Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-29
MATRIMONIAL ROMANCE.
The Happy Termination of Court
ship Commenced I'm Louisville
Hospital Marriage Thirty Minutes
After First Sight.

A little incident occurred in Cleveland,
Ohio. which illustrates the beauty of the
correspondence system adopted so gen.
orally during the war by mischieVous
and love,sick men and maidens Albert
II. Winters, a resident of Cincinnati, en-.
listed in one of the OhiO:sregiments early
in the beginning of the war, and while
sick in the hospital in Louisville, received
from an agent Of the sanitary commission
a pair of stockings, one of which cons
tanned slip of paper giving the maker
name and address, and requesting the
one into whose possession the stockings
should come to enter into correspon>
dence with her. Winters, as he grew
better, found time hanging heavily on his
hands, and for, as. he expressed it, mere
fun wrote the young lady. In due course
of time he received letter from her,
couched in lady. like and pleasing terms,
and Young Winters resolved on continu-
! ing the correspondence Letter after letter
| was received and sent, and finally photo
graphs were exchanged. This led to q
| deeper resolve on Winters part, and just
| about the time the war closed he sent on
a formal proposal of marriage, which was
as fortunately accepted. The time for
the ceremony was set, but it appears that
| in this as well as in many other cases,
| the course Oftrue love was not destined
To run smooth. Some enviOus person,
learning Of the correspondence and its
results, wrote to the young lady that
Winters was anything but the model
young man that she supposed him to be-
ia short, that he was already married
and the father ofan interesting and happy
family Of three children, This rather
staggered the lady and she wrote Winters
about it He, itappears, was too proud tC
deny anything, replying that ii she loved
him as she said she must trust to his
honor and honesty, which she agreed tC
do for time at least, or until she coulC
become better satisfied upon the point
In the meantime the appointed day TO
the wedding has passed, and another, re-
mote a year, was fixed upon. For som
cause, when the time was up, an extern
, sion was asked by the lady and agreet
| to Winters. Her letters suddenly begGl
to grow less frequent, and decidedly les
ailectionate, and the perplexed lover de
I | Clueu upon SOIllS W HGI HOlho W sue WI"
s was the matter On his way the depC
e the carriage he was in met with an acct
e dent, Winters was thrown out and sus
: tanned compound fracture of the rigt
: leg. This, Of course, prevented hi
= from carrying out his plan for sewers
|. months, and when he got able to /
. abe ut had about made up his mind, {
d he had received no word from his afi
l. anced during his sickness, that be won
&c seek elsewhere for wife. Immersed
:, business he partially banished her men
DRY from his heart, but it seems fate hi
ordained that their paths, though d
verging for time, should run tOgeth
s. again, and that they should unite the
J. fortunes.
IL A few days ago Winters had occa 81
1T t. visit Cleveland on business, and VIII
ce talking to friend at the Union depot,
lis recognized the original Of the almost f
gotten picture upon which he used