The National tribune., 1910-11-10
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The 33d Wis.

w. r. Sherman, Co. A, 33d Wis,
Plattcville, Wis, gives the record of the
33d Wis. He says it left camp Nov Il,
1862, and in two weeks was in the field
under Gen. Grant in his expedition in
Mississippi. and took a prominent part
in the battle of Coldwatar, Miss; in the
siege of Vicksburg from May 90 to it's
surrender; in the battle of Jackson,
Miss: with Sherman in his Meridian
expedition thru Mississippi, and the
Reed River expedition in the Spring of
1854. Under that brave old warrior,
Gen. A. ]. Smith, they met the enemy
in the following hotly contested battles:
Fort De Russy, Pleasant Hill Landing,
charlottesville, Narksville and yell
low Bayou, besides several skirmisheS.
They participated in the expedition of
Gen. Smith at TupelO Miss, and in the
following October, 1864, led by the gall
liant Gen. Mower. they marched thru
the sWamps and across the bluffs in
Arkansas in pursuit of the rebel, Gen.
Price. In December. 1864, they were
at Nashville, Tenn, confronting the en-
emy under Gen. Hood, and captured 500
prisoners They pursued the Southern
army to the eastern part of Mississippi,
and were present in the assault on CO.
rinth in January, 1865. On the 9Th of
the following month they started for
Mobile, and took an active part in the
siege of Spanish Fort and in the reduc-
ton of Mobile. The regiment marched
TO Montgomery and Tuskeegee, and
from there they We're sent home, arriv-
ing in Madison Aug. IA, 1865, having
travelled 5000 miles, 2,40O of which
they marched, passed thru IL battles,
two sieges and eight skirmishes, max
ing y engagements altogether.
In the Wind River Mountains.
Felix Dehin, Elk Horn, Wyo., is sit
NTa
tlonal Tribune, which he has taken for
over 25 years and will take as long as
he has a shot in his locker. He is liv-
ing on his homestead, at the foot of the
Wind River Mountains, with his nearest
neighbor two miles away. He cooks
three meals a day for himself, and has
enough old clothes to last until he
proves up his homestead, which will be
in one year from now. He enlisted in
June, 1861, in the Marine Corps, for
four years, receiving $11 a month, and
never got any bounty or prize money.
He left good job as blacksmith to help
save the country. He is now over 20
years of age, but would enlist again
without bounty. He does not under
stand why the officers should have any
more pension than the enlisted men
he wants no more pension than his
comrades get, but this he is entitled to-
The 10th Vet. Reserves.
Edwin French, 1ath Vet. Reserve
Corps, Petersburg, Ind, says that Geo.
L. Stevens should have mentioned the
18th Vet. Reserves, in the fight at Fort
stevens. They were quartered in bar
racks on Capitol Hill, and were hustled
out at o'clock on the morning of July
12. marched down Seventh street. and
placed on the extreme left of the skir-
mfsh line, and held it until the Sixth
Corps came about 6 o'clock in the even-
ing. There were several killed and
there
Knows AndersonviIle.
W. j. Furry. Shortbend. Mo, Co. C, |
Ith Tenn. Nrtd Inf, saw in The Ma |
tional Tribune of Sept. L that Comrade |
ID. Eidredge, Sd n. H., Boston, Mass, !
wants someone to write about a prison |
at Madison, and Comrade Furry SAYS he |
was taken as prisoner right thru Mad
son to Augusta, and if there was a |
prison there he did not hear of it, but |
there was an Andersonville Prison, and |
he can still remember how he studied |
cheap living there.
The Estey Family.
Comrade G. Z. Bangs, of the First |
National Bank of Chicago, is arranging |
a roster of the military service of all |
persons in the civil war under the names
Of Esty, Estey, Estee. Easty. etc, and |
VIII be very grateful for any informa-
ton OF the service of persons of these |
names, in whatever capacity. He would |
also like the post Office address Of such |
veterans.
The Sd N. Y.
A. D. Limberger, Creedmoor, L. T.,
says that Co. A, Sd N Y, was the first
raised in Williamsburg, L. ]. |
On the night of April 10, 1861, Capt. |
Abel Smith, Jr., opened a recruiting Of
Ice on Grand street, near 11th, farmer
y occupied as a saloon, but at that |
time empty. Table was secured. a flag
nung out to the breeze, and business
loon commenced. and before daylight
IN tho morning Of the 18th 80 good
non we're recruited, mostly hremen of
he departrnanf fAlaarann Haa a.nt