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+. Cummings. of Georgia" I am not
the person referred to. Maj. Cummings
was In the Quartermaster's Depart
ment, and / suppose from this refer
ence TO him that he was in the Army
or the Tennessee in Gen. Hoods Frank
lin and Nashville campaign OF Novem-
Der and December, 1864, tho / do not
now recollect seeing him at that time.
My name is Joseph 3. Cumming. with
out the final IS" / was one OF the
three Assistant Adjutants- General on
Gen. Hoods staff in this campaign, i
remember. as IL it we're Yesterday, the
flank movement of Gen. Hood from.
Columbia across Duck River and Ruth
erford's Creek, and the head of his col
umn coming close up to the turnpike
between Columbia and Franklin late in
the afternoon of Nov. %. / was one Of
The staff officers to whom Gen. Hood
refers. Indeed, / took personally the
order to Gen. Cheatham to attack the
enemy on the pike at once Having
ridden as rapidly as the nature of the
country would permit from Gen. HOOD s
field headquarters to deliver this order
rode back slowly by somewhat diff
ferent route, and stopped en- route to
have a little talk with Gen. Edward
Johnson, commanding a division of
Hoods army. When l arrived at Hoods
headquarters I was astonished to find
| that Gen. Chearham, to whom / had
recently delivered the order to attack,
was there ahead of me and in con-
versation with Gen. Hood. L knew at
! the time that there was great uissaIis-
| faction on the part IF Gen. Hood, and,
while I do not know the fact person
ally, ii was generally stated that Gen.
! Cheatham represented to Gen. He Cd
that he was unwilling to make what
was practically Il night attack. for by
| this time il was about dark.
1.tr 4 1xa emit ne fha Ta1
eral forces early the next morning, and
soon came upon evidences OF the Pre-
/ cipitancy OF their retreat the night be-
! fore in the shape of overturned wag-
ons ct narrow points Of the pike and
/ teams of mules shot dead in the har-
ness. There was a feeling of great dis
appointment turnout the army, which
had much TO do, think. with the un-
called for and reckless, desperate light
ing of n part of the army the nexi
afternoon and evening, Nov. 80, al
i Franklin.
! While I was on Gen. Hoods staff
with the rank of Major. my relations
with him were NOT particularly conf
4 Dental. as I was quite a young man
i I messed with Maj. Moore, the Chic
i Quartermaster of the army. .tninl
his initials were wv. f." He was quite
confid entail with Gen Hood. He told
/ me while we were in bivouac in from
or NaSnNllic tHat t1en. t1oou Wd3 greatly
displeased with Gen. Cheatham, ant
|, there were GOODNESS and estrangemen,
| between them, So much so that Maj
Moore demonstrated with Gen. Hood
and represented to him that that half
measure condition ought not to con
/ tinue; that ne ought either to relieve
|, Gen. Cheatham from command Of hi
corps OF resume cordial relations Will
r him. Gen. Hood adopted the latte
course
/ haze been much interested in YOU
article and struck with its accuracy.
hope l may have the pleasure OF read
ing the succeeding articles. Very re
!, spectfully and truly-Jos. r. Cumming
Augusta, Ga.
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Figuring on the Death Rate.

r. J. Yeak1e. Riverside. CAL, thinks
that the estimates OF the probable cost
OF the Suiloway bill are too high and
not one OF them near the facts The
death rate, on the other hand is not
p.accd high enough, as the estimates
remain the same when the death rate
3 increasing with great rapidly. He
has been in a position for the last 20
FEARS to note this. and he believes that
Inc death rate will soon be twice.-what
il is now. For those who are SANDER
ing the Grand Army as deadbeats. he
would say that he. left school when he
was only Is years old. and In so doing
gave up all chance of finishing his eau7
cation. and when he got back home
mad to go 10 work, and has been al
il ever since. His pension has been
spent In surgical operations as he has
had as many as three a year, for sew
eraf years.
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A cAyaLRYMaN's RECORD.
The First to Enter Fort Henry-Ends
Lieutenant Colonel Of q Coiored
Regiment. ,itir q ii

