Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-26
The Death of Gen. EweII ana HIS
Wife--Their Romantic Marriage.

Mrs. Ewell, wife of the Confederat,
Generrl Ewell, after having spent many
anxious days and nights at her hus
bands bedside, was stricken down Will
the same disease from which he wa,
suffering, and survived only three OF
four days. The loss of his wife cause!
reaction in General EwelPs disease,
and his death speedily followed. Mrs
Ewell was the daughter of the late Judge
Campbell, and was born in St. Peters
burg, while her father was the represen.
tative of this Government at the court OF
the Gear. The Louisville Ledger has this
romantic narrative of the marriage OF
General Eweli:
In early life there was a settled melan-
choly almost bordering on moroseness,
about General Ewell, which impressed
his army friends with the belief that he
had keen the victim of some tickle false
ones heartlessness. This, however, was
not the case. He had scarcely attained
his majority when he first met Miss Mary
Polk Campbell, the lovely and accom-
plished daughter of George w. Camp
bell, of Tennessee, and mutual admira-
tion sprung up between the gallant young
army officer and the fascinating belle,
which soon ripened into love. But the
fates were not propitious. The parents
objected to the match SO persistently
that General Ewell, becoming piqued,
did not press his suit so vigorously at the
time, as he would otherwise have done.
The duties of military life carried
him to the frontiers; yet through.
out all the stirring campaigns in which
he bore a conspicuous part he carried
with him the image of his early love
dreaming, in the psuses OF the battle oi
the time when he might yet win from the
unwilling hands of fame a dist notion
which should commend him to the faith.
ers esteem.
Meantime the daughter, with that high
sense of honor peculiar to her race, and
filial devotion almost without a paral-
lei, addressed herself as best she could
to the meek observance of dutiful life
-ceasing to communicate with, yet in
secret cherishing, her hearts one IDOL.
Another won her hand, and in her tive n
tieth year she married an estimable geli-
tleman and settled with him on a beaut
full farm near Spring Hill, Tennessee. 4,
short time before the war she was left a.
widow, free to bestow her hand again on
whom she would. But she had never
forgotten her girlish VOWS. Through
all the stormy life of him who
first won her affections followed,
with her prayers and tears her idol
her hero-who was winning laurels
on distant fields. And when in the bat
tie OF the Wilderness in May, 1864, be
was stricken down at the head of his
columns, Mary Polk Brown laid aside
all minor considerations and flew on the
wings of love to his bedside, nursing him
through all his suferings until he was
again able to take command 1t was
shortly after his recovery that the dream
of long and eyentfHl life was realized
by the consummation of his early hopes,
and these twain, devoted in youth,
parted for the quarter of century, met
at last in the shadows of declining
years to pledge anew that faith which
had waxed stronger through the trying
ordeal of long separation.
. We do not remember the journal this
statement is taken from, but we think
that General Ewell was wounded at the
second battle Of Manassas. ED. LEDGER.