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BRAHAHF LINCOLNContinued from page one

Thex were almost like one great familytheir close relation being cemented byfrequent Intermarriages and Nancyhad known the jovial goodBatuxeflpopular Thomas practically all her lifeHer mother had a large family of chil ¬

dren and the kind hearted Mrs Spar-row

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who had not lightened the caresof the former by keeping the littleNancy much of the tlmo with her In-deed

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the child was more at home underthe Sparrow roof than that of her fath-er

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and spent practically her entirechildhood with these good neighborsmore frequently called by their namethan by her own

All the Lincoln biographers seem toagree that Nancy Hanks was an un ¬

commonly pretty girl with dark hairand bright hazel eyes and that in intel-lect

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as well as In appearance she wasmuch superior to her humble stationIn life She couia read and write whichwas a rare accomplishment in thoseearly days and she cared much morefor a book or some quiet pleasure thanfor the boisterous somewhat rough

merry makings of those days andthat locality Her deeply religious na-ture

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tinged her manner with somethingof melancholy which became moremanifest under the hard conditions ofher life and her duties were ever herfirst consideration Thomas who wasexactly her opposite in temperamentand in most of his Ideas attracted herlargely by reason of his cheerful op¬

timism and careless gaiety and sheloved him with all the sweetness anddepth of her gentle nature He lovedher too in his rough good naturedway proud of her beauty and booklearning but she was no Lady Macbethto spur him on to greater activity oreffort by chastising him with the valorof her tongue and evidently preferredto endure patiently the terrible priva ¬

tions which his improvidence imposedupon her rather than pester him Asfar as can be seen she did not color orInfluence her husbands life in the least

Birth of AbrahamFor awhile after Thomas and Nancy

Were married they lived in the littlehouse 14 feet square in Ellzabethtownwhere he had taken her as a bride andwhere he was near her Uncle JosephHankss carpenter shop in which heworked In the tiny home they wereat least warm and comfortable fullyprotected from the elements and withenough to eat and in after years poorNancy must have looked back uponthis period as one of comparative lux-ury

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With no premonitions of what wasIn store for her she performed hertasks with wifely pride and dreamedher dreams of future happiness andlife was full of hope and gladness

But this state of things did not lastlong Nothing could be more forlornor desolate than her surroundings onNolin Creek both inside her wretchedlittle cabin with its dirt floor and out-side

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where nothing but barren hillockscovered with stunted scrubby under-brush

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met the eye At the time of thebirth of the little Abraham she had onlythe roughest care and attention suffer-ing

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for the commonest necessities oflife Old Dennis Hanks who was hercousin tells about Thomas walking intohis mothers house one cold morningin February and rather sheepishly an-nouncing

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the fact that he was again afather this time of a son

Denniss mother hurried up her workand went over to the Lincoln cabin toattend to the mother who had had noone but her husband to do the simplestthing for her As Mrs Hanks entered thecabin she saw Nancy lying on her polebed covered with a bear skin holdingthe furture President clasped close toher breast The good woman washed thebaby and put a yellow flannel petticoatand llnsey shirt on him cooked somedried berries with wild honey forNancy slicked up the cabin and thenwent home which was all the nursingthe baby or mother got She lay onher hard bed filled with beech leavesonly till she had recovered strengthenough to take up once more the bur ¬

den of her dally dutiesAs usual with men of his character

Thomas Lincoln blamed his want offortune upon everything but his ownShortcomings The location of his farmwas at fault and when Abraham wasfour years old his father moved 15miles over to Knob Creek where hehoped the land might be made to laughmore abundantly for the meager hoetlckllng he gave it than on Nolin CreekOf course since he worked no harderill luck followed him and when

Abraham was seven years old his fath¬

er felt that the virgin soil of Indianamight glva more for little than Ken ¬

tucky Packing his family and goodsIn one wagon he trekked across theOhio to Spencer County Ind and set ¬

tled on Little Pigeon Creek one andone half miles east of Gentryville

Kalntucky as Dennis Hanks after-ward

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said was gettln stuck up withsome folks rich enough to own niggers

o it didnt seem no place fur pore folksany more Dennis says that he helpedNancy empty the shucks out of thetow linen ticks and to pile the fewhousekeenlng belongings the insultclent bedding and clothing and the fewpans and kettles on the backs of twoborrowed horses and that he and theSparrows went along too but mostbiographers agree that the Sparrowsdid not join the Llncolns in their newhome for over a year

Removal to IndlnntIn the midst of the dense forest of

beech oak hickory and blak walnutThomas Lincoln set up another campand It was only what was then calleda half faced camp that is It was amere shed of poles Inclosed on threeides with the fourth open to the

weather There for 12 long monthsNancy Hanks Lincoln lived with hertwo children a daughter aged eightand little Abraham seven years oldThen they were forced to move intothe house which she and the childrenhad helped to build tho It was notcompleted for the Sparrows came alongfbout that time and the camp hadto be given up to them The new housewss of course more comfortable thanthe camp so much more so In factthat Thomas Lincoln was quite satisfiedWith It and tho It was without windowsdoors or floors made no effort to supSly this lack during the few years of11 fo that remained to poor Nancy

