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

94 THE MAINE BUGLE.
King County, got a deed of it last spring, hut times are hard now and there is no sale
for it at present. Our family consists of four girls, one a tearher, one a dress maker,
and the other two at school. We are all working and if God spares our lives will pay
our debt. I have never sent the Bugle to my husband for he has no time to read. 1
have kept them that he may have them to enjoy when he comes home, which I hope
is not very far distant. At the reunion at Bangor we bought one of the histories.
Six years ago I think it was we sent by a comrade who went to the reunion and got
another which we gave to a sister as a Christmas present.
LEGAL RIGHT TO BRAG.
William Gardner, Sec. First Rhode Island Cavalry Association, of Providence, R.
I, writes:
I am waiting rather impatiently for the October number of the First Maine Bugle.
May I inquire of you why it has not made its very welcome appearance here? I am
an old First Rhode Island Cavalryman, and next to being a First Maine Cavalryman
I consider connection with the First Rhode Island as great an honor as an enlisted
Union soldier has a legal right to brag of.
SORREL HORSE.
Wellington P. Baker, Co. H, Chief Bugler First Maine Cavalry, of Annawan, 111.,
writes
I am glad to get the Bi'gle that I may keep a little track of the boys who were
once members of the First Maine Cavalry, though it is now more than twenty one
years since I have seen a face or grasped a hand of one of those men who once
made up our noble regiment. Though time and distance has so long separated us
my thoughts often go back to times when we stood shoulder to shoulder in many a
conflict. My heart grows sad when I think of the many noble young men who fell
from the ranks of our old regiment. It seems to me now more than it did in times
of war that indeed it was a cruel war. In all of my remembrance of our old regi-
ment, in all of its moves and marches, nothing comes to me clearer than the picture
of Col. Cilley riding his little sorrel horse. I looked at you though small in stature
as great in heart for the cause for which we were contending.
WORTHY of support.
Lieut. James E. Shepherd, Historian of the Ninth Maine Infantry, of Lawrence,
Mass., writes
Thank you for a copy of the Bugle. It is an admirable production and more than
worthy of support.
IF one-half will subscribe.
Wilbur F. Lane, 251 Tremont St., Boston, Mass., President of the Eighth Maine
Regiment Association, writes:
I regret that Colonel True has declined to contribute to the January number of the
Maine Bu{;le, and I am surprised at his lack of judgment in suggesting my name as a
substitute. If Col. True should fire he would aim well and hit the mark, whereas I
could not furnish stuff for priming. I never wrot-* but one letter in my life for publication.
That one was written under pressure of great indignation and was more
forcible than polite. However, your generous offer to put the job in "good form"