Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-03-12
Mr.. Anderson,s Colu,nn.
The pay Of Glory.

mer bivouacs IN the field, leads Us 10 tnroW-
! ing away of convcntionalisms, as we sit toge-
ther in my study, after the family has RETIRED
and call up the glorious past-the past par er- |
ceitencc-that lives in every soldiers memory.
Way on into the evening" while the Colonel |
takes his meersehaum, we sit in the quiet of the
study-my den-whil he plays over Gold.
smiths soldier -
"The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay,
Sat by his hre and talked the night away
wept o'er his wounds, or, tales Of sorrow done
sboudered his crutch, and showed how fields
My friends bed room is close by my study,
and tonight, after the tired wife had lelt.us,
he said:
MY limb pains me some tonight You
know how Soot-bath always relieved it, Let
me get tire little tub in here by the stove and
sit with my feet in it, while blow my cloud.
Then we can talk on"
So brought it in and placed 1t where the
glow of the fire came, and he rolled up his
pants, and sat in familiar kind of way, call
ing up the different positions at Nashville.
when Hool WIS before it, His feet were
enveloped in water and his head in smoke.
Just few inches above his ankle, and show
ing a little below the edge of his roled.up
: trowscrs, was the purplish-brown edge of
horrid scarf forgot what he was peaking
| of when l saw it-I was back beyond the
. Mississippi, and beyond the latter years of
I, the war; 10 the place and day when saw that
E spot first. 1t was a jagged, ugly hole then,
7 lined with the crimson flesh, and quiyering yet
7 with the shock of the piercing mimic. He was
, hopping on one leg, while his aims rested on
E the shoulders of two brawny men WHO loved
, their ofIlcer.-The life blood was oozng from
{ the wound and yet he shouted Keep the men
Y upp
t thought of a later day when saw it again,
c and the edges showed the sickening color of
r the gangrene and the atmosphere was filled
y with the odor of the dreadful aggravation that
n was brought by the heat of the Southern hos
pital. He said to me:
6 at is humiliating that we ore subject to such
corruption,-but even when they arc corrupt,
o we love our members and have told the
lr the irgeons, that, bad as il is, would defend
J. M limb, with my pistols, If need be, from the
p .tlin or the saw"
d SO this evening said -
= "Col., that ragged scar takes me back few
e years, and the memory seems 10y one"
of thousands officers and prvates-who arc
in this fix. There was q tim, VIII, we felt the
;e glory, but it is so long ago. If live to be
lie grandfather, little mouths may stand agape al
IN my scars But just now ii seems like cheaI
OF glory"
~ The Colonel whiffed slowly at his pipe ant
I'd then he said:
ID Now there was Peabody, shot through tn
re foot at Lexington. You remember he wal
to made Colonel OF the 25th Mo. Infantry, anC
I'd while yet cripple from his unfortunate foot
IT, he went with his command to Pittsburg Land
n ing, only to be killed Powell, Major Of tina
,h regiment had been soldier for twenty-five
I'd years, and he was shot with Peabody.
ur WI hat I'm at is this Two classes Of glor.
IT, are gained in two ways; one through brillian
en- service, and the other through long service
re- oae with the intense pain Of bullet hole II
RS the foot, and the other through the long draw
ne pain of a quarter century in frontier life ant
Is, both, Immediately after promotion, end il
ok death. Peabody got his name mentioned II
it, Orders, and his face brought out in Harper
yo or Frank Leslic's or some of them but VIII
knows or cares about Powell Poor fellow.
,at The Colonel puffed vigorously at his meel
de schaum, and struck up n little tempest in til
IN, foot bath, by stamping in his earnestncss, an
TO- then he said
lse "Conlound ii |! that is what bothers IN,
cir People say TO me, when q twinge in my lie
III starts grunt It must be such satlsfactio
to to think how You got itr That is just til
,ly thing don't think of; I'm only thinking hoy
lr. 1t hurts Is it really an honor to ones mar
4 +. ,N.t ;., Hair
in. ous aching of an old bullct-wonnd, with tn
nut idea that he has been proved not a coward
lu. I'm not sure but one might better be a COW
&c. ard-and for taat matter, 1t isn't proved-ft
.re Just before got this hole, slid off my hors
II and stood behind him, till | dispscd mysel
we and, for very shame, got back again.-Whew
how the bullets flew
Now what was that but cowardice"
My old comrade sat quietly few moment
nd and 80 did |, calling up the scenes of that day
mo- all at once he said
80, Say do you remember that chap who W,
~, SD near sightedg You tried to wake him u
81 after the battle was over, he lay dead so natu
49,, ally. He has left Il wife and children, al
- rs they were married in the early days
~ ~,c. Minnesota, when no records were kept, and Il
ASA tcrWaruS moved 10 ILLINOIS, the poor WOMB
nan never could prove her marriage, and has I
"a, bounty nor pension yet.
ao. THAT leads me TO the money idea Of tn
,o. sort of affliction. 1t is necessary enough to
"a sure but how of the satsiactiong Think oi
LI, poor woman, (there are plenty of themD toilil
od alone, having sacrificed everything in Il
roe world for her country-giying more than b
.r, husband did: (for he only gave his life, al
-, she has given the happiness OF hers y wi
Wv 81 'o'ven to rear to,-the Lord knows what!
~. sd e5odycomes in and says to her. Itisa co
, for TO think that your husband left su
N' bounlvs, and that the country gives such p'
,., siosp How 1t must freeze up the poor he
80 - that Is left empty
,o,v People sometimes say to me, why do
,ns you take pensionr Now just think Of
y - idea have good income, enough for |
iii necessities, and to keep my meerschaum
- operation, and even II hadn't, would you G
a., out glorywith remuneration for grunts over
wv aching feH IA grateful country indeed 4