Altho still a young woman Nancyshard life had made her look like an oldone The terrible strains on her healthand strength had told terribly and thepretty clear skin of theyoung bride of only a few years backwas changed to a deep sallow bv thepoor and Insufficient food and the ma¬

laria of tho rank woods which sur-rounded

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the Indiana home It wasduring this period that she kept urgingher boy to study for he had taughthim to read and write She would tellhim stories about George wasningionfcnd other great men Impressing uponhim the fact that he had as good Vir-ginia

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blood In him as Washington butthat he could do nothing In the worldwithout education Tho little Abrahamwould listen to her looking at her withgreat serious eyes every word sho ut¬

tered apparently taking root in hisheart Nancys health grew worse andworse and finally the mysterious dis ¬

ease called milk sickness struck thelittle community at Pigeon Creekwhere the Llncolns lived carrying offfirst the Sparrows and then poor Nancyherself Thomas with his own handsmade her coffin and Dennis Hanks InEleanor Atkinsons little book calledThe Boyhood of Lincoln gives this

account of how this sad office was per ¬

formedMe n Abe helped Tom make the

coffin He tuk a log left over frombulldln the cabin an I helped himwhlpsaw It Into planks an plane emMo n Abe held the planks while Tombored holes an put em together withpegs Abod whittled Thar wasnttcacely any nails in the kentry an lit¬

except in knives and guns andtookln pots Toms tools was a won4er to the hull deestrlot Pears to me

like Tom was always- - makin a coffinfur some one We laldL Nancy close tothe deer run in the woods Deer wasthe only wild critters the women wasntafeerd of I reckon she didntrhave nosortro keer pore Nancy

There was no preacher around at thetime of Nancy Lincolns death and shand the SparrowswereJaid away withacani ceremony This is said to havegiven the young Abraham such deepsorrow and preyed so upon his mindthat several months later he prevailedupon a circuit preacher called DavidElkin to come and deliver a funeralsermon over her grave then coveredby the early Winter snows Dr J GHolland referring to this event saysthat notice of the coming service wascarried by neighbor to neighbor tillthe whole country around was informedof it On the day in question a beauti-ful

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Sabbath morning all the settlersstarted for the Lincoln house some onfoot some In carts of tho rudest con-struction

¬some on horseback two or

even three on one horse and some inwagons drawn by oxen In all 200 peo-ple

¬were present when the parson came

out of the modest dwelling still with-out

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doors floors or windows followedby Thomas and the two children Theyall proceeded to the tree under whichNancy had been buried where the par-son

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paid a beautiful tribute to- - theChristian character and virtues of thewife and mother The grave is now In-

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with a high iron fence and overit Is a stone placed there by P EStudebaker of South Bend Ind bear ¬

ing this inscription Nancy Hanks Lin-coln

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mother of President Lincoln diedOet 5 A D 1818 aged 35 years Erect¬

ed by a friend of her martyred sonIt is said that most great men hav--bee- n

the sonsof great mothers NancyHanks may not have been great her¬

self but that some of her sons great-ness

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was due to her thero is littledoubt Her ambition for him awakenedhis own her untiring effort to inspirehim with high and noble motives borerich fruit From her he got his deeptender and reverent nature his truth-fulness

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and earnestness he drew In withthe milk of her breast In the devotedlove of his Christian mother his char-acter

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took root and the grand andbeautiful thing it became was largelydue to her Lincoln did not speakoften of his young mother He couldnot He had known her only as l sadand sweetly patient woman strugglingagainst awful poverty Her sufferingsin the cabin with its dirt floor wherehe was born in the camp with itsopen front and her last heart rendinglypathetic illness in the little house withno windows floors or doors were everwith him He simply could not speakof her But he has been known to saythat all that was good m him he gotfrom his two mothers

To be continuedm

A NEW NAME

It la Now Hra Genevieve Longfleld LaneBound to Please

When the name of Mrs GenevieveHager Longfield was first presented forconsideration for National President ofthe Ladles of tne Grand Army of theRepublic there was a great howl in-

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there was now because she wasnot the wife of a veteran Mrs Longfield made her campaign on the rela-tionship

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of being a niece and she wonout Then she proceeded to make goodand married a veteran

Now Ladies of the Grand Army 4fthe Republic what more could you ask

Mrs Longfleld was married to ColAllan Lane of Portland Me at theHotel Brunswick Boston last November The two met at the National Encampment in Toledo in September andwere mutually attracted toward eachother When Mrs Longfleld went toBoston on business connected with theLadies of the Grand Army of the Republic she again met Col Lane andthey Just up and got married withoutletting anybody Know anytning aboutIt Col Allan Lane has a beautifulhome In Portland and Mrs Lane willmake her home there hereafter Asplendid reception was given them InPortland when they went home andwhen Sirs Lane came back to ner oiahome in Chicago she was the recipientof many receptions and dinners andlunches the very largest perhaps D-e-

ing that given her by Thomas Circle ofChicago or which sne is an nonoreamember The hall was beautifully dec-orated

