The National tribune., 1884-09-25

quarters McAllister was In command Of this Sec
ond Brigade. He was strong Lincoln man and am /
old friend. His welcome was hearty. He sent for /
the Surgeons of all the regiments belonging TO his
brigade; soon they come flying thinking some one I
more wounded. but found q different /
work to do. They each returned TO their respect
i've regiments to get the men Off to hospital. After
leaving Gen. MeAllister
SHOT AND SHELL FLEW FAST OVER THEM,
just gIancine the horses backs and the ambulance.
The Chaplain OF the Department field hospital had
accompanied her i5 miles from City Point in front
of Petersburg. They arrived safely at the field |
hospital and were informed every name had been |
sent up TO Gen. Meade from thai hospital. Surg
Gen. Barnes had not designated what hospital they
should come from she sent for the Brigade SUR
geon DIR. Weilhng1. with whom she aequaint-
ed, advised him to go over to the brigade and
organize brigade hospital, and send the men
up as quickly possible 10 Gen. Meade; for |
tomorrow they must leave on the boat or be too I
late for the election Her request was complied
with and she returned TO City Point to make ready
to care for several hundred men, very many Of
whom needed care and attention.
The morning came bright and beautiful, when the /
boys marching in by the hundreds, jolly set
of Jersey invalids; but, aasl there came also many
very sick and sadly wounded. She took the re-
sponsibiiity of the of them and spent the time
going up to Washington attending to them. Here
they got their back pay (some of them had not re-
ceiged dollar for nine months) they took real
comfort home to their families. They voted
Jersey into the Union, was the remark often made
by them afterwards, and very many OF them visit
ed their loved ones for the last time.
Having voted and made their families more COM
Portable than they otherwise would have BEEN
they returned to duty TO a nan-they felt happier
and. to the Doctors own expression, better and
faithful soldiers not in the field than the
New Jersey boys.
| Mrs. Painter, who is an honorary member of the
GAR. of Nebraska, has received many distin-
guished testimonials of her services. Soon after
she offered her services to the cause, Gov Parker
| of New Jersey, sent her a commission, it having
been asked for by the officers and enlisted men of
that State. In few months the Pennsylvania boys
sent up similar petitions being signed by Thad
deus Stevens dear to the hearts of the soldiers
| of Pennsylvania
THE LOYAL WOMAN QUESTION.
| We are in receipt of letter from Mrs Nellie
| Volk, a member of Lincoln Relief Corps, No. g
Topeka Kan. opening the question of the ad-
mission Of all loyal women to membership in
the Woman's Relief Corps. As that question
was fully and finally settled at the Minneapolis
| Convention, after prolonged and able discus
sion. on which the vote stood 76 for their ad-
| mission to seven against, it is no longer sub
| ject for discussion by members of the Order
| To questions propounded by the writer we
| ply as follows:
| 1st The Tuesday afternoon meeting was a
called meeting, duly announced IN the press,
| that the Chief, Department
| Commanders and other delegates to the GAR
| Encampment, which opened Wednesday morn
| ing, might be present. The right of the Presi-
dent TO call special meetings has never been
questioned. The regular business meeting of
National Convention began. as announced, on
! Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock.
I'd. The Loyal Ladies' League of New Jersey
is not a part of the National Order, W.R.C
But the Woman's Relief Corps have number
of organizations in the State, which will shortly
be constituted into a Department. Depart
ment Commander Nevius indorses the Ma
tional Order
Sd. Maine has a Department of the National
Order Woman's Relief Corps, of which Mrs.
Emily Littlefeld, Bangor, Me-, is the very eff
clent President. The Woman's State Relief
Corps, of which Mrs Sawyer writes, is an inde-
pendent organization. Department Commander
Williams, of Maine gives his support to the
National Order, as does every Department
Commander of the GAR, recognizing, as the
true soldier should, that the action of the Ma
tional -Encampment is the supreme law of the
association.
| MAINE woNAN's PLEA.
