, 1865-06-28
NOZZLE Co., Ind, June g, 1866.
WHY:ARE NOT TEE sOLDIRs DlscHARGEDf
BATElE CRE1K, Jure72, 1866,

Editors Chiesgo Tribune.
Dear sffs,. Thousands Of our soldiers In the
sazious hospitals are writing home aaklng Us
to intercede for,. and get them discharged,
stating that their catreaties are alsreear1ed
by the officers and surgeons, and no doubt
are kept there on purpose to swind1e the
government, By showing large numbers whom
those officials pretend are not we'll enough to
be sent home while the men say they are
hearty, and anxious to ret home to their
ta1ms and families, End to get In their crops.
now suffering. This Internal swfndlfng OF the
government, and OBTAINING tens Of thousands
families and cnnutry, should be Immediately
attended TO-, The whole West is h ut ofln-
borers, and harvest must suffer we do not
get help s0op. Men who chance to get dis
charged from those pest holes say they could
have come home months ago, and wanted to
do 80, but no. the government purse had moi
been tled enough. think 1t Is high time
the government would investigate the mat
ter; It Is pretty good evidence OF fraud on the
part OF the government employees when the
soldiers denounee them, as they do. ns awin-.
dle1s tn keeping able bodied men, n ho ought
TO be at home at work; and who plead for
disehsrges In vain.
Yours truly, H. W1t11s.
ANOTHER LETTER oNTuE SANE SUBJECT.
MoLEE, H., June p, 1865,
Editors Chicago Ttihu1e:;
I much dislike to tron5le you, or others.
with matters with which am personally
concerned, but venture to again call your
attention to the ease Of the man enlisted 10
ill up old regiments In the summer Of 1862,
aud think you are under seme obligations
to interest yourselves In the matter, from the
fact that the Tn1BrxE urged recruits to eu-
list In old regiments. stating that this was
the desire Of the Government; and that In
that case they would have no voice In the
choice Of officers, or any chance for Office,
yet, as IN Offset, would he mustered out with
the regiments. have been told also that
GOT. Yates pledged: himself that this should
be done. In briefly stating the case Of nv
son, Arminins, now. connected with Bat
te1y. B. LIST Illinois Light, Artillery.
now at Nashville, Tennessee, I
presume represent the-case Of many Others
who have bravely fought for their country,
and DOW feel as he does that they have been
deeply wrongcd, and that even now, when the
necessities Of the eervica can no. ioueer be
plead IS an excuse, the War Department is
still unfenlingly deaf to any appeals In their
behalf Gov. Morton in his sreech to the
soldiers at Camp Douglas, as reported In The
TRIBUNE, stated that be had information from
Washington to tho effect that theee men were
to be Immediately mustered out. From this
permitted to embrace our youngest son
whom we hnre not seen for nearly three
years, who has been preserved through many
fierce md bloody battles, but yesterday We
received letter from him stating that the |
mastering officer at Nashville told him that |
none Of those recruits would be mustered
out before all the regiments organized In
16G@ were mustered out, which would take at
least three weeks, and that there was no Ger |
tninty that they would be then mustered
ut;o ont; You Tere advised. pTesnms, that that
the Indiana legislature last winter, stated |
that The case Of these men was ont Of ptcu- |
liar hardship. That they were enlisted un-
der the pledge from the recruiting officers !
TINT they would go out with their regiments, |
years 1t Was explained to them as mere tee |
nicanty, but would make M difference. and |
that the War Department refused to le. them |
70 out with their regiments, On the ground |
that they we're swoEn IN for three years, The |
lower house Of Congress, in December last,
Var fer information, which be refused. They
then demanded it. and he ssll refused! They
then passed joint resolution that the men |
should be Immediately mustered ont, but the /
eenste gavs it the go-b5, and thusthe mat +
ter stands. have great confidence /
and integrity, as have taken your pap=r for
many years and when you laud Stanton 1 |
of course believe you sincere, but as father |
crushed In spirit By the sense Of injustice In |
the case Of beloved son, Who I kno# also
feels that It y the hand Of tyranny that un-
not appreciate your praises Of the man that |
might, By an order that would not occupy |
his time five minutes. remove, to some ex-
tent, the sense Of past wrongs by giving |
present relief. Bat can 1t bs hoped fors I |
fear not. wrote to Mr.. Trumbull last win |
ter, urging him to see that the resolution
aboVe referred to was not permitted to die In |
the Senate, but all to no purpose. / let all |
my three boys 70 to tho war, and they hare |
served In the aggregate over nine years, while |
numerous families around us hare kept their |
sons At home 70 help vota taxes
from the draft. sometimes am tempted |
to think that there Is an Inherent msanness |
In the minds of many that only requires q /
fitting occasion to develop It, and this last Is.
! think, one Of those 'cases. Nov, as We a:c
rejoicing In the snbjugatton Of the rebels, up
MS for the present var, aud intend to do the
same for two years to come. This township
Ia eadd1ed With come twelve thousaud dollars
this year, With bonds Issued for Two years to
ccme, to raise q company for one year, who |
did not go the war untl the fuss was over,
Rnlte lny uo1s, WILL uauy otuels from luis
ttwn, who have been through the war, and
never received q cent Of "extra " bounty. |
Where Is Justice, gentlemen: Echo answers,
where!
As editors are presumed to know about
eYcrything honorable, would 1t be p,esumine
TOO much 10 ask Jon to lnto:m Us, through
the WEEnT TR1BrzE, whether The War b.
partment was cognizant Of the fact that re-
clutling officers were iureigliug men into old |
REGIMENTS, In 1862, under false preteps.s?
8, Whether Governor Yates did pledge him
self that they. should be mus cred ont, and II
50, what he bas done, tn word or deed, siuce,
10 redeem said pledge:
8, II the House Of Representatives had |
sufficient reasons for passing resolution that !
On what grounds did the Senate yirtua'ly re.
yerse the action by letting the resolution
sleep the sleep Of death?
q Hnw much of The virtue Of patiepc.