The National tribune., 1883-09-06
A Treat in store for onr Readers.

A Treat in Store for Oar Readers.
We take pleasure in announcing that
there viii shortly be commenced in THE
TRIBUNE a series of most entertaining
and instructive articles from the pen of
Major-General Oliver o. Howard, embody-
ing his "reminiscences of the war. The sub
ject Of the opening paper viii be "West
Point in 1851, and this will be followed by
monographs, complete in one number, on the
following themes: The Sudden CaIl-the
Wife and Little Ones-the Volunteer Regi-
ment Organized; The Departure-the Vol
unteer Sergeant en- route for Washington;
Reopening of the Baltimore Passage; Stu
dents for the Field; Washington in May
and June, 1861 Bull Run; The Peninsula
Campaign; Manassas and Antieiam; Fred
ericksburg; Charlottesville; Gettysburg;
Bridgeport and Lockout Valley; Chatta-
nooga-ineluding Missionary Ridge ard
Lookout Mountain; Something about the
Fourth Army Corps; Dalton and Ressca;
Adairsville and Carrsville; New Hope
Church; Pickett's 1Iill and Round Top; the
Kenesaws; Smyrna Camp Ground; Peach
Tree Creek; July %, 1864. before Atlanta;
Ezra Chapel; Cutting Communications;
Jonesboro' and Lorejoy Station; Hoods Raid
and Allatoona; Santee Greek Gap to Gayles-
vile: The March of the Right Column to
the Sea; The Junction of the Army and
Navy; Fort McAlIister-the Bridge and
the Rice Mill; Beaufort and Pocotaligo;
The kehatchie-General Wager swayne;
The Saluda and the Broad; The Burning of
Columbia; The Eastern March; Averasboro'
and Bentonville; Johugton's Surrender; The
March to Richmond; and The Grand Re
view.
This series of articles, it will be seen, will
treat Of some of the most famous campaigns,
decisive battles and strategic marches of the
war, and they viii not only edify and delight
our readers. but afford them an opportunity
of comparing their own with General How
ards impressions of the events which he
describes They viii be pretty snre to pro-
woke discussion, and it win be strange if,
with such critical audience as General
Howard viii have, much new and valuable
information should not be elected by this dis
cussion. As General Howard remarks in a
letter to the editor of TIE TRIBUNE, IF
discussion arises we can enter into that
and that viii be fighting our battles oyer" 1"
to some purpose.
And now, in this connection, we take the
liberty of laying before our readers letter
which we have just received from General
". S. Rosecrans-a letter which, coming, as
it evidently does, from the heart, cannot but
be as gratifying to TIE TRIBUNEs sub
scribers as it is to THE TRIBUEE's editor:
TO the Editor NATIcsAL TRIBUEE:
cannot withhold from you the expression c.
my unqualified admiration Tor the management Of
your paper. II has taken up field of usefulness
peculiar TO itself It's splendid contributions TO the
/
excelled for fidelity ruth and accuracy They
give dignity and tone IT, and are golden thread
upon which strung that immense variety o.
contributions from esses and actors in l.
erless scenes and events almost as interesting Il
the preseEt and coming generations as TO those
, now living who participated in tlleTd and in the
war. Were i. rot for your publication most o
these memories would be forgotten perish wtf
their narrators
The hfz*o,soal articles
Of tree which these "reminiscences adorE with
leaves and blossoms. Do not rnar this happy com
buation, which renders yoEr journal interesting te
youth and age. to soldier and citizen.
: THE EArToyAL TRIBUNE ought 70 he read by ali
who took part in the struggle for national unity
and by al who enjoy its fruits and desire TO per.
1,ets=te the memory Of the manner in which and
Of the heroic men by whom. they were obtained.
Its contents make desirable having TIE NATIONAL
TRIEUNE printed IN a form suitable ard conyen
ient for binding. in iis present eigiit-page form
very few Of its s,ihseribsrs would have ths done
But tie same sheet printed SO rs 10 he thrty-t.yt
pages wonid bind into a volume about the size o
the Congressional Record. which would De as !argt
. rs would he convenient for handling Your las
years volume in this form, contribution to his
tory. would be worth sF-iiay ten times the sub
seriptien. Every Post rn the Grand Army OF tn,
Republic weuId want oae. w. S. RosEcaAiss
S / IIousa. or REPRESENTATIVE
wAsInAsros, .. C.. August 81.
] BY way Of reply to General Rosecnns, a
: well as to the thousands wAo are like hin
S appreciative readers Of TIE TRIBUNE, W,
. may say that there Pre- many improvement.
] which we contemplate making in TIL
? TRrBuNE when the opportunity serves ana
4 its circulation jusddes. He and they ma
be sue that all that. money and brains
can do 10 make it great newspaper win bs