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BUGLE ECHOES. 285
Bugle Echoes,
Thjs is a sight for a soldier to see
Bugle, oh, Bugle !
sing loud in your glee !
Sing of the valiant who victory win,
Sing of the heroes who died 'mid the din.
LETTERS EROM THE COMRADES.
Idaho's soldiers' home.
Cait. Monroe DAOGErr, ist Me. Cav. and nth Me. Inf. of Saint Maries, Idaho,
writes
On the 2(1 inst. I received Call 1 of the Maine Bugle. Allow me to congratulate
you. You have struck the key note at last. The Maine Bugle is eminently correct.
Give all the old lads a chance, and you will soon learn that it is a very mistaken idea
that the world has, that the First Maine Cavalry put down the reliellion and saved the
Union, all by itself, single handed and alone. You will find in a very short space
of time that there were about thirty-two infantry regiments antl seven batteries
of light artillery had a hand in that jol), to say nothing of the heavy artillery, the
sharpshooters, second cavalry, and other organizations. Come to the front now, you
all day boys, and tell what we all did. The First Cavalry has been holding the fort
long enough. While at the National Encampment last Septeml>er at Indianapolis I
met a few of the old First Maine Cavalry boys and many more of other Maine regi-
ments, but I noticed that there were no other comrades so universally introduced as
members of the regiment that suppressed the Rebellion as the First Maine Cavalry.
We were all honored with that recognition. As hinted above, my dear General, you
will lind that we did not do it alone. No, the infantry and artillery helped, and did
their part in right royal Ai style. Now you have placed the Bugle on a firm financial
foundation. 1 wish to make a correction in my article in the January Bugle,
"A Cavalry Man in the Eleventh Maine Infantry." On page 72, lines 26 and 27, the
printer makes me say that I did not sleep for four days while on picket; such are not
the facts, for I did sleep, but only a little, and not more than an hour or so at a time.
There are one or two other slight mistakes, but not worthy of note. I wish to have
the Idaho Soldiers' Home noticed by the P.ugle. The G. A. R. of this Department
have thought that we were doing a very commendable act in establishing a Soldiers'
Home in this State, and particularly so when we consider the fact that Idaho was not
then a State and had but a few hundred people at the time of the war, and those few
were men who had not lost any war, consequently were not hunting for war. We
have thought that we deserved at least a passing notice^ inasmuch as our little State
started us out with $250,000 worth of land and $25,000 in cash. We are constructing
a Home of Ijrick with stone trimmings, large enough to accommodate one hundred