The National tribune., 1884-03-06


| With : Where is you where is you, where is
So we seek for the old Third Kentucky,
And with the same question we quiz you
We. who once were the "ohio Tigers
Felt always more pow ful and pluclly,
When we knew that our hants were supported
BY the trusty and tried Third Kentucky.
Sometimes in your dreams don't you fancy
/ 4ou hear the fierce Tigers howin
And instinctively reach for your grub-sacS
! Lest ON foraging raids they prowling?
! Some incident tell us. occurring
When at London enc winter rested;
/ Or how, on the march TO Atlanta,
The rain OF the rebels you breasted.
Could you think, if you tried to remember,
How you shouted to us in the rattle,
G'win Tigers, g'win Tigers, g'win Tigers,"
AS we passed you when forming for battle?
Third Kentucky, o, brave Third Kentucky.
/ Wake up and shake hands Ger the distance,
Since the thing may be done, O! SO easy,
BY IIE NATIONAL TRIBUNEs assistance.
Mrs. SARAH MATTHEWS.
THE BATTLE AT HOME
WATERLOO, Iowa, February, 1884.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
was glad when L saw some time ago in THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE, an account by Mr. Rutter of
the part taken by the Regulars at the battle of
cemser, 1862, that my first husband was killed
Hiran Smith, company H 10th IT, s. H. 1t is
there that his body lies moiiidcring in his faded
| lis comrades.
1 Who, but wife with her little ones about her.
y can ever know what that sacrifice was TO me- with
one child aged year and half, the other three.
Though nearly twenty-one years have passed
away, and many changes have taken place yet it
takes put one lboughi 10 MAKE my heart throb
| with the deepest OF sorrow-a sorrow made doubly
bitter by the grief OF that aged mother for he
her only son.
From 62 to '66 had no one to look to for aid as
i had epfer
/ the fed-the oldest. Alison Adams in company
ii, LIST Iowa cavalry, who died at Little Rock, Ark.
orisan F. Adams, company B. 18th Iowa volunteer
infantry. and my brother-n- law, Josiah II. Butts
were IN the same company; both re-enlisted the
first OF o. Then came death III its most dreaded
| forn-smal -poA-claimng sister and father,
which, with my mothers poor health added TO
my cares. had pleasant little home two miles
! and a half from Foiney, but way of earning, q
| living except by doing field work. l cultivated
/ two acres OF my own; | raked and bound wheat
and rye, and helped load and stack for my
| neighbors. had TO carry nly water q half
mile. the most of the way up hil pay fifty
cents barrel TO get it hauled. I had to go
| length OF a rail-cut, then cut the remainder in
pieces so that could carry them my house. half
the distance OF a forty acre lot Many times had
to stop under my load, for could see nothing but
stars and darkness. Then, when my days work
was done. and sat down to rest and weep tears of
sorrow, my only comfort was my little ones. who
/ would say: Mamma, don't cry; viii be big
| men some day; then you won't have to work so
hard The boys are, indeed, men that no mother
4 Chicago.
other IN Minneapolis. Minn.-both doing well.
During this time was working faithfully for my
pension. And they that think it an easy task to get
a pension should try il.
What bounty aid l received from the county
had TO be very saving OF, as everything was SO
high; -four s. per hundred, calico fifty cents a
yard, cotton flannel sixty cents yard, and every
thing else accordingly. Such were the experiences
Of one soldiers widow. Priyatons and harfisf,iI,s
brought on catarrh and deafness, from which /
shall be lifelong sufferer, find no cure
When L see the widows of to-day toilinsr for a
living and waiting for their pensions, my heart
goes out III deepest sympathy Tor them If they
feel that they cannot get along and 20 10 the poor
master for little and, they sometimes get this :
There is the poorhouse; it is pity hen cannot
must such men have? Mr. Wright sometime ago.
asked if the faithful and loving wives have lad
Their pay IN full. say, No. Comrades. help them
ana their ciilluren. CEI4EsTIA a. ABEL
OUR YOUNG RECRUITS.
q good name is rather to be chosen than great
riches.-lSotoAto1's Proverbs.
Allan G. Bryant. HaverIlill, Mass, had a
/ grandpa in the war, who died from his wounds.
His uncle served in company b. 10th New
Hampshire.
Lydia A. Wright, Oakdale. Morris county,
Wis, would like TO correspond with Emma L.
Guckert, Marietta, Ohio, or some of The Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE girls, to whom she sends love
She is fourteen Her father Moses Wright.
served in the 93d New York was wounded in
the finger, and draws a pension of 81 a month
Emma Jones, Mason, Pa. is nine years old
and the daughter of the adutant of Albert III
Jackson Post, who served four years: was taken
prisoner at Fredericksburg, and was confined
IN Libby prison.
Willie James, Paris, H., is eight His papa
served four years and six months in company
J. I'd Iowa; was under Grant until Vicksbure
surrendered, and then with Banks, Depart
ment Of the Gulf.
William Huffman, Bethany, H., is a little
boy nine, whose father was in company L, 32d
Illinois, and was prisoner at Florence South
Carolina He has two brothers and sister
and the whole family feel they could not live
without The TRIBUNE.
Eddie Dakin, twelve, Danville. Mich. had a
father, four uncies, and a grandfather in the
army His father served three years in the 1st
Michigan cavalry was wounded at Gettysburg
taken prisoner at the battle of the Wilderness
and was in prison over nine months.
I.ottie Richards, Bluffs, H.. is the nine-year.
old daughter of the commander of Harringt
Post, and served in company B, 9th Illinois
nearly four years. Her brother Harry is six
aud sister Sallie four.
Katie Frierson, Clatskame, Columbia county
Oregon, says she lives where there are many
pretty moses and ferns and If any ladies East
want some for wreaths, bouquets, &c. she will
send them by mail for a small amount owe,
postage Her papa is trying to get old soldier.
TO go there and settle, as they have no cold
weather or sickness, and the best roads in the
world, and he wants a Grand Army Post. Katie
r is eleven, and she has four sisters and twf
brothers, and they all study al home.
/ Annie Montgomery, Emlenton, Pa, likes tt
read the young folks stories and the girls let
: tiers. She is eleven and has brother with
. the pretty name of Vernette and sister Nellie
: Her father served in 190th Pennsylvania in
fantry, aud suffers from wound received in
. the back of the head in front Of Petersburg
He belongs to Chapman Biddle Post
} Frank Beange. Wellsboro, Pa likes to read ths
war stories in THE TRIBUNE but thinks saw
+ ing the Nation" the best of ALL He likes all O.
: CaFletons stories. His father served in com
pany @, 45th Pennsylvania volunteers, and
: thinks General Howard's articles alone worth
! far more than the price Of the paper. Willie il