The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-12-27


buy a cork leg for veteran who lost his limb
while telling trees in front of fort while on
detached duty. So far he has been unable to
prove his claim because of this fact. He is in
destitute circumstances, and is looking anX-
iously for the passage of the Disability Pen
sion bill, and when it does pass he hopes God
will palsy the hand which dares TO lift pen TO
veto it.
S. D. Spear, Corporal, Co. A, 18th Ohio, Dali
zell, o., thinks pensions should be equalized.
He knows a comrade who lost his left arm at
the shoulder, for which he receives $45 per
month, not bit too much either. He also
knows two other old vets, who cannot do one
half the work put together that the Oue-armed
cOmrade can, for they are broken down entirely
in health. Yet the One-armed man gets more
than twice as much money for his disability as
both the other men. He does not complain Of
what the one man receives, but at what the
others do not receive. He hopes this matter
will soon be remedied.
Random shots.
u. Sperry, Corporal, Co. D, 10th Iowa, Lang
don, Mo, agrees with Capt. E. A. Wilson re-
garding the admission into the GAR. of men
who served in the rebel army under cOmpuI-
sion during the first part of the war, and after
ward enlisted and did good work for the Union.
he knew two young men who had served N
an Arkansas regiment IN the rebel army, who
enlisted in Co. X, 18th Iowa, after the battle Of
Prairie Grove, and served faithfully until the
close of the war and were as true as steel.
These men were forced into the rebel ranks,
but left as soon as opportunity offered. They
should not, he thinks be denied the privilege
OF joining the GAR.
Jonathan Bigalow, Newfoundland, n. J., was
one of the boys who suffered ali but death in
Salisbury Prison, along with thousands OF
9th s. He does not have TO sleep in the mud
now, nor dive down into a barrel of slushy
va tnT IN IN fayx- IN,
as he has plenty of good white ones with which
TO satisfy his hunger, besides lots of other good
things. He would like TO hear from any of his
old comrades of the seth n. Y.
Robert K. Johnson, Co. f, Sth Iowa Cav,
Moroyia, Iowa, would like TO hear from any of
the boys who composed the wood squad at Flor
ence Is. c. Prison. He was in charge of this
squad from December until ne left there in
February. Although this squad was sworn not
to trade, they used to carry in tobacco, peas
and everything else they could get by trading
with the guards. Any of these old boys will
remember the read headed Lieut.. Barrett. He
/ was daisy. Comrades who see this viii con-
fer favor by writing to the above address.
Dudley Phillips, Corporal Co. d, 154th n. Y,
Machas, n. Y, wants to know if all the cid
| boys of MS regiment are dead, as he sees moth
| ing in THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE about them.
| Wake up, old 154th, and tell US about Resaca,
| Peach Tree Greek and other battles, the march
| to the sea, and how the sweet potatoes would
/ start up from the ground and the turkeys
would leave their roOst and follow Us into camp.
Wake up, old " bareback regiment, and blow
/ your bugle
| c. /. Ellsworth, Co. F. 10th Wis, Wilderville,
/ Ore, having read the communication of DR.. J.
/ II. Colburn, Co. II, 18th Wis, in THE NATIONAL
/ TRIBUNE, would like to ask the Doctor if he
remembers when the 18th Wis. got scared out
/ in front of the breastworks at Corinth, Miss,
| about IL o'clock at night, and the whole regi-
ment came tumbling over the works, and the
| lOng-roll was beat, which called up 10 miles of
/ soldiers, who remained in the trenches the rest
of the night? If the Doctor does not remem-
! Der this circumstance the writer does, as his
regiment was on the right of the 18th Wis. He
would like to have the Doctor give an account
of that big scare.
| Willie J. Ballinger Camp Creek, East Tenn,
| is the son of an old veteran who helped conquer
the rebellion, and he takes great delight in read
| ing THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE. His father lost
his health in the army, and is also cripple; but
| he has to struggle and toll for the support of a
/ large family, the eldest being only is years Old
| They are poor and not able to take any paper
| but they hope that, now there is going to be a
| change in the administration, good times Will
/ soon come.
| Enoch Jones, Elixir, Ark, writes: In The
| NATIONAL TRIBUNE of New. 8 l find in ex-
| tracts taken from a private letter written by
| Chaplain Enoch Jones, of Convalescent Bar
racks, New Orleans. am glad to say to Alice
that the Chaplain yet lives, and we'll remem-
/ bers the angel-like visits of herself and mother
| to the barracks and hospitals in the interest of
| the sick and wounded soldiers. Hundreds of
| soldiers will gladly join me in the benediction,
| God bless Alice and her dear mother!"
| S. d. Webster, Co. ID, 18th Mass, st. Louis,
Mo-. says: Regarding the shooting of a de-
serter, noted in THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE of
! July 26 and Nov. %, would say that 1 find by
my diary that it occurred June - and not L,
| 1863. The entry reads: He was captured at
| Charlottesville; recognized while on the way
| to Acquia Creek, taken back to his regiment,
/ tried by eOurt-martial, and sentenced to death
| by shooting on June 10 Then follows an ae-
count substantially agreeing with that of
| Lieut.. Comet, to which was added, BY the
! time we reached the place he was buried.
| James Marley, Carrsyille, KY indorses e The
| National Tribune Pension Bill, and hopes it
| will soon become q law. He does not think it
| right, however, to give to men who did little or
nothing as much for their services as to those
| who bore the brnnt of battle for the whole time
of the war. He thinks any man who served
should be entitled to all that any pension bill
| allows.
F. Fenelon, Ferndale, Cal, desires to CORE
| spOnd with a soldiers widow uuder 49,
Rheumatism originates in morbid condition of
| the blood. Hoods SarsapaTilla cures rheumatism