at Cold
Harbor, Va, in June. 1864. I can re-
member when boys that Hiram'S and
my part of the farm labor was to go in
search of the cows, and as the cows
had a large range in woodland we
were not always sure of finding them
at given time Hiram after a short
search would say there is no use in
looking longer, and as his mother was
kind and ruled the house he would
leave me alone to continue the search.
1t was different in my case. L had no
moral support at home for not finding
the useful animal for family use. and
had to continue the search until found.
Hiram was good scholar and fine
penman at an early age. He left the
school and became a bookkeeper in
Connecticut. My brother and I re-
manned to complete our education. The
late Major. my older brother, left in his
senior year at Dartmouth College, and
entered the army as Adjutant of the
9Th VT. early in 1861. went thru all the
battles with the First Brigade. was pro-
moted to Major of the regiment. to be
killed by rebel sharpshooter at Cold
Harbor in 1864. A finer record could
not be attained. I was a medical stu
dent at the time, and went out with
the 9Th VT. on the on-commissioned
staff, was promoted to Assistant Sur
geon of the 18th VT, and served with
the 18th VT, part of Stannard's Bri-
gade, the same brigade that captured
the advance of Pickett's charge at the
battle Of Gettysburg. When / was at
Gettysburg ! found a marker of the
high-water mark of the battle of Get
tysburg. After the war of the rebel
lion l was on duty in the Department
Of the Missouri, with the 7th U. S Cav.
and other regiments and posts in the
0. S. Army until the Spring of 1868.
Since then 1 have been in civil practice
1t Sterling, Ill. Much of the success
hat followed in the short and active
life of my brother, the Major, and the
more humble life of the writer depend
ed upon our early experience never to
Iuit any laudable enterprise, even If
for stray cows along the
picket line.-J. B. CrandafI, Hospital
9th VT, and Assistant Sur
,eon, 18th VT.
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Stories Emneny Worth Telling of Experiences and Adventures
in the Great National Struggle.

went to the rear. leaving Kim to load
and fire as best he could, and which he
did until he was killed. The Yankees
then withdrew and left our right front.
We waited for them to return, expect
ing an attack every minute. 1t was
fully O'Clock in the afternoon when a
demonstration was made on our left.
Possibly they waited for the tide to run
out of the creek along which our line
of light breastworks extended. This
creek channel was between 20 and 80
feet below the level on which our en-
bankment was raised and the banks
were very steep. When the tide was
out the water was only two or three
feet deep, and the Yankees dashed thru
the water and scrambled up the bank,
an officer in the lead. AS soon as he
reached the top he sprung upon an old
chestnut log, waved his sword and
shouted: Come on, boys! One charge,
and the day is wont" No sooner said
than he fell in a heap by the side of the
log. and his men never raised above
the top of the creek bank. but made
their way back to the other side, where
they came from, followed by the music
of our musketry. Then they retreated
to Fortress Monroe.
An examination of the body of this
gallant officer who led this undisciplined
mob showed that he had been shot thru
the body near the heart. and the wound
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Do They Still Live?

Comrade Chas. Sherbacker. Second
Lieutenant, 5th Ohio Cav, writes from
0swego, Kan. Box "a: Having served
over four years, nearly all of this time
in the 5th Ohio Cav. and a considerable
portien of IL on scout duty, 1 often be-
come reminiscent. and wonder II any
of the comrades with whom was then
associated are still living. Am partieu-
lar interested in one incident that oc-
CURED some time in January or Feb
ruary. 1865. Myself and three COM
rades. the names of whom I cannot re-
call, were scouting and had wandered
off about IL miles from the main army
which was then in the vicinity of CO.
lumbia. s. c. On our return we were
attracted by man standing on a fence
and waving his hat to us. / ordered
one of our party to ride over and in
lyestigate. After quite long wait the
scout returned, stating that three Off
GERS. Captain of the 5th r. /. Battery.
First Lieutenant of the 25th Ohio and
a Second Lieutenant of the SID Ind,
had escaped from the Confederate
forces. and were in hiding near our in
formants house. They had escaped
three days before, and were fortunate
in finding our informant a Union SYM
| pathiZer, from whom they obtained
| food. The hospitality of the house was
extended them, but thru fear of recap
tUre and the danger of the consequences
TO their benefactor should this occur,
made them stick to the woods. The
| officers were overjoyed to know that de-
hverance had come, tho they were
somewhat dubious as to our ability to
| take care of them and ourselves with
only four carbines. Without further
Incident we reached our lines, and as
the First Lieutenant had a cousin in
Boards Division of the Fourteenth
Corps l turned them over to that body.
I INT
any of these officers are still living. I
would be nleased to hear from them"
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Deadly Prisons.

