The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-05-10
FIFTY THOUSAND MOREI
How Our Veterans Ire Responding to The Tribune's
Call for Volunteers.

FIFTY THOUSAND MORE!
How Our Veterans Ire Responding to The Tribune's
Call for Volunteers.
Enclosed please find 81 for the soldiers best
friend, TIRE IRIBUgE. / notice that veterans
are fighting the battle of Shiloh again with
paper bullets. 1t was not my fortune TO be in that
battle, but some ct the boys Will remember the
good hot coffee I made for them that Sunday as
they marched by cur camp. sIy regiment, the
Second Indiana cavalry took part IN the battle, Ou5
my own cOmpany-COmpaHy k-was ordered to
stay and guard the camp, which was three
miles north of shiloh So / bought some coffee
from quartermaster and boiled u for the men OF
Nelson's and BGells armies as they marched past
They offered to pay me for it, but refused to ae-
cept anything from the brave boys who were on
their way to the front. The earth shook that night
at every discharge from the gunOOats. Henry
Barber, Independence, Kan.
Enclosed please find SO for twelve new sub
scTibers to THE TRIBUNE making thirteen IN all
that have sent you. To many Of US THE TRIBCSE
has become a household necessity. It's columns
br;m full of articles interesting to those who
wore the blue. Can't you pursuade Comrade G. H
Fish to give of the signal corpse IL should
be published in book form, and have place in
every library. In consequence OF hat the news
papers have had TO say about fraudulent pension
eTs, | have taken the trouble to investigate the
state Of things in this township. and find that cut
OF twenty-eight soldiers residing here there are but
four drawing pensions, and these four deserve
more than they set. The charge that nearly all
soldiers receive pensions won't hold good IN this
locality. Robert NJ. Wilson, 4th U. :. cavalry.
Nora Ill.
Enclosed please find SO for ten new subscribers,
making twenty-ene in al which have been sent
through me-not q large club, but you cannot ask
more, since every old sOder who gets his mail At this
post-Ofice IS subscriber / do net believe
our old comrades ia the East appreciate do we,
who have gone West and South, the value of The
TRIBUNE Living a. DO far from our early
homes and old companions arms, and among
the very men who fought against Us Tor four years,
feel peculiarly alive TO the pleasure afforded US
by the reception of THE TRIBUNE We look eagerly
for n word from old comrade OF from member
eff
county No.
Enclosed please find s. for as many new sub
scribers TO THE TRIEUNE. Our Post here IS BOOM
ing and we muster new recruits at every meeting.
You may lock for more new subscribers soon. as
shall let up as long / find Old veteran
who is not a subscriber TO the soldiers best and
/ truest friend, THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE You can
/ put me down for Z lie worker.-Cyrus ArmbrlIst,
/ Greeley Colo.
p. S.-Since writing the foregoing another COM
rade has knocked At my door wish his subscription
/ TO THE TRIBUNE. He saws ne wants YOU To WhoOD
1t up 70 her, Eliza Jane, and that he proposes TO
work and light for The TRIBUNE &C a.
Here are So for twelve new subseribers-ths
result of half days work. When / find an old
soldier who has not forgotten that he was in the
army snd who has dollar in his poekt. gener-
a.iy get MS subscription some OF the subscribers
that now send you tell me that they take from
three to eight papers, bnt they always take time tn
read THE TBIBUNE One of them. although not 3
I soldier. wants il for his boys our people were
much interested IN Lieutenant Fish's signal Corps
articles Charlie Is q wlde-awaSe Grand Army
/ IN this state. John L. Mathews, Newton, Iowa.
"Inelosed please find s. for five new subscribers
to The TRIBUNE, making seventeen IN all that
nave sent you Served eighteen months IN Anter-
sCnvllle and Danyiiie prison pens and / assure
you that appreciate TIE TRIBUNE much
rs would have done good square meal them
We have recently mustered Post here. which was
Organized through the instruulentaiity Of The
TRIBUNE Michael Drummer, Fayetteville, Ohio.
