The National tribune., 1888-02-23
D. G., THURsDAY, FEBRUARY %. lsss-TWELvR

Grand Army Pension Committee.
E. d. Keirsey, First Lieutenant, Co. K, s0th
Ill, Oswego, Kan, urges strongly the Justice of
the repeal of the arrears act.
John Sager, Co. ii, 121st Pa, CGrllsville, Pa,
thinks the prisoners of 9ar should not be pen
stoned according to their length Of conine-
ment, but to the disability incurred, whether
confined three weeks or three years.
81. D. Johnson, Co. ii, 18th Ind, Alhina, Ore,
calls upon the old soldiers to stand by their
eolors, and says that by doing so they will CON-
pei the Nation to pay what it owes to its de-
tenders.
1t occurs to Harvey 7. Hite. Co. E. Goth Ohio,
and Co. D. 5lth Ohio, Bordeaux, Neb., that if
the GAR. had the handling Of the surplus in
the Treasury, the disposition Of which at pres
est seems to be giving so much concern to our
lawmakers, the riddle would be at once solved,
and thousands of old soldiers and their families
placed beyond the reach of want.
1t seems TO S. a. Nichoetts, Captain, Co. ID,
18th n. Y. Cav, Humboldt Kan, that now ia
the time for soldiers of the late war to insist
that their Representatives in Congress should
be untiring in their efforts to obtain justics for
them.
A. II. Sawyer, Co. F, I23d Ohio, Nevada, o.,
is in favor of graded service pension.
Robert Pittman, Grosbeck. Tex, expresses
his indignation at the injustice done the SOL
| diers in paying them in deprecated currency
in place Of gold, and wonders how long it viii
be before the balance due them is paid.
| I. e. Grist, Lieutenant, Co. e, I'd Ohio Cav,
Lowellsville, o., is in favor of graded pension
| bill. He says: The soldiers came home, and
under very discouraging circumstances have
| helped TO pay the men who loaned their mon
| ey-eyery cent in gold, principal and interest,
| without murmur. Now, let this magnani-
nous Government pay debt long due its de-
Tenders by passing graded service pension.
| i. ]. Blair, Waterloo, Iowa, suggests q plan
Il L. -. T.
| says that when man has more money than
| he knows what to do with, and owes his neigh
| Dor, honesty would suggest that he pay his
| debts" He ably argues from this that as the
! Government has not lquidated the debt it
! owes the soldiers who so molly saved it from
dissolution, that the surplus could not be better
| employed than by bringing the matter to q
| speedy and equitable adjustment.
| C. FL. Weaver, Glen Beulah, Wis, is not in
| favor of the repeal of the Limitation of the ar
| rears act, but says: "Get all the money Uncle
| Sam viii give, but spend it raising ratings of
/ invalid pensioners who are shamefully rated
| give every ex prisoner of war pension; pass
! the GAR bill, and then smash the protective
| tariff, so that we shall not be obliged to pay
three prices for clothing to warm our poor old
bones"
Lost and Found.
Fl. W. Turner, Kansas City, Mo-, has the dis
charges Of the following comrades, which he
would be glad to return to the owners on ap-
| plication, if stamp be inelosed Thomas Bacon,
| Co. K, 4th Ohio; John R. Byrns, Co. K, ID DO.
L. a.; Samuel Armgart, Co, E, Cd BIO. L. Al
Eli Thomas, Co. K. 14th Mo-; o. V. Perdue
Corp'l, Co. F. 50th Mo-; William Fostor, Co. T,
I4th No. Cav; w. H. Perdue, Co. f, 50th Mo-
Joseph Stephens, Co. /, 1st NJ. S. M. Cav; Ed
ward Field, Co. II, 18th U. s. G. T.
James w. Morrison, Co. G, I'd Iowa, and Co
| @, ID Iowa Cav. Meridian, CAL, while in pur-
suit of Hood, after the battle of Nashville lost
his pOcketbOok. which contained So and his
discharge from his first service.
