The Washington herald., 1911-04-16

"Legislate for the man behind the guns
is the slogan of Gen. Isaac r. Sherwood,
Representative of the Ninth district of
Ohio.
AS the only Union veteran on the
Democratic side of the House, this noted
Ohioan introduced the first bill of the
session in behalf of his old comrades of
the war. 1t is regarded as a most happy
and fitting circumstance that Represent
ative Sherwood should have been named
chairman of the Committee on Invalid
Pensions.
Let US pension the old soldiers accord
ing to their service" says Represent
alive Sherwood. 1T is all very we'll to
grant pensions for patriotism, but the
women of civil war times were fully as
patriotic as the men. Why didn't we
pension them? Pensions for age also
may be considered proper by some per-
sons, but give soldier his reward ac-
cording to his record and his service and
you he enacting not only sound law.
but erousing sentiment that will keep
the fires of patriotism burning Bill No.
l of the present Congress is the dollar-a-
day pension bill which l have devised.
As chairman of the Committee on Inva-
lid Pensions I propose to keep it to the
front. Thousands of veterans are hop
ing for its passage
Full Pension for One Year.
Gen. Sherwood's bill grants a pension
of SIC per month to any soldier who
served year on field duty during the
war. Service of ninety days assures a
pension of SIS per month and service of
six months pension of so per month.
Never has romance chung more closely
and generously TO a succession of cir
cumstances than those leading up TO the
accession of the venera BILE Sherwood, the
oldest Representative in service. to the
head of the COMMITTEE, on Invalid Pen
slons, from which vantage point he has
undertaken the task of tightening the
days of his old comrades. AS the only
man in the Union service who entered
and saw service as a private and emerg-
ed from the war a brigadier gen.
eral; as a participant in forty-five bat
Ties OF the civil war; as a man who was
six times complimented for gallant con-
duct in battle. and as the ranking Union
soldier of this Congr ess, Gen. Sherwood
is a romance in himself. If not a down.
right marvel and hero. His stalwart
form and CHEEKY countenance may be
seen any day in the House. for he is al
ways there. Despite his seventy-ffve
years. MS step IS as SprlnEy and his eye
as clear as that of a schooIboy. Gen
Sherwood's years of unselfish devotion to
the flag have BRO Ight their reward. The
old soldiers are realizing that a fighter
who still has the vigor of the thunderous
days on the battlefield has their cause in
hand.
Editor and Judge.
When the war. broke out Mr.. Sherwood
was probate Judge of Williams County.
Ohio, and mayor of Bryan, and was pub
fishing a paper in that thriving little
city, the county seat. On April 16, 1861
he enlisted as private in the Fourteenth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served four
months with gun in the ranks, partici-
pating in three If the first battles of the
war. Philippi Cheat River. and Carricks
Ford, in West Virginia. He next enlist
ed in the 111th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
and was made adjutant. He was pro-
NOTED step by step until, on February
Is. 1865. he was made brevet brigadier
general by order of President Lincoln and
was mustered out as a brigadier general
October g. 1865.
He participated in forty-five battles.
and there is not a soldier now living who
Sherwood. He was six times compliment
ed in general orders for gallant conduct
in battle. and, taken all in all, has prob
ably as remarkable a battle record as
any soldier of the civil war He is the
ranking Union soldier of this Congress in
both House and Senate