Veterans' Corner

KEN thirty year sence the fightin' - though it don't seem long as that Sence I follered "Stonewall" Jackson, with nary a shoe or hat, Through the valleys o' Virginny an' e v'r y w h e r" else he went - Thirty year sence I got back home to the burnt-out settlement. But the world, lt's been a-movin', for I am a-gettin' gi-ay, An' still, somehow, when I look around I feel it slippin' away; The roses come in the spring-time - the frost is shore in the fall, But still it seems to a oíd man's dreama like thar warn't no war at all. A change is come to the country; the fields whar I use to plow Is paved with stone, an' the steeples Is risin' above 'em now; The woods whar I went a-huntin' Is roarin' with noisy crowds, An' the lakes whar I done my fishin' is gone clean up in the clouds. Oh, the country, it's a-movin', an' 'pears to be movin' right; Thar's a brighter sun in the day-time, an' lots more stars by night; The people's a-comin' closer, an' larnin' the Golden Rule- Lots o' the women votin' an' the niggers goin' to school. "Whenever I git to thinkin'- as I do think - o' the war, A-tryin' constant to figger out the things we was flghtin' for, I kinder think it was Providence a-wórkin' its vvisest ends- Purifyin' through flre an' makin' us better friends. I think we're a-doin' better than we done 'f ore the trouble come; Gct use' to the stars an' stripes once more an' done beat sen.se in the drum! I've danced to "Yankee Doodle" on the mountain an' the plain, An' I've heerd 'em cheetin' "Dixie" f rom Texas clean to Maine! Old things is ehanged in a twinklin'- it's hard to onravel how, But, North an South, under one old flag they're "marchin' through Georgy" now; An' I'm glad I lived to see it, an'.spite o' my years I'm bound If I don't jest fee], from head to heel, like shakin' hands all round! -Frank L. Stanton. The Vnton Arm es. The armies of the United States were commanded during the war of the Rebellion by President Lincoln as commander-in-chief under the constitutional provisión; and under him., as general commanders, by Brevet IJeutenant General Winfield Scott until Nov. 6, 18bl; by Major General George B. McClellan f rom Nov. 6, 1861, to March 11, 1862; by Major General Henry W. Halleck from July 11, 1862, to March 12, 1864 (there being no general commander between Mareh 11 and July 11, 1S62); and Lieutenant General and General U. S. Grant from March 12, 1S64, to March 4, 1869. The flrst of the principal armies into which the forcé of the United States was divided was the Army of the Potomac. This army was called into existence in July, 1861, and was organized Major General George B. McClellan, its first commander; Nov. 5, 1862, Major General A. E. Burnside took command of it; Jai 25, 1863, Major General Joe Hooker was placed in command, and June 27, 1863, Major General George G. Meade succeeded him. The Army oí the Ohio was organized by General D. C. Buell, under a general order from the from troops in the military department of the Ohio. General Buell remained in command until Oct. 30, 1862, when he was succeeded by General W. S. Rosecrans. At this time the Army of the Ohio became the Army of the Cumberland and a new department of the Ohio was formed and Major General H. G. Wriffhiassigned to the command thereof. He was succeeded by Major General Burnside, who was relieved by Major General J. G. Foster of the command of both departrnent and army. Major General Schofield took command Jan. 28, 1864, and Jan. 17, 1865, the department was merged into the Department of the Cumberland. The Army of the Cumberlana was formed of the Army of the Ohio, as above noted. It continued under the command of General Rosecrans untii October, 1333, when General George H. Thomas took command of it. The Army of the Tennessee was originally the Army of the District of Western Tennessee, fighting as such at Shiloh. It became the Army of the Tennessee on the concentration of troops at Pittsburg Landing under General Halleck, and when the Department of the Tennessee was formed, Oct. 16, 1862, the troops serving therein were placed under command of Major General U. S. Grant. Oct. 27, 1S63, Major General William T. Sherman was appointed to the command of this army; March 12, 1864, Major General J. B. McPherson succeeded him; July 30, 1864, McPherson having been killed, Major General O. O. Howard was placed in command, and May 19, 1862, Major General John A. Logan succeeded him. Other minor armies were the Army of Virginia, which was formed by the consolidation of the iorces under Major Generáis Fremont, Banks and McDowell, by order of the War Department, Aug. 12, 1862. Major General John Pope was placed in command, but after the disastrous defeat of this general at Manassas the army as such was discontinued and its troops transferred to othar organizations. The Army of the James was formed of the Tenth and Fourteenth corps and oavalry, and was placed under command of Major General Butler, lts operations were carried on in conjunction with the Army of the Potomac. Ottier temporary arrangements of the troops formed the Army of the Mississippl in the Mississippi river operatlons In 1862; the Army of the Gulf in Louisiana in May, 186"; the Army of West Virginia, in the valley of the Shenandoah, in May, 1864, and :he army of the middle military división in irginia in the fall of 1864. Sho Wore the Blue. There are many women with a past, but few with such a remarkable one as that of Mrs. Robert-S. Brownell. She lives in the ffrst flat at Ko. 352 St. Nicholas