Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1866-01-06
A Romance of the War.


A correspondent of the Chicago Republican,
writing from Jacksonville, Illinois, youches for
the truth of the following narrative. Stranger
things have happened and are happening every
day. If this story be not all fact it is still a
good story; attractive the tales told by
half the novelists, and with better moral to
back it than they often give 1t suggests nice
plot for domestic, tcars-and-smilcs drama;
wel-to-do farmer of this county had a
daughter who, besides being personally attrac-
tive, was well educated, and possessed more
than the usual amount of good sense AS a
consequence she had many suitors. All but
two of these she treated with no favor; and be-
tween these two it was impossible Tor her to
choose. She liked them both, but which she
could not tell When the first call was made for
three years troops in 1861, these two men, to-
gethcr with the young ladys brother, enlisted in
the same company. This event disclosed to her
her own heart she accepted the man she loved,
and on the morning he left for the field they
were married.
Her husband was the possessor Of no little
property and before he left he made will in
her favor. While in the field strong friendship
bound these three together, the rejected
lover cherishing no i'll feeling towards the hus-
band of his love or her brother. At the battle
Of Stone River, on the ID Of January, 1862 the
company they were in was in the iicrcest Of the
strife. When tina: terrible conflict was over, the
husband was found with his head blown of, and
was only recognized by letter found in his
pocket from his wife. The brother missing,
and the disappointed sutton severely
wounded that his life was desparcd OF. She
was now maid and widow, and monrned with an
almost breaking heart for her husband and
brother. The wounded man recovered. but was
unfit for further service; was discharged, and
firm, and the fact of his association with the
loved and lost gave him 4 strong hold upon the
sympathics and regard of her who had received
the love of his life.
As month after month passed away, the
wounds of her bleeding heart were partially
healed, at last she consented to become the wife
Of him she had once refused for another. She
told him, however, that she could love
him a wife should love her husband, her
heart was buried in the grave of her first and
only love. 1t was the day before the wedding,
and the two were together arranging their plans
for the future. suddenly her father entered,
and handed her letter. saying: ''Ecad that
quick and tell me what il Ine2ns?' The letter
bore the New York postmark, and was directed
in her husbands hand. She did not faiat, but,
pale death, she tore Of the cnyelop and read
Y9az, January =, 1868.
Ny DEAR WlrE:-I At las: exchanged Am very feeble
As as can bear the journey, will he home
The scene that followed cannot be described.
The Indebtedness of the t'rce disappointed may
be imagined but he acted as true should,
and congratulated her the safety of her hus-
band. In few weeks the husband came, and
then the mystery was explained. On the morn
ing of the battle he had given aleter from his wife
to her brother to read. They soon became sep:-
rated. 1t was the brother that had been killed.
He, himself, had been severely wounded, and
taken prisoner. He had written often, but the
letters had failed to reach their destination
After two years Of suffering than DEATH
he has been exchanged. and ut home
Sorrow for the loss of the martyred brother
alone married the happiness Of the reunited
couple. Their noble and devoted friend remain
ed to see the one he loved happy with her hus-
band, and then left home to be a wanderer in the
world. He is now in the far West, and therc he
seeks to forget the past in the excitement Of
frontier life.