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in the National colors and wasfilled to overflowing with the manyfriends of this popular President Amidloud applause Mrs Lane was receivedwith all the honors of the Order She1b a woman of letters well read andhighly educated She Is a member ofseveral organizations and held In highesteem by all and worthy of the distin-guished

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honors bestowed upon her MrsLane Is an easy and convincing speakerIs refined and unassuming but possessesability and dignity befitting her rank

Mrs Lane accompanied Commander-in-Chi- ef

Nevius and Mrs Mary L Gilman National President of the Wo ¬

mans Relief Corps to Salt Lake Cityto make arrangements for the NationalEncampment next year and will nowbe found in her new home In Portland

VeteranizingEditor National Tribune Would you

please give the date of the order of theSecretary of War to enlist soldiers forthe veteran service I think It wassome time In December 1863 L APipes Gravel Switch Ky

The first General Order which isnumbered 191 was Issued June 251803 and provided that all able bodiedmen between the ages of 18 and 45who had heretofore been enlisted andhad served for not less than ninemonths and could pass an examinationmight be enlisted as veteran volunteersand receive the bounty anc other al-

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of such These were to begiven tho service chevron and receivein installments a bounty of 415 Ed ¬

itor National Tribune

The Pennsylvania religion BillJim E Mellen 210th Pa Monterey

Mex is not pleased a little bit with thePennsylvania pension bill first becauseIt excludes all Pennsylvania soldiers re-siding

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outside the State and theythould all protest againbt it If theywere good enough to go when the Stateneeded them they are good enough tobe properly treated now Ono of Com-rade

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Mellens brothers was in the 74thPa one in tire 148th Pa and his fatherwas in the 150th Pa

Enos Spahr 54th Pa Round LakeN D protests vigorously against thoPennsylvania pension bill and wantsall of the Pennsylvania veterans livingoutside of the State to send their per-sonal

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protest to Gov E S Stewart giv¬

ing date of their enlistment and dis-charge

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as well as their service withany comments on the bill that theythink expedient He thinks that hisown service while not better than oth ¬

ers entitles him to be a recipient ofthe benefits of any pension law Heserved 39 months was twice a prisonerand was once wounded

In Favor el he Sbcrvrood BillCapt John Barnes 23d Ky 33 W

Second street Cincinnati O thinksthat the trouble with the G A R isthat short term men have too much influenco In it It was they who got thruthe McCumbor bill which was strictlyin tho Interest of tho short term menand they turned down the Indorsementof the Sherwood bill which would giveall veterans who served 17 months ormore l per day

Abraham Lincoln HU Life and WorkTho National Tribune thru a par-

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In the Centennial Edition ofAbraham Lincoln His Life and

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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON D C HtSDAY DECEMBER 31 1908

THE FIGHT AT REAMS STATION

The Wont Day Is the Second CorpsHistory

Editor National Tribune Please givean account of the fight at Reams Station in 1864 S McCall Corona ill

There were several fights ai ReamsStation in 1864 as the Army of thePotomac made repeated effort to cutthe Weldon Railroad an Important lineof supplies for Lees army The nrstwas June 29 when Kautzs Divisionfought Fitzhugh Lees cavalry at thatpoint in endeavoring to rescue uenWilsons expedition sent out to cut thePetersburg Railroad At that tlmo theenemy had massed a very superiorforce and Kautzs and Wilsons Divi¬

sions lost heavily 1501 prisoners beingcantured 12 guns abandoned and thawagons ammunition and supplies ofthe two divisions being generallyburned The Weldon Railroad was leftin good working shape up as far as thoGlobe Tavern which was within a dayshauling by wagon of Petersburg Anexpedition consisting of the First andSecond Divisions of the Second Corpsand Greggs Cavalry was sent to de-stroy

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the road as far as Rowanty Creekabout 13 miles from the left of theFifth orps which would oblige theenemy to haul their supplies more than30 miles By the night of Aug 24 theexpedition had accomplished its workas far as Malones Crossroads aboutthree miles south of Reams Stationand had still about five miles of road todestroy The Infantry was held atReams Station This was too menac-ing

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a movement to not receive the at-tention

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of the Confederates and A PHill was Bant with a large part of hisown corns some assistance from Lone- -sfreet and t o divisions of cavalry un- -dijr Gei wade Hampton

HancoeK men occupied the lntrenchrrent wfcl had been thrown up byttiiutz In tne previous June with Glbbs Second Division holding the left

i Miless First Division on the rightforce of the enemy was estimated

s fiom 8000 to 10000 and they at-tacked

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with great vigor preceding theadvance with a heavy cannonade Apart of the Union line was broken andsome of the new troops did not behavecreditably Two of our batteries werecaptured but Gen Miles rallied the6l8t N T and striking the enemy inflank retook one of the batteries anda portion of the works Hampton dis-mounted

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his cavalry and sent them inonfoot against Greggs Cavalry whichat first drove them back Gregg washowever forced to retire and form onthe left of the new line which GenGibbon had established Reinforce-ments

