The National tribune., 1908-04-30
KeIIy'a Ford.

/ KeIIy's Ford.
George F. Swift, 50th n. Y. Eng'rs.,
Mention, Mich, was in the party that
crossed in boats at Kelly's Ford and
drove away the guard. About $50 pio-
neers cut the banks of the river to
make it possible for the troops to cross
Capt. Luby, of the 18th N. Y. Eng rs,
was there with six of his company anu
| 80 of Co. E, which had left Washington
| with a boat train and gone to Catletts
Station on cars. where the mule teams
! met them, and they arrived at Kelly S
Ford about in the afternoon. They
lay there under the cover of the bank,
and put together the canvas boats.
There were only three of the men that
had ever handled that class of boats.
Capt. Luby was new man. and knew
nothing about the work. Capt. Com
stock never appeared at any time. and
the SO of the 50th N Y. Eng'rs steered
the boats, the pioneers doing the polling
to put the infantry across. No one out
side of the SO did anything to help lay
the bridge. Gen. Howard can confirm
this. They laid the bridge in just SO
minutes from the time of beginning
work 1t may be that the 50th N. Y.
Engrs did not do anything more than
not believe that there is an honest sol
dier who will say that they ever asked
any assistance to perform any duty in
their line.
J. w. Kinkley, 921 s. Monroe Ave,
Green Bay, Wis, corrects us in regard
to the force which crossed the river in
the advance of the Army of the Poto-
mac, and captured 125 prisoners. We
rn,,'c, Dr-ier do hon
it should have been Thomas H. Ruger's
Brigade Comrade Kinkley was there,
and helped capture the prisoners.
The Dred Scott Case.
Mark Mathews, Clinton, Iowa, says
that the trouble in the Dred Scott case
was a lack of moral courage. The
court was trying to deny the substance
of the declaration of July 4, 1875. Un-
less We keep faith with that declaration
we are at sea without a rudder. Chief
Justice Taney's decision did much to
bring about the war. The correct de-
velopment of the citizen is the only
hope for civic Righteousness.
In AndersOnvfIIe.
Houston Dillyard, 18th Mo. Cav, Ia
dock, Mo-, was captured with a large
portion of his regiment Nov "a, 1864
and kept in that awful hellhole at An
dersonville until April %, 1865. He
thinks that one of the first obligations
upon the Government is to make some
return to the soldiers who endured those
Sufferings.
Sincere Thanks.
Mrs J. R. Comfort, Twin Bridge,
Mont, sends us sincere thanks for the
article on the Wirz Monument. 1t was
read everywhere in her neighborhood
with the deepest interest, and gave the
rising generation a correct idea of the
cruel prison keeper They needed to be
the Daughters of the Confederacy were
attempting.
Monument to Father Hamilton.
J. C. True, 10th Mo-, Oatville, Kan,
thinks that the Daughters of the South
ern Confederacy had much better erect
monument or put a tablet up at An
dersonville TO the memory of Father
Hamilton. the self-sacrificing priest, who
ministered faithfully to the sick and
dying at Andersonville.
- so.r 2iasc Scattering.
Comrade w. G. Peckham, Co. D,
112th N. Y, Almena, Kan, writes: Let
them do their devilment! Let them
build their monument to Wirz, the fiend.
1t will not honor him; it will not de-
ceive posterity; it will merely prove
that the Daughters of the Confederacy
admire brutal murderers, approve cruel
torture of defenseless captives, and
would themselves inflict the brutalities
they would praise by their monument"
The Chattanooga BattleHelds.
Col. C. w. Archbold, of Parkersburg,
W. Va. has an interesting and instruc-
tive lecture on the battlefield around
Chattanooga, which has always been
received with warm applause wherever
delivered. He is particularly interested
in the erection of a monument at Chat
tanooga to the Loyal Women.
2 Heir to an Estate.
Joseph Loughran, Board of Review
Pension Bureau, city, says that relatives
of Edward Lyons. who served in Co. f,
1st US. Art, from 1875 to 1880, and
in Co. +, 10th l.. S., from 1888 to 1890
| is anxious to ascertain his address, as
| he is heir to an estate. He has never
applied for a pension, and consequently
! the Pension Bureau has no knowledge
of his whereabouts.
Widows' Pensions.
Owen Murphy. 11th Mimi, West
/ chester, New York City, y. Y, says that
/ he married the second time II years
ago, and his wife did not know that he
was a veteran when he married her
She never thought of a pension. She is
now 60 years old, while he was G.
March II, and she has been the best
1 and most faithful of wives to him. He
/ is sure the Senate bill is all right. and
the House should concur with it by all
means. Veterans are no fools to get
married TO young girls. The man who
raises this objection simply wants to
kill the bill 1t makes him tired to see
| policemen and firemen in New York
| City, who have been receiving $1,400 a
| year pay, retired on nalf-pay, while the
| United States can do no better for the
veterans and their widows than is be-
| ing done. The Government will not be
| troubled with them long fortunately