Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1872-01-12
GeIettc0 nlisccilonD.
The Story Of q Ring

In the year 1861, a young man, Their living
a few miles from this city, went into the Mis-
souri, State Guard as soldier. A SPRING
held, and ON the reorganization OF this branch
of the army, he took service rs a confederate.
Afterwards he joined a company in Col. Up.
Hays regiment, and participated in the battle
of Lone Jack.
Before leaving homo, however, his mothcr
gave him an old-iasaoned gold ring, which
had heart upon it, and the letters ''B. s."
engraved upon this heart She pIuced it on
ner sons hand with wish or rather n pray
er, that he might 60 through the war safely,
and get safely back to his home again.
1t is not known that either the ring or the
prayer acted MS charm, but the young man
went unframed through many bloody fights,
being hit i'll but one Of them, the wound then
proving TO be only mere scratch
In 1864 the Young man was very sick of n
fever, nj Clarksville, Texas During the deli
rum attendant upon it, and while he was tos-
sing TO and fro, the ring slipped from his fin
ger and WAS lost The closest search failed to
find it, and it was given up for good. There
waited upon the young man, however, a very
pretty and amiable girl, who seemed 10 be sor-
ry when he got well enough to rejoin bis COM
mand. When he left he laughinely told her
that il she should find his ring, and he lived,
lie would come back and marry her. If this
promise was made with any degree Of sinceri-
ty, il was soon forgotten in the excitement
and care OF n soldiers life, and only at rare
intervals, perhaps, did he recall the sick room
and the ministerng angel
w hen the war was over, the young man re-
turned to his fathers farm in Jackson county
and went to work in earnest Two years ago
his mother died and once more the loss Of the
ring came back to him with redoubled sorrow
lie determined 10 write 10 the lady who had
nursed him, and inquire Of her whether she
was married or not, and whether she had seen
or heard anything Of the present his mother
had made him.
The letter was written in. August, 1862 and
in 1870, what WAS his surprise to receive an
answer from the identical girl he had left in
1864, and 10 whom he had made a light pro-
mise Of marriage. And what was stranger
still, only five days before she wrote she had
found tile lost ring. The manner Of finding it
was as follows The father of the young lady
had determined 10 make some repairs in his
house, which repairs necessitated the taking
up Of the floor Of the room in which the sol
dler had been sick. After doing this, and
while digging away some rubbish beneath, the
workman came upon the ring. II bad slipped
through a crack in the floor, and had been ly-
ing there safe and sound, for nearly five long
years. The lady took possession Of it at once,
and wrote Immediately to its owner, as we
have stated above Perhaps she looked upon its
recovery as an omen, and perhaps it was At
any rate it was little romantic with its at
tending circumstances.
The correspondence thus commenced, or
rather renewed, was continued with an ever
increasing ardor on the part Of The gentleman,
until in the end he made IN impetuous offer of
Without that the story would be
Last week, with money in his
pocket, a good home in Jackson county, and
happiness in his heart, this young soldier
now somewhat older and more settled and Sc
date-started for Clarksgllle, Texas the home
Of his betrothed .--Kaa8as city Tin,es.