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were ordered up from the left ofthe Army of the Potomac but they didnot succeed in reaching the battlefielduntil too late At night the expeditionwithdrew to the lines of the army GenHancock reports a loss of 610 officersand enlisted men killed and woundedwith the proportion of officers beingunusually large His missing numbered1762 making a total of 2372 with aloss of nine guns Gen A P Hill re-ported

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his loss to be 720 almost entire-ly

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killed and wounded He claimed tohave captured 12 stands of colors nineguns 10 caissons 2150 prisoners and3100 stand of arms Editor NationalTribune

- Duponts Attack on CharlestonEditor National Tribune Admiral

Dupont made his attack on Charlestonwith seven monitors the Ironsides andthe Keokuk The Keokuk was an iron-clad

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shaped like a turtle with two tur-rets

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She was struck about 100 timesthat day and my memory tells me thatshe sunk the next day In a choppysea I was one of the boats crew totake the men off the Keokuk We wentfrom the Daffodil There were boatsfrom sevei Rl Ships sent to the assistanceof the Keokuk Capt Ryan would notleave until all the crew were safe Ithink this was on the next day aftershe sank or April 8 1863 On thatday the Monitor Weehawken groundedunder Sumter and the Daffodil was or-dered

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to assist her We received a lotof solid shot from Sumter The Wee ¬

hawken did not float during tho nightand at daybreak we were ordered awayand the Ironsides covered the Wee ¬

hawken from the Are of Forts Moultrieand Sumter She was so near that theforts could not do her any harm Sept6 the Daffodil was ordered to tow anumber of boats from different shipswith about 200 men on board to assaultFort Sumter Wo towed the boats closeto the fort and the men landed Theboats were all smashed and most of themen taken prisoners We arrived atthe Savannah River in time to seo theram Atlanta surrender to the Wee-hawken

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She had come out to sink themonitors but the Weehawken smashedher pilot house so that she could notsteer I think there were 40 men killedand wounded tho the Weehawken onlyfired four shots Two pleasure steam-ers

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with passengers on board came outto see the Atlanta sink the monitorsand wooden ships and break the block-ade

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John Hefferman Landsman US S Daffodil 45 Washington streetFlushing L I

Wnpplns MightH W Day late an Acting Inspector

General Third Brigade Third DivisionThird Corps writes with reference toSpinola and his brigade at WappingHlghts July 21 1863 At that timeComrade Day was there as Captain ofCo A 106th jm T The brigade commanded by Col B F Smith arrived atthe foot of wapping Hights as GenSpinola deployed the Excelsior Brigadeto charge the Hlghts The division wascommanded by Brlg Gen Elliott AsGen Spinola advanced up the hill hefell wounded when about half the dis-tance

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The line halted and In a mo-ment

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the 106th N Y deployed andcharged the Hights with fixed bayonetsThe section of artillery barely escapedand the enemy was driven down thesteep hill into tho valley We heldthe ground and occupied the positionover night About 14 Confederate deadvere found around the slight worksthey had madeJuIy 22 about 9 oclockthe brigade turned back toward Wjirrenton and finally brought up nearWhite Sulphur Springs

Old Soldiers PaperCol Maurice M Kalghn Salt Lako

City has come Into possession of thepapers of Patrick Connor who servedthe United States long and well Amongthese papers are discharges showingthat Connor served 16 years 11 ofwhich were In the 8th U S and fivein the 1st U S Art Ho was finallydischarged as First Sergeant of Co B1st U S Art and has a fine recordwith special commendations on eachdischarge

The Mlddleswnrt FamilyThe Annual Reunion of the Middle

swart family took place on Thanksgiv ¬

ing Day at the residence of Mr Dyenear Wade Washington County OhioThe Middleswarts came from HollandIn 1625 and settled In what is now NewYork City One of the brothers waskilled by an Indian and tho other final¬

ly settled near Germantown Pa wherehe raised a large family Tho Middleswarts have been active in every warthe country has waged and there wasa father and four sons In that for thopreservation of the Union There wasa Mlddlcswart with Washington In theexpedition against Fort Duquesne onewith Mad Anthony on tho Maumce andplenty of them on the Potomac and un-der

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Sherman Thomas Sheridan andGrant

Additional Ienslnn LeglslatlocSill Post J W Bender Commander

Wash Young Adjutant North Balti ¬

more Ohio has adopted strong reso-lutions

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against the action of the G AR National Pension Committee In say-ing

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that it would ask for no additionalpension legislation for a period of threeyears It does not believe that the ac-tion

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of the committee has satisfied thoveterans which It claimed to represent

Pension NewsSee classified ads on page 7

MffiROY AT WOfCHESTER

Views of Several lfrtlcnant la theFightln ulG W Warfel 12thUFa Gav Wilklns

burg Pa is receiving atnany lettersfrom comrades on account of his arti ¬

cle in The National ilrlbune on Milrcyat Winchester Uriah CtaicKay 12thPa Cav Sharon Fafl writes to him toknow if ho was a company blacksmithMcKay was tho boy hlacksmlth of CoB and is now 63 years olaf

