The National tribune., 1881-11-12
Answers to Correspondents,

We obliged to certain inquiries of the same
nature in each issue of our paper While we cheerull
furnish information to subscribers in this column we
suggest that much labor time and expense may saved
ooth TO ourselves and to correspondents if the
and other subscribers would keep file of the paper
They could them at time to the file and proba-
Oily hnd the very inquiry answered about which they
would have written to We trust that each and every
subscriber Will profit by this suggestion.
n. E., MARION, IND-If you wish a position in
the General POstOtice here your letter should be
directed to the First Assistant Postmaster General
who has charge of the appointment office.
T. c. NJ, ST LOUIS, Mo-Yes Quartermaster-
General Melgs was IN office during the entire war of
the rebellion. and is Quartermaster-Generaln now
II. j. d., EAsToN, PA.-If you wish to take out
patent, see advertisement last page of this paper
Wv NJ, CANTON, PA party purchasing a
soldiers discharge cannot secure allowance or
privilege thereon: the discharge cannot be made
available III obtaining land from the Government
c. NJ, TERRE HAUTE, IND.-If you are physically
unable to report for examination your attending or
other physician should make an affidavit to that
effect Upon forwarding the affidavit to the Com
missioner OF Pensions, he will provide for your
animation at home. Your pension, when allowed,
will be paid to you all at one time.
d. K. s, SPRINGFIELD, ILL.-The law provides
that every officer soldier, sailor, and marine who
in the line of duty in the military naval service
Oh tniteU states, snail lost ll1nO
tanned bodily injuries depTlving him OF the use of
any of his limbs, shall receive every five years
an artificial limb, appliance communication there
for Application should be made to the Surgeon
General OF the Army in this city.
c. ID. W, ALTON, ILL.-The mother of deceased
soldier. in order TO obtain pension must prove that
she was wholly or in part dependent upon him for
support at the date of his DEATH and that he left
neither widow nor minor children surviving him.
B. W. W.. ROME, n. Yin regard to locating
homestead you should address the Commissioner of
the General Land Office in this city, who will fur
nish full information. You do not require his name
and city address.
c. w, SPRINGFIELD MAss.-Pay stopped by sem
tence OF cOurts-martial cannot be recovered.
L. D., WILMINGTON, DEL-The Commissioner of
Pensions has the power and authority to reject
claim which he does not regard as meritOriOus or
fully established. If the claim is established to the
satisfaction of the Commissioner he does not reject
H. W. L., PORTLAND ME.-There are ten Chiefs of
Bureaus of the War Department who are officers of
the Regular army, viz the Adjutant- General In
spector General, Quartermaster- General, Commits
Surgeon-General Paymaster-G General
Chief of Engineers, Chief of Ordnance Judge AdvO-
catc-Gcneral, and Chief Signal Officer.
o. G, SYRACUSE, n. Y.-The Commissioner of
Agriculture may give you the information you seek
DIV, DAYTON, O.-General Grant did not imme-
diately succeed Mcclellan in command of the Army
of the Potomac. Burnside Hooker, and Meade in
tervened between them.
q. H., BRATTLEBORo, VT.-The arrears of pen
sion law does not make any provision for earlier
of pension to dependent father
where the mother survived the sOldier-as in your
from the termination OF the right of the
mother. The right of the mother terminated at her
death, and you have been allowed pension from
the date of her DEATH you entitled under the
arrears law
sTTENTrnNy
If the persons who desired the addresses of the
parties will write THE NATIONAL TRI-
BUNE, the required information can now be fur
nished:
l. OF some who was inmate of hospital on
BedlOe's Island. New York Harbor, during 1865
We have mislaid correspondents letters of
request hence this notice.
&*x Remaining answers next week.