The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-07-12
A LITTLE MORE GRAPE.
Fresh Supplies OF Ammunition for the Tribune.
Big Guns.

IL went out to-day to get subscribers, and sue
eeeded In securing two, for whom please find in
closed 81 belong to y. A. Lewis Post of Ulysses
Pa'-AIonzo Il. Wright, Gold, Potter county Pa.
Inclosed please find SO for ten new subscribers,
which makes twenty In ali that have sent
you shall endeavor to obtain more. and think
| will have no difficulty, the paper is well liked
here. edward Walton, WeStfeld, Mass.
Enclosed please find 81 for another new sub
scrloer, and accept the thanks OF Robbins Post for
Atlanta and The March to the Sea, just received
by mail as premiums for subscriptions sent YOU -
Edward A Gordon Upper Sandusky, Ohio.
Inelosed please find So for FIVE new subscribers
The comrades to which the paper is to be sent are
all splendid fellows but as they are not rich in this
worlds goods, make THE TRIBUNE present to
them. &c. NJ. Bancroft, p. P. c., j. c. Mccoy Post
No. /, Columbus, o.
Enclosed please find 81 for the renewal of my
subscription. l would not be without THE TRIB-
USE for double its price am not soldier but
am the widow of one and the mother of another
and gave my loved ones for my country.''-5Irs
j. W. Kendall, Osceola Iowa.
Enclosed please find $40 for ten new subscribers
to The TRIBUNE. We have a fine Post at this place.
with about twenty-five members and we are all
going to Denver, where we expect to have good
time. As a premium send me a Waterbury watch"
Noah Alishler, Culbertson. Neb.
"Inclosed please find 81 for a new subscriber to
The TRIBUNE. This is the second Ihave sent YOU
l am slow. but sure. Comrade Thompson whom
Comrade Hill mentions rs his companion in Good
Bye to Dixie is alive and well and a prosperous
farmer In Ohio. His post-ofliee is JeffersonyiIie'
w. IT, Austin, Bayfls Ill.
Enclosed please find 81 for new subscriber
am a soldiers daughter. My father takes THE
TRIBUNE, and / think it the best paper that ever
was published. heard veteran say lately that
the only fault he found with it was that when he
received it the could not lay it down without read
ing 1t through X. Lee, Chenango Forks, n.
Enclosed please find g for two new subscribers.
Their subscriptions were unsolicited, but they had
read several copies OF the paper, and were well
pleased with it that they handed their subscTp-
tons. The Ladies' Auxiliary of this place is not
doing much at present, and viii not until cool
weather. We meet on the first Thursday of each
month. Sarah E. Clark, Wyandotte, Kan.
Enclosed please find 81 for new subscriber.
wish could send you thousand, for in my esti-
nation your paper is the best published for
the old soldiers. hope the National Encamprnent
will elect Buckeye man as Commander-in-Chief
for the coming year. Do you not think it is about
time for an Ohio man to have it ?-E n. CurrigsGn,
Commander, Leander Stern Post, No. 81, Thin,
Ohio.
Enclosed please find 81 to renew my subscrip-
ton &c THE tribune. Accept my congratulations
on your success in establishing soldiers paper
which so completely fills the bill. 1t would please
me- however, If more attention given to the
navy and naval affairs The reply to one solicit
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS Tor THE TRIBUNE from sailors,
generally IS, On, its all army-no one cares for
the sailor. M. f. Delano NJ d., late A. A. Sur
geon, U. s. Navy, Coehesett Mass.
Enclosed please find 81 for one new subscriber
| to THE TRIBUNE. We have started Post at this
| place with between forty and fifty members and
have nine to muster at next meeting. We are
| trying to build up OF the largest Posts IN the
State, in proportion to our population. and i be-
! }ieve- that shall succeed. / feel that my old
| friend The TRIBUNE. has done much any one
towards achieving this result u H. Dawson. late
| Co. +, 18th III. Cav, Franklin, Ncb-
Enclosed please find So for six new Subscribers
am boy twelve years old, and. besides attend
| ing school, procured them oil in one day NY
father was soldier for nearly four yesrs and
have become much interested in reading history
of the war, and for this as premium
The March to the Sea- About two weeks ago
Remington Post was organized here with twenty
four charter members. Ny father is Chaplain of
the Post."-James Burnette Bennington, Kan.