W H Sheppard I22d Ohio Zanesville O writes sonie corrections Hesays that Ewells advance appeared be¬

fore our pickets between It and 8 amSaturday June 13 and fighting beganat once The pickets were reinforcedand we continued to hold on until Sun-day

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June 14 when tho Johnnies hadus surrounded with artillery on RoundHill which commandel the whole posi-tion

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At sundown th marched Intothe forts and repulsed thn charges MUroy on a platform high iA m the flacstaff coolly surveyed Uie namy thrua field glass while shells vr burstingaround him At 2 a m Monday Jun13 they marched out of the fort thruthe field close to font of Apple PloRldgo and on the Martinsburg roadsouth of Stevenson Station There theymet Edward Johnsons Division withthe Stonewall Brigade and the fightingbegan before daylight Col afterwardGen J Warren Klefer with the 110thand 122d Ohio and tho 87th Pa rolledup Johnsons left flank and gained thoroad to Harpers Ferry Mllroy waswith them and they arrived at Har-pers

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Ferry before sundos n The 6thMd marched out of the fort towardthe Shenandoah and taking anotherroad arrived at Harpers Ferry a fewhours afterward The 15th W Va andthe 116th Ohio and fragments of othercommands went northwest and reachedthe Union lines at Hancock

S R AverUI f3th Pa Cav Brad-ford

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Pa writes that the battle did notopen at Middletown 12 miles away butat Newtown five miles away The Berryvllle troops did not go back to defendWashington but rejoined Mllroy Mll ¬

roy was not dishonorably dischargedbut relieved and Investigated and In ashort time was In command of a bri-gade

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in the Southwest Neither the80th Pa Cav the 12th Fa Cav northe 124th Ohio was at Winchester at allduring the fight

Generals and Their CommandsEditor National Tribune Will you

please answer the following questionsthru the columns of your paper

I What was the name of the armywhich KIrby Smith commanded In hisTennessee and Kentucky campaign andalso In the Red River campaign againstBanks

2 What army did Gen Dick Taylorcommand at his surrender to Canby in1865

3 What General commanded Confed-erate

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Army of tho Mississippi alsoTrans Misslsslppl

4 Which General had chief com-mand

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of the Federal army at Iuka andCorinth Grant or Rosecrans ByronM Maxwell Marshall 111

1 Maj Gen E Klrbyj smith com-manded

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the Department of East Tennessee Kentucky Northern Georgiaand Western North Carolina when headvanced Into Kentucky and defeatedGen Nelson near Richmond

2 Maj Gen Richard f Taylor com ¬

manded the Army of tho Louisianawhen ho fought Banks Hoieommandcdthe troops cast of the Mississippi whenhe surrendered to canny

3 Lieut Gen afterwards Gen KIrby Smith commanded thtfiConfcdprateDepartment of the tTrans Mlssisslppiuntil the end of th6 warv

4 Gen Grant haa3command of theDepartment of the Tennessee at Iukaand Corinth In whlfrh Geri Roscornncommanding the Army of tho Missis- -slppi was operating Editor NationalTribune

The 17th and llfith N VEditor National Tribune Kindly give

a short history of tho 37th and 115thN Y T H Woolverton 474 Milleravenue Brooklyn N X

The 17th N Y was organized at NewYork City May 24 1861 for two yearsand mustered out June 2 1863 Co Aof the 53d N Y was transferred to thisregiment as Co G and hcing composedof three years men was transferred toa battalion ot the 12th N Y when theregiment was mustered out The 17thwas also called the Westchester Chas-seurs

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and was commanded by Col HS Lansing of tho Regular Army Itbelonged to Griffins Division FifthCorps and lost 37 killed and 40 fromdisease etc

The 115th Ironhearts and ono ofthe 300 fighting regiments was organ ¬

ized at Fonda In July and August 1862and mustered out June 17 1865 Itwas commanded by Cols Simeon Sammon and Nathan J Johnson successive-ly

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The entire regiment was capturedat the surrender of Harpers Ferry andafter bengparoled was sent to Chlcigoto await exchange At the battle ofOlustec Fla the regiment made a gal ¬

lant fight losing over 300 In Killedwounded or anlsslng At the battle ofChafilns Farm the regiment was in thefight at Fort Gilmer whore it lost halfof its number present for vction InOctober 1864 it joined in thp advanceon Richmond on the Darbytown roadand sustained a considerable los fromthe 9th Me firing a volley into It thrumistake Many of Its men lost tneirlives from the explosion of the mine atFort Fisher It belonged to TurnersDivision Tenth Corps and lost 135killed and 18S from disease etc Itstotal of killed and wounded was 494and 45 of Its members died in Confed ¬

erate prisons Editor National Trib-une

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The 15th X Y Engineers and the 103dIV Y

Editor National Tribune I wouldlike you to give a short sketch of the15th N Y Engineers and also the 103dN Y Nathan W Yoder R F D Ro-mulus

