The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-06-28
IOWA.

Comrade Henry Reid, Commander of Law
renee Post, Sabula Iowa, writes us as follows
a Post of the Grand Army was mustered here
on the 26th of April, with thirty-five members
and, Oh April ., another was mustered at Miles
ten miles west of herewith about twenty
members. Both are prospecting finely, and arc
hoiding very interesting meetings. The one
here Is named Chauney Lawrence Post, No
l63, and the one at Miles is Alf. Sehoield
Post, Ne. 161. Ours takes the name of the
first lieutenant, and Miles Post that of ser
geant of company A, Twenty-1eurth Iowa in
fantry, who were both killed at the battle OF
Champion Hills, Miss, May is, 1868. Their
company, which was recruited entirely from
this village and vicinity, lost at Champion
Hills seventeen killed and fifteen wounded, out
of lfty-four engaged IL mortality that I think.
was seldom, il eyer. equafed during the war.
About thirty-fYe former members of the COM
pany still reside in this vicinity, and over
twenty of them are members of Chauncy Law
renee and Ali. Sehofield Posts.
We have maintained for several years a So
ciety of veterans here, and now that two g. A.
r. Posts are organized in tie same territory we
regard them as twin Posts, and shall act to-
gether on Memorial Day aud similar occasions
The following are the officers of the twin Posts
Chauncy Lawrence Commander, Harvey
Reid; s. V. c., n. c. White; J. Y. c., VIM.
Altman; Adi't, Horace Lawrence; Surgeon,
&. l.. Mills; @. D., VIM. H Bahne: @. NJ.
Isaac ID. Mari; o. e. Jas. Esmay; Chaplain,
A. w. Day; S. NJ, VIM. B. Lowell; O. NJ. s.. J.
I'll. Cottral. Aft. Schofield Post-C Commander,
DR.. VIM. 81. Amos: S. V. c., w. S. kellogg; j.
Y. G, Geo. Sizer; Adi't, A. Won Oven; Surgeon
+. Nj. Miles; o. d., Justin Miles; O. NJ. Geo.
Gotschall; O. g. V. Dennick; Chaplain, Rev.
J. q. Parker: s. ~, Henry Dunn; @. NJ s.,
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would like to hear from other correspondents
as to company mortality in a single battlefield
as compared with Co. a, Twenty-fourth Iowa.
at Champion Hills.
Comrade Thomas W. Meers, Adjutant, John
L. Bashore Post, No. 1s2, Centerville, Iowa,
writes as follows: A detachment from John L.
Bashore Post, No. 122, under the command of
u. G. Haynes, Post Commander and G. II
Wentworth, Mastering Officer, on June 18th,
boarded the train at Centerville bound west.
The object in view was to make raid ON the
old warriors at Corydon, Iowa. and to bring
them to the submission to the will of the G. A.
r. The victory over the old vets was com
plete, and to-day there exists at Corydon Robt
jackson Post, twenty eight members strong
The officers are as follows: Commander. ". NJ.
v y. d. W u.
Nelson; Adj't, w. W. Thomas Surgeon, Il. J.
Dickenson Chaplain, Ii. I'll. Lusher O. d., J.
b. Richardson; @. NJ, H. West; o. g., w.
Hcskett; S. NJ, Ii. Stewart; @. NJ. S., d. III.
Sergeant. The boys were all happy and de-
lighted to hear our old camp songs sung. such
as Army Beans" Marching Through Geor-
gia,' &c, but not SO with Colonel Haynes. His
blood began to boil, and, flushed with the vic
tory of Corydon, he, with his detachment at
m toll ont IF nfffu
his finger south and westward, said ''Allerton
steps light" No one heard the approach of
this marauding band, but, as the morn of June
goth dawned, the colonel took the city in the
name of the G. 4. r. The result-David Har-
din Post, OF Allerton, iowa, over so Istrong, is
one of the institutions OF that city The OIL
GERS elected and installed are as follows: Com
J. V. c., w. r. Wright; Adj't C. J. Monger:
Surgeon, B. S. Everetts; Chaplain, J. w. Ran
kin; 0. D., NJ. V. Mcconnell; O. NJ, J. C. /
Swiggett; o. c., T. L. Jewell; S. NJ. p. M.
Phillips; @. NJ S., Merritt Young. After the
ceremony general good time was INDUCED in,
and at midnight the comrades of John L. Ba-
shore Post departed for their homes by rail-
road, having been away forty hours from Gen.
terville, travelled seventy miles, and instituted
two Posts We have done no moro than our
duty, and would be willing to keep on muster
ing until the last old veteran of 81 and go was
under the protection of the banner of the 6.
A. r. g
An eloquent address was delivered at Des
Moines, Iowa. on Memorial Day by Comrade
VIM III. Sallada, the blind veteran. In the
course of it he said: when the toesin of war
sounded throughout the land these men left
their stores and shops, the laborer his work. the
mechanic his bench, the lawyer and official
their offices, the pastor his study, the doctor
his patients, the farmer his quiet rural home:
and even the boys laid down their school books
and, putting on the blue fastened to the de-
Tense of our insulted flag. That is WHY we |
teach these little children in their innocence |
and purity to bring the fair, sweet blossoms of |
spring and lay them reverently upon these
mounds, in each of which rests hero; while |
the gray-haired veteran stands with bowed |
head, memory busy with the past and the |
Grand Army of the future, the boys who march |
with us to-day and who, should the calamity of |
war come again, would stand ready to defend |
The flag they SO proudly bear"
Garfield Post, No. 81, Red Oak, Iowa, held q |
Campfire and festival on the Goth inst, both !