The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-05-17
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was resting at last. From the beleagured
CITY came no voice of hoarse-throated can
non. p sAH was quiet along the line. = erov
Il |, 1t was on the Sd of July, 1868 Ia day that
shall live in history. Our intrepid com
mander4-the dauntless Grant-was engaged
in earnest conversation with the almost
equally brave Pembertond concerning the
terms of surrender They sat hallway be-
tween the hostile forces-those two men, who
had known each other in youth, who had
shared the same tent, and slept beneath the
folds of the same flag.
Weary soldiers, cheerful because of the
success which had crowned their efforts,
we're gathered around here. and there, dis
cussing the events of the direful past, ian oc-
casional tear falling at the remembrance OF
some ,comrade whose body rested now be-
meath the blood-red ground, and whose hand
lthey should grasp on earth no more.
%Those poor people in yonder town must
have suffered terribly during the past
month" said Charlie Thompson, rehectively,
as he wiped the barrel of his unerring rifle
and Joined squad of his fellow soldiers.
aS'pose 80, +" said a raw -boned Westerner;
&mule steak can't zactly be called a delicacy,
and hoofs aud sole leather is tougher than
hard tack to chaw."
laI wonder how it Jared with the womenf'
continued ChaTlie.l DIS W9E
| "Pretty rough, guess. Glad | amt got
no friends there, at any rate" was the re-
sponse.
Charlie Thompson was a Massachusetts
bow. His was a simple history, -Four
wears before he had fallen in love with Ruby
Arnold, as pretty girl as ever made a young
mans heart fiutter in his bosom, and as good
pirl as ever descended from the old puritan
stock. Twas a mutual attachment, and
thew. whose parents had been schoolmates
| and playmates long years before, plighted
their troth one summer night beneath q
groaning old tree, as many twain have
done before, and will do again.
| Ruby had an uncle living way down South
and one day he wrote to his haired niece
telling her that he had succeeded in getting
her a rare good place in an academy at
Vicksburg. And Ruby, with true Yankee
pride and desire to do something for herself,
| had gone thither, leaving poor Charlie "only
little while" as she said as they bid each
other farewell. "Only for little while, and
then" she looked up into his face with
pretty blush, which spoke more than words
could, and her rosy lips received parting
kiss, audi am afraid poor Charlie 5didn 4
sleep much that night.
| The war came. Charlie enlisted, fought
in many battles, toiled hard and manfully
and felt that he was working for a gooc
cause. ; : l.ftt l-1 y
| But nothing had been heard from Ruby
Her uncle was known to be fierce ''hre'
eater" and SO suddenly came the war, like
tempest at sea, that she had no opportunity
Of returning to her old home. Mystery en-
yeloped her fate.
Sad tales we're told of how Northerner
were treated among the rebels, and old Mr.
lArnold and his wife were filled with feal
when they contemplated the condition o
their beloved daughter. But Charlie Thomp
Ison, rparhing beneath the hot Southern SUI
lLCharlie Thompson, loading and firing, fir
ling and loading, during the terrible days o
lbattle-who shall tell what he suffered while
thinking of her who was dearer to him thai
his own life?
| And when the regiment was ordered to re
Iinforce Grant, when he felt that perhaps
within the walls of the very city they wer'
so fearfully devastating his darling was, oh
ithen what pen can describe his agOnyl
LIS 'jft+4f '+
July Fourth, 1861 What mingled feel
Iinps of Joy and sorrow that day brought U
THE Army of the Mississippi-how merry
1.-THE poor, careworn boys tried to look, as
with their tattered banners flying, they
marched into the captured town! With wha
lcuriosity they gazed around and beheld tn
effect of their terrible weapons on populac'
and buildings.
But Charlie Thompson saw not thes
things. He thought of the fair girl who wa
Ibis betrothed wife. Was she among tn
starving, ragged people who turned thei
: hungry eyes imploringly upon the soldier
las they passed. Oh, terrible question, ant
Ifraught with such interest to our hero.
II .BY-and-by, after his patience was vel
nigh exhausted, he obtained an opportunit.
of searching around somewhat. ''Did on
know Miss Arnold, formerly teacher in tn
Academy" Some had heard of such per
son. "Where was she now2" None knew
Almost despairing of ultimate success
Charlie CHANGED to stray into the temporar
hospital erected for the use, first of the Con
lfederate soldiers, and, now occupied by ou
men.
Lying on a rude bed was a man who's
earthly race was almost run, whose glarin
ewes betokened approaching death. Bend
ling over him, and rendering him all possibl
, relief was woman to whom Charlie W;
" Immediately attracted.
know not whether or no there by an
truth in Clairvoyance, but long before ]