The National tribune., 1908-02-06
An Eye-witness of Limo ln's Assaxxina-

Maj. E. E. Beede, :, 10 died recent
at Plymouth. N. H, I'd an exception:
experience, and was IN eyewitness -
the assassination of President Lincoln
| Mrs. Lincoln intrus,a1 the care of The
| Presidents private p pers to Maj. Beede
at the time of thu shooting, anc he
| helped care for TIE President until he
died. He enlisted in August. 1862, in
the 18th N. H., became Sergeant-Major,
was wounded at Charlottesville, pro-
NOTED to Captain, wounded again at
Cold Hsrbor and captured at Bermuda
Hundred Upon being paroled he was
promoted to Major. Soon after being
mustered out he went to South Africa,
where he made a fortune in tie dia-
mond fields In 1892 he presented to
the town of Meredith N. H., soldiers
monument to perpetuate the memoir es
Of his comrades of the 18th N H. The
remains were buried at Meredith
Protest Against the Confederate Pension
The Post at Saltwater. Okla, has
registered its protest against the bill
introduced in the Legislature to PEN
sion ex-Union and Confederate soldiers
at the rate of $40 month with the
exception of those now drawing 4 PEN
sion. Saltwater Post sees the attempt
to whip the devil around the stump by
pretending to include Union soldiers,
but at the same time excluding all
those who are now pensiOnod. The b ii
is unconstitutional, as il is prohibited
by the Fourteenth Amendment. 1t
would put substantially all of the old
Indians in the Territory on the pension
roll since no one knows how many of
them served more or less in the Con-
federate army, and the matter would
be one resting wholly upon their claims
to have done SO.
Naglee's Brigade.
ILL.,, corrects Comrade Rosser in his
attempted correction of The National
Tribune in regard to Naglee's Brigade.
This brigade was organized in the Fall
of 1861, and put in Casey's Division.
under the command of Col. VIM. II. II.
Davis. In the Spring of 1862. just be-
fore the army left Washington for the
Peninsula, the Tooth N. Y. and the N.
Y Ind'p't Battalion were added to the
brigade. which was put under the COM
mand of Gen. Naglee in front of York
town May 81, 1862, the brigade con-
sisted of the 104th and SD Pa, the
seth and Tooth N. Y. and 18th Me. and
the N Y. Ind'p't Battalion. The 1O4th
Pa was the first regiment to cross the
Chickahominy. and with the SID Pa.
did the fighting on the Williamsburg
road near Savage's Station.
The Sherwood Bill.
B. F. Staring, Kirkville, N. Y, says
that he is glad to see the Sherwood bill
is modified, but it ought to be modified
again before it passes. If it does: that
is. to include all honorably discharged
soldiers who served 90 days or more.
There were lot of boys who were too
young to be taken into the army early,
and who got in as soon as they could.
Most of them were discharged before
they had served the requisite Is months.
Veteran Artillerist.
Rev. Henry c. Coats. Fredericksburg,
Ind, served four years in Powell's Bat
terry, Co. F. I'd Ill. L. A, re-enlisted1
after his first three years, and was
mustered out July 81, 1865. He never
was off duty single day, except fJr
wounds and other disabilities the last
four months of his service. He has been
a minister of the Gospel for 80 years,
and is now wholly unable to do any
sort of labor toward earning living.
Were it not that he has the best wife
in the world he could not live on his
little pension, yet they were married in
1890 and she would be left destitute if
he should die. He only gets $12 a