The Big blue union. [volume] (Marysville, Kan.) 1862-1866, 1862-04-26


interest, scarcely thinking of the real
events which transpire to-day. An inter-
est in the impulses of the common hear,
pervades the mind Of every one, and Incl.
dents relative thereto are daily developing
themselves, and bring to our minds the
force of the maxim that xTruth is stranger
than fictioa." The following from cor
respondent of the N. Y. Tribune, might
in the hands Of romancer furnish the
groundwork for an interesting and exciting
chapter. 1t is an incident Of the Fl. Don
aldson battle:
A young man belonging to one of the
Tennessee Regiments-he held the rank
of first Lieutenant in his company-was
very dangerously wounded in Saturday
mornings strife, at Fort Donaldson, and
was not expected to live when I left Do
yer, where he lay in much pain and in
more remorse.
The man told me that he was native
of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and had re-
when he went to Columbia, Tennessee, and
there engaged in the practice of law with
considerable success. While in that State
he became acquainted with ard enamored
of young woman Of culture and fortune,
a distant relative, understand, of Gea.
Pillow, and was soon engaged to marry her.
The love stream of the young couple
flowed smoothly enough until the fall Of
Sumter and the secession of Tennessee,
when the afiancej husband, strong advo-
cate for. the Union, returned home, design
ing to wed after the troubles were over.
The betrotEed pair corresponded regu-
larry; some weeks after the lover had gone
to Harrisburg, the girl, who had suddenly
grown a violent secessionist, informed him
that she would not become his wife unless
he would enlist in the rebel service and
fight for the independence Of the South.
The young man was exceedingly loath
to take such a course, and demonstrated
with his beloved to no purpose; and at
last, in the blindness of his attachment
and in the absorbing sel6shnsss of passion,
he Informed his parents of his intention TO
win his mistress Oh the tented field.
In vain they cndeavored to dissuade him
from his resolution. He went to Tonnes
see, raised company, received congratala-
tions of his traitoroas friends, and the CO.
pious caresses of his charming tempter
Last December the Lieutenan. proceed
ed to Donaldson. and, few days before
the fight, heard that his betrothed was the
wife Of another.
His heart had never been in the cause
1t was in another keeping; and, stung by
remorse, and crushed by the per6dy of his
mistress, he had no desire to live.
Unwilling to desert on the eve of battle
the cause he had embraced, lest he might
be charged with cowardice, he resolved to
lose the existence that had become unbear-
able to him, and in the thickest of the
fight, while seeking death without endeav-
ering to infict it, he received a mortal
wound
Before this, the misguided and betrayed
lover has ceased to think of her who so
cruelty deceived him; for the iethean
stream of Death is flowing around the
Eternity bound island Of his soul
The double traitress will soon learn all,
for her lover dictated letter to her upon
his couch of pain.
Will she be happy? can she be happy,
in the rosy hours of her early marriage,
when. the though of the dead adorer,
slain by her hand, rises, like portentous
cloud, upon the fair horizon of her life?-
Will not this pale corpse with its bleeding
wounds glide between her and her hus-
bands arms. and Danish Contentments for
ever from the profaned sanctuary of her
spirit?
If that fair and faithless woman have
Conscience or Feeling, who would envy
her. though she wore the diadem of an
empresss
And yet she will not suffer. Her heart
is made of sterner stuff. She would laugh
and mock, though her sacrificed lover stood
beside her in his winding sheet, asking her
absolution for the sins she had caused him
20 commit. Was net the old English poet
correct in saying:
"When Woman once to Evil turns, All
He'll within her bosom surns?"
The hero of the fierce fig ht at Pttsburg
is evidently General Ulysses s. Grant,
Throughout the action he is reported as
constantly on the perilous edge Of battle,