Editor National Tribune: 1 was a
prisoner about six months and half;
was in three different prisons-Libbey,
Belle Isle and Salisbury. I was at the
latter place about four months and a
half, and so per cent of the prisoners
confined there died in that time. There
are but few of US left now, and I think
there has been no bill before Congress
that is any more just than the Hamil-
ton bill. but il they can't pass that there
are other bills that would help us a
little. 1 thought we had some one
there to intercede for us. but I don't
see anything more about it in The Ma
tional Tribune, which I think is the
best soldier paper published.-A. l.
Brown, Denver, Colo.
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was so small ii required careful search
to find it. 1t was not made by musket
ball; it was small bullet from a squir-
rel gun that killed him. and it was fired
by Sam Mayo, mullato servant of
Capt. Ashe, who commanded a COM
pany from Chapel Hill, and had his SER
want carry his squirrel gun on the
march. Sam had the gun in hand, and
when the officer jumped on the log Sam
said, Lem me shoot him. Master Ashe,''
and shoot he did with fatal effect. Dur
ing the war Sam used to boast of his
deed, but in these later days, am told,
he thinks some other fellow did the
shooting. There In no doubt, however,
that this brave anG accomplished gem
tIeman met his fate at the hands of a
slave, to whom the death of Maj. VIM
throp and many thouss nds of brave SOL
diers gave the boon o. freedom.
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DEATH OF Maj. THEODORE WIN
TTIROP.
He Was Shot by a MuIatto Slave With
Squirrel Rifle.

He Was Shot by Nuratfo Slave With
Squirrel Rife.
JFrom an Unpublished Manuscript
Entitled "Recollections of a Quarter
mastery
May 81. 1861, young Ellsworth, the
protege of President Lincoln. n Young
lawyer of great promise and popularity,
was murdered by a tavern keeper in
Alexandria, while tearing down the reb-
ell flag which was defiantly waving over
his tavern, and the killing ih this man
ner of the enthusiastic young soldier
stirred to the depths the anger of the
people of the North, and tho he fell
while doing foolishly what he ought to
have intrusted to q subal.ern, backed
by Corporars guard, yet his death in
famed the people of the Nortt, and
fastened many enlstments Of voiun-
teers. Soon after-to wit, on the 10th
OF June following-occurred the death
of another young patriot, whose name
and descent from one of the most re-
spectacle historical characters in New
England, and whose literary accom-
plishments had made him many friends,
both in the Northern and Southern
States, met his death in the lead of his
The National tribune., 1909-08-26
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Comrade B. F. Holcomb, Mondovi,
Wis, in behalf of a friend, desires to
learn If any one. can tell how the Second
Lieutenant of Co. K, 26th Wis, met his
death at Resaca on May IL or IS. 1864,
and who it was that took his sword.
watch, etc, il they were taken.
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WANTED-Information regarding one Patrick
Morrison, said to have served in an Ohio
regiment during the civil Address Mrs.
Catherine NJ. Ferry. r. =. D.. Easthampton.
Mass.
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Which Is "the Old Man ?n

Coprade Edward B. Stephens, of
JohlS F. McQuade Post. II. G. A. R.,
Utica, N. Y, writes: II saw an article
in your issue of June IL, 1908, Ger
tainlySa Veteran in which Charles Z.
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The National tribune., 1909-08-26

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and other fruit trees. Farm partly cleared.
with remainder in red, black and white oak
altogether the making of fine fruit and
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healthful markets are good. with conyen-
lent school and church facilities Owner is
a missionary and cannot take care of the
place. For full particulars, address Rev. NJ.
p. Julian, Chester, Ark.
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WANTED-w. d. Fritz. Shickshinry Pa has
the discharge of William II. Long. OF Lieut.
Aaron Andrews company (E).. 18th Pa. Cav.
who was mustered out at Harrisburg Aug.
IL, 1885. .
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-16
DEER HUNTING BY RAIL.
So Numerous in New Jersey That
Many Are Killed by Trains.

Deer are so numerous in Warren
county that they are being killed by
railroad trains as they cross the tracks
Such killings have become 50 common
recently that engineers. especially those
employed on the Lackawanna Railroad,
have ceased buying beef and are feed
ing their families on vanison. One of
the first questions the housewife asks
her engineer husband nowadays when
he returns home from his run is how
many deer he killed on the trip.
. The animals, which are so keen in
fleeing from ordinary foes. seem to be
paralyzed with fright when they see
trains bearing down on them. One
was caught between a Lackawanna
train and steep bank Thursday. In
stead Of leapipg up the bank it did it's
utmost to beat the locomotive with
the track for race course, with the
result that it was struck. hurled, and
injured 50 badly that it was killed to
put it out of its agony. Another deer
rushed down the mountain side to the
tracks Wednesday and tried issues
with the locomotive. It, too, was in
jured mortally. The game wardens as
sert that unless the slaughter ceases
all the engineers will be compelled to
take out hunters licenses and also
take their chances in prosecution for
killing deer ont of season.-New York
Press.