The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-11-18
LONG.LOST
Restored After Many Years-A Roman,
In Real Life.

in Real Life.
An evening paper Of this city, says the
Cincinnati Commercial, publishes a
romantic story of the loss of a little child
at the capture and pillage of Corinth
Miss, by the Union forces in the late
war and of his restoration to his family
after thirteen years had passed and the
little boy had grown to be a man. In
the flight of the inhabitants from the
burning town, most of the people hur-
ried down the railroad track leading
from the southern part of the place, and
took refuge in the woods and fields along
the route. Soon the streets were desert
ed by all except this little boy, who be-
came separated from his friends, and,
stricken with terror, ran thither and
thither in his bewilderment, and at last
hid himself in o freight car which had es-
capped the general confagration. Among
the Union soldiers who soon poured into
the city was Capt. ~(afterward GEM
Hickenlooper, of the Fifth Ohio Rat
terry, who discovered the boy and took
him back to camp, where, by his youth
full intelligence, he became a great IA
vorite. The boy stated that his name
was Frank Foster, and his father and
| brother were in the rebel army, his
brother being an aide to Gen. Beaure-
gard but as all search for them had
| failed, it was believed that they were
dead. The General, out of pity, adopt
ed the boy, and in August, 1862, sent
him to Cincinnati, where he was taken
charge of by the Generals father and
mother. He was, sent to school, N al
terward served an apprenticeship In the
Surveyors Office under his patron, the
General, becoming at length agood civil
engineer. During all these twelve OF
thirteen years he lever ceased, when an
opportunity offered, of making diligent
inquiry with regard to his parents and
family, but in vain all he remembered
was his fathers and mothers names
and with only this to guide him ii
seemed a hopeless task.
He wrote repeatedly to his old home,
but the letters were all returned, no one
having called for them. He inserted
from time to time advertisements in the
Memphis and other Southern papers
but they brought no response; and
from the day that he was first taken tt
the Union Camp, nearly fourteen year
ago, wrapped in an old army blouse tha
reached to his ankles, until Saturday Of
last week, did never he hear n sylla
BILE with regard to father, mother, O
friends.
One evening, a year or twoago, young
Foster, in company with friends, visited
q theater in this city. and while all wer,
affected with merriment by the perform
ance of a particular comedian, Foste
was silent and serious, and being after
wards asked the cause, answered, "Tha
man looked SO much like my mother tina
it starts MI to thinking" @
Again one night last week young Eos
ter visited the same theater and to hi
astonishment the same comedian ar
peared ON the stage. This time it mad
such an impression on Fosters mint
, that he could not sleep. On Saturda
morning of last week two intereste
, friends visited the theater, and foundt h
comedian alluded to at rehearsal. The
questioned him closely /; the names @
/ both father and mother corresponds
exactly, but he had no brother. 81
only brother, Frank, was lost, he said
WlCh u CllllO, Ou LuO OubtlCl1Cll =
Corinth, and all search for him for THU
teen years had proved unavailing, and b
, had finally been given up as dead. Til
= history of the family was then relate
in detail, how after the siege and burn
ing of the town, they ha
$ returned to their old hous
in Dunkirk, N. Y, finally movin
: to Cleveland, where they have been eve
r since the fathers death ; the now hear
broken old mother; the struggles of til
= only surviving son to earn a living fc
his mother and sisters, and his fini
: debut and success on the stage /; the III
r availing search for the lost brother /; til
advertisements in papers in Eastern an
Southern cities /; the journeys, many
them on foot to distant places, of I'll
/ distracted mother, still searching for hi
{ lost child.
The brothers, as soon as they were sa
: isfed between themselves that they wei
brothers, dispatched a message Of GOO
news to their mother in CLEVELAND
: and followed the message in person t.
/ gether.
HorrihIe Trappdy-