Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-22
The Manned Brigade.

Go WHERE you will in all this land, you
will llud the members OF the MANNED Bri-
gudt, The blue has faded from their
dress, and the brass letters have dropped
rom their caps, but there is 10 mistaking
that they have been soldiers. They have
no need 90 refer TO muster rolls or to ex.
hibit parchment discharges, % prove they
were in the armv Fifty thousand strong
is the Manned Brigade They march in
our streets, not with the precision ofyore;
but as undaunted still Brave men Their
limbs are scattered over dozen States
They moulder and whiten all the same
fields with the bodies of the patriotic slain
and the hands of the dead may grasp the
dead hands Of the living, though the lat
ter be thousand miles from the throb-
hing hearts that once warmed them with
their blood Fifty thousand men who
have laid some Of their limbs upon their
couutry's alter as sacrifices of liberty move
daily among us Were they to pass
through the city in regiments, for whole
day from any given point could our eyes
rest upon the columns of the Manned
Brigade, a thousand tattered battle flags
would wave above them, held by one
armed heroes, and many thousand footess
legs would be keeping step TO the music
of the Union Let us not forget the one.
armed and ouc-legged soldiers, who form
an army four times rs large ne the old army
ofthe United States, and fully rs large as
the present. They need not be gathered
together and passed in review before the
people ih whose behalf they have suffered
and suffer still, to assert the fact OF their
being. ... ....s
The Government has recognized them,
and given them, as far as they have made
application, pensions and artificial limbs.
But let the people be careful that they do
not forget them. The battle these poor
fellows are now fighting is harder to win
and traught with more danger than many
battles Of the rebellion. Thousands of
stalwart men, lion hearted and steel
nerved, who stormed Mission Ridge, or
bore down upon the columns OF Lee with.
out fear, to- day stand appalled, before the
dread squadrons of Winters cavalry A
pension is but meagre--a very meagre
support, and an artificial limb poor-A
very poor substitute. Let an able-bodied
man, with a family to take care of, ask
himself for what annuity he would sws y
an arm or leg. This Is the Wy " test
the validity Of the claim the Manned Bri.
gade has upon our consideration.
There are many places these heroic men
can iill MS well as anybody. Those who
have but one arm can make good book
keepers; those who have but one leg can
make good salcsmen; while neither can
| plow, nor sow, nor reap to advantage,
Away TO the fields and the workshops, you
lily fingered pale faced, dawdling dandy
behind the dry goods counter and give
your place tO u disabled defender of your
country in exchange for more robust
frame and more certain future compe-
tenCy. All ye non producers who have
perfect limbs and who took good care all
through the war to keep them so, who are
now occupying paying positions which the
lame soldier can ill as well, prepare to
vacate in his favor. Make way, say we,
for the Manned Brigade. Chicago Post.