Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-09
From The Sunny South.
SID FRAZIER, OKINLUCK ATLAST.
4 story of an Atlanta Young Man.
BY VI. E. T.

The late "uncivil war was over,
the dishanded soldiers of the Lost
Cause had returned to their dilapida-
ted homes. Fathers, brothers, hus-
bands and lovers whom the cruel
chances of war had spared were finding
in the welcome of their dear ones a
solacc for the bitterness of defeat.
But to one lonely soldier the cessation
of war brought no consolation of love
or home. Sid Frazier, Southern
volunteer. stood in the streets Of New
York without friend to extend
helping hand or a roof to shelter him.
He stood there ostracised from the So
cictv in which he had moved, disOwned
bv the parents for whom his heart
yearued. regarded as an alien and an
outcast by the country for which he
had she'd his blood. Early in the war,
he had left his home in Georgia and
enlisted in the army-had served with
bravery and honor until he was wound
ed and taken prisoner. The horror of
that Imprisonment! The loathsome
confinement, the starvation, the lOne.i
ness. the wearing sickness, the fetid
air. the foul, meagle food ! What
wonder that when many months had
passed away with no tidings from home
and friends-when all hope Of release
had died out in his tortured soul, and
his emaciated body cried out for air
aud sustenance-what wonder that's
Frazier did violence to his conscience
and took the oath of allegiance to the
United States? He was released from
prison. and soon after the star of
Southern hope went down in darkness,
and the war closed with defeat for the
people who had struggled so bravely.
and who now accepted their fate with
a bitterness of heart that was aug
mented by the unnecessary harsh and
naughty measures that followed soon
after from the hands of their conquer
OrS.
Sid Frazier, without money and ut
terly unable TO procure employment in
city Of strangers. wrote to his father
in Atlanta and explained his situation.
his desire TO return home and his want
of means. The staunch old rebel re-
Piled at once, telling him to ask for
money from his friends, the PederalS,
and advising him 10 remain where he
was, as the South did not want any
more traitors on her soil; and that rs
for his wife, they had no wish to look
again upon the face Of a son who had
diSgracea Himself
Sid's heart sank within him as he
read the brief letter that destroyed the
hopes which had buoyed him before
Gone, az gone-the love of friends, the
respect Of the community, the affection
even of the father whose parting bless
ing had nerved his heart in battle. the
mother whose parting kisses had ling
cred in his memory through all the toll.
the trials and cruel hardships of his
careerl
II was hard. and the burning tears
fell upon the cruel letter: hut he wiped
them away and tried 70 nerve his heart
for the fight with adverse fate. lie
must do something 10 keep from starry
alton. He was literally peris hing of
inanition. He, after great difficulty,
succeeded in obtaining some mental oc
cupqtion that brought him food, and
ne worked faithfully. But his heart
yearned for a sight of his old home.
His thoughts turned there continual
~, aud finally he seized an opportunity
and worked his way to Atlanta, the
city where his father lived.
So changed was he that none recog-
uized in the pale, sad yet resolute
nan, the blooming, merry. youth they