The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-15
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Union Veteran Army.
Recruiting Office,
Department of Vermont
BRANDON, Vt, April, 1885.

BRANDON, w., April, 1880.
To the honordbly discharged soldiers sailors
and marines lCho served in the late Udr, and
TO the fathers, brothers and sons of those
whose ralor Suferings and heroism haze
gtCen as united, free and prosperous
country.
In the name of the thousands of widows
and orphans whose husbands and fathers
fell by our sides on the bloody fields of the
war. or died of lingering disease in hospitals,
or persisted from starvation and exposure in
rebel prisons; in the name of the thousands
of disabled comrades who to-day are suffer
ing from wounds received in action, or from
the hardships and exposures of campaigns
in the name of the thousands whose physical
constitutions were ruined by sufferings in
rebel prisons; in the name of the thousands
who served honorably and faithfully through
the terrible ordeal of war, without other
compensation than the mere pittance of a
soldiers pay; IN THE NAME OF ALL THESE
THOUSANDS we ask you to organize for the
purpose of demanding from those placed in
power by your suffrages that justice be
granted to the surviving soldiers and sailors
of our late war and the widows and orphans
OF their fallen comrades.
The organization known as the " Union
Veteran Army" furnishes means by which
not only all honorably discharged soldiers
and sailors, but also the fathers. brothers
and sons, may act unitedly, and therefore
effectually, for the accomplishment of the
following demands:
First.-The granting of pensions to all
soldiers disabled in the service, also to the
widows or orphans and dependent parents
of all deceased soldiers whose deaths can be
shown to have resulted from, or have been
fastened by, the hardships of military
service.
iSecond.-The protection of all honorably
discharged soldiers now in the civil service,
so long as they may prove themselves COM
petent and honest and the admission to the
civil service, in preference to others, of all
such eX-soldiers as are found by examination
to possess the necessary qualifications.
Third.-The bestowal of land warrant
upon every honorably discharged soldier
and sailor, portion of which is now con-
coded to be theirs by the law deducting their
term of service.
FourM.-The equalization of bounties to
all soldiers. of whatever grade.
FifM.-The pensioning of those soldiers
and sailors who have survived the horrors
and sufferngs of the southern military
prisons; that they should be admitted TO
pension simply upon proof of confinement
prescribed length of time.
A bill now before congress, and known as
the Union Veteran Army Bill III. b, No.
240D provides for most of the objects
enumerated above. Will you not use your
influence and lend your active assistance
towards organizing all those interested in
the passage of this bill into companies, bat
talions and regiments of the Union Veteran
Array, who will, by working and voting at
the polls, secure these just rights before it
shall be forever too lateY
The veterans in other states are doing their
| duty noby in this respect, and now let the
! old veterans and their friends of the Green
Mountain State, who yielded to none in
their zeal for the Union, or their bravery on
the field OF battle, emulate their comrades
East and West in their endeavor TO secure
justice to the survivors of the great Union
Army and to the widows and orphans of de-
parted comrades. Fraternally yours,
HENRY BARRows, Recruitiag officer