The National tribune., 1883-10-11
a pRUMMER RoY's GRAT1TupE.


as grateful as they were brave,
Yours. for Justice ANNE W1TrEE0rYER.
DRUMMER BOYS GRATITUDE.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 6, 1888.
Mrs. ANNIE WTTTENMYER, No. 10iS Arch street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
My DEAR Mrs WHITEWATER: | noticed, with
heartfelt grief, the statement by Mrs. Sherwood
that you no longer in the land of the living,
and also received the news of your resurrection
with unbounded JOY. You wiD not remember me,
perhaps; but you have always had warm place
in my memory for the kindness done me at Lake
Providence, La, in the spring of 1868 when you
hunted me up to deliver to me box that had been
prepared by my old mother and intrusted to you;
also when You came around the hospitals at Vicks-
burg and left the traces of your loving words and
deeds with many poor fellow among whom was
the writer; therefore. when | read your letter in
TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, this morning, thought
it would do me good TO write and thank you for
your good work. during and after the war, for the
soldiers and their orphans, and for that especially
which was done for me personally. Do you
member the little drummer boy of the Fifteenth
Iowa who came to your boat at Lake Providence
ana received box from you? IL was seLt by my
mother from Ottunlwa, lowa,-a Mrs. q. q. Bald
win step-mother of Judge Caleb Baldwin, then
one OF the supreme judges of Iowa. And do you
also remember, when you were IN Hospital NO. ),
at Nicksburg, of again seeing that same drummer
boy and ninistering to his wants, as you did TO
thousands of others? But | am afraid that this
viii tax your memory too much, as presume you
Were doing these things to thousands of soldiers
every day, and it would be impossible for you to
after all these years, thank you for it. and say
May God bless you for those good deeds and for
all the others did for the soldier boys of Iowa.
This same drummer boy is a full-bearded, six
foot. 200-pound man, and if his heart as big as
his body 1t would be too small to offer you for your
kindness Again expressing admiration for your
past and present work for fallen humanity, and
with the best wishes for your success in this life.
knowing that you will receive your reward in the
life to come,-I subscribe myself, with profound
regard and respect yours, very respectfully,
JOHN $ BoswoRTTT,
Late Drummer Boy, Co. k, 18th Iowa Inf.
KISSING AND HAIR BLEACHING,
ATCHIsoS, KAN, Sept. %.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
Permit us to say To Miss L. Wallace that we are
two Atchison girls. very fond of young gentlemen
society, and both bellies of the town. We have
often discussed the subject of promiscuous kissing
through other Household Departments. We say
now, and always have, that if gentleman is po-
lite and kind enough 70 invite you to party to
show you any attention it is only right TO make
| some return for his kindness.
VIII some kind member of the Household give
good recipe for bleaching hair? Is it not right
for to bleach our hair if By SO doing we enhance
! our beauty? TWO bellies.
FOOTBALLS OF LOYALTY.
De WITT, NEB September 10, 18s3
/ To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
! know that admring readers of THE NATIONAL
! TRIBUNE fairly rain letters down upon YOU and
! as Colonel Sessions says =" Ny heart boys then
/ he stops TO brush away the tears SO. my heart
Y.
have taken up line of work in the brave boys be-
| half. We attended our State Reunion at Hastings
the first week IN September, and such week! All
| through the camp, from headquarters down to the
/ coInmonest veteran the answer to my inquiries
| We're just the same. " Yes; have letters and da.
/ ries and you can have them.n u had a lot OF
| them, but lost them when / was captured" and
occasionally, No never got any" Aud there
was almost invariably as much difference in the
men as in their answers. The last / inStinctiVey
pited for they had barred their breasts to the storm
of bullets, with their hearts strengthened and soft
| ened by no woman's love. Ia such faces there was
/ blank. or a lack of something longed for but
| never found, and last week when / read what you
had To say of women making themselves beauti.
ful, thought of the men with whom | had spent
this delightful week, and thought, it is not lace
ace Is just lovely, too, but interest in the wei
fare and pleasures Of others that makes women
beautiful and it heightens and beauties the souls
Of men as well The clasp of soldiers hands; how
they thrill me yet, And my heart is almost toe
full this morning TO write.
! want To get the first volume of 'FootfaiIs o
Loyalty" before the public some time next spring
will select your own dear sef-the Editor OF THE
TRIBUSE-and allow you TO choose one other, tc
say what shall be done with the fund arising from
| my Grand Army publications. After this year,
shall give two months out Of every twelve of my
time and talent to Post relief funds as shall take
the platform rs lecturer for this purpose
Loyalty, yours, Mary W. WEsTcorr.
LOYAL WOMEN IN THE WAR.
RIPToN, w. September IT, 1888.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
Comrade, have the privilege of reading you
paper by exchanging and like il much like YOU
Campfire and Womanis Work departments and
if do not iutrude, would like to inquire as to th
name and present address of a lady who was ma
tron nurse, cook and surgeon of, think, the thirC
floor OF Mansion House hospital, Alexandria, Va.
in May and June, 1864. 1t the ward of wheI
DIR. Boies had charge. in which was at that time
having found nay way there from the Wilderness
wounded and nearly starved, and il is my firm con
viction that under God, owe my restoration Il
life 10 her. A sister could not have been more as
sduous in her care, though there Were scores =
the ward that needed as badly did and the,
received it, too. Recalling the matter after th
| lapse OF nearly twenty years il seems as though
she must have been built of steel and india-rubbe
10 stand the constant strain TO which she was sub
iected, or rather subjected herself; for, as / thel
understood, though she was very reticent as TO he
affairs she was il nowise obliged perform sucI
labor.
We veterans may talk until doomsday of ou
marches, fights, priyations and exposures whicl
we underwent and endured Tor the starry flag ans
a united country; but / believe that III the grea
day they viii sink into nothingness when TIN
books oi the work of the loyal women of the Nortl
for the flag, the country and for humanity ar
opened. j tell you. comrades, we cannot reyer
ence the loyal women too highly, who truly wer
and are, First in war, first in peace, and first il
the hearts of their countrynen.n
Yours in F., G. and L.,
| J. s. CHANDFE