Here are si4 for eight renewals and six new
subscribers 70 your Incompatible paper On next
Z tfaaHra fr tfnFr
se.nbling OF comrades had last year. We
have invited all neighboring Posts TO Join Us. Our
tables viii groan with substantials, and soldiers
wives, daughters and friends viii wait upon all
and bid them welcome. w II. BIyerhoff ). Y. c.,
Farragut Post, No. p, Evansville, Ind.
Here are So for three new recruits for THE TRrs-
USE army. am not q veteran your list, but /
have learned to like THE TRIBUNE and believe 10
VIII please all who read it, Had I the time,
could obtain a large list for you here was much
interested IN captain Fisas aeeount OF the doinsS
around Atlanta, as was there, and fought through
that eanapaisn with Sherman to the sea-'-P- h
Goodrich, NaGbae, Conn.
Enclosed please find s. for seven new subscribe
ers to TEE TRIBUNE. Now II all its readers wosld
spend half day when they are idle. rs have in
Obtaining recruits to support our battery of Par
rotts. we would soon clear the front of cur lines
and ptnt our cOlors on the enemy 5 raulpaxts NY
love and kindest regards to the readers and espe-
ciay the old veterans, OF TIL. TRIBUNE "A. W.
Motley, Joppa, Ill.
You say il is an easy matter to increase the cir
cUlatOn OF your noble paper to 10000 II each one
of its present subscribers VIII but get one new sub
seribeT. To this say amen would do as much
as that for THE TRIBUNE, even il I had 10 pay for
il myself. and send it 10 some poor widow of the
war Inclosed please md 81 for one new SUD-
seriber. Ezra Mcintyre, Towards, Pa
Enclosed please find 81 for another subscriber
last week succeeded IN Obtaining Being an old
typo Of thrty-tive years standing consider myself
capable of Judging, and I declare The TRIBUNE
the most valuable paper that tho defenders Of this
Nation have ever had the pleasure OF pGrusiags. -
Theodore J. Patrick National Military Home, Ohio
Enclosed please End q for a new subscriber,
making four In ali that I have sent YOU lately i
shall continue TO work for THE HRIsCNE, knowingis
to be mighty in battling for soldiers rights. Wiilnos
some conrsde write an account OF straits raid
through Alabama and Georgia ia april and Nay
1855 w p Mcclure, ThompsOaviilc, Kan.
Enclosed please find 81 for one new subscriber.
was we'll pleased with Captain G. II. Fish naFra-
tive OF the defense of Aliatoona, rs was one Of the
eral Corse with the blood trekting down his cheek,
cheering his men to victory "A. 81. Thompson,
Co. l. 5cth III, Piper City, III.
"Inclosed please find s. for five new subscribers
TO The IEIBUNE want 20 see The N-trIoNNLs
TRIBUNE taken by every eS-solder in the country
as well as ont here ia the Rocky Mountains, and
hope subscriptions viii come ia a. thick and Ciss
as did the bullets during the war. Fred. GUntherp
Helena, Montana Ter.
Here are four more new subscribers. ] helped
to organize quite a large Post atJEca-tAe drss
ststogi east OF here--oInetiae ago. 4 showed the
boys there The TRIBUNE, and you may look for
go0dy number of new subscribers from that Post.
Al were P-Sa>cd WIKI u H. =. StAcANLct, AGO.
Nebraska
Enclosed please find 81 for new subscriber. I
was IN twenty three battles. wounded ti2ree times,
and lost my only brother in che service. feel that
THE TRIEUNE Is the friend OF the soldier, and
l intend 70 make every shot count. Arthur NJ.
Hodges, Manton, Mich
Incosed please find s. for three new subserb-
TO the best of all papers for the old soldiers. II
the water goes down around here tn
allow of sSirnlishing aTonnd bit can, thinS,
send you some more rounds Of ammunition. III.
X. Cook, Carlisle, Ark
Enclosed please find SIS for thirteen new sub
scribers 20 THE TRIBUNE They are All members OF
stevens Post. No. 1, of this place. blew one blast
on my buge, and this Is the result. 1 shall blow
ton Territory.
+" Here are four more solid shots to help THE
TRIBUNE to keep up the fire ON the enemy. have
sent you in all 40 subscribers since last September,
and am boand to do nay share of the work OF Tais-
ing the 100 OOo subscribers "A. ID. Launsler, Zanea-
| vile, Ohio.