Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-09-10
SIT. LEGER GRENFEL.
The Romance ef n Heroic Lifs.
frrnm the Knnsn. CITY Tines

[From the KaasRs City Times.
The career Of this man is as wonderful Al
ID was alluring. Romance seemed to have
entered into his being and given to the sol
tiier Of the nineteenth century the persona
daring ard ad venture of the seventeenth
A captain in the Crimee, he rode dowl Il
the charge at BilekavG with Cardigan
when the ninety second HighlAnders won
their bonrnets, and when
Never since tho days ~ Jesus,
Trembiod so the CherOnbsbs."
An aid .de-camp % Is. tIue, the French
Emperor's commander in chief In Mexico,
he was desperately wUnnd.d at Magenta in
the celebrated charge made by two brigades
Of Zouaves upon the massed artillery of the
Austrians. A private in China, he was the
second at iha storm Of the Enperror's pal.
ace, and received sabre stroke which
marked his face for life, from forehead to
chin. A lieutenant of Saphis in Agsra,
the man who paraded his squadron Que day
for review before Mirshsl MclAas.inn. The
Frenchman's trained eye ran down the
swarthy ranks and he called to on orderly,
Send that Cificer to me who has a seat
like An English Guardsman." The officer
came. salnted drew himself up--t was
Greniel. Wandering on leave of absence
10 apy country where pennon aoated or sa-
bre fl,shed, he had taken service with this
superb vet mprciless brarc ch of fChasseurs
d,Afrsaue, and had won q commission by
extraordinary daring.
Clothed In turban and trousers, he was
found by some English tourists 10 the army
.of the Sultan: 1ion.hunter n
Is nth Africa soldier who was shipwreck-
I'd on the coast of Spain; speaking dozen
languages perfectly SCARED by fifteen
wounds from ball aud blade; having beau
tiful blue eyes; long white hair sixty five
and as strait as Tccumseh q peerless
ssordsman capable OF hitting his own ball
at twenty PAGES with a revolver; temperate;
,natchless 10 horsem tnship; generous to a
fault: loving war soldier tit for
the Grand Army handsome as Linnes, the
experiences Of forty perilous years yet 10
mind un written uutamable as an Arab I;
reckless to temerity tender TO womcn-a
hero In every walk Of lte-why should
such a man be driven down to the sea when
the W n 4 aud the night had made of that
sea O vast ,xpanse Of populous graves and
no star anywhere in all the heavens TO light
the plunge into eternity
Ali IL was but the old struggle which
had been going on for three thousand years
between Pratician aud PrOletarian. Guard
ling that pestilential island In ambsh in mid
ocean were men wearing the uniform Of the
United States army-plebiaus born and
BRED. wi o hated the royal old soldier for
his scars. for the orders he wore, for, the
sttanee tou gi,s be spoke, for that imperisl =
able dipuity aud bearing which cling to a
gentleman when all else has deserted him.
Z For the honor of our army be u spoken,
there wero no regulars at Dry Tor ugas.
Popiniay lieutennats, creatures with s'ul
Of shoddy and manners of Esquimeaux,
Eept watch and ward over the msnicled
L.. tf. "a lh..h haf rAh
rrame was weak L rtured him when the
aauntles, spirit was on its knees in physic |
hurouor: and at ftsf, when a storm came
nut of the east more terrible thah siege or
battles he who had tossed death away from
his ps ihway as child toss's aside toy,
nd 10 the sea for n succor, and the sea rt =
,eiyed him an | gave for the tried frame one
of her imm.m brial, svts TO be vacated
neyermore until tho great God tuiges alike
those who prosecuted aud those @ho endur.
I'd. 49,,
,be life of ST., Leger Grrnfen. Coming ia
America at the commencement of our civil
war be espous the side us the CDnfeder.
a,e.' and took saw ce with General John III
MORGAN, rapidly rising to the rank OF a
colonel. He was spoken Of ly thpss VIII
tnaw hiv ms the ''hravest OF the brave
Foremr At In pursuit and hindmtst ever Ia
retreat. no man in any army won greener OF
more perilous laure's. And then, had there
he.n soldiers among his jArors, how II
vyonld have delighted them 10 talk To such a
Paladin. To talk of the Light Brigade
of grim old Pelissier; Of lnkrrman OF the
O9d HisLlAnders forming only two deep Il
resist the cavalry Of an army OF iair-hair
ed Nolan applying torch to the magazine
which llew himself sni brigade into
eternity; Of poor old SrangSays' "ho
cried ont In voice as sweet AZ young
,,,rrs both legs shot clean away "Will some
Of YOU be kind enough to help me down
NV dismouut.ng days are over;" OF Softer
mo and the Voltigsurs who gave t. tht
cranes a purpler hue than WINE OF biv
Snac, under African skies of how the stor
NV tri color rose and fell about the sIippeiy
naranets Of Malakcff; OF all the wonder
fpI things he had seen to delight sUllier'
nA.rt and flee a soldiers ardor.
m, why muralze The more august th'
Victim. the more savage tie delight IN gosd
ing him 10 death. Z Wy aud ignorance II
+he hearts of c wards becomes the mos
merciless cruelty. Refinement ara eie
9snce to the eyes of the stoild oin@ets
Ssv West became as a red Il & waved by
siSsdor before the eyes of scme fierce Cor
doyan bull IN the arena, and they sprapl
nm on their helpless victim, and gored hl
sars,tive heart, and lacerated his chiy
slrous feelings, and sneered at his horrible
s,ars. and tauuted his gray hairs, and drov'
Rim Al last to his death amid the waves o
ihat ocean which girdled his own loved ma
live isle, hut would bring never more ore, to S III
dSuntless eyes the white cliff. of bis hom
and England. Born in land wcoed AM
|son by the sea, II was fitting perhaps, tina
she sea should lind him sepnlehre. Let mr.
Pest till the waters give up their dead an
until a spirit as brave and soaring as d
can Join with nll the peerless ones VINO nav
gone away nom earth since ho'auu leil NJ
Maximilian Welded up his young life In lh
tropical land upon the Southern Guf.