The National tribune., 1884-10-09
Our Weekly Experience Meeting.

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ugliest frame pretty and new.
Our Weekly Experience Meeting.
WHO WILL CLAIM THE sPooN?-wHY ARE
THEY WITHOUT PENSIONS "A COMRADES
LETTER TO HIS COMRADES.
To TIE EDITOR: Hoping some of the comrades
may be able to solve the mystery, send you this
incident in my hospital life There was man sick
Of fever in one of my wards for quite long tlme
At last il became evident that the end coming.
He himself was aware of it. A few days before he
died he gave me spoon. asked me TO take charge
of it, and be To send it TO his family said there
was something very peculiar about 1t, and was so
anxious his family should have IT, As soon as he
dead wrote of his death to them Soon after
i received letter from one Of his sons asking me
If his father had spoon in his possession at the
time of his DEATH If so, would j send IL to inin by
express as there was something very peculiar con-
nected with the spoon and he was very desirous of
having IT, / was at Point Lookout Hospital at the
time. could not send it then, as there was no
chance Before i could send it. unfortunately
lost the address. have thought so often about 1t.
still have the spoon, though have forgotten Inc
soldiers name and where he came from only re-
membering he said he was preacher or exhorter.
/ have wondered if there could be any probability
of ever finding any one of his folks. AT the time
was in the hospitals my name was not Howe
Juliet 6. Howe. Department Chaplain OF Nebraska,
Woman's Relief Corps, York, Neb.
WHY ARE THEY WITHOUT PENSIONS?
ter soldiers wife, and soldiers sister speak
few words through the columns of THE TRIBUNE!
Ever since i was Ii years of age have honored
the soldiers above all men. and have their welfare
deeply at heart. i would love to see or hear OF
every good soldier receiving pension. But some
OF them know get not one cent from the Govern
ment, and some of them needy and deserving
pension, too. My brother, T. w. TilfoFd. belonged
TO Co. d, Sth Iowa Cav, and served nine months
in Andersonyille,
THAT HoRRTD REBEL DEN,
ago last Winter from the effects of starving and
ill-usage while there. He never received one cent
from the Government and his family have not
received one cent.
And my father. a poor worn-out soldier, nearly
20 years old broken in health and too old to work,
if he had the best of health is living IN Mis-
souri, He receives nothing, for he is too proud to
beg for what he is justly entitled to, and that is
living from the Government which he willingly
helped TO Whether it is the fault of Govern
ment officials not cannot make out, but there
is fault somewhere, for there is
SAD NEGLECT OF OUR SOLDIERS NEEDS.
Ny husband member of the same COM
pang and regiment with my brother. He is able
10 work yet 1t seems strange 10 me that anyone
with common sense should think for one moment
that the Southern soldier has any claim upon this
Government. when NOT half of our own getting
what they should have II it was in my power
would set that whining old JEFF Davis to making
ropes to hang the rest. and the last rope would
gracefully twine around his own neck and send
him in search OF his lost cau5e.-Sue NJ McNanus,
Waukee, Iowa
COMRADES LETTER TO his COMRADES.
AT the Reunion of the 25th Ohio, at Free
port, o., Sept. %, the com rades passed a day of
fraternal pleasures, never TO be forgotten. The
ladies of Freeport provided a royal repast. Mrs.
Col n. Haughton Mrs. T. W. Culiey and Mrs.
Elizabeth Mansfield Irving, of Toledo, were
present. the latter delivering some of her finest
patriotic selections. Speeches were made by Col.
Miles, Col Haughton, Chaplain Thompson and
ioI,x hxy
the boys, and Comrade j. B. Fella read fine fra
rernal greeting from COmrade Danford, Denver,
Worth Co., Mo. Comrade O. w. Williams was
appointed regimental historian, though Lieut.
Col T. c. Culp, of SaIina, Kan, has written a
history, which is now in print. Expressing his
regret at his absence from the Reunion, Com
rade Danford recalled the
FEARFUL DAY AT GETTYSBURG,
his last meeting with his old comrades, in
which be said:
Well do / remember the last meeting with this
band Of heroes for every member thai stood in that
little band that day l. hero IN my memory, equal
IN vaior 10 a Napoleon was tbs I'd of July
when we went into the jaws Of death, into the
mouth OF he'll" among the solemn monuments of
the dead which rose mid the smoke OF battle like
solemn ghosts that would not down, spreading
their white arms IN very nlockery at the carnage
around them Near the cemetery gate. near to the
right of the Baltimore turnpike, many Of you viii
remember-aye not one has forgotten-the pande-
rnonium Of shrieking shot and shell which ragged
there If ali the demons of the internal pit had
been sent forth and like birds OF prey were gloatng
over the solemn burial places Of the dead. There
! bade adieu to you, my comrades, and for IL
months was in the hospitals. Since that day but
few Of my comrades have fallen across my path
and for Is years have not seen one of them.
Boys. how goes the world with youl Time
has sprinkled silver in my beard yea the frost of
Winter j. scarce winter and In my minds eye
look in your faces to-day do not see the joyous
boys Of 20 years ago, bat boys with grizzly Boards
with prairie land upon your crowns.-though boys
al heart as of Old. Comrades greet you, and while
tlis IS being read 10 you, /, behind my desk in a
Missouri sc5oolhouse. am teaching the children OF
many who in those days enemies Time
il healing the wounds May the veterans who
faced the dangers Of those days yet live see the
f9n results OF the wer and reap its fruits.-M z.
DAsEoRD. Co. H. 18th Ohio.