The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-10-07
Democrats and Union Soldiers.
LAMBERToN, MINI,
Oct. IL. 1880.

LAMBERroN, MINI,
Oct. IL, 1880.
MEssRs. ED1roRs: Will you oblige
an old soldier by publishing the fol.
lowing article from the Cincinnati
Commercial. 1t made my blood boil
when l read it. For several years
past I have been foolish enough to
support part of "the Peoples tick.
et," (which had been dictated by
Democrats who knew a ticket of
their own could not be elected,) on
the ground that "politics should not
control a mans vote in the election
of county officers" I see now that
I have only been helping to strength.
Ell the Democratic party in the coun-
|ty. l don't propose to do so any
more, but will vote and work for
Garfield, Strait, and the Republican
county ticket every time, until Dem
ocrats are less partisan than they
ever have been in the treatment of
Republicans.
I want every soldier in Redwood
county to read this article, and to
bear in mind that not only did the
present Democratic Congress dis
charge all these Union soldiers, but
they employed in their stead eighty
eight rebel soldiers:
From what can be learned by your
correspondent, not less than thirty
letters have been written to Chair
men Wallace and Barnum, and to
General Hancock, by ex-soldiers in
the Departments, asking if they are
to be turned out in case of a "change."
No reply comes to these letters ex-
cept bare acknowledgment of re-
ceipt. The Democratic managers
seem indisposed to open up an extern
sive correspondence on this theme.
1t is tender.
Since the capture of the capital"
by the Democrats they have turned
seventy-seven Union soldiers out,
many of them wounded and crippled.
The following are the names of those
who are wounded or crippled, or
both:
Henry Sherwood, lost leg.
~ Wilson, lower jaw-bone shot away.
F. A Wardell, wounded
W. H. Harding, wounded.
J. q. W. Thompson, lost a leg.
G. w. Kirk, wounded.
4. s. McMichael, wounded, lost ali eye.
D. A. Bradley, wounded.
il. G. Ball, lost an arm.
W. N. Gibson, lost an arm.
c. S. Risinger, lost a leg.
P. W. Coleman, wounded four times, lost an
W. F. Fitch. lost leg.
J. A. Traverce, lost a leg,
H. Cliff, lost a leg.
N. J. Bunnell, shot through both lungs.
J. B. Eugene, lost an arm.
W. Shriver, lost an arm.
r. T. Bishop. lost an arm.
II. Z. CreSsey. wounded.
VIM. DePlitch, lost q leg.
j. X. MertZ, wounded.
s. s: Blackford, wounded twice, lost an arm.
II
u. A. Babcock. lost one eye.
Il. Il. Lillebridge. wounded.
X. W. Simmons, disabled.
w. p. Creary, wounded.
J. w. Simmons, wounded.
s. L. Wilson, lost both legs.
Charles Bridges, wounded.
{. e. Diemar, wounded five times, lost an arm.
A. p. Stowe, disabled.
Z. II. Sewell. wounded.
The rest of the seventy-seyen dis
charged were ex-soldiers, but were
not wounded or cripples. In a few
instances wounded ex-soldiers who
were Democrats were put in. AS a
general thing the officials, of high
and low degree at the Capitol, are
able-bodied citizens from the Solid
South. From this it will be seen
that ex-soldiers in that department
will have to take their chances in
case of ''change," and the chances
are altogether that they will be de-
capitated. In many instances ex-
soldiers of Democratic proclivities
will be put in their places, but it is
pretty we'll understood here now
that in case of Il "change," every
man who has fed at the public crib
under Republican administration
will have to walk the plank.