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

BUGLE ECHOES. 189
my own experience in Old Virginia. One thing I feel proud of, that is, I was never to
the rear or straggled while I was with the regiment.
ONLY AS AN ol.I) TROOI'I-.R CAN WAIT.
RKt'Ki. W. PoKTiiK, Co. M, 1st Me. Cav., of Detroit, Me., writes:
I have waited as only an old trooper can wait for the BrcLK. It came at last; not
with the crack of carbines and the clang of steel scahhards, but with the heavier roll
of muskets and the crash of artillery, and the old gladness comes over me as it did at
Shep])ardstown when reinforcements came to the weary three hundred men who had
fought Lee's rear guard and held the position that saved the day. You know very
well what the sensation was as we looked back from the thin skirmish line, ammunition
expended, and nothing left us but the oft ridiculed saber, and saw long bayonets like
flashing ])lades of wheat. With feelings akin to those of old I have read and re-read
the Maine Huci.k, and a quotation from the Old Book forces itself upon me, "Well
done good and faithful servant, thou hast l)een faithful over a few things, I will make
thee ruler over many things." I shall wait as patiently as T can to hear from Col.
Henry Hoynton, who has been foremost in every fray where human rights were staked
since the time of attempted i)order ruffian rule in Kansas.
KOl'R liKOTIIK.KS IN THE SERVICE!
CoRViKiN O. Stone, Co. I), ist I). C. Cav., and Co. F, ist Me. Cav. of Charle.slown,
Mass., writes:
.'\s I was away during October 1 did not hear the last Call of the First Maine
BrcLE; it was mislaid, and when the Maine Bugle came this month I made inquiry
and found it, so will hasten to furnish a little ammunition in the shape of a check for
J?3.oo; $2.50 the bill calls for, the other fifty cents is for the 1894 Bugle. I shall
attend the reunion at Skowhegan this fall if possible. Now as to writing for the
Bugle. I am not much of a writer, being in the army when I should have l)een in
school. Fnlisting at the age of sixteen in the First D. C. Cavalry, Co. I)., Capt.
Howes, and going through the whole campaign with them until the transfer, and irom
that time with the First Maine, until the morning of Lee's surrender, I was shot through
the thigh. I think I was the last man wounded in the regiment. I was the youngest
of four brothers in the army. Charles .S. served three years in the Ninth Maine.
Jesse and Joseph, twins by the way, in the Eleventh Maine, enlisted before they were
seventeen, and t)oth died in the service. Charles died the twenty-third day of Decem-
ber, 1893, *^f heart disease.
I WAS WriH HIM ON the SKIRMISH LINE.
John E. Hart, Co. H, ist Me. Cav., uf Burnham, Me., writes:
Please find one dollar for the Bu