The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-03-13
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE wAsNdfby D. g. THURSDAY MARoH 49, 1884,

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aIcIIose, 1oad 0. VI Land the writer of this.
Your friend and eomrade
Our Young Recruits.
BRIGHT LETTERS FROM THE SONS AND DAUGH-
TIERS ar OUR VETERANS.
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
An honest mans the noblest work OF God.
One hundred and forty of the little people
come to the chihiren1s experience meeting to-
day. Every week they are doubling in num-
Der, and at the present rate some of them viii
be gray-haired old fFets" before they get a
chance to speak in meeting
But do not stop coming, dear children. as
every week we shall put you on dress parade
and be joyful in our grand little army, whether
you are called upon for duty or not Every let
ter is carefully fled, and when they are taken
down from their snug little hooks in our desk,
which is fast filing up with childrens letters,
it seems like martialing so many real little
boys and girls.
| Here is a little boy with bright black eyes,"
we say, land he has nice manners, and Yes,
| SIR and No. SIR to his father, and Yes,
| maam,' and No, ma'am' to his mother. And
here is a little girl who helps her mother to
| take care of her baby brother, and sings apd
dusts as happy as the day is long" And we
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make them to understand that honest worth is
| the goodliest gift of ALL"
Here comes Ulysses S. Grant Bradfeld, the
| seventh of seven sons, and all musical, known
as the Bradfeld Martial Band, and sons of q
veteran Of company E, 130th Indiana, who feels
! that one of the family is gone when The
/ TRIBUNE fails TO put in an appearance on
Friday. The first son is bass drummer; the
second a fifer; the third, a snare drummer; /;
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mer, while the sixth has given up music and
taken to hunting. They play for Charles A.
Clark Post, Ridge Farm, H., of which their
! father is a member and which is building a
large G. A. r. hall. Their father has secured
numerous subscribers for THE TRIBUNE and
received Waterbury watch.
George E. Bump twelve, Winchenden, Mass,
! whose father is a comrade of the G.. A. r., says
the childrens letters do him SO much good.
Mary L. Kitterman, Chiihowee, No., has a
papa, John w. hitterman, who served in COM
pany G, 66th Indiana, from August 49, 1862, TO
June 3, 1865 She hopes all the boys and girls
will write.
Hero is little Kentucky girl-Laura E.
| Mitehum, Monroe, Ky,-whose father served
nearly four years in company A, 18th Ken
tuck y,-Colonel VIII Hobsons grand old regi-
ment,-whieh the editor has seen many a time
on dress parade, when it was brigaded with the
111th O. V. l., and before those ard-fought
battles Of HHff's Ferry, Campbell's Station,
siege of Knoxville, and the Atlanta campaign,
! Of which Laura writes. Laura's father says he
viii read The TRIBUNE as long as he lives.
Claude R. Messersmith, Milpitas, CAL, says
his mother says she has two soldiers-his
father and himself-as one or the other is con-
stantly reading THE TRIBUNE. and they both
hope the boys and girls viii keep ON writing.
Claude is ten, and has a sister fifteen and a
brother thirteen. He enjoys Saving the
Nation and other battle stories, which tell OF
some in which his father fought. His father,
John w. Messerni8h enlisted when seventeen
as private under Captain John d. Morgan,
company B, 51st Indiana, and served three
years.
My papa was q member of Colonel John A
Logans regiment company J. Sist Illinois. He
was prisoner thirteenmonths and fourteen days
and was in Andersonville.
So says Annief1. Easland, aged eleven, Pipes
town, Mimi, who says her papa wants to heal
from his comrades.
Willie Watson, Wesbield, Mass, says be
likes to go to soldier Camp-fircs and other
meetings, where the little boys and girls often
sing and play and recite pieces, and SO do theil
| part in helping the veterans of Lyon Post and
| the ladies of Lyon Relief Corps TO which his
| father and mother belong. Wille's father was
ten years In the Regular army, and was two
| and half years in Mexico. In the volunteer
service he was captain of company E, 115th
Massachusetts volunteers, and was in the thick.
est of the fight at Balls Bluff and many bat
ties which Willie cannot recall. He command.
| ed Lyon Post for $50 years Wiilie's uncle
his rsamma's only brother, enlisted, when nine.
teen, in company c, 25th Massachusetts,, served
| through the war, and returned a first ieuten,
ant Willie is eight years old. and his brother
Charlie is fifteen, and Arthur fourteen.
Elmer Thompson, Moran, Allen county, Kan.
says:
/ am thirteen and i've with my parents on &
farm. and m greatest delight is the children's let
ters in THE TRIBUNE. AIy father enlisted in 1868
and served TO the close, in company A, I'd Indiana
His name is George r. Thompson Jake Earring
his half brother, enlisted in 1861 in the same
pany, veteranized, and died six years ago. If any
one knew him In the army, would like to heal
from them.
Wounded three times at Chickamauga and
twice at Lookout Mountain" This is the way
Emma E. Darst who lives in the country, neal
Sidney, Ohio, counts the honorable scars of hel
father, who served in the 99th O. V. /. Emma
is ten, and has two brothers. Willie and Ollie.
My papa was a soldier. in company B, 5th Hi
nois cavalry, and says THE TRIBUNE is the bes-
friend the soldiers have and thinks every soldier
In the land should read Il.
Thus writes Eddie s. Bail who likes Carle
tons story so well, and whose letter does not
go into the wasteb basket, as his papa feared il
would.
Mabel and Opal Wcoley, aged nine and seven
daughters of William Wooley, Montague, N Y.
10th New York Vols, write US that they " love
The TRIBUNE very much"
Amanda F. Riggin, Plato, Tex, whose father
was courier in the army and was taken pris
oner but escaped, says she likes Saving tn,
Nation" General Howard's battle accounts
Colonel Roe's story and the children's letters
She does not see how they could get along with
out THE TRIBUNE.
Nora E. Cartons father, John Carton, Ken
, ney, H., has been taking TIE TRIBUNE fiv
years, and can hardly wait until it comes. H
is junior vice-commander of Ansel Tuppe
Post 100 0strong, and served in company B, lott
I'll. Nora had eight uncles in the army; on,
, starved to death at Andersonville. She ha
, four brothers, one in the Regular army, ant
four sisters one of whom is married, and Nor;
Is an auntie, though only thirteen.
Christy McManus, Waukee, Iowa, writes Il
express his interest in The TRIBUNE and tn
little folks. His father II. t. McManus, served
J in company D, sth Iowa cavalry. Christy
writes good, plain hand, with strong charac
! ter in it.
lena Kelly is a little girl only six years old
who lives on farm, near Pike, Wyomin:
county, N. Y, where they have nice mapl.
, sugar wish we had some this very minute y
and whose father was three years in the army
! and is now comrade of Garfield Post Lens
says she has bird, a dog, two kittens, tw
lambs aud calf but no little brothers and sis