The Maine bugle ... campaign; 1-5 Jan. 1894-Oct. 1898 - Maine.gov

BUGLE ECHOES. 93
Milwaukee, which reminds me of our skirmish at Raccoon ford where he was wounded
and Col. Doughty sent me to the rear with him, an account of which I will write soon.
1 hope to hear the next ErcLK Call reinforced with an old Kirst Maine Cavalry yell.
CiEOROK W. Getciif.i.I., of Co. G, First Maine Cavalry, of Brewer, Me., writes:
I am well pleased with the Buglf. and will try to be more prompt in paying for it.
THE BUGLE I MUST HA\F.
William H. Luce, of C!o. A, First Maine Cavalry, of Rice Lake, Wis., writes:
I am sorry I could not pay it before, but from this time on shall lie able to keep it
]iaid up. Having just received an increase in my pension so that I now draw seven-
teen dbllars per month, I am in hopes to be able to send for a First Maine Cavalry
badge and regimental history during the winter. The Bugle I must have if I have
to give up all other reading matter. Perhaps sometime during the winter I will write
a description of my escape from Middletown and five days in the mountains fallowing.
SHALL ALWAYS KE.ME.MKER.
Col. Frederic C. Newhall, of Gen. Sheridan's staff, and now resident o{ London,
Eng., writes
Your name at the end of your note of October 9th, and the First Maine Bugle, of
which you kindly sent me a copy, excite many recollections which are by no means
dim with me, but which, owing to my residence abroad and the changes time brings,
are not often revived. I think it very likely that I know the First Maine Cavalry a
great deal better than I am known by them, for I was a young staff officer sent here
and there among all the regiments. In many hard fights in which the First Maine took
part, 'I will mention only one place, which I think I shall always remember: I was
with your brigade along Chamberlain's bed, at the battle of Dinwiddle Court House,
where you behaved so splendi 'ly, and all that I wrote of your command in that tight
I was an eye-\\ itness of.
STILL LIVE IN IIOl'ES.
Cyrus Case, Co. C, First Maine Cavalry, of Malvern, Kan., writes:
I was disappointed in not seeing you at the National reunion; neither did I see
any one from the dear old First Maine Cavalry. I have seen but two comrades of
our famous regiment since coming to Kansas in '69, and as I have a great longing in
that direction you can probably realize how I felt. Yet 1 still live in hope.
NEWS FROM CORP. SA.MUEL HURD, JR. UF CO. F, FIRST MAINE CAVALRY.
Mrs. Hurd writes from Stetson :
My husband and myself attended the reunion at Pittsfield, where he joined the
.\ssociation and paid his dues. We also attended at Dover and Bangor, each of
which we enjoyed very much; since that time our circumstances have not permitted
our attendance. Fourteen years ago my husband was taken sick with erysipelas,
which went all over him ; then sciatic rheumatism set in, and for more than a year he
was able to work but very little, and it has troubled him more or less till within the
last two years. F'ive years ago he went to Washington, hoping to improve his health
and better himself financially. The climate agrees with him, his lameness does not
trouble him any to speak of now, and for a year and a half he has been at work in a
lumber camp, driving six horses. He took up a timber claim in the town of Buckley*