The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-01

cases. insane victims of Libby, Belle
Isle, Evansville, Salisbury, and Ander-
sonyille, many of whom were bereft OF
reason and health by most barbarous
cruelty and inexcusable starvation 10y
exposure to the cold, bleak winds of
winter, the incessant rains of spring
and fall, unsheltered from the scorch-
ing rays of semi-tropical sun? These
comrades here know what these seasons
were. Only those who have endured
them can realize what suffering they
entailed. Who will traverse these
states and count the empty sleeves. the
cork legs, the broken constitutions. the
cases in which the tinge of rheumatism
never ceases to remind its victim that
he belonged to an army that did more
hard work. suffered more exposure,
and endured more hardship than any
other army in any other country, in
any other war, while it was engaged in
the patriotic duty of restoring the old
flag 10 its proper place? Who will I'M
dertake the task of marking the graves
of those who have been mustered out
of service by the Great Commander
since the war on account of diseases
and wounds received while going
through those trying ordeals and who
army above. Who will devote his time
to measuring the countless marches and
conference.-the of that army over hills
and dales, through sleet and storm, in
heat and drouth, through pelting rains,
often fording turbulent and swollen
streams; hungry and weary; sometimes
half clad, half shod and foot-sore, COW
cred with sweat and dust, faint and eX-
hausted from carrying the napsack, the
rifle and its accoutrements, and the in
evitable and never-absent 40 rounds"
on rapid and forced marches?
Who will go with me to Fort Donald
son and face the storm of .leaden hail
while the Army of the Cumberland is
investing that formidable fortress, and
stand with it in the SHOWS of February
amidst furious cannonade, with shot
and shell raining upon it, while General
Grant is demanding an unconditional
surrender?"
Who will follow that magnificent ar
my to Shiloh and participate with it in
those two days of terrific fighting and
carnage? Who will march with it to
Corinth, Iuka, Perrysville, Murfrees-
borrow and Cumberland Gap, and re-
treat with it through the sterile and
mountainous regions of Eastern Ken
lucky, without rations, to the Ohio?
Who will wade through the swamps
and lagoons necessarily traversed to
reduce and capture Island No. TO-?
Who will go to Chickasaw Bluffs and
move forward with the divisions of the
18th army corps through bayOus and
over fallen timber, up to the mouths of
half dozen batteries of artillery, shot
ted to the muzzle with grape and CAMS
ter, shells and solid shot, and against
lines of intrenchments, one above the
other, from the foot TO the summit of
the ranges of hills bristling with bayo-
nets and flaming with sulphurious dis
charges of musketry in the very faces
of the dauntless citizen soldiery led by
IA Blair, a Morgan, Steel and II
d'Courcy, and witness the awful repulse
and then walk among the dead and lis
ten to the means and the groans of the
dying?
Who will accompany General Grant
in his Vicksburg campaign and partici
pate with his army in the pitched bat
ties fought outside the walls of that eli
bralter of the Confederacy, driving the
enemy behind the parapets encircling
the city, making two desperate charges