The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-27
HORRORS OF THE WAR.
Incidents and Anecdotes Of the
Army.

incidents and Anecdotes Of the
Army.
Frankfort Cor. n. Y. Evening Post.
Every anecdote relating to the gen
erals and commanders is greedily de-
voured. Steinmetz has always been
a great popular favorite, and naturally
takes a good part in anecdote literature.
He is the Blucher Of the present day.
When the ruinor 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, how
ever, unfounded He has since been
made Governor General ofthe Province
of Posen, and took leave of his soldiers
before Metz in a very atfectionate ad-
dress. His army has been Incorporated
with that of Prince Frederick Carl.
On one of the celebrated Zundnadel
Bilderbogeu there is very amusing
picture representing the statue of Napos
leon l., by Canova, and Napoleon Ill.
fleeing with his son. The inscription
saws that while Napoleon the first was
"chiseled' by "Canova,' his nephew,
Napoleon III, was "hewn" by Stein.
metz" Puns on the words Metz and
Steinmetz are, of course innumerable.
Then comes Moltke. There is a
story that when King William got out
of railroad carriage somewhere, IN
order to greet the city authorities,
Moltke accompanied 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: us MoItke
already in. If he's on board then we
can all 20 on The latest one about
the great strategist is, that he made the
plan OF this campaign shortly after 1850,
and when war was declared in July last
he had merely to call to his secretary
to get him the plan of the campaign
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 converse
ton was quite free, and all present ex-
pressed their opinions and wishes as
freely as If 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
Elsass? "And Lothringia," put in the
Duke Ernst Of Coburg. Moltke, as us
ual, did not answer. but merely nodded.
Bismarck, however, answered gaily:
"I VII take the title if your Majesty
will only take the land.
GENERAL wRASGEL.
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 a landwehrman, on duty before
Metz, gave birth to daughter, when
General Wrangel was asked, and con-
sented, 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-and that is Victoria;
this and nothing else is the mans for
soldiers daughter"
An officer wrote while ago from
Cuxhaven that he had lO2 sturd dy
Westphaiians under his command; Is
of them were married, and the fathers
of pa children three having six aud
three five descendants. It's said that
the % Trussian guard landwher regi-
ment, which belongs to the Strasburg
beleaguering corps, leaves no less than
1908 children at home
FURTHER ANECDOTES
il vou think that the loregoinL 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 in
cidents to he appended as corrective:
1t is related Of a young Frenchman
in one OF the Berlin hospitals who bad
to have his hand amputated, that he
refused to be put under the influence
of chloroform. When the operation
was finished he picked up the dead
limb. kissed it and said with this
hand have sustained 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 a French officer rendered in
sane bv the excitement Of the battles
around Metz He lies on the ground
and plavs with 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, Merciful BrothG
gained great credit for his heroic con
duct The bullets began to fall like
hailstones about the ambulaDces, 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
me" That was true courage;
An episode from the battlefield at
SaarhruckCn Is very aHecunS. y man
who had two sons killed in one regi-
ment 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 a Hauptmann von WInterfeld. |
But scarcely had he placed him
in the wagon when the old vet I
eran said, almost choking from weak
ness and pain: Just seek my ser
geant-a brave man; will not leave
him alone here" The wagon was full,
and it had become dark. The wagner
/ declared it would be impossible 20 find
the wounded sergeant. Then put me
down again was the answer, FOR |
! ill l;a u here nv seroeant iies With