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N YThe 15th N Y Engineers wis organ ¬

ized in New York City June 17 1861for two years and mustered out June25 1863 It was commanded by ColJohn McLeod Murphy who resignedDec 12 1862 succeeded by Col Clin-ton

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G Colgate in command at the timeof muster out It lost seven Killed and122 from disease etc 1

The 103d N Y was organized at Elmlra and New YorJc City In March1862 for three years and at tho ex-piration

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of this term the original mem ¬

bers were mustered out apd the veter-ans

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and recruits consolidated Into abattalion of three companies and re-tained

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In service u was commandedby Col Bcnj Ringgold who died ofwounds In May 18G followed by ColBaron F W Egloffstein who was dis¬charged in November of the same yearand who was in turn succeeded by ColWilliam Heine mustered out April 271865 upon the expiration of his termof service It belonged to RodmansDivision Ninth Corps and lost 66 killedand 102 from disease etfcEdltor Na-tional

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rThe 1st and 2d Tenn

Editor National Tribune Please glvoa little sketch of the 1st and 2d TennD Watson Carbondale Colo

Tho 1st Tenn wag organized at Wil ¬liamsburg Barboursvillo and Campdick iiouinson in August and September 1861 and the roriminr rnnsolldated Into a battalion of two companies ofveterans ana recruits finally musteredout Aug 8 1865 it was commandedby Col Robert K Byrd who was mus--lerea out oepi iv 1864 upon expirationof his term of service It belonged toNegleys division Fourteenth Corpsand lost 40 killed and 336 from diseaseetc

The 2d Tenn was organized at Somerset Ky and upon the expiration ofits mreo years- - service tne originalmembers mustered out while the vet ¬

erans and recrult3 were consolidated

into a battalion and retained In servicetill Aug 3 1865 It was commandedby Col James P T Carter who re¬signed May 2 1S64 succeeded by LieutCol James M Melton who was mus ¬

tered out Oct 8 1864 upon tho expira-tion

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of his term of service At the timeof final muster out of the battalionSecond Lieut Ellsha Harbour was incommand It belonged to Negleys Di-vision

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Fourteenth Corps and lost 27killed and 613 from disease etc Ed-itor

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The 155th FaEditor National Tribune Please give

a short history of the 155th Pa ThosTaylor Emlenton Pa

Tho 155th Pa one of tho 300nghtlngregiments was organized at Harrlsburgand Pittsburg during September 1862and mustered out June 2 1865 It wascommanded by Cols Edward J AllenJohn H Cain and Alfred L Pearson innui cession The regiment was engagedIn Humphreyss bloody assault onIlnryes Hlghts whrrc It lost six killed

wounded and four missing It tookprominent part in an tne batties oi

co Fifth Corps h 116i 65 distinguishing Itself particularly at the assault onPetersburg at Feel- - Farm and atthe Quaker Road Pearson wastwice brevetted for E ntry while theregiment received complimentary no-tices

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from headquarters The 155th waspressing the enemy hard at Appomat ¬

tox when tho sign of surrender was displayed It belonged to Griffins Division Fifth Corps and lost 142 killedand 112 from disease etc Its total ofkilled and wounded was 519 and 10 ofIts members died In Confederate pris-ons

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Editor National Tribune

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ticularly advantageous purchase is en ¬

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Work by Noah Brooks This is reallya 3 book and was brought out to sellat that price but for a limited time weshall offer It for 2 or with The Na-tional

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The 4th Ind CarEditor National Tribune Please give

a short description of the losses of the4th Ind Cav W H Williams Burlington Kan

The 4th Ind Cav was organized atIndianapolis In August 1862 and mustered out June 29 1865 it was com-manded

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by Col Isaac P Gray who resigned Feb 11 1863 succeeded by ColLawrence S Shuler who resigned May16 of the same year Col John A Plat-ter

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then took command who also resigned Sept 9 1863 followed by Lieut- -Col John T Deweese who resignedMarch 11 1864 followed by LleutCol Horace P Lamson in command atthe time of muster out It belonged toMcCooks Division Ca alry Corps andlost 28 killed and 108 from disease etc

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The 02d N YEditor National Tribune Please give

a short history of the 62d N Y Ed ¬

ward Tracy 312 W 25th St New YorkCity

The 62d N Y was organized at NewYork City in June and July 1861 andfinally mustered out Aug 30 1865 Itwas also called Anderson Zouaves andwas commanded by Col John L Rikerwho was killed in action at Fair OaksMay 31 1862 succeeded by Col DavidJ Nevin who was mustered out uponexpiration of his term of service June29 1864 At the time of final muster- -out Lieut Col Theo B Hamiltonbrevet Colonel Aug 1 1864 was Incommand It belonged to NewtonsDivision Sixth Corps and lost 88 killedand 84 from disease etc Editor Na-tional

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The 00 111 PaEditor National Tribune Please pub

lish a short history of the 90th Pa asmy father Jacob Lehman was a Cor-poral

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In Co B of that regiment Alex ¬

ander H Lehman 1306 Llpplncott StPhiladelphia Fa

The 90th Pa was organized at Philadelphia from Oct 1 1861 to March 101862 for three years ana consonuateawith the 11th Pa Nov 26 1864 It wascommanded by Col Peter Lyle fromthe beginning of its service until itsconsolidation belonged to RobinsonsDivision First Corps and lost 103killed and 127 from disease etc Ed-itor

