Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-07
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MORE coScERNISs TIE EIGHTH NEW
HAMPSHIRE REenESr.-on s" r,orn,nc
about church gc..ng time a dispatch was sent
20 the officers Of the Soldiers Ala Society,
which ran as follows: "Four car loads of
troops are at Crestline from way down
South. They have been nine days on the
way, ave run out of provisions, and want
to com in 10 the Cleveland Soldiers HON e.
The reply was of course the promise of a
warm dinner, and the Superintendent of the
cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati road,
with his usual kindness, arranged to bring
the soldiers on time to accept the invitation.
This was short notice TO prepare for men of
whose appetites such wonderful stories ran
on ahead, but the "Home" has borne many
severe attacks on its larder this last sum
mer, and stood to the charge unfinchingly.
The Sth New Hampshire regiment, com
posed Of one hundred and 5eventy-nine very
cold and very hungry men, arrived at three
o'clock P. NJ, and received most hospitable
welcome and entertainment. The raw and
chilly atmosphere was bitterly felt by men
accustomed to the milder climate of Louisi-
ana, and the stormy lake, as each wave
struck the pier with the force of a cannon
ball, and broke in showers of spray, hardly
added to the eheerfulness of the scene. But
within, on the well spread tables, was
plenty of ammunition to drive off the cold,
hot coffee, hot meat, and potatoes and
cabbage (the stalfofa soldiers life followed
by hot onions and hot apple sauce, relieved
by bread, butter and cheese. These things
were, but soon were not, for the concentrated
vengeance of one hundred and seventy-nine
oft-disappointed appetites soon swept the
board, and what they could not cat that
night they carried off in their haversacks.
One hundred and seventy-nine men CON-
posed the emnan of a regiment once sew
enteen hundred strong, carrying back in
their diminished numbers a far more touch
ing history of their services than any battle
record on their banner could convey. Capt,
King, who commanded the men, was the
only remaining officer of thirty-eight who
went out with the regiment. Among the
many kind words left by the soldiers guests
at the Home, the gratitude of these New
Hampshire veterans will hold the foremost
rank. 1t seemed almost the only expression
of the peoples appreciation of their services
which had been rendered them on their
long journey from Louisiana, where since
1862 they had been stationed, and on whose
soil thirteen hundred of their number lay
buried. Their entertainers could not avoid
feeling deeply, that the influence of this
hospitality, offered daily to every passing
soldier by the people of Cleveland through
the Soldiers Home, reaches beyond the
qualification of the present necessity. II
convinces the men that what they nave done
and suffered makes every loyal subject theil
debtor, and renders it a deeper shame that
the frequent absence of such sympathy
makes the exception so marked.
One hundred and seventy-nine pairs Of
lungs united in the most unanimous cheer
that ever shook cur old depot, as the Sth
New Hampshire filed off to the train, and
one universal shout of mingled blessings
thanks and good wishes rose from its rank:
as a farewell TO the Home. well never
forget Cleveland" was the parting word
and if the managers of the Soldiers Home
have ever questioned the propriety of keep.
ing the doors of that institution open to wei
come the last returning regiment the hungry
shivering New Hampshire boys, entertained
Sunday, furnished the needed argument.