The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-12-14
BnOch Arden ~Out-Ardehed.

can ex-Privaten in the Toledo Blade,
in giving anecdotes connected with the
rebellion, relates an incident of a soldier
he calls Jim, that beats EnOchA Arden all
to pieces. Jim was made a cripple at
the battle OF Stone River, After the
wal a comrade met him sitting in front
was still a cripple, but his face had the
old q~uietness and contentini He said,
eyes, I'm doingpretty well notmaking
much, but doing pretty well. Have just
been up to see my wife. She married
another mGal, you know. No! Didn't
You know it? Yes, she married another
fellow before / got home. Divorced?
No. She just married him and threw
me overheard, You know. 1t made me
a little mad, l tellyou. But she married
a good man, and there'sthe rub, you see.
He's got a farm and good house, and
took my wife and children right in, sir,
and treated them like gentlemen. 1t
cut me a little to have the woman throw
me off, but | look at the question from
her standpoint, and it's all right. Then
| got worked up a little, and [ thought
| had better stealthe children from their
step-father. So I went UP to see them
again: Would you believe it? They
StIIu U11C.y OIl HUI "bllI I'D I'VE WIFI HE.
if they had to leave their mother. So |
You see my girl is smart. She knew
that with my lame leg and arm I could
not support her right, and the little duck
told me SO with her arms around my
neck. That finished me you know"
"But," said my friend, the woman is
legally your wife"
81 know it." said Jim, "but if I was
stubborn and claimed her, you see she
would have to take III washing to sup
pOrtthe family. Legality isn't the thing.
| can'tdO anythingmuch, andi it wouldn't
be comfortable you know to have her
working for me. I couldn't stand that
half so well as I can the way it is now.
No, sir, legality don't help the matter.
! will never be comfortable any way.
She'd marry. after / was dead, so what's
the use OF Whlmpering now"
Poor Jim, he was cOnstitutionally cool
to the last. He accepted misfortune,
defeat, wounds, loss of wife, and all, in
the same spirit with which he went into
battle. 1854 <sSs 49,
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