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The 15th X Y II A

Editor National Tribune Some timeago I asked you kindly to give a littlehistory of the 15th N Y H A whetherit lost many what were its battles andif credited with capturing a rebel flag

Henry Bollinger Bound Brook N JThe 15th N Y H A was organized

at New York City from October to De-

cember¬

1861 the original membersmustered out by detachments as theirterms expired and the veterans andrecruits finally mustered out Aug 221865 Cos A B C D and E formerlybelonged to Lieut Col Sengess 3d Bat-tery

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German H A The 15th was com-manded

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by Col Louis Schlrmer all thruits service belonged to Ayress DivisionFifth Corps and lost 150 killed and 230from disease etc It took part in thebattles of the Wilderness SpotsylvaniaNorth Anna Tolopotomoy BethesdaChurch Petersburg Chapel House andHatchers Run I do not rememberthat it captured a rebel flag at anytime Editor National Tribune

The 12th Ohio Indpt BatteryEditor National Tribunef Please give

a short history of the 12th Ohio IndptBattery J M Bcelman 328 S ParkAve Chicago 111

The 12th Ohio Indpt Battery wasorganized at Camp Jackson Juno 81861 and finally mustered out July 101865 It was originally Co D ot the25th Ohio detached as tho 12th OhioL A March 17 1862 It was com-manded

¬by Capt Aaron C Johnson

who was mustered out upon expirationof his term of service June 25 1864succeeded by Capt Frank Jackson whoResigned April 29 1863 At tho timeof final muster out Capt Alfred Noeckewas In command ot the battery It be ¬

longed to Stelnwehrs Division EleventhCorps and lost three killed and 17from disease etc Editor NationalTribune

Confederate GeneralsEditor National Tribune Will you

please publish tho names of the Gen-eral

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Confederate officers that werekilled and wounded at the battle ofFranklin Tenn Nov 30 1864 andalso state if there was any battle of theciyil war where the loss in GeneralConfederate officers was as great as atFranklin J K Merrlfleld Co C 88th

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The Confederate General officerskilled at Franklin were Maj Gen Pat-rick

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R Cleburne and Brlgr Gens Arch-ibald

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Grade John Adamsj Oscar GStrahn S R Ghist and H B Granberry

Thero has never been a full list pub-lished

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of the Generals Colonels Com-manders

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of regiments etc woundedbut very few who led their men intothat desperate assault escaped withoutsome injury We think that at no timeduring the war were as large a propor-tion

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of men struck by bullets as amongthe Confederates at Franklin EditorNational Tribune

A Case In PointJohn H Fertig 253 20th street Mil ¬

waukee Wis gives a case thatrecently came to his notice Anumber of Gleasons N Y Bat ¬

tery was taken prisoner and wasone of tho few men who entered

iff rebel service In order to save histife He was captured by our forcesand confessed to what he had doneHe had been a prisoner over eightmonths at Belle Isle LIbbey Lynch-burg

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Andersonvllle MUlen Savannahand Florence and only took the oath tosave his life This fact prevented himfrom entering the Grand Army and wasa severe punishment to him thruoutthe rest of his life and now his widowis denied a pension Is not his punish ¬

ment greater than he deserved

Those French UniformsD Eldredge Boston Mass says that

in his statement as to thcrcglmeatsreceiving the French uniform he onlymentioned those whom he knew re-ceived

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them They were the 18th Mass44th N Y and 83d Pa He is not sur¬

prised to learn thru D C Graves thatthe 62d Pa also had such uniformThey were bought by Uncle Sam in theusual way and probably never saw thelight after packing till the boxes wereopened in Virginia He has been un-able

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to find any proof that the uni-forms

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were given as a reward for goodbehavior

Serjtt PerkinsGeorge B Perkins a lawyer of Talla-

hassee¬

Fla writes to Tho NationalTribune with regard to the young SergtPerkins of a Florida regiment whowas mentioned In an extract from Cende Trobriands book He desires toknow If any of the readers of The Na-tional

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Tribune remember Sergt Per-kins

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how he Ifioked his sbe and fea-tures

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and particularly whathospitul orprison he was carried to Ho thinksthat Sergt Perkins was his father

Burnlns the Co mmlsji a rjr BnlldlnfiTJoseph Jarvis Cobden III wants to

know what regiment vai on provostguard at the commissary building atLittle Rock Ark when it burned downin the Fall of 1863 Also what regi-ment

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of the First Division FIfteontiCorps under Maj Gen FrederickSteele went into the charge at Arkan ¬

sas Post without any bayonets Alsothe time of the surrender of ArkansasPost

Fort Hindman Arkans n T ost wascaptured Jan 11 1863 Editor Na-tional

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One of the Llbliey PrisonerEdgar Schocder Brooklyn N j

writes that he was one of the prisonerswho escaped thru the tunnel from Libbey Prison Feb 9 He was at that timeSecond Lieutenant or uo u 4tn faand was recaptured Feb 11 and con-fined

