The National tribune., 1889-02-21

extractor, etc, and the old-fashioned brush
and wire pick used with fint-lock muskets
also, at the left of the guns there hangs a cav
airy nose bag.
Here is an old wool spinning wheel aud flax
hackle Il years old, loaned by Mrs. NJ. Ham
lin. Of Circlevilie, o.
Now we come to an old-timer. This log is a
portion of the flagstaff erected by Anthony
Wayne at Fort Recovery, Mercer Co., o., near
the dividing line of Ohio and Indiana. 1t was
erected in the year 1893 where st. Clair was
defeated in 1871. The log, or base Is five feet
long and two feet through. There is hole IA
inches long 10 wide and Is deep mOrtised in
the center, and the flagstaff proper squared TO
fit in this hole. This was planted in the
ground in that way to make it more firm.
There is only two feet six inches of the up
right part There are two stories about how
this log was found: One that in grading for
railroad, and the other in digging well. Both
parties that we have heard relate the stories
say they are right. We have to watch it pretty
close to keep relic-hunters from pulling 1t to
pieces and carrying il off.
On brackets just above the log is miniature
canal-boat, complete in all its details, named
J. A. Garfield. it is made of piece of timber
on which the coffin rested of our lamented
President, James A. Garfield, at Cleveland, o.
The boat was made by Master John Sheard,
aged il years.
Higher up on the wall is flag captured by
the Sd Ohio at Fayetteville, Tenn. 1t has three
stripes, with blue field and 10 stars; is six
feet long and three feet six inches wide. We
do not know from whom it was captured The
flag is made Of pieces of silk, and is very much
faded.
Next the flag are a number of bayonets:
two from Missionary Ridge, one used at Bum
ker Hill, one used during the Revolutionary
war, and an old broken sword and short cutlass
made at Macon, Ga, and captured at Mission
airy Ridge.
Below this group of bayonets is a frame filled
with wartime envelopes. This is one of three
we have, and they contain I55 different kinds.
1t is amusing to see people who were young
folks during the war look at them and pick
out the ones they were most familiar with;
and the old soldier to tell how they would re-
ceive them from their sweethearts, and pre-
serve them as long as they could. These are
only few of the number of designs that were
printed during those stirring times. They
were collected and preserved by Z. L. Walker,
of Athens, o.
Here is a frame that has all the corps badges,
in colors, issued by the War Department in
1865. All GAR. Posts should have one to
hang In the Post room, as they are not only an
ornament for the wall, but it will settle many
controversies as to what the corps badges were.
Resting on the top of this frame, and against
Sharpe
AT the left of this frame hangs the old-fash-
Toned thrashing- machine-the fail. 1t was
the property of one John Burr who was one of
the early settlers of the Western Reserve, in
the northern part of Ohio.
Here on the wall, at the left of the window,
we have an interesting group. At the top
hangs the gun and cartridge-box; little be-
low the knapsack, with blanket rolled and
strapped on the top; the haversack, canteen
and cofee-pot In the center is drum car
Tied during the First Bull Run fight by Co. A,
LIST Ohio. 1t is pretty we'll battered up. At
the side Of the drum is an old recruiting poster,
1Sx 30 inches, and this is the way it reads:
ENLIST IN THE 9SD REGIMENT,
Col CHARLES ANDERSON, Commanding.
SIS bounty; SI3 pay in advance, and s. premium.
ORDER FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT.
1t is ordered out of the appropriation for collect.
ing, organizing and drilling volunteers, there shall
be paid in advance to each recruit for three years
during the war, the sum of SIS being one-fourth
OF the amount of the bounty allowed by law.
such payment TO be made upon the mastering
of the regiment TO which such recruits belong, into
the service Of the United States.
THE 93D REGIMENT
will not be ordered into camp until Aug. !.
MEN OF OHI0l
Finish your harvest and then to the rescue of the
Government that has shielded and protected you.
AecEulllilE OIIee at 1IS MAIN Street, NJ w. COEutE
of Fourth.
Pay, clothing and subsistence from date of enlist
ment
CAPT. T. c. MITCHELL.
Recruiting officer.
DAYTON, O., July 5, 1862.
Quite an inducement to enlist, was it not?
There are three large cases yet to look over,
and 1 viii leave those for my next.-S Gro.
WELL.