The National tribune., 1884-05-01


To sound her worth were guilt and shame
In US who love but gold and ease;
They heed alike our praise or blame,
Who live and die in works like these.
Far greater than the wise or brave,
Far happier than the fair or gay,
Was she who found martyrs grave
Oh that red field of Monterey.
Our Young Recruits.
BRIGHT LETTERS FROM THE SONS AND DAUGH-
TFRs OF OUR VETERANS
Perchanoe may not follow ambition to its goal
SO let US answer Present! y when duty calls the
roll.
Whatever our appointment. be nothing less than
And, cheerful in submission, be happy as we can.
-KiTkpatrtck.
My father. Edwin S. Taylor eomrade of Noble
Post Nc 252 was four wears and a half in the
army: was in thirteen hard-fought battles; never
was wounded never in hospital taken prisoner.
But he says II an army mule had gone through the
same hardsbips there would not have been enough
left to feed crow. He has not been able to work
since he came home from the army, yet he draws
were like Logan and Ingalls,. Our veterans would
then get their rights. j am twelve, with brother
Older, and two sisters and brother younger
Minnie o. Taylor, Noble Ill.
My father served three years in the 10th Illinois;
was at the siege of Ycksburg at Jackson, Blakely
lAlabama), and many hard fights. He had sum
stroke, and has been in poor health since, and
which, added to rheumatism, brought ON by lying
in the bitches, causes much suffering.-Joseph j.
Boxer, Carbon Center, Neb.
My father a soldier in the war of 1s61-5. he
has not been able to do any work as long as | can
recollect He received his injuries in the army /
have five brothers and two sisters, and my mother
Shareholders daughter. but she loyal.
Mother and her boys makeour living. If Congress
knew how my father has suffered and how hard a
time my mother and her children have had to live
and take care offather think they would so amend
the pension laws that his claim for pension would
be granted at once. / am fourteen years old and
have not attended school more than six months in
all. We have blackboard in our house, and
father. who used to teach school, teaches boys
at night and in wet and stormy weather when we
can't work. All the amusement that we have IS
our books and music. We have an orchestra OF
five instruments viz first violin, second violin,
bass-yiol, piccalo and organ We get from SIS to
SO per night for our music We are a temperance
family. My father is forty-six years of age and
he has never tasted any kind of Intoxicating
drinks, nor have his boys tasted any, either. We
eagerly await the coming Of The NATIONAL TRTB-
USE each week. 1t is the best paper out.-Joseph
| w. Hanna. HayerhiU. Kan
We think THE TRIBUSE is the soldiers friend.
Papa served three years in company IL, 18th Mchi-
gan; his name is William Adams. He has applied
for pension, but has not got IT. He had two
brothers in the service and mamma three. / am
nine, and have two sisters, Cora and Maud, and
little brother Charlie-Carrie L. Adams, Fairfield
Mich.
/ am a soldiers little girl nine years old, and
have little sister and brother. have pet cat
and its name is Muffy. i think the boys and girls
| write such nice letters for THE TRIBUSE.-Laura
| Deyaney, Cascade, Iowa.
| am a little boy of eleven. and love THE TRIB-
USE for it is the true red white and bluefast coll
ors-and the flag my father fought under to save
our country. And il saved, thank Cod
/ Father was in the 1st Wisconsin cavalry. He is
now blind. His name is TufTeI Snow.-Howard II.
| Snow, Elk Point, Oak.
| Ny father served in company B, ID Illinois cav
| airy; he WAS in the battle OF Red River. He had
brother killed in the army. have four sisters and
| one brother, AIy fathers name is Alex Weaver
| III. o. Weaver, Rose Hill, Kan.
am a little girl o. thirteen but have read the
statutes of the United States, which say every
soldier wounded, afflicted from disease con-
traeted in the line of duty. shall have pension.
| Then wonder why twenty years ago when Con-
! gress was nearly all Union this was not DONE
Can you tell me why Congress has not done the
soldiers justieeF / know you can. and trust you
viii give the matter rest until all these
| cared for by the Government they should be.
| The Nations defenders should have been looked
after first as Lincoln said they should be; as Grant
said. but did not do when he had the chance. And
yet he approved the bill increasing his own salary
| and providing other appropriations, many of them
large and excessive at the expense of half mil
! lion deserving soldlers.-Stella Robinson, Wash
| ington, d. c.