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with other comrades in a smallcell for several days He ha3 now forover 20 years been employed as drafts ¬

man and computer in the TopographicalBureau of the City of New York

Whrre Are TheyS P ONeal Denver Colo wants to

know where are Moses Cushman JohnConners and Richard Skeighn of CoC 14th Ohio He wants to hear fromthem to help him in his pension claimHe also wants to know the name ot thelarge brick hospital in --Nasnviua anathe name of the doctor who was incharge in the Spring of 1862

A Solid VoteJeremiah Fisher Commander of Geo

D Wells Post West Boylston Masssays that the comrades around therevoted solidly for Taft

-- CHANCELLORSVILLEContinued from page two

Brigade Lieut s W Russell my ju ¬nior and Capt A M Ty-ler

¬of Gen Wrights Btarr were each

In succession sent back to hurry up tho49th and 119th Pa These two regi ¬ments arrived most opportunely Theiradvance was as gallant as tlmrly andsettled decisively tho possession ot thorciiouots yet so great had been the losiof the regiments thus far engaged thatthey were not strong enough to carrythe rlllo pits and stay tho fire fromthem which still greatly annoyed oucmen

Capts Tyler Packard and Hurdwere sent In succession to Col Emoryupton commanding the Second Bri ¬gade1 of this division with orders tomm to bring up speedily two regimentsof his command and the 121st N Yand 5th Me under Col Upton weraled to the assault upon the rifle pitswith unexampled coolness steadinessand bravery At the bayonets pointthey overcame the enemy everywhereand resistance was speedily over

The Second Brigade captured slcolors one color lance the rebel pon¬toon bridge which was thrown acrossthe river just to the rear of the largcflredoubt and about 800 yards above thoruins of the railway bridge

The total number of prisoners takenby them In the assault was 103 com-missioned

¬officers and 1200 enlisted

menThe Third Brigade- - captured in thfl

two redoubts two 10 pounder ParrotBguns and two three Inch ordnancaguns four caissons filled with ammuni-tion

¬five limbers several horses many

prisoners and stand of small arms andone color

The total number of small armataken was 1225 stand

The actual number fngnged frontthe Second Brigade was 568 The nu¬merical strength of the Third Brigadain this action was 1549 To this forcawas opposed the entire Louisiana Bri ¬gade live regiments Hokes Brigadathree regiments and tho Louisiana

Guard BatteryTo be continued

Death of Gen Mann

Col and Brevet Brig Gen Orrln JMann 39th 111 died Dec 13 at OakPark 111 and was buried In the RosoHill Cemetery He was born in Chardon O in 1833 and became Major cthe 3Sth 111 Oct 11 1861 He rose tobe Colonel of the regiment and receivedthe brevet for gallantry before Rich ¬

mond After the war he was appointedCollector of Internal Revenue thenelected to the Legislature and nexOCoroner and Sheriff of Cook County111 He was stricken with paralysis In1S91 from which he never recoveredHe attended the last Reunion of thai39th 111 at Wheaton and was rpceivedwith loving enthusiasm by his old com¬mand Joseph fnAtwood who milesthe above says that Gen Mann was agood officer a brave leader anLalwayakind and considerate to the men underhim

Tablet to Col BenedictOn Sunday Dec 13 a tablef

was dedicated in the College StreetChurch Burlington Vt to the lataGeorge G Benedict editor of the Bur ¬lington Free Press and a lifelong member of the church The Vermont Commandery of the Loyal Legion and thaG A R Post were present in a bodyand President M H Buckham of thaUniversity of Vermont paid an eloquent tribute to Comrade Benedictsmemory The tablet states his 54years as editor his services in the waafor the Union and that the tablet Is atoken of loving remembrance fromcomrades-in-arm- s and friends

Union Veteran LegionWllIiamE Schubert writes that Encampmenf 15 Union Veteran Legion

St Louis Mo is doing good work andgrowing At the recent election Wil¬liam E Schubert was elected Colonel rC E Wenniger Lieutenant ColonelJohn G Langyuth Major C A Ellrich Chaplain B Knoepfel Quarter-master

¬C Wagner Officer of the Dayg

and John McFall Surgeon

A Soldiers nomeGeorge H Webber Vermont Soldiers

Home Bennington Vt says that hafound the conditions so bad in the Na¬tional Soldiers Homes that he had toleave them and go back to his ownState where he finds what is really aSoldiers Home He served In Co C4th Vt from August 1S61 until July1865

Appointed Aids

The veterans of Green Valley IIIare much pleased at the appointmentof David S Lanier an Aid on the stafjof the Commander-in-Chi- ef G A RThey feel that he has deserved thishonor and that it has been worthilybestowed

Compliment

Editor National Tribune I have re-ceived

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the views Fighting Ships andWedding Belte and the stereoscopeThey are fine I never saw such finestereoscopic pictures My wife andfriends are very well pleased with them

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