The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-12-24
Jenny Wade, the Heroine Of Gettysbury.

Jenny Wade, the Heroine Of Gettysburv.
The country has already heard Of Juo.
Burns, the hero Of Gettysburg-of how
the hold man sailed forth o host within
himself, "to fight on bis own hook"
and how he fell wounded after having
delivered many shots from his trusty rife
into the faces and the hearts Of his coun.
try's foes. John Burns name is already
recorded among tho immortal, TO live
there with American valor and patriot.
ism, have an admirer and an emulator.
But there was heroine as we'll as hero
Of Gettysburg. The old hero, Burns,
still liyes-the heroine, sweet Jenny
Wade, perished in the din of that awful
fray, and she now sleeps where the flow.
ers once bloomed, and the perfume laden.
ed air waited lovingly over Cemetery
Hill. Before the battle and while the
national hosts were awaiting the assault
of the traitor foe, Jenny Wade was bust,
ly engaged in baking bread for the ma.
tional troops. She occupied house in
range Of the guns Of both armies, and
the rebels had stcrnly ordered her to
leave the premises, but this she as stern
ly refused to do. While she was busily
engaged in her patriotic work a mimic
ball pierced her pure heart, and she fell
q holy sacrifice in her country's cause.
Almost at the same time rebel officer
Of high rank fell near where Jenny Wade
had perished. Tie rebels 1T once pro-
ceeded to prepare coffiu for their fallen
leader, but about the time that was 6n.
ished the surgiug Of the conflict changed
the position of the armies, and Jenny
Wade's body was placed in the coffin
designed for her country's enemy. The
incidents of the heroine and the hero Of
Gettysburg are beautifully touching,
noble, and sublime. Old John Burns
was the only man Of Gettysburg who par.
ticipated in the struggle to save the
North from invasion, while innocent
Jenny Wade was the only sacrifice which
the people of that locality had to offer on
the shrine Of their country. Let q mon-
umcnt be erected on the ground which
covers her, before which the pilgrims to
the holy tombs of the heroes Of Gettys-
burg can bow and bless the memory of
Jenny Wade. Before the summer sun.
shine again kisses the grave of Jenny
Wade; before the summer birds once
moro carol where she sleeps in glory;
before the flowers again deck the plain
made famous by gallant deeds let mon.
ument rise to greet the skies in tokens
of virtue, daring, and noblencss.. ..-Har-
risbury (Pa.O Telegraph.
Gen. Sherman's March to Reinforce Grant.
A Chicago paper says that General
Sherman, in moving from Eastport, in
Northern Mississippi, to Chattanooga,
accomplished one Of the most remarkable
feats in the history Of army marches. A
very limited amount Of supplies was taken
along by wagon, and the whole country
for miles on either flank WAC otrippod Of
every article of food and every pound Of
forage. The citizens were sorely pressed
for the necessities of life, but the safety
and sustenance of the armies were bal
anced against this fact, and the beam
swung in favor Of the latter. All ami.
mails capable of carrying a soldier, bis
gun and blanket, were pressed into the
service and almost the whole command,
consequently, came mounted. Such rigs
were never seen before. Some had strap
ped blanket around the frail, haggard
frames of hunger pinched horses, and
were plodding leisurely along, looking
like fit followers of the Knight de Ia
Mancha after an arduous and fruitless
adventure.
"PLAYED OUT. Played out, petered
out, pegged out, kicked the bucket, gone
up aud done for, are all the terms con.
veying some idea of the latter end of
hard luck, but they don't begin to do
justice to the present and future condi.
ton of the dead, defuDct and doubly
damned butternut party.
Cain in the land of Nod was in rather
bad fix, it is true, but he was not so
entirely done for but God Almighty
took some notice Of him; but our poor
butternuts are left entirely God for. saken
and Godabandoned to work out their
own damnation solitary and alone.
Routed in every loyal State where the
soldiers were allowed to vote routed in
every other State, where people vote at
all, except in New Jersey, they 90, wan
dering on seeking rest and find none
exiled in their own land, spurning their
own company and fleeing from their own
shadows while the ghost Of murdered
country haunts them on through oblivion
to political annihilation more tolerable
than the damnation to which MiItou's
devils were consigned
A BRAVE DEED. Among the heroic
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