The National tribune., 1883-10-04

to fighting one another as you did. There is
no flag like the old flag, after all"
Yes, that's what we think now; but, you
see, we didn't know any better then. We had
bad advice. We were told that up North they
were all against us. We know better now.
We know, too, that up here a poor man
has much better chance than down
there. That is the reason we're going to
Iowa, or may be it viii be Nebraska before We
stop. good many Of our kinsfolk are out
there"
"well, what is the feeling down in Tennes-
see? Do they all feel as you do about the
WARP"
Yes. near about all the same way You
see, good many Northern people have come
down there, and some have brought good
deal of money. AT first they didn't want them
to come, because they had wrong opinion of
them. But now all that is changed, and they
like 10 have them come. But it is no place for
poor man, like me, with large family. Land
ls too high, and want TO go where my boys
will have better chance, free schools, and all
that. If it is not asking too much, I'd ike to
know what that badge is you're wearing"
That is the badge of the Grand Army of
the Republic" was the reply, and this red
badge is the badge of Camp Van DeryOOrt;"
and so we told him the story of the great Ma
tional Order, and of their annual Eneamprnent
held every year. and of the inspiring sights
his face light up over the strange story and to
see the sons and daughters gather around that
they might not miss word
These are fine boys Of yours, and some day
they may be famous Union men,"
Yes, we are all for the Union now, and
right sorry / am we were ever anything else"
The train was called and our new friend
insisting upon carrying some of the valises,
helped us aboard lingering for a hearty good
bye and promising if anything should happen
to break up his family circle in the West he
would give his youngest little boy, superb
little fellow, with Websterian head, to his
new-found Yankee friends.
There is no one I'd rather give him to" he
said in response to the assurance that we should
make good Union man of him, and, taking
our address, moved slowly away. His name is
Thomas E. Brown, and, wherever he goes with
his family, we wish him prosperity and sue
cess.
| NoTABLEs AMONG THE G.. A. z.
I sing the old soldier, the gallant old soldier
Who stood up TO be shot at, ndstOod ike man,
Where the bullets We're flying,
And comrades were dying;
Approach him. aye, may be, but match him,
who can?
Among the comrades who made that long
midsummer day march at Denver was Z. E.
Tinsdell, of Denver, late of the Hawkins Zou-
aves, who went through thirty-One battles and
a mine The terrible risks OF life are not all
on the battlefield
Captain W.. III. SalIada, Senior Vice Com
mander of Croker Post, Des MOines, Iowa, who
took the mountain trip with other delegates
from that grand soldier State, is another brave
comrade whose eyes are forever closed to the
| visible things of earth. At Deep Bottom Creek,
| August Ia, 1864, while serving as an orderly.
he rode into the rebel lines as he was joining
| his regiment, from which he had been tempor-
| ariiy separated. While coming through gorge
| he was fired upon by the whole rebel line, pro-
| tected by dense forest stripped of his vaiua-
| hieS, kept three days as a prisoner, and. more
dead than alive, fell into the hands of his COM
rade5 when the advance was made, and sent
| to Carver Hospital, Washington. He was ter
| ribly mangled, the ball entering the lower
margin of his left temple, between the eye and
ear, passing through his head, cutting off the
| bridge of his nose and coming through the
| right eye. Where it entered it cut the lower
| part of his temple loose from the cheek, split
ting the left cheek in three different places and
his right cheek in two. 1t was supposed by the
| surgeons who afterwards had charge of the
| case, twelve in number, including Spencer
Knox, of New York, that the charge was buck
and ball.
(. But for the kindness of a chaplain, whose
name Captain Sallada would be glad to know
the wounded man would have been left TO die
| in the division hospital. When application
was made for his removal to the tTansport-thC
State of Maine-the surgeon refused it, saying
" That boy is mortally wounded; he cannot
possibly live longer than few hours. The
boat will be crowded, and what is the use o.
| giving TO person who is practically dead a
place on the boat, which ought TO be occupied
by soldiers to whom we can be of some adyan
tage. Your request, sir, must be denied the
boy cannot co."
Failing to secure permission, the chaplain
went directly to the captain of the transport
who took the boy aboard in violation of orders
and so he found his way TO the kind cart
of Harriet Douglass Whetten, superintendent
of Carver Hospital. OF Miss Whetten's serv
ices writer in Woman's Work in the Ciyi
War;" says: She did more than any one per
sonally for the men; the rest of US worked
generally; when mans snferings or necessi
ties were relieved, we thought no more of him
but she took a warm personal interest IL th'
individual. In the end this strain upon he
feelings wore down her spirits. but it was
feature of her success, and there must be many
poor fellow who, If he heard her name
would rise up and call her blessed Wher
Miss Whetten is we know not, but certain i
is that Captain Sallada is one of the gratefu
fellows"
Captain Sallada has led life of singular use
fuIness, and has published his experiences il
which. besides a personal biography, contain
a choice selection of poems and sketches, ant
which is finding a ready sale among the com
radeS of the G.. A. Z. He has also designe,
and published an ingenious Military Memo
rial of the War;" being panoramic picture IL
lustrating every phase of army life, beginning
with the farewell TO home, and going through
camp, battle, march, prison, hospital, &c, ant
including the return home.
DRAMATIC CoMRADE.
Crossing the Plains We happened to meet IN
famous actor, John ID. GermOn, who gave up
salary of $50 per week to take the Governmen
offer of Sl3 month, enlisting from the oil
Arch Street Theatsr, Philadelphia, IN tn
Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteers, whiel
afterwards consolidated with the Twenty
eighth Pennsylvania Colonel Geary), formin
the One Hundred and Forty-seyenth Pennsyl
vania V. l., First brigade Second division
Twelfth Army Corps, under Fighting 10
Hooker" On the 23d of July, 1864, in front O
Atlanta, Captain Germon was captured, thong
for six months reported killed in action III
was at Andersonyille, Florence, and Cape Fea
River N E. Station, from whence he made hi
escape with six members of the Sixty-sixt
Ohio V. l., four of whom slept under on
blanket on the ground, and was mustered ou
at Washington, July Is, 1865. Abiding to tn
difficulties, sometimes of securing pension evi
dence, Mr.. Germon told US of one of these Obi
boys, Joseph Diltz of Urbana, who wrote t
him September IL, 1862, to Ford's Opera Hous
at Baltimore, asking evidence of importan
character (Mr. Germen having taken care G
him through an attack of smallpox, whic
| paf ael,h hin, unTil his arrival q