The daily gazette., 1874-11-14
a Love Story of the Rebellion.


Glades Hotel, in Oakland, Md, one day,
with charming lady who had dropped
in on visit. One OF our windows look
ed into that Of another room, SO placed
by the position OF the main building that
half Of its interior could be seen. We
were looking up and admiring little
chubby. blue-eyed .two-year old. white
as snow, who was pulling bouquet to
pieces and tossing out the fragments, OF
train went laundering BY.
"These rooms" said our visitor, "have
Some very tender associations for me-"
why SOP we asked.
'Well," she answered, during the war
the greater part Of the hotel was seized
by the government as hospital, and we
were crowded into q few rooms. My sis
ter and had this. In that room where
that little beauty is, were two Union OFF,
GERS, one sick OF fever and the other of
O. wound. It was hard to tell whether
well. never saw such ghostly skeletons
to be alive. We were ''secesh," and not
modest about it, either, but still our
hearts ached for the poor young men
who were SO i'll, perhaps dying, far away
from their friends and relatives"
'It bothers any one to know how this
should be hospital" we said, ct is so
far removed from active operations"
| ut was thought" she answered, "that
the mountain air of the glades would be
more favorable to recovery than else
where, so this was made . hospital: One
day one OF these officers dragged himself
to the window. and. under the impulse
OF the moment, my slater asked il we
could do anything for them, and he an
lswered, gasping for breath, that little
chicken or soup would saw their lives.
Chickens were rare in those days-an
army is hard on poultry. The men will
walk all night. after marching through
the day, to secure o few chickens; so
that when the hospital nurse and physi-
clan had an unlimited supply Of luXuries
canned vegetables, they were without
anything fresh. We knew where few
chickens were hid in cellar, by neigh
Dor and we coaxed one out OF the owner,
and utter deal OF vexatious trouble
for at every turn we were met with fix
ed bayonet and an insult-we got the
soup ready, and, as the guard in the hall
would not permit US to approach our pa
, tient, my sister attempted to hand the
bowl to the officer in the window. just
as he was feebly reaching for it, and she
) stretching herself half out to give it to
him, a harsh, ugly voice below cried out,
, Look out, there-poison~ Sho nearly
dropped herself, soup and all. Drawing
back she hesitated q second, and then
) she took the spoon and began eating the
, bread. "Oh, botherp' cried the officer,
l don't waste it that way; am not
| afraid" and she gave him the soup. 1t
: seemed to revive them, and they contin-
, ued to improve, as day after day we sup
, cellar was empty. During this timo We
stood at the window talking, and we
r sang to them "My Maryland" and all
r the Southern songs We knew, until they
4 were we'll enough to leave the hospital
and return to duty. They both seemed
:. sorry to go, and forced on us q quantity
q OF hospital stores and some coffee, which
V last we needed sadly. Then one gave q
4 ring and the other a brooch. ~ tokens OF
: their kind feeling" as
: ."And did they never return?" we then
y asked. ,tlg- 1f
!, "One did not, for poor fellow, he was
9 killed in the very next battle in which
t he was engaged. His companion wrete
o to us about 1t, and the writer insisted
Il Eupon opening correspondence with my
l. lsister, and soon his letters grew into love
a letters, and after q time they were en-
= tgaged. Nearly o year subsequent TX
a this our patient got leave Of absence
y and came on TO be- married. He put VI
= hb IlOtc1s huu WILL you DeL6Ve IL, Oul
n own brother, who wns in the Confeder
> ate service, and knew nothing Of my sis
] ter's affair, led q band Of guerrillas Al
It night into town and captured his intend
Is ed brother law from his bed. Thii
l. not only deferred the marriage, but de
ir prived the young West Pointer Of hi
= promotion that had been promised fo
Il Il gallant services in the field. 1t was real
ly aggravating, for exchanges had almos
y ceased, and it looked rs il the lover
le would have to wait until g. this cruel wa.
p was over" before they could be united.
Y "You should have appealed to Abra
q ham Lincoln to give amarried Brigadie
/. for an unmarried Lieutenant"
r I'VE did better. Procuring passes, W.
a, went through the lines and appealed t.
:, JEFF. Davis. Jen. said he would put m
u brother's prisoner in my sisters keeping
:, They have been happily married thes
oi many years. He is q Brevet- -Brigadier
70 General now, and It all came Of our nurs
I'd ing the enemy in that room"
In Here 10 the foundation for drama ia
c. superior to the one given by Boucicaul
D. in the story Of Belle Lamar"
% A German named Kramer, living in Che,
shire, Couu beat his wife with club lai
IN Wednesday 90 that she died on Friday. TIL