Show ewt w T 71 the man who tried to please once on a t me there was a man who n never ever made mistakes and a all 11 the people stared at him and said sald lor pity a s kes it must be very ery nice to find ones lif life a a grand sweet song to be so very proper that you xou never can go wrong but soon he grew so lonely that he knew no not t wl at to do for conversation al ceased when he came irto view N his most S surpassing ur passing qualities each brals ed with all his heart but each seemed quite relieved when he was ready to depart so he bought himself a parrot the project caused him pain and stuff studiously lowdy set to work and leai learned d a word profane and still he wasn gasn t happy tor for the gos s ps raised a fuss andraid and said ain t he deceitful why hes he s I 1 uman just like us first troops in R camond writing of the controversy regard ing the first union troops in rich mond W L goodrich a veteran residing at 0 N Y says the army of the james at that time had been divided part of it bad had gone across the river to grant and the rest of it devins s division of tle twenty fourth corps white and kautz s di vision of the twenty fifth corps col ored composing the army of the jan es commanded by major gen weitzel occupied richmond I 1 was assistant adjutant general of that command and had in charge the details of the movement on and mccu pation of richmond that morning de peyster mentioned in this clipping was not an officer on gen we atzel s staff except perhaps tech he was the perso personal nad aide to gen shipley chief of staff of he e twenty fifth corps and while it was Lnders understood tood at the te time timp that after we had entered richmond he did fasten a small flauto the dome of the capitol it in no sense indicated priority of get ting in or excessive activity after ward most officers attached to head quarters that morning had their hands full of much more important matters As to the claim made in behalf of the ninety eighth new york in this clip ping of being the first to enter rich mond it is hardly a matter of mo ment at this late day there was glory enough for all but as a matter of tact fact the first troops to enter rich mond was a small detachment of massachusetts cavalry our head guard commanded by major stevens of our staff which was in the city and at the capitol building before daylight that morning but did not re main maln medely a scouting party by wire to gen devins and personally to gen kautz whose headquarters were near our own orders were given about 4 0 clock in the morning tor for the troops to march at 6 0 clock after passing through the works we approached the bridge at rocketts crocketts Roc ketts the city limits of richmond and by direction of gen weitzel I 1 remained on this bridge to direct the disposition of the troops as they arrived kautz with his colored division having the shortest line of march ar rived at the bridge first and his lead ing regiment was the first organized body of troops to enter richmond directly after crossing this stream at rocketta rocketts Roc ketts tg the colored troops were de fleeted to th right and did not enter the city prope but were distributed along the line of the inner de fences it was not deemed advisable to let them go through the central part of the city proper but were distri distributed but ed tion the first white regiment that en was sent to despre dis bisp pre ace a mob that was burning and looting on main street in the city and quite I 1 kely this was the ninety eighth new york and well they did the worl assigned them but the colored troops had already gone ahead of them capt chase chases s pension A reference to gen black said comrade parker reminds me of a story of capt J F chase who re ceryes forty eight wounds at the bat tie tle of gettysburg chase was struck by a charge of grape shot forty eight of the shot go ng into the upper part of the body he was picked up on the field and carried to the hospital b it his case was regarded as hopeless three or tour four days later the surgeons noticing that there was life in the poor riddled body exerted themselves and saved chae chace s I 1 fe his arm was shot off his bis left eye was destroyed several ribs were cut in two and the surgeons did not pretend to count bullet holes I 1 in addition to ois record at get got chase distinguished h aselt on other occasions and received two medas medals for bravery he was given a pen pension cion of 40 a month but on one occasion he met a congressman fir from om his old district in maine who insisted that 40 a month was wag not enough and promised to have it the congressman brought the case to the attention of the pension committee and gen black then a member of the committee remarked well I 1 guess we will have to raise his pension to 50 a month hell said the maine congressman why black what are you talking about you are getting a month and 5 COO a year besides we will give him the limit 72 a month and not a cent less black agreed that chae chace was in a worse condition than hinic himell elf and the committee made a unanimous report in favor of the