Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-10-28
Restored After Many Years-A
Romance in Real Life. q,l

ouiiu aV thc cdplurc auu pNIaSe Oh IOr'
iuth, Mississippi, BY the Union forces in
the late war, aud of hio restoration Of biz
family after thirteen years had passed and
the little boy grown to be a man. IL
the, flight Of the inhabitants from the
burning town most OF the people hurried
down the railroad track leading from the
southern part of the place, and took re,
fuge in the woods and fields aloug the
route. Soon the streets were deserted BY
all except this little boy, who became
separated from his friends, and stricken
with terror, ran bither and thither in his
b,aiIdeiment, and at last bid himself in a
freight cal which Lad escaped the general
conaagration. Among the Union soldiers
who soon poured into he city. Was Cap,
tam afterwards General) I~Iickenlooper,
Of the Il tn Ohio Battery, who discovered
tue boy aud took him back to camp,
where by his youthful intelligence he be-.
came a great farorite. The boy Stated
that his name was Frank Foster, and thai
his father aud brother were in he r be,
army his brother being aid to Genera!
30 ,uregard : but as all search for them
had failed it was believed that they we're
dead. The Gcnerll out OF pity adopted
the body, and IL August. 1862 sent him
to Cincinnati, where hc was taken charre
of BY the generals father and mother
lie was sel.: to school and afterwards
served an apprenticeship in the surveyor,
office under his patron, the General be
cr"ing al length u gooi civil engineer.
During all these twsl e Or tnrteea year,
he never ceased, when an opportunity of
tered Of making diligent inquiry with re-
gard to his parents and family but in
vain. all be remembered was his fathers
aud mothers name; AMI with Only this
IL guide him to a seemed hopeless, task.
lie wrote repeatedly to his old home,
bat the letters were all returned, no one
having called for them. lie inserted
from time to time advertisements in the
MemP Is an other Southern papers. bit
they brought no response and from the
day that he was first taken 70 the Union
camp, nearly fourteen years ago, wrapped
III an old army blouse tba. reached to his
sukles, until Saturday of last week, did
never lac hear one syllable with regard to
father. uiotLer or friends.
Ohe evening a veal or two ago, young
Foster, in company with friend, visited n
theater in this city and Wills all we're az
fested with merriment by the performace
of a particular comedian, FL ter WI,
silent and serious, and being afterward,
asked tho sa1s, aus ycrel, that man
looked 50 much like my mother that it
starts me to thinking"
: Az in one might last week young Eos.
..a. I'll a.. -
ter visited the same theater aud to his
.stonlShnlent the same comedian appeared
on the stage. This time it made such an
impression on Fosters mind that he
could not sleep. On Saturday morning
o. last wees two interested friends visited
the theatcr aud found the comedian allu>
ded to at rehearsal. They questioned
him closely the name of both father and
mother correspondent exactly. but be had
no brother. dis only brother. Frank was
lost, be said when a child. on tue battle.
held of { oriuth. and all search for him
for thirteen years had proved uuavailing,
and he had finally been giyin up as dead.
The history of the family was then relat.
ed in detail, as to how, aft ,r the siege and
burning Of town of Dinkirk, New York
finally moving to Cleavland, where til ey
have renamed ever since the fat aer,s
death the now heart broken old mother /;
the struggles ofthe only surviving son to
earn a livi.g for his mother AMI sister
his iual debut and success on the sag, .
the uuavailing search for the lost brother
the advertisements in Eastern and South.
ern cities; the journeys. many of them
On feet. to distant places: of the distance
places of the distracted mother still search
Ing for her lost child. ' Joy '
d The brother RS. as sOon VS. they we're
satisfied between themselves that they
were brothers dispatched a message of
good news 20 their mother 10 Cleveland
aud follow the message in person t9geth-
er. isU "a