The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-18
The Story of q Ring,
One Of the Romances Of the War.
IFrom the Kansas City Journal

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IFrom the Kansas City Journal
In the year of 1861, q young man,
| then living few miles from this city,
went into the Missouri State Guard
as a soldier. At Springfield, and on
the reorganization of this branch of
the army, he took service as conted-
federate. AfterWard he joined com
pany OF Colonel Up. Hays regiment,
and participated IN the battle of Lone
Jack.
Before leaving home, however, his
mother gave him an ald-fashioned
ring, which had heart upon it, and
the lettera "R. So engraved upon
this heart. She placed it in her sons
hand with wish, or rather prayer,
that he might go through the war
safely, and get safely back TO his
home again.
1t is not known that either the ring
or the prayer acted as y charm, but
! the young man went unhurt through
many bloody fights, being hit in but
one of them, the wound then proving
but q slight scratch.
In 1864, the young man was very
sick OF a fever at Clarksville, Texas,
During the delirium attendant upon
it, and while he was tossing to and
fro, the ring slipped from his fingers
and was lost. The closest search
failed to find it, and it was given up
for good, There nursed the young
man, however, very pretty and
amiabie girl who seemed to be sorry
when he got well enough to rejoin his
command. When he left he laugh
ingly told her that if she would lind
his ring, and he lived, he would come
back and marry her. If this promise
was made at first with any degree of
sincerity, il was soorl forgotten in the
excitement and care of soldiers life,
and only at rare intervals. perhaps,
did he recall the sick room and the
ministering anges.
When the war was ever, the young
man returned to his fathers farm in
Jackson county, and went to work in
good earnest. Two years ago his
mother died and once more the loss
of the ring came back to MIN with
redOubled sorrow. He determined to
write to the lady who had nursed
him, and to inquire of her whether
she was married or not, and whether
she had ever seen or heard anything
of the present his mother had made
him.
The letter was written in August,
1869, and in March, 1870, what was
his surprise to receive an answer from
the identical girl he had left in 1864
and tG whom he had made g light
promise Of marriage. She was still
single she said, and waiting for him
And what was stranger still, only five
days before she wrote, she had found
the lost ring. The manner of finding
: ii was as follows: The father Of the
young lady had determined to max,
some repairs in the house, whicl
repairs necessitated the taking up o
: the floor of the room in which the sol
Clier had been sick. After doing this
and while digging away some rubbish
! beneath the workmen came upon th,
= ring. 10 had slipped through a cracl
in the floor, and had been lying theT,
:, safe and sound, for nearly five Ion,
', years. The lady took possession o
= it at once, and wrote Immediately t.
, its owner, as we have stated above
!, Perhaps she looked upon its recover,
: as IN omen, and perhaps it was. A
. any rate it was little romantic witt
: all its attending circumstances
= The Correspondence thus eommenc
= ed, OK rather, renewed, was continued
with an ever increasing ard0r on tn
q part of the gentleman, until, in tn
. end, he made a new and impetuou
offer of marriage, Without it the stor.
: would be incomplete. Last week, wit
: money in his pocket, and a good hom
= i'll Jackson county, and great happi
= ness in his heart, this young soldier
:. now somewhat older and more set
: tied and sedate-started for Clarks
= vile, Texas, the home of his betrothed
% % Who can doubt of the result? H
= will remain there probably month
;, and return again TO Missouri with hi
q bride. When he does we promise t
- give his name. Until then it is i'm
. . possible; for the condition of scores
was attached TO the informatio
% before we could obtain it. Al. th
= circumstances, however, are Just &
n we have narrated them in every pal
- ticular, and furnish another to th
II Il long lost of romantic Incidents thu
Il have grown out of the war.
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