Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-04-25
LIEUT.. GOVERNOR.
Lancaster Furnishes a soldier Can
didate OF Brilliant Attainment

| didate OF brilliant Attainment
Very few people can read the lie
cord of Hon. Edwin X. Martin
whose potrait, kindly loaned US by
the Williamsport Breah1ast Ia6lt
is published in the REPUB.I-
CAN without being inspired
with attachment, admiration anC
love for such a noble man.
Hon. Edwin Martin was born il
Lancaster county, in 1914, at Miles
vile, the site of the great norma
school which his father helped to
found. When the war began Ed,
win was at Andover Academy
Massachusetts,. Though only 1t
years of age he was fired with pat
riotic zeal and hastened home, and
then, a mere school boy, Joined the
boys in blue who went to the front
with "the first three hundred thou,
sand"
His regiment was promptly as
signed to duty in Kentucky and
afterwards became celebrated in the
army Of the Cumberland, az the
gallant 10Th Pennsylvania Veteran
Volunteer Infantry it participated
in over twenty battles and engage.
ments; sustained as great losses,
and endured as hard continuous
service as any other Regiments of
the Southwestern Army. At Perry.
vile, in it's first engagement, it lost
thirty-three per cent. in a few hours
of the most desperate fighting of
the war at Chicamauga it stood in
the famous horse shoe line which
under Thomas saved the fragments
of Rosecrantz's Army.
Stone river, Chattanooga, the
severe fighting around Atlanta, the
march with Sherman through Geor-
gia and the Carolians' are all in
scribed on it's tattered battle flags.
In the engagement at Resaca in
1868, the Colonel of the regiment
was wounded and being unwilling
to leave the field General Thomas
ordered the Regiment to do depot
duty.
They were located at Gainesville,
Ga. The mails for the Army began
to accumulate at Louisville and the
general in command requested the
Colonel OF the 10Th Penn'a. to sup
ply man to take charge of the
mails for Sherman entire army.
Edward Martin, still private sol
dier, was selected for the purpose.
In it he inaugurated many import
ant changes, and on the Louisville
and Nashville railroads introduced
railway mail distribution which
was probably The first of its kind in
the country; and for all we know
the beginning of the present ex-
tended system, which has revolu-
tionized the transportation of mails
III this country. He has trained
corpse of enlisted men did their
work not only on the railway cars,
but on the steamboats,, in ambu-
laEe Eees by the bivouac and under the
fire of battle.
The position Mr.. Martin held
during the last eight months of his
service was probably the most re-
sponsible place occupied by an en-
listed man during the war. NeitherI
of his superior officers. owing to
their extended duties, could remain
at the front except for very brief
intervals, and he, though not yet of
age, handled the tons of army MALL
with promptness and efficiency
that drew the highest praise from
officers and men on every hand.
This was subsequent to his re-
enlistment as veteran privateI
which took place at Chattanooga,
Tennessee, on February 8, 1864,
when he was still but nineteen. Mr..
Martin was mustered out of service
CT ths United States by an honor