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

BUGLE ECHOES. 85
Bugle Echoes,
Blow, bugle, hlovv;
Set the wild echoes flying.
LETTERS FROM THE COMRADES.
Kendall Pollard, Co. K, Eighth Maine, of Swampscott, Mass., writes:
I am always ready in a good warfare anrl will do my best to aid you as far as I can.
I think that every comrade ought to have a copy of the roster of the regiment. I
should like one.
IN TWO REGIMENTS.
Joseph F. Twitchell, Col. Eighth Maine and Capt. Second Maine Cavalry, of
Hiram, Me., writes:
I received a copy of the Bucle and was very much interested in it. The articles it
contains are or should be of much interest to the old veterans. I left the Eighth in
June, 1863, and joined the Second Maine Cavalry, and am not so familiar with the
doings of the Eighth Maine after June, 1863, as Col. Boynton, and he would without
duubt be pleased to prepare an article for your BuciLE. He is a very pleasing and
forcible writer. I think a pul^lication of the roster and addresses of the members of
the Eighth would interest "the boys," and have no doubt a large percentage of them
will subscribe for the Bugle. I hope that you will meet «ith good success, as you
deserve to, as you must have been to a good deal of expense.
WILL DO ALL I CAN.
J. W. Caldwell, Co. B, Eighth Maine, of Sherman's Mills, writes:
I assure you if I felt competent to perform the task properly, and could devote
myself to it, I should esteem it both a privilege and sacred duty; but I have engaged
in an enterprise which will occupy all my time this fall and the tirst part of the winter
at least. I shall be glad to contribute an article or two later, but not a leader. I
shall most gladly do all I can to extend the circulation of the Bugle in this vicinity
during the year 1894.
WILL write an article.
GusTAVUS Peasr, Co. A, Eighth Maine, of Bean's Corner, Me., writes
1 heartily concur with you as to the value of publishing history that the " Men of
Maine " helped to make a third of a century ago. I have thought for years that a
publication of the character that you propose might be of great interest and benefit.
The fact is, I am a poor ploddmg farmer who has to work day by day for his daily
bread, and such a life is not conducive to brilliancy of intellect, and I sus])ect that
this is somewhat the condition of nearly all of the survivors of the Eighth Maine, if
not of all the survivors of the war. But if no one does anything the good work that
you have inaugurated will not go on, and although 1 have not been able to do any