The National tribune., 1908-04-09


it is fair to pay them for being born
| before l waS' unless they snow that
| they had sonsethng to say about the
year of their 5irthl'1On the other hand
If / did as much work as another al
/ the same time, / cannot see that it Is
| equitable to refuse to pay me equal
| honorS and as much wages on the
ground that my birth was subsequent
to his, unless il he shown that / wilfully
! and basely, Of my own will and choice,
| omitted, NEGLECTED and refused to be
born as early as he?f Then comes Gen.
Sherwood with his little discrimination
He fences mef.out because j lacked 10
| days of serving, Is months. / served II
months and 2p days-in the field with
troops, so far as an active, marching,
| fighting, suffering command ever does.
The doctor rates me as but one-sixth
able, or five-s'xths disabled. but / can
not get pension, and must wait till i
can qualify on age"
Did Not Enlist for the Pay.
Milton Hunter. 1st Ohio and 5th Ohio
/, Cav, Cowden, ILL.,, calls attention to the
fact that the veterans who enlisted in
1861 and 1852 only received 500 boun-
ty, and he thinks that they should be
treated as well as those who enlisted in
1864. They gave $500 for the privilege
of going out in 1861 and doing two
years more service than those who
came later. Also he thinks that those
who served out their three years should
be entitled to the same bounty as those
who veteranized and got 80 days fur
lough His regiment veteranized at
Strawberry Plains during the Winter of
1864, and started home on their fur
Tough, but at LOudoun they were turned
back to fight Longstreet, and never had
another opportunity to veteranize or get
furlough, for they soon started on the
Atlanta campaign, during which their
time expired. They were ordered back
from the front the day that Mcpherson
was killed. He then reenlisted in the
9th Ohio Cav, and served nine months
under Fitzpatrick, having received only
$175 for bounty for his four years SER
vice.
Mcclellan on the Peninsula.
William A. Arnold, 9th r. l., No. 401
Beacon St, Lowell, Mass, sends us
copies of some interesting letters writ
ten home while on the Peninsula,-and
which illustrates how the men in the
ranks did their own thinking and had
their own opinions One of the let
ters says, 1T seems to me that there has
been screw loose somewhere, or we
might have been in Richmond more
than a month ago. Mcclellan came
on the Peninsula with 1923, 900 men,
and was afterwards strongly re-
enforced. They were set to digging
trenches and building Notifications We
have fought few battles, gained VIC
tories, but have not yet got Richmond,
as we should have done" The writer
of some of these letters was James
P. Flint, 18th Mass, who was killed at
the Second Bull Run.
The Second Corps at Antietam.
Samuel T. Thomas, 1st Del, says that
we were incorrect in the statement that
the Second Corps did not get into the
fight at Antietam until o'clock. His
brigade was composed of the 4th NJ Y,
5th Md. and the 1st Del. with Max
Weber in command. He was shot be-
fore 6 o'clock In the morning, imme-
diately after the brigade went thru the
l-cornfield in front of the Sunken Lane
They had started from camp behind a
hill not more than mile from the
battle-ground, at, o'clock in the morn
! ing. The brigade was sent up from
Fortress Monroe, and joined the Army
of the Potomac on the evening after
the battle of South Mountain, march
ing from Washington by the way OF
Sugarloaf Mountain. The map of the
lsunken road was wrong, as it gives an
angle to it. At the time of the battle
II was perfectly straight