The National tribune., 1888-01-05

his membership for want of the payment Of
dues or assessments The GAR. should be
like Masonry, which is, "Onee Mason, always
8 Mason" and money should be raised in some
other manner. He advocates the annual hold
ing OF sham-battles, and instances the recent
sham battle at Minneapolis, where over $4,000
was cleared for the Grand Army Posts in that
city.
Leander Chapman, Co. I, 51st Wis, Irving,
Wis, applauds Private Dalzel's idea of abolish
ing tho dues in Grand Army Posts, and says
that is the way he likes to hear old soldiers
talk. Once a Grand Army man. he viii be a
Grand Army man all the years of his life.
Robert A. Stevenson, Co. G, 18th ILL.,, Spring
field. o., has a complete history of his regi-
ment, including the battles they were in. the
number of miles marched, and the loss in killed,
wounded and missing. He is working hard for
"Blaek Jacks " monument
John Wheeler, Yandalia, H. says that he
has grown so blind from his disabilities that he
is unable to read, and besides is so deaf that he
cannot hear the paper read to him. He has q
pension of only $40 month, and is obliged to
support his family, so that he has very little
left to subscribe to the papers, which he would
do if he could find pair Of glasses 70 suit his
failing sight.
Frank Phillips, First Sergeant, Co. E, 32d
Wis, corrects Comrades Lucas and Bishop about
their story of the fight at Salkahatchie. He
14lSuts 4DdiAs HHp was y NcIJ kAiAeltit
officer, was right in every particular in the
story that he told of the same fight. The 32d
ILL., was never brigaded with an Iowa regiment,
and Gen. Belknap never had command of it,
| because it belonged to the command Of Gen.
Mower, of the Seventeenth Corps
w. e. Webster Hammondsp0rt, n. Y, who
describes himself as mule driver. says that
Lieut.. George Fl. Mckinney is decidedly mis-
| taken in his story of how his train was saved
at Sabine Crossroads. The 161st n. Y. mot
Zouaves) belonged to the First Brigade, First
Division Nineteenth Corps, and not to the
| Thirteenth Corps The regiment lost very
heavily in that fight.
| Lewis Filler, jr, Co. T, 18th Ohio, New Dover
| o., takes the other tack from the appeal fire.
| quently made and is against the repeal of the
/ limitation OF arrears act, because it would lei
| in class of men who are not entitled to pen
sions, the hundred-days men" of 1854 ant
! the "cOffee-co0lers" He wants pensions fol-
services performed, which should be sworn L
by four comrades; and the pensions could be ae
cording to service.
c. f. Metzger, Co. d, 1st Ohio H g., Lacrew
Iowa, says that when his regiment was at Five
| Points, in East Tennessee, in the Spring o
1865, provisions were scarce, and he and SOM
of his comrades got hungry for meat. Johl
| Curer, George Loosen and himself, of Co. d
started out into the mountains to hunt shoats
They found some, and with their revolver
killed two of about 100 pounds weight apiece
They built fire and heated stones, which the,
rolled into hole. filed with water, scalde'
the hogs in the hole and then got them bacl
to camp.
John o. Humphrey, Co. H, 9th Vt, Evans
vile, Vt, says that Comrade Amos Wolston, Q
that regiment, was perfectly correct in hi
statement that the 9Th VT was the first int
Richmond on the morning Of April 3, 1866
and its men opened the doors Of Libby Priso
and released the prisoners.