To The Members / Of The / Pioneer Brigade /./ Company A, Third Battalion

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_____Single sheet of light paper, 9.5 x 5.5", printed on one side._____ Folded to fourths after issue, probably for mailing. _____ ._____Undated, but certainly from the 1800s. _____ The entire text is a 52 line poem in three stanzas beginning. "If you're a hammer, strike; if you're an anvil, bear;"._____Credited at the end "Company A, Third Battalion.". _____ Though not stated, provenance is from the Samuel T. Danner family of Newton, Kansas._____ The Pioneer Brigade was an Indiana unit in which he served during the Civil War. _____ "S.T. Danner . was born in Rush County, Ind., October 12, 1839._____ Has had a collegiate education and fitted himself for teacher._____ Taught his first school in 1861 and when his school was out entered the army as a private of Company K, Thirty-seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteers, remaining with his company and regiment until after the battle of Stone River, in which he participated._____ After which he was detached and did duty in the Pioneer Brigade._____ In 1863, he was commissioned First Lieutenant in the Twelfth Regiment United States Colored Infantry and resigned in 1864 and went back to Indiana remaining there until he came to [Newton] Kansas in April, 1872, locating on his present farm._____ He has followed teaching, merchandising and farming since he left the service._____ He was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction of Harvey County in 1880 and served two years in that capacity."._____-- William G. Cutler; History of the State of Kansas. _____ Not in WorldCat (03/23)._____. N° de ref. del artículo 21277

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