Enclosed please find SIC for sixteen new sub
scribers to THE TRIBUNE, mostly members of John
Wood Post, No. 60 OF this city, which now has
membership of 40 and is mastering new recruits
at each meeting. The TRIBUNE IS the paper for
all old soldiers Every one who reads it likes is
tone, especially as to pensions and bounties and
the right OF the soldier to position in the civil
service. As premiums you may send the Wa
| terbury watch and No. 3 of the campaign series,
entitled The Peninsula I'D. NJ. Belt late Co. l.
/ Third n. Y. vols, Quincy, Ill.
| SIN your list of premiums saw the announce
ment that you would give q Waterbury watch for
| ten new subscribers and as l wanted to increase
/ your list send you $40 for ten new subscribers
| soldiers daughter. My father, who IS o. D.
of Mcpherson Post, No A. of this place, served IL
the army four years. and lost his health IN
| the service. He applied for a pension over three
years ago, but yet has not received any. If he
does not receive it soon it viii not do him much
good, tor he Is getting old and bis health Is very
poor. We take THE TRIBUNE and think II a SPLEEN
/ did paper."-Carrie o. Harrington, Independence,
/ Kan.
Enclosed please find 81 as another contribution
/ towards your 10000 subscribers. Please send the
/ paper TO General James Wilson. The general has
! been very sick for nearly four months, and while
convaleseent has been supplied with TfIE TRIB-
| UNE for reading matter and he now wants IL all
| for himself Gen. Wilson Gen McPher-
/ sons staff and was fayorite officer. He was mus
tered into the service a captain In the Thirteenth
Iowa infantry, and raised to the rank of brigadier
| general, on his individual worth and merit.
/ May THE TRIBUNE have ali such worthy comrades
| as subscribers and readers. CHARLES H. Fish,
| Newton, Ia.
Enclosed please find 81 for subscriber to THE
| NATIONAL TRIBUNE. / have been reading your
lished for soldiers Many of the letters exceed
| ingly interesting to me- / eS-SolGiIer and
participated in the siege of Knoxville. Tenn, and
in nearly all the battles III the valley above Knox
ville after the siege. was at the fight at Messy
/ Creek, and also in that of Jonesville Va, and
some good fighting done by Tennesseeans. We
Tcnnesseeans have never been given credit for the
services rendered the Government in putting
down the rebellion: Let us hear from some other
Tennessee soldier."-C. G. Davis, Co. M. Ninth
Tenn. cavalry, Midway. Tenn.
Enclosed please find 50 for two new subscribers
| which makes eighty in all have sent you since
| November Z, 1882. For cripple and invalid
| who can beat thatP l will do my best to make
your subscription list 100000 by January 1884
/ viii help furnish solid shot. amused TO see
how the boys stirred up when they think their
regiment, brigade, corps Is sighted by comrades
in their descriptions of battles or skrmishes Boys
stop quarreng and send solid shot 70 THE
| TRIBUNE to defend the orphans and widows and
cripples. / had some difficulty in gaining sub
seribers when / first commenced introducing the
| paper here but now the boys after with
their big dollars. 'i-J. A. Baughman, Washington,
| Iowa.
Enclosed please find 81 for four subscribers
| making fourteen in all. THE TRIBUNE IS paper
| after my own heart, and am much interested IN
seeing how our comrades fight their battles over
again with paper bullets, IN its columns. Thanks
! to Lieutenant Fish for refreshing my memory
| to some things / had forgotten. ! was member
! of General Waleutts brigade of General Harrow ;
division of the Fifteenth Corps, and have vivid
recollection of many hard-foUSht battles in which
| ! participated / well remember when our be-
| loved General Walcutt wounded and taken to
the in anibulance-not to return again 20
| his comInand-and am glad To learn through THE
TRIBUNE that lie is still ng."-Edward Teter,
late Sergeant company c, 2Gth H. v. " l., Garlic
ton. Neb.
Enclosed please find 81, for which please send
The TRIBUNE to my step grandpa, who IS an ex-
enee. l was not u soldier myself as ] now only
| twelve years old, but my papa was, and am a
subscriber TO your paper. l viii try to raise a
good-sized club for THE TRIBUNE live IN SEWER
county East Tennessee, and proud 20 say that
my county voted once $50 against separation from
| the Union and Que for separation, under Governor
Harris, and at the next election tlS6i} voted $50
against leaving the old Union and Gz for secession
This was always known - the old banner Wing