/ lam little girl twelve years of age and live In
| Western Kansas. have never been to school, be-
| cause there Is none near enough. My papa
| soldier.-a member of company e. 32d o. V. L.
and served nearly three years. He is now mem
Der OF George Ellis Post, No. III, q. A. R.-Enma
! a. Williams, Ellis, Kansas.
am little girl ten years old. My pa was SOL
der in the 18th Indiana three months menl, and
was in battle June 3, 1861, and he saw the first
| general killed; it was r. e. Garnett He after
wards served in the 10th Indiana company H one
year; then he enlisted in the sth independent COM
pany, Ohio sharpshooters and served till the war
was over.-Essie Croly, Geneva, Neb.
THE TRIBUNE is a welcome visitor at our house.
My father, j. III. Pickett is veteran of sxty-five
| years He served in the 23d Indiana from July
| 1861 to August 1864 and started home the same
day General Mcpherson was killed. He had lost
an eye and was crippled up with rheumatism Two
brothers went with hiIn-one twenty, the other
eighteen. The younger brother died of measles in
1861; the other wounded at the siege of Vicks-
burg Another brother served year on gun
boat and then enlisted in the 177th Indiana serving
TO the close My mamma s brother was in the same
regiment. and papa had a brother months
in Andersonviile, and has not seen him since the
war Papa is comrade of Mason Post No 235
am nine.-Anna Pickett, Grand View. Ind.
My father served in company K. 18th Michigan,
for four years. He would like to hear from
some of his comrades. He will join Post soon,
but now the only thing that brings up his old war
days is THE TRIBUNE. We all love it-Dora
Petter, Teeumseh, Mich.
We have taken TIRE TRIBUNE two years and
could scarcely keep house without it. am little
as mamma is dead have two other sisters and
brother. We all proud father soldier
He served four years in company J. I4th Illinois;
in several hard battles, and taken prisoner on
Sherman Atlanta campaign and sent to the dis
NAL pen at Andersonville, where so many brave
| soldiers died from starvation and exposure to the
scorching suns and bleaching storms. After eight
months he returned home with broken constitu-
| S4 month pension, which is just one cent and a
third day for each OF rs; ! think this is pretty
hard a for doing bis duty. Don't p
EuIah Burch, Franklin, III,
My father served. three years in company D. I'd
Colorado cavalry. He belongs to Belot Post No.
l47 G. A. r. had an unce-Samuel Kyle-who
served in companylF 34th @. " l., who was cap
tured at Cedar Creek the <slay of Sheridans ride
and was starved to death In Salisbury prison am
ten years od.-Sanuel A. Hicks Beloit, Kan
like to read the little letters in your paper. I
am eight years old.-Joseph Hicks
My papa was a soldier, and takes THE TRIBUNE
and like read it. He says it's the best paper in
the United States He belonged to company a.
2ist Missouri V. V. /. had eleven cousins in the
war Cousin Jim Malone, 107th Illinois infantry
Dan Malone. 4ist Illinois, killed at Fort Donelson
Tenn; Eek Malone, - Illinois regiment; Marion
Malone, - Illinois regiment; Jordan Malone
10th Illinois cavalry; James b. White, Sd Iowa
cavalry Newton White. 7th Iowa infantry; John
S. White, 2lst Missouri; jackson White, 10Th Mis-
souri,. My grandpa belonged to the Cd Missouri
M. s. M, under General McNeal. had three
cousins and two uncles in the Southern army
They belonged, j think, to the Ilth Alabama under
Stonewall Jackson, think this does pretty well
for soldering. Who can beat it :? My papa belongs
to Belot Post, No. l47. g. A. R.-A. O. Malone.