The National tribune., 1908-04-09
The Sd Wis. Cav.

The Sd Wis. Cav.
Hugh l.. Thompson, Sd Wis Cav,
Crestline. Kan, says that If the official
| reports give loss of only ga killed to
| his regiment they are wrong. He knows
| that at the Baxter's Springs massacre.
| Oct. 6, 1868, IL of the regiment were
killed. for he saw 6S of them buried,
| while Lieut.. Farr, of his regiment, who
was serving on Gen. Blunt's staff, with
Dennis McNary and Abe, Rockefellow,
were taken TO Fort Scott and buried.
He knows that they lost men at Garth
age, Mo-, crossing the Little Blue and
at Newtonia, and others were killed in
minor fights and skirmishes. There
were 75 killed to his own knowledge.
and as they were continually fighting
bushwhackers many must have been
killed of whom he knew nothing.
Mothers I'm Israel.
B. J. Loring, AZ Mount Vernon St.
Boston, Mass, presents his dear old
mother for admission into the select
circle of mothers of Israel. She was SO
years old in November, 1907, and is
able to read and write without glasses.
She had three boys in the army, the
youngest drummer in the 2Sth Mass,
who died at City Point; the next older
was in the 35th Mass, and Comrade
Loring himself was in the Minute Men
| of the 5th Mass, and later served three
years in the 1st Mass. H. A. His moth
er's brother was in the 35th Mass, and
lost his arm at the shoulder at South
Mountain.
Saving Money.
Webster Thomas, Dayton. Tenn. re-
ferring to Secretary Garfield's state
ment about saving 100000 a year by
consolidating the agencies, asks why,
IL this sum is worth saving, that there
is not more economy in some other di-
rections? Why is it that with $780,
600, 900 of money lying idle in the
Treasury, there is so much being paid
out for interest on the bonds? Why
not pay off the bonds now held by the
National banks, and take full and COM
plete control of our finances?
Ex-PrIsoners Of War.
Charles B. Mitchell, s5 Narmandy
Ave, Columbus, o., indorses the ex-
prisoners of war pension bill heartily,
with one exception, and that is that
widow of an ex-prisoner should be en-
titled to the same amount of pension
as her husband would receive if he
were alive. If the ex-prisoners are en-
titled to an allowance in the bill, GER
tainly the poor widows they leave be-
hind them are as justly entitled to the
same benefit.
For Widows Pensions.
Fred Bloom, 46th Wis, Woodstock,
Mimi, has done an excellent piece of
work for his comrades in writing a
strong argument for his County paper
in favor of the widows pension bill.
This is an example which other COM
rades should follow when pension leg
islation is before Congress. We want
them to express themselves in their
County papers, where they can help
mold sentiment in favor of such legis-
lation.
A Soldiers Widow.
Mrs. A. K. Doty, 3S Barnett ST, Rah-
way. n. j., says that she is getting IS
month, and cannot save much out of
| 50 week. She is soldiers widow,
and would like to have some one help
her find a place where she can raise
vegetables and poultry so as to support
| herself. She would like some place
near New York, preferably Rye. She
wants an old house and small bit of
ground, and will pay very little down
| ed in raising her own vegetables except
potatoes, and she does not know what
the taste of butter or meat is like.
Fort BIakeIy.
James Henderson, 18th Wis, Manis-
| ttt, Sdyo tlidt tOiliidut ANcNiuS
is right, and Comrade S. S. Slayers, of
| the 34th Iowa, mistaken as to the Thir-
| teenth Corps taking Fort Blakeiy. His
regiment belonged TO the Sixteenth
| Corps and was the first regiment inside
the works. He supports this from his
diary, which shows that they were seven
minutes in the charge from their works
to the enemy's, and lost 81 of the regi-
| ment in that space of time.
In AndersonviIIe.
Henry NJ Arnon, Spencer, w. Va,
says that he was in the hell of Ander-
sonville in 1864, when he suffered starv-
alton, scorching heat, drenching storms.
vermin and all the tortures that a
Dante could invent. He cannot possi-
bly, forget those days, and cannot but
| feel that this terrible treatment was
the result of deliberate purpose.
widows Pension Bill.
Mrs. Rachel Howe, Jackson, o.,
makes an appeal for equal treatment OF
all veterans wives. She married a vet
eran May 80, 1891, and has tried to do
her duty by him. For the last Is or 16
years he has not been able to do any
work, while she and her daughter, IA
years old, have had to work out to exc
out his pension in supporting the fam
lily. She is now 81 years old, while her
husband is past 81. If he should die
she has no idea what she could do Her
husband is getting s12 per month.
| Son of Veteran.
Clark E. Schreckengost, New Beth
| lehem, Pa, says that his father suffered
all but death in II months imprison-
ment in the Southern hells, and every
son of a veteran should unite with the
veterans in an earnest effort to secure
the passage by Congress of the Prison
ers- of-War Bill.
wisconsin Soldiers.
Thomas p. Joslin, 3Sth Wis, Dow
Iowa, says that a mistake was made in
emitting Wisconsin from the list of
States which allowed their soldiers to
vote in the field. He was at the front
and voted.
As 1t Really Was.
L. D. Culver, Platteville, Wis, says
that he is glad at last to read true
history of the Army of the Potomac
and The National Tribune is the only
one that tells it as it really was.
Look Out for Him.
William H. Bates, Commander OF
Rawlins Post, Stockton. Cal, warns the