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88 THE MAINE BUGLE.
of the place. What was called the Happy Family at that time now sleeps in the
old church in which our Noble Washington was mariied. The letters, I have, written
in the field, are very interesting as they are very descriptive and cover the whole
period of my husband's campaign; but I think you have enough of this. We have
not much ready money but we are much better off than some of the comrades, as we
have a good home for which we are very thankful. I hope I can send by anri by
something to pay for the Bugle for some poor fellow who is not able to pay for it,
for I think every one of the First Maine Cavalry should have it.
Note.— Letters like the above are most interesting and helpful. Time after time
I have been discouraged and have resolved not to continue my efforts to print the
Bugle, and linie after time I have had my heart made glad, because to many the
Bugle Echoes were as refreshing as the biblical cup of water, and 1 forgive those
who are dead to the memories it wakens.
"I AM A MAINE MAN."
Hiram S. Tuttle of Oakland, Cal., writes
I was in Co. K, Third California Volunteers, but I had a brother in Co. D, Eighth
Maine Volunteers. He was at Beaufort, S. C. while 1 was at Salt Lake, Utah; but
I am a member of the Eighth Maine Association. At some future time I will write
you my experience of thirty-eight months service. I am a Maine man, was born in
the town of Palmyra, claim Maine as my State and any one, who says aught against
Maine or her boys who wore the blue, says it against me. I am a member of
Bo'sworth Post of Portland. I will forward this letter of yours to my brother
J. P. Tuttle, Hartland, Me., and I will send you the subscription for your Bugle soon
as I can get a spare dollar for I have an interest in the history of Maine troops more
tnan I have in these of California, for there we were not treated right; we enlisted
with the full assurance that as soon as the regiment was full we should be sent to the
seat of war.
all the readers say they want the whole.
Eraj* JS DoBLE, Co. B, Eighth Maine, of Kingman, writes:
Several years ago I wrote out part of my experience in rebeldom for my children
to read over when they were old enough to understand it, so they could know
something of what we prisoners of war had to endure if I did not live to tell them
by word of mouth. It is very crude and I do not now see any time to rewrite it. I
give you full liberty to use what you like of it or reject the whole or any part of it.
"A LI'ITLE INSIDE HISTORY" PROMISED.
Gen. Egbert L. Veile of New York City, writes:
I thank you very much for the copy of the Bugle you have sent me. I am a very
busy man just now and although I fully appreciate and most heartily endorse your
praiseworthy efforts to keep alive the spirit of comradeship and spirit of patriotism,
I fear I cannot be of much service to you. The war for the Union was with me the
continuation of an interrupted military life. There was no novelty in it to me, as it
was the third war in which I had been engaged. But there was a very strong sense
of duty and a very heavy weight of responsibility, for my West Point education left
me no excuse on the score of inexperience for any mistakes or oversights. I felt all
this more forcibly, I think, than at any other time, when those stalwart men of the
Eighth Maine came to report to me, fresh from their homes in the great forests