Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-06-18
THE MoTHER'S. BIBLE.
An incident OF the Late Wal
by CHARLES II. wARsEy.

There are old sayings ex,ani, such as:
"Oh. it's nothing when you get used To
il" You can get used to anything but
hanging,,' etc.
The truth OF the sayings have been vei-
ifed 10y the actions Of peaple during the
late war. When the first call Of the Pres
ident of the United States was issued for
seventy five thousand troops. Judging by
the response, as many millions of young
men, anxieus to 'fghf, bleed and die" for
their country, had such population ex-
listed with the rules of Abraham, could ca
lily have been procured.
And when the first regiments started for
the front, tie scenes presented were a
study for tic mind.
On, regiment was TO leave for Washing
ION. Mothers, wives, sisters and sweet
hearts wcpt and clung toihe necss of low
ed ones. They were going to the war. An
other regiment was sent twenty miles
home to guard some railroad bridges, not
less than two or three hundred miles from
any point where body of rebels were
convened, and where the guerrillas or
bridge-5urners would not dare to show
themselves against corporafs guard; still
TIE regiment was going to the war, and
women folks must have their cry.
Then, people knew nothing of war
But after two years had passed, and great
battles had been fought and men lost on
either side sufficient to form an immense
army, those public demonstrations o 1 grief
had become among the things that were
They had passed entirely out OF fashion.
Solid grief, mourning sorrows that seek no
display, had taken the place of that shall
low show, and hearts draped i'm woe sup
piled the place of eyes filed with forced
tear drops.
And yet, at the outset there were hearts
that felt deeply Most of these were
mothers.
There was a mother residing at Cincin-
natl. She had two sous. The elder was a
young man of twenty-five. the youncr was
boy of seventeen. The elder boy re
spondel to the call for troops, and was in
service in Western Virginia. The younger
one came to his mother and requested per-
mission to enlist in Captain Kaga's compa-
ny of cavalry, the organization for the Ere
mont body-guard in that city.
Had the mother acted wholly upon self
i>h motives, she would have withheld her
consent Bit, sitting all such feelings,
she babe her second and last son a God
speed, and sent him forth to fight.
The troops under the command of FIRE.
mont left St. Louis. They reached the
town of Warsaw, on the Usage river, after
a two weeks march. They were there
delayed some little time by bridge build
ing. Then came the order, Son to Spring
field
Although every man in that army of
thirty thousand was little better than raw
recruit, and though all were inexperienced
soldiers, yet each riyalled with the other as
~ Which w Ouii bc TIT niSt " dttdCh tnC
enemy.
The bridge being finished, the division
of Sigel was tire first to cross. But as in
fantry, they could not compete with caval-
~. So the Fremont body-guard went
dashing past them on their way 10 victory
and glory, or to death. They slept at Boil.
ivar that NIGHT. An advance of IeO men.
They were then thirty-five miles from
Springfield. fase sf
The body-guard was under the COM
mand OF Charles Zagenyi. The gallant
Major had been Informed that portion OF
Prices army were at Springfield, await
ing Ills advance. He resolved to 60 for
ward and disperse the band, although he
had not the slightest idea that the rebels
numbered over three or four hundred.
| On reaching the outskirts of the city, the