The National tribune., 1886-04-15
RELIEF CORPS NEWS.
GIeanings from National Heddquar-
terS--Notes from the Departments.
HEADQUARTERS WoMAE's RELIEF CORPS
Boston. MASS
SARAH e. FULLER, National President.
ELEANOR IL. WHEELER National Secretary.
Anril 6 1856.

. April 8, 1856.
| The first quarterly report for April received
| at these Headquarters was from Geo. A. Custer
| Relief Corps, No. 9, Richmond Va, which was
correct in every particular, and great credit is
! due the officers of that Corps for their pains
taking and evident study of their duties The
| result should be an example to officers much
| older in the work.
| Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, President of the
| Department of Pennsylvania, reports the or
| ganization of q Corps at Mahoning City, with
| 264 charter members. Who can exceed this
| record?
In recent letter from Mrs. Alice f. Griffin,
| President of the Department of Indiana, she
spoke of the interest manifested at their recent
| Department Convention in the cause of our
army nurses and other army workers. and in
closed money order for $l4.25. Who will be
the next to contribute to the relief of these
noble women, who deserve so much at our
hands? ECHO.
AUNT sALLIE TO HER BOYS.
DEAR TRIBUNE: joined the Sd Kan. in August
1861, rs hospital nurse, and continued with them
until the consolidation of the Sd aud 18th, which
| formed the noble 10th. remained with them until
1864, and they We're discharged mt Fort Ieaven-
worth Kan, and being very corpuient ana almost
constantly foot il brought dropsicai aifec-
| ton in my feet, from which l have been confined
to nay bed for seven years. | often think of my
boys, and will you please put this In The IRIB-
UNE Cor them?
TO TIE 10TH KANSAS REGIMENT.
The falling leaves in whirling blasts are scattered
through the trees,
The feecy clouds are flying fast before the coming
breeze,
The western clouds the setting sun has edged with
burning gold
And darkness draws her shadows down the sleepy
world to fold
I'm thinking of the long ago, when friends with
greeting met
OF some who lived in Orient glow, Of some whose
set;
OF some whose dying eyes / closed; too vivid to
forget
Their charge to me; and some arose and call me
mother yet!
How in that grand Reunion did you mind me and
my needs,
And send me gifts. Oh, gallant few you seal your
words with deeds!
AS some of you were once am I, an invalid OF
0, kind of heart, your sympaibies break forth In
grateful tears!
thoughts reveal
God bless you all with one accord this Is the
prayer feel.
-SALIiE r REHFrLD Dieter known Aunt
Sallte hospital nurse, Ogden, Riley Co., Kan
CARE FOR THE ARMY NURSES.
Mrs. Arville A. Adams, President, Willowby
Babc0ck Relief Corps Homer, y. Y, has got the
right idea of things in her Interpretation of the
duties of the GA r. and w re. 20 the army nurse,
In addition their work for the old soldiers and
their widows and orphans. The Department OF
California has taken Mrs. R,nsoms case in hand,
but how many others are in need of friends and AS
| distance Heaven only knows. These shrinking
wants attended to until suitable pension can he
| secured. Mrs Adams writes MS follows: The
TRIBUNE of Feb. gives n statement OF brave
army nurse in distress Mother Eleanor G. Ran
som the writer of that article, asks the GAR. and
WR c. what is best to be done for her. i, Prcsi
dent of the Wiliowby Babcoc< Relief Corps, No.
81, Homer, Cortland Co, n. ". would say that the
| Government should grant her n pension ut once.
Some who has known her well should assist
her in getting her pension. think the VIC. or
the c. r. can do that work very well and not let
her suffer for want of what noble country would
gladly grant her for her Kindness in time of peril.
| There are many eases which the GAR and WIZ.
| c. ought and must see to. we are not doing our
work well and faithfully. My idea of this great
National organization of the GAR. and W.RC. Is
| for this very work here set forth. We must give
true sympathy to those who risked their lives
In time of the rebellion by helping them in true
and loyal manner to obtain at least that which is
Justice. i. for one able to say that ne fast ms
become acquainted with such circumstances rs this
case presents shall say and do all that is right to
have them have pension; and II am not greatly
| mistaken our dear Uncle Sam stands ready to
grant pension, good proof necessary that they
did such work in time of the rebellion Therefore,
I would say 10 Adjntant Frank Bartlett Post No.
6, GA r., Los Angeles Cal, if there is no W.R.C.
in your place, j think the GAR can assist Mother
Eleanor c. Ransom TO get a pension. and trust it
will not he asking too much of him to do this work
for army nurse