Show the old timer the old times were the oest times they say the new are bright but tie old have more of loveliness the old have more of 1 the hills of god seemed closer and the sun there in the skies seemed to shed a greater glory on the old time d earning eyes do you tl ink that we are truer than our fathers were 0 old that the rainbows in the tempest have more of grace and gold oh the old friends they were wiser though the new friends would con dem for ange s on the heights of gouthey God they lit tte way tor them the old times were the best times the old songs are the best the dear the tender melodies that rocked the world to reit let the critics d and cruel strike the stars from heaven again to tl e sweet voles of old mothers all the world will say amen atlanta constitution A lucky stoop speaking of the missiles of war said an old soldier who had heard the whistles of thousands of them a six pound solid shot striking a man fairly in the breast might also wound or kill the next man behind him but this was seldom the case in the civil war at the worst only two men would become victims the firing of round ahot was generally a subject ot jokes and j bes and it was only when one struck a tree and hurled splinters for a hundred feet around that anybody looked serious at stone river I 1 saw a soldier hit by a cannon ball tor the first time it struck him tair on the knapsack strapped to his back and he was flung a distance of fifty feet he was not mangled but simply reduced to pulp from his chin to his hips again I 1 saw an ambulance horse struck the shot first struck the earth glanced and hit a stone and then jumped a fence and hit the horse in the head his neck was broken and all the bones back to his middle seemed to have been pulverized with the advent of the breech loading cannon together with new in vent lons in shot and shell the old fashioned cannon ball has become a thing of the past the same weight of metal cast as a pointed shot may not kill any more men in the field but it does tar greater execution when used as a battering power the closest call I 1 ever had from a solid shot was at fredericksburg we were standing in line when I 1 stooped to tie my shoe at that instant a ten pound ball passed over my head the wind of it knocking me down and it smashed the rear rank man to a pulp he had a brother in another company and a week after the battle the brother came to me with his fists doubled up the matter I 1 asked im going to lam ou was the reply what for for stooping down the other day and letting poor jim get killed by a cannon ball meant for you escaped w th the mule the latest claimant to the honor of being the youngest GAR man at the recent boston encampment Is george W mcdonald of chicago a member of U S grant post 28 mr mcdonald was born in chicago aug 17 1851 and enlisted as a drum mer boy april 15 1862 in the illinois volunteers he was 10 ears and 8 months old when he entered the army before enlisting young mcdonald was a newsboy he used to sell pa pers to col ellsworth who organized the famous and the war spirit came upon him he thought it a better business to play the drum than tramp the streets as a newsboy he learned to drum from i ham evans of the allsworth one of the claimants of the title of cham plon drummer of the united states mcdonald was in many battles he was at harper s I 1 erry black vale and at winchester was captured he waa in prison two days when by the aid of a black auntie he and two others escaped they secured a mule and were almost out of the rebel lines when a confederate scout discovered them the two men were recaptured but mcdonald got away on the mule mcdonald wen straight to the union lines and was able to give val bable information of the situation within the rebel lines mr mcdonald Is la good health and resides at 2107 maple ave eans on seeks old co braces when the 1st 1 eay r was mustered t at latter va I 1 was a n ei her of co I 1 and in the 1 tl e e rites larkin A cooper of 90 hudson boston my corporals vagrant and other papers were left at tto 1 ead of bunk in the binaco i if ini corn rade can help me and then I 1 1 feel very gradet 1 I 1 was ill ard I 1 U t my 1 ead the night before leai lnE lit as r alte myself in the morning lan m boy hood friend bainum sineas who be longed in the regiment H ormed ice we were going home abe do to in charge was loth to g e ne n e certify cate but with the assurance that m friend would tal e good care of ire on the way finally did 0 o if comrade who to florl la atter warl Is alive ar 1 this I 1 should be most to h ar from atin or from any ore who hilll give me information about him now at nearly 71 I 1 am ad donisi cd that the end cannot be far awa aid it would adfor 1 me m ich pleasure to receive and respond to a line from any of my former spec al ir ends in the old regiment names of gettysburg sarv vors W H sanderson second united states infanta tr secretary of the reg ular army