The First to Enter Fort Henry-Ends
Lieutenant Colonel Of a Colored
Regiment. nm ''s II
Editor National tribune. If the vol
unteer officers retirement bill passes
would be one of the beneficiaries.
enlisted Sept. 20, 1861. as private, 4th
ILL., Cav: was Sergeant Feb, 6, 1852. At
Fort Henry 1 commanded 2the extreme
entered the fort while the. rebels were
going out at the opposite side. still
have the garrison flag, the first cap
tured by the Army fIof the Tennessee.
In September, 1852, | was made Sec
ond Lieutenant, and in October, 1853. 1
was promoted to Major, Sd U. S. Col
ored Cav, and with horses we picked
up ourselves the best we could, l was
fortunate enough to capture Holiness
Louisiana Battery at Woodville. Miss,
in q saber charge, and it was the only
battery brought into Vicksburg by any
cavalry regiment during the war. My
reward for this was 500 cavalry horses.
Nov. 81, 1864. / was fortunate enough
TO capture and burn Black River
road, for which I was made Lieutenant
Colonel by General Order No. 303 of
the War Department, the only personal
order of the War Department made
during 1864. As commissioned Off
Ger of coIored troops j was subject to
be murdered If captured. but we could
not be murdered without being cap
tured and we could not be captured
without being whipped. We won all
our fights by making charges, the only
way to accomplish anything with cav
airy. / was married in 1894, and have
two boys tail enough and willing to do
soldiers duty. but my wife can never
receive cent of pension under existing
laws. / am now II years old, and ] am
glad our bill is so favorably regarded
everywhere, as it is in accordance with
President Lincoln's proclamation. If il
costs any of the enlisted men a dollar
| do not want i'll. b. Cook, Chctopa
Kan.
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The Old state House of Arkansas.

The proposition to sell the old State
House at Little Rock. Ark, has stirred
up the Daughters of the Confederacy to
wrath, and they are circulating the fol-
lowing protest:
Resolved, That the United Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy, now in con-
vention assembled, do protest against
the sale and destruction Of the old State
House of Arkansas. in which the ordi-
nance of secession was enacted and
around which clusters the history of the
great State OF Arkansas since 1886"
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THE SPRING HILL MYSTERY.
4 Former Member OF Gen. Hoods stair
Gives Some Highly Interesting Rem
iniScenceS.

Editor National Tribune: I have re-
ceived a copy of The National Tribune
of Thursday, March 2, containing a
long and most interesting article. head
ed FRANKLIN and Nashville" written
by yourself A part of this article is
brought specially to my attention by
blue pencil marks. / presume this was
done because in the passage thus
marked reference is made to Maj. j.
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PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along the
Whole Line.
The Fight at TiIton station.

]. D. Pickett, Sergeant. 18th Iowa,
Maysville, Mo-, is reading with interest
the Franklin and Nashville GAM
paign." and remembers wildly the
events which preceded Hoods march to
the North. He remembers the capture
of the 44th U. 8. C. T.. but is grieved
that a devoted little band of Iowa men.
numbering only 2s1, who held in posi-
tive check for seven and one-half hours
force Of more than 1000 of Hoods
men, are totally ignored. The 18th
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ett's first Captain.
The Message to Allatoona.
Capt. j. w. A Gillespie, 18th Ohio.
Middletown, o., says that when Gen.
Sherman signaled Gen. Corse. he (Gen.
Sherman) was on the top of Kenesaw
Mountain and Gen. CorseN was fighting
Gen. French's entire Confederate Divi-
sion at Allatoona, IS miles away. Those
who claim to have been present when
the message was sent must have been
on the top of Kenesaw Mountain.
Fights on the March to the Sea.
l.. r. Haswell, Co. K. Tooth Ind,
barnes, washington County, Kan, says,
in regard to hard fight with the john
MES at a swamp near Miiledgeville, that
more men were killed there in so short
time than he ever saw, and he was in
great many fights He was In the
fight near Griswaldville. Nov. 20, 81
and %, 1864.
How He Enlisted.
W. II. Lesser, 25th Mich, Paw Paw.
Mich, says the Copperheads are stick
ing up their heads as viciously as in
the old war time. He refused Lieu
tenancy i'll the Fremont Bodyguard, be-
cause he was under 81 and his widowed
mother did not feel that she could
spare him At that time he was re-
| ceiving $500 with board and room.
When he enlisted his employer went
o'it and hired substitute for him, but
he would not have it, and served his
country until the termination of the
war, not being off duty a single day.
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"Kansas, Doorstep TO tho Temple OF
: = y. - PienGR,v- D --.--,-- q ~