avenue, s. ys the New York World. The full membership of the order of the Grand Army of the Republic has been conferred upon her. It is hardly necessary to state that to have such an honor bestowed one must have been a veteran soldier. She is one, having been regulariy enlisted in the war of the Union wlien she was but a mere girl. Her father was an offlcer in the British army - Col. George Southwell, who was &)mmissioned to CafL'arai, a small coast town in África, some time previous to her birth, in 1842. She first saw light of day in the barracks and when three years old her parents took her with them to England. Some time after their arrival there both died, and she was left alone in the world. Through the kindness of a neighbor she was adopted by a family on the eve of their emigration to this country. They made their home in Providence, R. I. While on her way to school one day she met the man who is now her husband. He was a tal], sturdy young man then, and only a few years her senior. They were married in the spring of 1861. Three days after their wedding he came home and informed her that he had enlisted in the army. At first she took the news quite seriously, but soon made up her mind that she would not be separated from her husband on this account. The boat which was to carry the volunteers to their destination was about to pull out of her pier when it was discovered '.hat Cady Brownell, as she was best known, had secreted herself on board. One of the crew informed Col. Burnside of the fact, and despite her pleadings, she was put ashore. Her persistent requests to be enrolled in the army were finally acceded to by william Sprague, wno was then governor of Rhode Island, and she became a member of the 2nd battalion of the lst Rhode Island detached militia, which was then being equipped. Her uniform was not unlike that of the men, cohsisting of a blue flannel blouse and rather full, short skirt. She always wore her belt and sabre, and on the march wore boots. At the expiration of her term she returned to Providence, where she recelved a regular discharge, but later re-enlisted in the 5th Rhode Island regiment. Her company was among those placed under the command of Burnside, and on March 13, 1862, the Union forces debarked on the banks of the Neuse river, preparatory to the memorable battle of Newbern. It was during this battle that Brownell was badly wounded. He never recovered from the wounds received sufliciently to enter actfve service, and in the of 1863 they were both discharged and went back to their home in Providence. In view of her interesting war history she was propose8 as a member of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1S67. She was unanimously elected a member of the Elias Howe, Jr., Post, Ko. 4, G. A. R., Department of Connecticut, at Bridgeport, and this is believed to be the only case on record where a woman has received full membership in the order. A War Journal. S. D. Miller of this city has a copy ol the Daily Citizen printed at Vicksburg, Miss., Thursday, June 2, 1&S3, one year before the close of the wtr. It was given to him by his cousin, Williarr. D. Miller, a member of the 102d Ohio volunteers, who was in the hospital at that place at that time. The paper is printed on the back of a. piece of wall paper. Under the head of "On Dit" it says: "That the great Ulysses, the Yankee generalIssimo, surnamed Grant, has expressed his intention of dining in Vicksburg on Bunday next and celebrating the Fourth of July by a grand dinner and so forth. When asked f he would invite Gen. Joe Johnston to join he said: 'No, for fear there would be a row at the table.' Ulysses r-ist get into the city before he diñes A it. The way to cook a rabbit is, flrst catch the rabbit, etc." In one corner of the paper is a note which reads as follows: "July 4, 1863. - Two days bring about great changes. The banner of the union floats over Vicksburg. Gen. Grant has caught the rabbit. He had dined in Vicksburg and he brought his dinner with him. The Citizen lives to see it. For the last time it appears on wall paper. No more will it eulogize the luxury of mule meat and frieasseed kitten nor will it urge Southern warriors to such a diet again. This is the last wall paper Citizen and is, excepting this note, from the types as we found them. It v.ill be valuable hereafter as a curiosiiy." - Florida TimesUnion. Soldier and History. Indiana soldiers do not take kindly to school histories which ignore mention of the late war, or, if menlioned at all, t is to glorify rebel generáis and magnify the victories of rebel troops. They think they had softe hand in ending the war, if not in 'Ighting it through, and they do not propose that their children shall be taught that the South alone was able to win victories. The soldiers are not yet prepared to permit the war to become only a memory, as seems to be the determinación of the educators of tho Hoosler state. The old soldiers are right in this matter, as they were right a quarter of a century ago when they shouldered their muskets and went to the front to defend Old Glory. - Commercial Gazette. Wnr Prlces. Gen. Gordon of the late confedérate army tells the following, which probably f urnishes high-water mark as the wages of the "swipe," the incident of course occurring during the war: One day a cavalryman rode into camp on a reasonably good horse. "Helio, cavalryman," said a soldier, "I'll give you $3,000 for your horse." "You go (to the bad place)," was the horseman's reply. "I iust paid a