larger pension the bill went through both houses with a ush rush president cleveland signed it 4 and since that time chase has re calved the full pension of 72 a month in spite of his wounds he married after returning from the war and a few years ago when I 1 visited him in florida he had two stalwart so sons ns and three handsome active girls in fact he seemed to be doing as well in busl bust ness and to be as happy in his family as most men who carry no scars and who have full use of arms and legs chicago inter ocean devin a DIVIS on and richmond writing to the new york times charles braden of highland falls N Y says tn in your sunday paper of the ath last a correspondent while writing from ossining Os mentions devin devins s divi sion of the twenty fourth corps as among the first union troops to enter richmond april 3 1865 the writer Is in error as there was no devin vins s division in this carbs corps devin devins s division was a cavalry command it was the first division of the cavalry corps commanded by merritt when richmond was entered on the morn ing of april 3 devin s division was many miles away operating ope rating under sheridan against the retreating con feder federates ateo on the first of april it had fought and greatly distinguished itself at five forks the writer of the interesting ar article bicle above mentioned evidently intended to c ay deven devens s division which was the third ln ird division of the twenty fourth corps army of the james many writers on the war have mixed the names of devens devin and diven devens was from massachi Mass achu and after the war became an eminent jurist and attorney general of the united states the others were new yorkers gen diven was from elmira and after the war was a prominent railroad man he was the father of mrs liscum wife of col cot emerson liscum ninth infantry 1 billed in china several years ago at af ter the close of the war devin who was as from new york city entered the regular army as lieutenant colonel of the eighth cavalry and short y before his death in 1878 was promoted to the third cavalry as colonel A question of bathe auditors and controllers are the natural enemies of mankind re n arced an army officer but more particularly are they the enemies of an army officer they take great de 11 I 1 in finding reasons why they should not pass an officers accounts and take advantage of the least little technicality or any possible way of refusing to do so some time ago an boffl to get a just claim that has been turned down by the auditor or con ti was compelled to go to con gress and the printing bill 11 for the amount was four times as large as the amount in the first instance gen weston got the best of an au an aitor when he was in the seventh cavalry and this Is the way he tells the story I 1 was as on a horse board at kansas city and before a horse could be ac cepter he was sent a mile at a very fast clip to test his endurance I 1 observed that the men who were selling the horses had a rider who would take them behind a clump of trees where I 1 could not see and shortened the dis tance I 1 decided to ride the horses mys myself elf and tried about twenty a day I 1 would get pretty well warmed up with that kind of work and I 1 went in afterward and took a bath I 1 charged up the bath each day in my expenses but the account came back from the auditor with the indorsement endorsement Indor one bath a day Is a luxury not a necessity one bath a week Is enough and I 1 indorsed right under that it rr ay be enough for an auditor but not for a cavalryman washington post gallant veteran dead gen dark clark S edwards who corn com banded the first of the twelve picked regiments selected to make the ta fa mus me us charge at Spottsyl Spott sylvania vanla court I house is dead at his home in bethel me he gave up the battle of life on the anniversary of his fight at salem church forty bears ears ago at the out break of the war he was a contractor and builder bu dropped his tools upon the work on oil which ae he was engaged when the news came to him of the fir ing on fort sumter and telegraphed the governor tor for authority to raise a company this was granted him and he became captain of company I 1 fifth maine la in which he served until caffes s mills when his colonel wounded his lieutenant utenart lie colonel killed and the major incapacitated the corn com mand of the regiment devolved upon him gen edwards was a strict tern tera perance man a in ion ton and a democrat in politics in 1896 his party nominated romina ted him tor for gov arnor and he received the unusual i umber of 55 votes Ce ceremony remones es at gettysburg the fortieth anniversary celebia ion of the battle of gettysburg was held on the field july 1 2 and 3 dur ing the celebration more than G A R posts in pennsylvania and ad joining states numerous regiments of th h rational guard and U S cavalry ind and artillery participated in the exer ies cices july I 1 the erected in n loner of john bums burns who entered he the service at the ag of 70 years was dedicated skimmed milk is one of the most economical foods |