Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-02-11
OF WAR AND PEACE
Tribute to Rogers, United Comrades,
and The Old Home

WAYLAND, N. Y Jsnuar:- 20, 1914.
FRIEND MUNsoN: Another year has
commenced its journey down the cycle
of time and demonstrated that time
waits for no man. The last issue of
your valuable paper, (which We have
taken so many long years. which rejolc-
es with us in our successes, weeps with
US in our sorrows like one of cur own
household) when we open its welcome
pages revealed the familiar face of our
beloved comrade. General Rogers, and
we read with sadness that he was mum
bered among the silent sleepers, await
ing the sound of the last trumpet which
shall call him forth to answer with US
the roll call which will decide the fate
of every person who has ever lived on
earth Oh, how our heart panied as TO
know that he who had lived through the
three days of shot and she'll of Gettys-
burg and many other like scenes, had
at last surrendered to the great enemy
of mankind. Peace to your siumbers,
Dear General; sleep on till the Great
| Life Giver calls, then may we meet to
part no more. Thus are our ranks
growing thinner day by day. We just
| laid two comrades away, so that the
places that know as now will soon know
us no more forever.
We are still living at the same old
place, and the world joys along about
the old way, and we have our days of
sunshine and Of clouds We still have
many blessings to be thankful for; have
our political upheavals and down and
outs. Our democratic governor got
ousted because he had trained so long
in the err wd of grafters; he was sick
and tried hard to rise above his old COM
lranions. but they turned on him and
served him like good old dog Tray, but
we move along just the same. We
still have a z. o. p. man to handle our
mail, but his scalp will soon be hung up
to dry.
was very much disappointed at Get
tvsburg reunion at not meeting some
of the old comrades from Viroqua. !
spent all one forenoon, when the mer-
curry stood at 100 in the shade, looking
the Wisconsin, comrades up. found
about 400 but not one | had known.
What was the trouble with Vernon
county boys? You do not know what
you missed. Ii was the grandest time
] Of my life, to think Of the two opposing
armies of fifty years after that fearful
contest of three days death struggle,
in which thousands laid down their lives,
and which was nearly the turning point
in our great contest for right, on that
field of strife by those who were bitter
enemies, meeting under one flag and as
the finest of friends, all cared for, fed
and tented by the same government :
such thing as that was never heard
of In the history of the world and such
care and food as we received that week
would make any living man hungry IL
he came within half-mile of camp at meal
time. Such meals as those darby
cooks putup three times day could not
have been duplicatedin America;and just
think, Mr.. Editor, and that under a
4 democratic administration, tell your
boys of Alex Lowrie Post they missed
the treat of their lives, and that after
your state was generous enough 70 pay
their railroad fare. Sorry, indeed, they
did not have backbone sufficient to
make the trip. There was concilia.
ton between the former contending
"Yanks" and ''Jonnies" that one could
: scarcely believe.
With fond recollection OF the old home
and her people, | am
Sincerely yours, A. B SAxToN.