Richard Ryan. of Pacific No., has in his
possession the discharge Of William II. st. Clair
| Co. G, 14th U. s. Inf, which the owner or his
friends can have by addressing the writer.
Shiloh.
James Fitzpatrick, Gunboat Lexington, Mid.
| dleport, o., contends that III. Choat, Lieut., Co
d, 9th KY, is in error when he says that the
| leading brigade arrived opposite Pittsbure
Landing and crossed over IN time to repel an
attack which would, in all probability, have
| been successful but for the timely arrival oil
Ammen's Brigade. as the fighting for the day
had ceased before any Of Buelis army had
crossed the Tennessee.
w. NJ. Sendelbach, Co. E, ID KY, st. Louis
No. indorses what Lieut. Choat said in regard
to the march to Shiloh. He remembers the
circumstance Of arriving aS the river where
tho bridge was being constructed, when they
received orders from Gen. Nelson to take of
| their shoes and stockings and ford it. They
then went on a forced march for Shiloh anC
heard the cannon when within 10 miles Of Sa-
vaunah. If Gen. Nelson had been in command
at Corinth instead Of Buell. the rebels would
not have got away as they did, for he was
fighter and had Fighting men. He had conf
dence in his men and his men had confidence
In him.
George C. Jenkins Corpl, Co. B, I'd III. Art.
Washington Courthouse, o., has nothing to say
against the Army of the Ohio or against Gen
Buell., though he has nothing TO say In favo
OF the latter. But as member ofthe old Bul
Battery" which was the center Of the last linz
at Shiloh, he Fesents the statements of comrad
Choat in The NATIONAL TRIBUNE of Jan. Is
The Army Of the Ohio did assist IN rounding
up the rebels on Monday morning, but tn
rebels were whipped Sunday evening, and the,
would have been driven back to Corinth all tn
same whether the Army Of the Ohio had com
or not. 1t is positively false that at the tim
of the arrival OF BuelPs forces the rebels wer
within 600 yards OF the guns which had no on
to man them. The Army Of the Tennessee
saved itself.
B. T. Noll, Co. G, Goth III, Stratton, Neb.,
quite sure that III. Choat, 9th KY, is in erro
when he says that Buell. fought ON the seeon
day at Shiloh without the aid of the Army
the Tennessee, except Lew WalIace's Division
Comrade Noll remembers distinctly that Will
his regiment was advancing from the field the
saw long lines of the Army OF the Tennesse
, accompanying them.
Random Shots.
A. D. Riker, Saint Paris o., while not layin
any claim to planting flags on topmost sun
mits, being the first to enter innumerable reb'
! cities and other little expeditions SO eloquent
reeounted by comrades, says he was there, 81
| did his best TO help put down the rebellion.
S. r. Davis, Co. B. 63d Ohio, Gearing, low
, says that Comrade Bishop was right as to I'd
regiments but wrong as TO the division to whic
they belonged that the SD and AID Ohio, 25t
a Wis. and 35Sh n. j. did not belong to the Sci
: ond Brigade, Fourth Division, Seventeent
Corps, as stated by Bishop, bat to the Secon
Brigade, First Division. Seventeenth Corps.
: T. Baker Co. K, 74th Ohio, MeCune, Kan
calls TO mind singular incident that oecurre
on the frst days fight at Stone River. TW
wild turkeys, which were frightened out of
s pine tree, ran into the Third Brigade Fir
n Division, Fourteenth Corps, and were capture
+ by that gallant organization.
q MyFon L. Deem, Sergeant, Co. c. Sd Mich
a Mcbride, Mich, wishes to correct Conrad
Brown, Of the Sd Mich, in regard to the Thin
}, Brigade, Third Division, Fourth Corps. III
: writer says it was composed, at the time Il
4 eomrade mentions, of the Sd and 4th Mich
|, 10th Ohio and 18th Wis.,, commanded by Ge
Samuel Beatty, and not Gen. John Beatty.
n John NJ TAYLOR Co A 56th Pa Harveyyill