The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-09-15

ways ready for duty and never had to
hunt for trouble; never claimed that ours
was the best regiment, but knew quite well
that We were among the very very best
and were one of the very very best of these !.
Every one of US was old enough to write !:
some of us are not yet 90 years old; but
the youngest ought to be included in a
service pension bill. If $12 service pen
sion is justly the due of the man with
whiskers, it is justly due the rosy-cheekei
lad with the smooth chin"
dAY HE READ 1T % YEARS MORE AND THEN
SOME MORE YEARS !
T. G. Stewart writes II can give Com
rade Miller, Of Ohio, cards and spades
and beat him on Who is the oldest sur
viving son of a veteran? lie states his
age as 73 years. My father served in Co.
/, 37th Iowa; / served in Go. l, Odd
Iowa; my son served in Co. f, 9th Iowa
Cav. l am now February, 1904 80
years, eight months old. | have taken
your-I mean our-paper, The National
Tribune for % years, and shall continue
to take it as long as ! live and my sight
| continues good, so that ] can read it."
WANTS ILLUSTRATIONS, TOO.
Comrade DIR. Gilbert f. l.. Falls writes,
and after remarking that he has had The
National Tribune habit, which has become
not merely chronic, but incurable, and be
| wouldn't let it be cured il il could be
that he expects to take the paper as long
as he is able to read, he makes a moderate
request, thus:
"Yes, and / ask statement in The
sionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain
showing where the army of each General
occupied, with pictures of the battles; and
| spec ally ask that they show up in the
paper as soon as possible, and show where
the rebel fort was on Missionary Ridge
and what troops captured them, and how
they did it? May The National Tribune
live forever"
HAS FLOATED FAR.
Comrade Henry ]. LYDIA writes BE
sides living on the water since was eight
years of age, drawing a salary at II
years of age, and being sailor before the
mast at II, l had quite an unusual ex
perience while in the service. If l di,
not take the longest trip of any enlisted
man during the civil war, ! came very
near it; from st. Louis to Fort Henry
all around the Gulf of Mexico and the At
lantic coast, wherever the Federals helt
to Fortress Monroe; thence to Bostor
and return across the country to ST. Louis
II am one of the oldest steamboat mel
on the Mississippi from Lake Minnetonka
to the Gulf of Mexico. and from Pitts
burg. Pa, to Cairo. Ill.,. and tributaries
i
am a licensed Captain of steamboat.
navigating the Mississippi and tributaries.
NEIGHBoR AGAINST NEIGHBoR.
Cyrus Washburn, Co. b, Sd w. Va.
and 9th w. Va. Cav, writes: II read il
Picket Shots of the youngest soldier, tn
bravest hero, the hardest battle, the frs
to enter, the last to run-and it all car
ries my memory back to the days when tn
clouds OF war were gathering. Wher
brothers, friends, neighbors were arrayin,
and in arms.
From a little boy 1 had heard the oil,
negro song o, Garry Me Back to Oh.
Virginia Shore
Then States right was argued from
every stump and in every hamlet. TIL,
wrongs committed on the South by tn,
Black Abolitionists: the fight for NOR,
slave States; the theory that negro ha,
no soul, or, we learned it all, over ant
over.
Now, comrades, many of you seryet
four years or more in the civil war; but
including the political war, previous,
was in actual war 20 years.