The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1864-01-27

wen, oni now long VIII IL take you 10
accomplish your plans gu
''Really. could not say, perhaps six
weeks, perhaps all summer. Possibly We
may like il SO we'll we may never go back u
'No,' she said, with burst of passion
ate impulse, 81 hope you will never get
back, but your bones will sirew the way,
and bleach in the sun all the way from
here TO the Potomac"
"You are very bitter should have ex-
pected that from Yankee lady, but hardly
from you "
" am from the opposite extreme,
from Iowa, but hate rebel worse than the
Yankees do. You are rebeling against The
power of God aud the kindness of man."
Lady you don't consider what you say
Those are fearful words y
II know they are but will repeat tha,
hope that not one of you will escape to car
~ the tidings You had no right to come
here, aud destroy our homes, and take a
way our friends and leave nothing but des-
oIalou in your track You may not hope
for the blessings oil God upon your under
taking.n
"Lady,u he answered while a tear sprang
TO his eye, Il wond not be fonnI here to-
day, had your army found its way to my
home, and desoated IT. | bad beautiful
young wife, fair as the beauty OF heaven,
loving. and lenderiy loved, but even her
they did not spare, but well nigh broke her
heart with fear and sorrow. Then resoI-
we'd 10 forfeit my lie, or avenee The wreng.
determined that the homes OF the North
should leel The power oi Inc invaders hand
if my single strength could accomplish ii -
II is easy lor you with your aburdaoce, 10
sit and declsim against rs, who have been
nerved 10 the last point of desperation, by
,he wrongs oil your armies, and when we
see our dear ones reduced 10 lhe last ex-
iremity, what shall we do bui raise onr
hands, aud strike in their detencel 7 | did
not willingly enter into this struggle, 5ut
having entered it, death alone shall out a
limit to my efforts u
''Do you expect God wilf,forgise YOU l''
81 rust have father in heaven who
has forgiveness Tor me, Tor am conscious
am dong only my duIy, aud does moi hat
always meet the approbslion OF God My
convictions oidpty brought me here, ard
will sustain me- % the cad But # I tall
shoult hardly expect you 10 minister TO me.
Would you comfort dyiug nan whom you
call rebel |!
"tdon't know as should, if he contiuu-
ed a rebel.p
May God forgive you. The chances OF
war may cause Us 10 meet again" Grace
fully raising his hat, "ul We meet, he
said, and mounting his horse, he rode
away.
Those words of the resoluie young officer
rang in her ears like fatality What cold
he mean ! He surely was not so unsoi-
dierly as to seek revenge yet the soui OF
the young girl, whom scarcely any danger
damned, was filed with unrest.
For several days ali renamed in quiet
suspense Vast bodies of cavalry and in
faniry were moving to aud iro like The surg
ing of enormous billows. Heavy demands
were made upon the people and those
supplies that were not willingly granted,
were iorcibIy iakea, until all began to look
anxiously for the time aud place when the
dreadful blow should fall AT last II came,
and that in the consecrated abodes of the
dead.
o the terrible thunder of rilery Olhe
sickeniug thought that thousands unpro-
tscied human breasts were the targets for
those horrible missiles OF destruction How
can humanity lock on such scenes as these
aud live
The conles: was frighiful and bravery
desperate on either side but al length here
was lui, anu the stars and stripes were
in The ascendant.
The firing ceased, and The armies slowly
retired Every available spot, from the
The veriesi hovel, was filled with the woun-
ded, and dying, friend and foe side by side,
blasphemng, groaning, praying; and these
are the noble iorms whom but yesterday
were in the full glory of manhood.
ssMolhers and sisters, with lenderest sym
pathy quickly gathered round 10 perform
kind Offices, fearing lest each moment
should see coun,enances of dear ones; ard
among other ministering spirits was fonnd
our rash. impetuous friebd-and as though
Providence had directed her, the first per-
SOC whom she reached was the rebel officer
shot Yet he smiled as che advanced, !.
saying: ''You could not refuse a dying
man, even a rebel
81 have repented of those cruel words
A soldier, from the moment he is wounded
is no longer rebel but man, deserving
all the kindness ofshumsnity."
''Thank you. | could not have stopped
to handy words with you, had you mol SO
powe,fuliy reminded me of my wife
Where on this wide green earth she is,
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