Comrade f. d. Coburn,L Secretary of
The Kansas state Hoard OF Agriculture,
is inexhaustibe In, bis. SONGS of pros
perity and greatness for .3Sansas, and
his latest brochure, is quito worthy of
his fertile genius. 1t shows most as
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The SuIloway Bill.

street, Lebanon, Pa, says that he
thought he was dead once. when he was
hit on the head with q musket, but he
returned to life. He thinks something
worse than q musket hit the SuIloway
bill on the head. and he fears that the
only thing to do IL to bury Il.
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Can't. Given,s sharpshooters.

s. Long, South Bend, Neb., wants
someone to give short history of Capt.
Given's company of 100 sharpshooters,
detailed for duty in the Fall and Win
ter of 1896. Many of them belonged
to the 98th N. Y. and were detailed
from the Eighteenth Corps near Chat
fms Point.
Was Lincoln's Escort.
Samuel f. McCloud, the Historian Of
James B. Morris Post. Of Long Branch,
n. j., was one of Lincoln's escort Sc
years ago, when he passed thru Now
Jersey on his way to be inaugurated.
The CITY Blues Artillery Company, Of
Paterson, went to Trenton to act as his
escort Comrade McCIoud was a men,
Der of that company.
Coz. Rollins Hits Back.
Col. John J. Rollins, who was in
Sherman's army from Chattanooga to
Atlanta, has struck back effectively at
the Providence Or. ID Daily Journal
for its ISLANDERS of the veterans. He re-
calls how the men on that campaign
fought great battles, sometimes hand
to-hand, for hours, when they were
batuering out each others brains with
musket barrels and stabbing with bay
onets. He remembers that when the
victory was won they went around and
found boys with bayonets sticking in
them and who begged to be shot All
this for SIG a month in deprecated
currency.
Hard Lines for Kentuckians.
p F. WYATT oath XIV Mount Ster-
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Lieut.. Butts smells a Mouse.

On May Lieut.. Butts. Of the 18th
Cav, while in charge of the picket on
the Somerton road, climbed tree, and
saw that the rebel pickets were relieved
by men with knapsacks. The Lieuten-
art smeHed the biggest kind of mouse,
and sent the news to headquarters. Col.
Foster, with an infantry force and q
part OF the 1ith Cav, went quickly
after the Confcderates We captured
about so of their straggiers, but the
main force INSTRUCTED the roads beyond
Holly Neck Chapel, crossed the Black
water at Franklin and went to rein
force Lee at Charlottesville. During
the siege we lost about 260 men killed
and wounded. The Confederates lost
about 500 prisoners and deserters. How
many were killed and wounded was un-
known.
During the siege Gen. Helleck; from
Washington, and Gen. Dix, from Fort.
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the works laid out by Gen. Peck were
fine. During the siege Gen. Corcorar
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fighters, we had some who were theil
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the left of the field they came to two
men lying on the ground. One was on
his back. dead. The other was lying
on his face. feIgning. When he thought
there was danger OF being tramped up
on he turned over. The First Lieuter-
ant of Co. c. cursed him roundly, and
ordered him 10 get up and join his reg
iment. The fellow picked up his rifle,
and away he went, amid Jeers- 1t surely
was fun to see an apparently dead MAJ
ger up and hustle away. We returned
TO camp, taking our dead and wounded
with us, and Mikes reconnaissance was
over.
The 9sth y. Y were in the fortifca-
lions at Nansemond Creek, Mill Bridge.
They became tired of their inactivity,
and asked the privilege of crossing the
bridge and interviewing the rebels who
were on the other side of the creek.
They put on their accouterments, cross
ed the bridge, drove in the Confederate
nickel, drove the sharpshooters out OF
their ride pits. and when the enemy
reinforcements became too much for
them recrossed the bridge, laid aside
their arms, took stretchers and went
over for their dead and wounded. Great
/ fighters were the 99th n. Y.
/ On MAY Gen. Getty, with Davis s
and Towards Batteries and about TO-
| 900 men. engaged the Confederates on
the Petersburg road. A lively artillery
L duel followed, in which we lost about
rs men killed and wounded. Lieut.
h Beccher. of one of the batteries, die
some fine shooting. He was son Of
the famous Henry Ward Beecher. We
I had received heavy achievements by
and bring in Longstreets men was {
mystery TO US boys. i guess the Gen
erals were afraid we might hurt some
OF the JohanieS.