To TIE EDITOR: / noticed in your issue Of Sept.
| a letter from Mrs Sawyer, of Portland in regard
to the Relief Corps of Maine. 1t great
prise to me to learn that there was an independent
| organization in that State. Permit to say
through your columns that think they max
ing great mistake Why should not all loyal
women who desire to do so become members of
the Woman's Relief Corps?
Twenty years have passed away since the last
gun was fired, and an entirely new element has
sprung up in society. Earnest and thoughtful
women who were children then now filing
our households and rearing their children to love
their country and be faithful to her flag and her
laws. Those mothers with their young sons watch
with full hearts and dewy eyes the noble process
sion ofveterans who, to the sound OF martial music,
with fower-aden drays, go forth on their beautiful
mission every Both of May, and the very sight
of those men their loving errand awakens in
their hearts desire to be of assistance to them in
cherishing the memory of the honored dead, and,
what is of far more importance, in caring for the
needy living. Shall these noble women, because
they did not happen have father, brother or
husband in the war, be debarred from the pleasure
and honor of working for the Grand Army OF the
Republic? say thousand times. MOI Let down
your bars oh sisters of my native State and admit
all loyal women who wish to work with you in one
OF the most sacred charities the world ever knew.
Gather 70 your numbers
The loyal. good and true"
as the boys gathered them three and twenty years
ago. You find work for all the loyal women
who wish to aid you. The field is broad and stiIl
widening.
do not say all this because 1 am only loyal
, woman. had two brothers in the war. One gave
was member of the 5th Me. and former mem
ber of Bosworth Post, Portland, but member
oq o eA ;.s,t ~, u ~ 50 i5 i 40 =.
{ future growth aud welfare. 1 that
r loyal women must take up the work rs, one by
, one, we lay it down. The veterans are growing
! old. Every year their heads growing silvery.
Every year they are dropping from the ranks and
answering the rolI-call on a fIirer shore There is
hearts to help In the good work and am reluctan.
to believe that the good old State of my birth can
be less liberal than her si5terS.-HELES PACKARD
! : Springfield, Mass.
THE NATIONAL PRESIDENTS CORPS.
To THE EDITOR: On Tuesday the 9Th of Sep
tember Forsyth Relief Corps. No. Department ot
Ohio, held its first meeting after the Summer vaea-
tion. The reports of the Treasurer and the Chair
man of Visiting and Supply Committee read
| showing that the work of relief goes through
Summers heat and Winters cold, whether the
regular Society meetings are held or not Mrs
r Mary S. Bergen, Delegate at Large for the Depart
ment of Ohio read very interesting report of the
Minneapolis Convention, which was unanimously
b adopted and ordered printed with the annual re-
port of the Corps. In consequence of the election
| of Mrs Kate B. Sherwood as National President
: and her appointment of Niss Emma ID. Sibley a:
q National Secretary, their designations President
and Senior Vice of the Corps were read by the Sec
q retary and placed in the hands of Committee, be
? ing accepted with regret. The Corps then pro
ceeded to elect their successors which resulted IL
y the choice of Mrs. Cora ID. Young, former Seere
tary for President, who appointed as her Secretary
: Mrs. Mary E Bullock. Mrs. Elizabeth NJ Irving
: who has occupied the chair of Junior Vice, wa:
elected Senior Vice, and the vacancy thus created
filed by the election of Mrs. Clara ID. Claypool
All of these officers give the highest satisfaction
= all being identified with the work of the Corps
h Mrs. Young, the President. is the wife of Pas
n Senior Vice Commander-in-C Chief Young, and has
i worked side by side with Mrs. Sherwood as Seere
D tary of the Society since its formation thu
being thoroughly eonversant with the work in al
r its branches. She Is at present Senior VieePresi
Il dent of the Department OF Ohio, and fills ever
4 station with ability, being conscientious, capable
and earnest worker, whose heart is in the cause
| Under her administration confidently