association of tre army of the potomac daston 0 writes as follows a year ago passed an act erection ere clion of bonu ments on the I 1 t tcp f att ab arg arr f a or ot field by the different eions of the regular army including all arms of the service in order to carry out the provisions of the act under the supervision of the supervision of the secretary of war it Is very desirable to obtain the names and addresses of all survivors of the regular army who participated in that engagement many addresses of the survivors of the regiments of in dautry in the brigades of gens day and burbank arst and second brig ades second division fifty army corps are on file those of the cavalry and infantry who participated in the battle of get should send their names and addresses to col john P nicholson chairman of the gettysburg battle field commiss on gettysburg pa so that preliminary steps can be taken to the appointment of committees to represent the d efferent organizations of the regular army who served with the army of the potomac and engaged in the gettysburg campaign it is also requested that the names and ad dresses of the survivors be sent to the secretary as above tor further re union purposes who knew jack hardy to the editor of the globe there is now living in reidsville Reids ville N man john A halam who ran away from his home in boston in the last days of the war and enlisted in new tork as a drummer at the age of 11 years he aas known in the army as jack hardy and was in shermans Sher mans march to the sea being wounded in the leg by having a piece from a limb of a tree driven through the thigh by a shell this wound causes him much rouble now and he Is kept from work frea antly because of it he has lost his discharge papers and cannot get a pension because he can find no one now living to identify the 11 year old drummer boy jack hardy with him self in 1898 he volunteered and served is a lieutenant his knowledge of drill and tactics gaining him his commis slon despite his age he saw service in cuba and later in the philippines any soldier remembers the circumstances it would be doing jus tice to a worthy man to clear his rec ord I 1 am writing this without his knowl edge and do not remember his ment and company george A smith rutland vt aug 18 1904 boston globe had forty e wounds among the many interesting veter ans who attended the grand army 0 the encampment in boston was capt john F chase who bears the scars of forty eight wounds re ce ved in the battle of gettysburg he was a in a maine battery and in the engagement named a nel shot exploded in front of him and four dozen p aces of it entered hi body he remained on the field foi two days and when picked up wa thought to be dead hig r arm was s amputated and was found that be had lost an eye by the explosion previous to gettys burg he had been in numerous great batt es but escaped injury change caused III feeling some feel ng has developed in con sequence of a change in the manage ment of the ohio soldiers and sailors orphans home at at the meeting of the board of trustees corn rade james L smith of cleveland wa elected superintendent to succeed gen charles L who has held the po mitlon tor a great many years gen J warren kieter and dr H hous ton were opposed to the change ani upon its be ng made resigned from th board ot trustees deaths of pens boners during 1904 the report of the pension depart ment shows that 43 pensioners died during the year ending june 30 1904 the umber of invalid pensioners ol 01 the war of the rebellion who have died during the past fiscal year is found to be almost exactly 70 per cent of the total deaths or with june estimated the total number ol 01 invalid pensioners on the rolls may 31 1904 was had veteran s corps badge clerk edward field of the municipal rt of providence is andio is to re store to loomis palmer a civil war veteran the corps badge lost by palmer shortly after the war ended the badge is of the ath army corps is made of fiher and bears the name of mr palmer who served in the new york volunteer infantry un til tl e end of the war when he was discharged dearborn enl sted at 14 george A dearborn of grattop mass says he may not have been the youngest la 1 in the federal army dur ing the ahll war but he wishes it to on record that he was only 14 years old when he joined co alth hegt wisconsin sept 30 1861 he was a dr immer he served twenty and was discharged for isabil t H stor steamer wrecked the old which was usel by gen grant as a dispatch boat for a long time during the war of the rebellion and which was sold to a massachi transportation compary went ashore in a big fog off misery idland the other night and is i complete wreck she was built in 1862 hale and hearty at 86 almon S forbes of brooks me is 86 years old is able to do a good days work and to read newspapers without alases he has not the sr called second siahs but has ne er used except for reading very pe rr 11 |