The National tribune., 1884-03-06

b. r. Mcbride, Bangs Post Office, Ohio, likes
| The TRIBUNE so we'll that he is going to get
/ up a club and thus secure copy. He has read
few copies belonging to neighbor. He is
| thirteen. and the son of a four year veteran of
the 10Th O. Y. L and comrade of Joe Hooker
| Post. IA
Della Stucky, London, Ohio, is the ten-year
| old daughter of a veteran of the 18th Ohio who
enlisted at sixteen and was a prisoner at Flor
ence and Salisbury. He is a comrade of Lyon
! Post, and, besides Della, has two sons and two
| daughters. -
| Flora NJ Hodgeman, South Lyon Mich, is
the daughter of John f. Hodgeman, first of
company /, 5th Michigan infantry, then of COM
pany K, 10th Michigan cavalry. She has a
] sister Eva and brother Johnnie, and is four
teen years old.
John S. Carroll Williamsburg, KY, says his
papa, Daniel W. Carroll, 7th Kentucky infantry,
| wants to be put down as a life subscriber to
The TRIBUNE, as does every veteran who
served three years or during the war John is
eleven, and his brothers are George, Wade and
| Willie, and the sisters Susan and Mary.
The father of Hawes Newlin, Danyille, Ill.,,
served in company G, I'D Illinois, and was
captured in his third battle But he slid out
and left his captors, which he has since made
| the subject of book. Johnnie has two brothers
! and sister
Lille Richards, West Liberty, Iowa. is eight
| years old, and has sister and two brothers.
| Herpapa served three years and nine months
in company III, 11th Iowa (Crockers brigade).
/ His name is Duval Richards.
| Irvie Armor, Traer, Iowa, is a boy of four
/ teen, whose father, a soldier in company X,
9th Illinois, was up the Red River with Banks
lie was in twelve battles but never wounded,
although one time, while loading his gun, a
musket ball struck his ramrod and broke it.
Once, while fighting, he and some more boys
/ shot at an officer on large gray horse, who had
on coat with rattlesnakes all over it. As he
fell they all sprang for the coat, when Irvie's
father fell over a stump and nearly broke his
neck, and did not get the coat either. He went
in as drummer boy at sixteen, and went
! by the name of Little Chap" He and Bob
f-Burdette slept together under the same blanket
many a night.
Allie Todd's father, Daniel Todd, Fort Scott
| Kan, enlisted IN company |, 9th o. Y. l., Octo-
/ Der IA, 1861, at the age of sixteen, but is now
getting gray. He was wounded at Resaca and
is now veteran of w. III. Lytle Post Allie is
eleven. and has four sisters and brother, all
OF whom like to hear about the war.
Charlie Calvert, Carthage, Dakota is little
boy eight years old, who had thirteen uncles
| in the war. His papa-H. B. Calvert-served
| In company K, 18th o. Y. l., three months
service; then in company c. both o. v. l., and
/ veteranlxed In 1864, making in all four years
| and four months he gave TO his country. He
was wounded at Vicksburg and Missionary
| Ridge, and had eight brothers in the army.
| One of Charles mammals brothers. who served
| in the 102d Illinois, was wounded at Camden,
! 5. G., from the effects of which he died, after
suffering several years
/ Hulda Gruhlke, Holmesville, Ind, is the
only child of a veteran of the 29th Indiana
N inff
leg. from which he has been for years disabled.
Hulda is thirteen, and seeing The TRIBUNE,
asks the price of subscription, which is 81 per
year.
Eli Mcdonald, French Lick Ind. likes Won
derfully well to hear his father tell war stories,
or to read them in The TRIBUNE, which he
thinks the best paper ever printed. He likes
stories of prison escapes the best of all.
Ellie Derr's father was shot once by a John
! ny, and the ball passed through the heel of his
boot, burning his heel little Her father,
| Samuel Derr, Liverpool, Pa, is a comrade of
| the G. A. r., and served in company Z, 1st
Pennsylvania cavalry, over three years. Ellie
! is fourteen.
Lille NJ. Miller's father, of East Homer N
Y, was private, first in company D. 157th
New York, then in 55th company I'd battery
V. r. G. His name is George T. Miller and he
gets S2 per month pension. Lille is ten, and she
has sister Carrie, and brothers Willie, George
and BERTHE.
Hattie Thompson's father lives at New
| Sharon Iowa. When seventeen he enlisted in
company K, 7th Iowa; was in hospital eight
months with measles discharged; re-enlisted
in company B, 10th Iowa, and served till the
| war was over. He is a great invalid, and can
not work any more, but he VOWS he viii vote
the Republican ticket as long as he lives. Hat
/ tie is ten. and has sisters Anna Emma aud
/ Mary, and brothers Ben and Asa.
! Maud Wells, Grenola, Kan, is a little girl of
eleven, who is the daughter of d. W. Wells. a
| wounded soldier of company G. 9Th Missouri
cavalry. He has tried for fourteen years to
| get pension.
Lille Dolan's father was shot on the top of
| his head at Stone River New Years, 1863. He
lives at Albion Ind belongs to Warden Post,
and served with Captain Bradner, company G.,
30th Indiana. Lille has four sisters and a
brother, Patrick Henry.
Anna j.. Emory, Lock Haven, Pa, is twelve,
and had a father and seven uncles in the army.
Her papa served in the 1st Pennsylvania cav
airy, and was wounded at Cedar Mountain.
Elmer A. Banks is little boy, seven, who
| lives at Yinton, Iowa, and is studying hard so
as to read THE TRIBUNE himself. His mann
ma says she hopes he will never have to fight
! as his father did, whose name is Horatio Banks
! @. NJ, Coder Post. He served in company Z.
74th Illinois; was In ten battles and in Ander-
sonyille prison.
Mollie S. Sohn, Saybrook, ILL.,, says her papa
served in company G, 18th o. V. l., three
months service; then in company K 55th o.
! V. J., until the war closed He is a member of
| Mcpherson Post, which gave grand Camp
fire on Washington's Birthday.
Harry Earhart, Salisbury, Pa, says his father
was but fifteen when he enlisted ia company
b, 55th Pennsylvania. He was wounded
at GAINESVILLE, Va, August 2S, 1862 was
| taken prisoner, gets a pension and is a
comrade of Post So. Harry had four uncles in
| the war, three of whom carry wounds and one
| buried at Bell Plain Landing, Va.
Randolph Waddell, thirteen years old, Paw
nee City, Neb. is the son Of J. NJ Waddell,
company e, 155th Illinois, who was taken
! prisoner at Chickamauga and served fourteen
months and five days in Libby, Andersonyille
and Florence nothing to eat for four tlays but
| two ears of corn. Ralph thinks the Govern
| ment should pension all such men, and Ralph is
right.
/ THE IRREPREssIBLE CONFLICT STILL GOING ON.
KANSAS Cry, Mo-, February IT, 1884.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
am thirteen years old. We live in Kansas, four
We children pick berries during their season. and
papa pays the same as the other pickers Papa
/ was q soldier in the Sth PennsylvaDia Reserve
Corps, was wounded in front of Petersburg in the
right
We have had exciting times here. Papa is school