The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1882-02-18
Answers to Correspondents,


We obliged to certain inquiries of the same
nature In each issue of paper While eheerlly
furnish information to subscribers in this column we
suggest that much labor time and expense be saved
both to ourselves and correspondents if the latter
and other subscribers would keep file of the paper
They could heR any time turn to the file and proba-
bly, fad the very inquiry answered about which they
would have written We trust that each and every
subscriber will profit by this suggestion.
\. B. c.. SOUTH HANCOCK, ME.-The agency at
Concord has been discontinued If you execute
your vouchers properly and send them to the newly
appointed agent at Augusta he will probably paw
them
". FL. D., AsHMoRE, ILLs.-YOu should give YOUR
brothers full name, also your own if you wish in
quiry made; also date when brother was last heard
from prior to his enlistment.
A. B. E., ROCHESTER, ME.-When a claim is made
special by the Commissioner of Pensions it goes
with other special cases to be acted upon in its turn
1t acted upon in from two to six weeks from date
of reception of last proofs according to amount of
business ahead of it.
A. H., HUME, ILLs.-Remarrage of dependent
mother after soldiers death terminates her right
to pension,
d. J. ON, COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOwA-The bills
introduced to pension prisoners of war make no
distinction between officers and enlisted men.
IN. J., RICH PoND GROVE, KIT is about
time for you to hear from your claim
l. \. S., RILEY, IowA-We do not take much
stock in alleged legacies in foreign countries TO
American citizens. There are some genuine in
stances, however The means for ascertaining cor
rect information are difficult. If you will furnish
name of claimant and of the one from whom he or
she expects to take, with location of estate or resi-
dence while alive of the latter, we can refer you
10 reliable person who for a reasonable cOmpensR-
ton Will investigate and furnish the required facts.
tied TO pension until you became sixteen years of
age. You should write to the pension agent who
formerly paid you, and if your name has been
dropped from the rolls for failure to draw write us
and We will instruct you further.
J. c. s., FORT EDWARD, n. Y.-If your discharge
is in the Pension Office you should write to the
Commissioner, giving the number of your certif-
cate, also company and regiment, requesting return
If not there, write to the Second Auditor of the
Treasury, giving company and regiment, making
same request
W. H II. D., Bolton, " Y.-The question YOU
ask has been frequently answered 1t requires from
two to SIX months for the Pension Department to
reach claim for action after the last proofs called
for have been furnished 1t is impossible to give
more definite information.
P.H.W. E. L., O-The pension of a first lieu
tenant for total disability is ST. per month for
private non-cOmmissiOned officer IS. But under
laws providing for specific disabilities the pension
of the latter class may be increased up to 8 which
amount is allowed for any disability equivalent to
the loss of hand or foot. Higher rates are al
lowed for loss of one more limbs, and for utter
helplessness requiring the attendance of another
person S72 per month is granted. In the higher
| grades of disability lieutenant would be entitled
| to more than private that is when the amount
goes above S17.s
| G. S. S., WEST BROOKLYN, 1LLs.-1. In writing
| to Member of Congress postage must be prepaid,
and If you wish prompt reply stamp should De
| inclosed for return postage. 2 Applications for
pensions filed since July l. 1880, entitle to pension
in case of allowance, only from date OF filing the
claim. 3. Briefly, the arrears of pension act pro-
vided that all claims for pension filed prior to July
| l. 1880. should date back to date of discharge of
soldier, or, if he be dead, to date of his death.
The present postofice addresses of the following
named persons are desired by subscribers to The
| NATIONAL TRIBUNE. Any one able to give in
formation touching their whereabouts will confer
a favor by corresponding with us:
| l. Colonel William F. Lynch, Fifty-eighth Illinois
| Volunteers, or Captain Lawrence Collins, Lieu
tenant James Casey, or any OF the men OF Com
pany H of said regiment who were members Of
| it in 1862
2 DR.. Bluthart, surgeon Twenty-third Missouri
| Volunteers. and Lieutenant Bull Ninety-secOnd
| Ohio.
g. Richard Wilson, Company A, Third Ohio Cavalry
T. Dr. Franklin Irish, surgeon of Seventy-seventh
Pennsylvania Volunteers.
s. Dr. Ellis, assistant surgeon Fifth Kentucky
! Cavalry.
g. Some officer private of Company L, FOurteentn
Rhode Island Heavy Artillery.
= Lieutenant Henry Daniels Lieutenant Henry
| Wolf Orderly Sergeant Thomas Porterheld all o
| Battery D, Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery
g. Captain George, One Hundred and Forty-thir
New York, and formerly quartermaster Ihlr(
| brigade, First division, Second Army Corps, Arm!
| of the Potomac.
~. Remaining answers next week