Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-27
HORRORS OF THE WAR.
Incidents and Anecdotes in the
Army.

Frankfort Cor. N. 4 evening Post.J
Every anecdote relating to the gene
rails and commanders is greedily de-
voured. Steinmetz has always been
a great popular favorite, and naturally
takes good part in anecdote literature.
He is the Blucher of the present day.
When the rumor came that he had been
removed from the command of his army
people felt as if an old friend had
left them. The rumor was, however, un-
founded. He has since been made Gov
ernor General of the Province of Pozen,
and took leave of his soldiers before
Metz in a very affectionate address.
His army has been incorporated with
that of Prince Frederick Carl On one
of the celebrated Zundnadel Bilderbo-
gen there is very amusing picture re-
presenting the statue of Napoleon l. by
Canova, and Napoleon III fleeing with
his son. The inscription says that
while Napoleon the first was "chiseledD
by "Canova," his nephew, Napoleon III,
was "hewnp by "Steinmetz. " Puns on
the words Metz and Steinmetz are, Of
course, innumerable.
Then comes Moltke. There is story
that when King William got out of a rail
road carriage somewhere, in order to
greet the city authorities, Moltke accom-
panied him into the waiting-room, while
Bismarck did not wish to be disturbed
from his rest. The King was in good
spirits, and just as he was about to enter
the carriage again he was heard to say
as Moltke already in? If he's on board
then we can all 90 on" The latest one
about the great strategist is, that he
made the plan of this campaign shortly
after 1866, and when war was declared
in July last, he had merely to call to his
secretary to get him the plan of the cam
paign stored away in the pigeon-hole to
the left.
DINNER TABLE SCENE
in the Kings headquarters is just now
related. The King was in excellent
health and in Rheims; the conversation
was quite free, and all present expressed
their opinions and wishes as freely as il
at their own tables. In the course of
the conversation the King said; "How
would this suit you, mein lieber Moltke
Prince of Sedan? And you, mein
lieber Bismarck-Prince of ElsassY
"And Lothringia," put in the Duke
Ernst of Coburg. Moltke, as usual, did
not answer, but merely nodded. Bis
marck however, answered gaily, II will
take the title if your Majesty will only
take the land.
GENERAL wRANGEL.
No one visits Berlin without hearing
something about the veteran General
Wrangel, probably the greatest favorite
of the Berliners. Not long ago the wife
of landwehrman, on duty before Metz,
gave birth to daughter, when General
Wrangel was asked, and consented, to
stand godfather, He came up to time,
saw the little babe, made the customary
presents, and then asked what they were
going to call the little one. A whole list
of the ordinary names was mentioned,
but Wrangel would have none of them,
saying: "Ach was our brave army knows
now only one word--apd that is Victoria
this and nothing else is the name for a
soldiers daughter
An officer wrote while ago from Cnx-
haven that he had l02 sturdy Wsstpha-
lians under his command; IS of them
were married and the fathers of 224
children. three having six and three five
descendants. 1t is said that the I'd Prus-
sian guard landwebF regiment, which
belongs to the Strasbnrg beleagneflng
corps, leaves no less than 1908 children
at homel
FURTHER ANECDOTES.
If YOU think that the foregoing give
only the one-sided humoristic view of
what the Germans do at home while the
soldiers are fighting on the field, be kind
enough to allow the following incidents
to be appended as a corrective:
II is related Of young Frenchman in
one of the Berlin hospitals who had TO
have his hand amputated that he refused
to be put under the infdence of chloro-
form. When the operation was finished
he picked up the dead limb, kissed il.
and said, with this hand / have sus-
tanned my old mother" then laid it by
his side and turned his face to the wall
in silence.
In the Prussian fortress of Landau
there is French officer rendered insane
by the excitement of the battles around
Metz. He lies on the ground and plays
with a dog the whole day through, now
laughing, now crying His breast is
decorated with several orders.
During the fight at Saarbrucken, on
the 9Th Of August, Mereiful Brother
gained great credit for his heroic conduct.
The bullets began TO fall like hailstones
about the ambulance, when the brother
bent over two soldiers placed in his care,
covering them with his body, saying:
" No, you have already had enough now
let the bullets strike mel That was
true courage.
An episode from the battlefield at Saar-
brucken is very affecting. A man who
had two sons killed in one regiment took
his wagon to go and search for them. He
had already put FIVE very severely
wounded upon his wagon; he had room
for one more. BE then found q Haupt-
mann Won Winterfeld But scarcely had
he placed him in the wagon when the old
veteran said, almost choking from weak
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