The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-09-17
WILDER rzIAN FICTION

The following remarkable nara
tive is furnished by the Council
Bluffs NoDpariel of Saturday last.
One of our semi-OccasiOnal rcpOr-
tiers, led by business 10 Omaha yes
lerday, met with a strange and sim
gular experience, which Ihongh not
beyond The range OF probabilities,
has a certain fascination on account
of it's novelty. Passing up Douglass
street he met a man 30 years of age,
on crutches, and dressed in the army
blue of the United States service.
At u glance the reporter imagined
he recognized the party, but was,
however, uncertain about it, and he
looked back until the invalid, who
ever he was, turned the corner.
Still haunted with the face, he re-
traced his steps, turned the corner
and quickened his pace, and saw the
stranger some distance ahead of
him. No time was lost in overtak-
ing him, when he laid his hand on
his shoulder and requested him to
stop u moment. The stranger did
son addressing him. This gave our
reporter nearly Iull view, and he
at once recognized in his face the
features of brother who had been
missing since the battle of Antietam
in September, 1862, nearly thirteen
years ago. The effect of such meet
ing in such place aud under such
circumstances, after so long a sepa-
ration, can be imagined more easily
than il can be described. The woun-
ded soldier, as he proved to be, and
his brother, adjourned to all adjoin-
lug restaurant, where he rehearsed
his wanderings and mishaps in the
interim. We give the combined
story, and vouch for its truthfulness.
Andrew, we will call him, was at
the outbreak of the war a well-to-
do tenant farmer, and upon the Or
ganiz alton of the Pennsylvania Re-
serves, under General Mccall, be-
came u member of the First Virgins
Rifles, under Colonel Thomas l.
Kane, after whom the original town
of Council Bluffs was called. He
served throughout the whole of the
early bloody campaigns of that gal
liant corps without u scratch, anC
Just before the battle of Antietan
his brother, our reporter, became {
+ member of the Same company. Thi
two went into action together, anC
while on the turnpike which rum
by the little bunker church on tina
memorable battlefield, a GeOrgi,
brigade drove them from their posi-
ton, and in falling back Andrew
fell by the side of his brother will
shot Just below the pit of tn,
stomach. The last heard was al
exclamation, "My God, my wife |
The retreat was then FASTENED, anC
, 40 dead did he seem Ia be that IA
r was counted among those who ha'
given up their lives TOR The cause
: Svvcrsi lays Andrew lay on tn
neutral ground between the hostii
lines, aud being ouly wounded, wa
entirely missed by those who after
ward went in seS,ch OF the deai
and wounded, he having hid him
I self among some bushes, where h
I was found afterward by an old far
: mer, to whose house he was remov
ed, near Sharpsburg. Here he re
2 manned for quite Il while, and wa
beginning to convalese, when j.
b. Stuart's cavalry made its famou
D raid into Chambersburg, in the IA
: of 1862. In their retreat within ia
4 Confederate lines detachment {
e StuarIs calvary captured him an
/ took him south of the Potomac riV
: er, and thence he was sent to LibbI
G and from Libby TO Macon, Ga. A
the latter place he made his cscsp,
!, after having been twice shot in III
y arm by the guard, and when on b
8 way TO the Federal lines under th