The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-10-05
A SOLDIERS
A Story ofPresident Lincoln.

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n,r;,r t,. srmmer If tbe most dis
.a.o,. ona var If tho late
.mor;,o, u.r tbe Colopel of n New
uau,sh;ro ror;mert lay for some weeks
extremely in Of camp fever. near
u.mn,on Reads in VIRGINIA Hearing
90 h;s or;,;c.l condit;on bis wife left
bor Northarn homo and after much
d;e;crl,v made ber ,vav 10 his bedside.
uor choarfpI nresence and careful nurs-
inc 90 far restored him that he was in
a sbort time able tn Inc transferred to
yy,sh;roton
T, tbe Potomac river tho steamer in
which tbo invalid officer Colonel Scott
ona HE wife had taken massage was
snnt in n collision with a larger vessel
in ,he NIGHT time The crew and nearly
all Tho soldiers on hoard were rescued
ar saved themselves. Int. amid the hor-
rible confusion If the scene. Colonel
Scott became separated from his wife
and sbe ,vas lost. The Colonel was
n;ctod mn in tbe wafer nv the crew of n
larger steamer and Il his direction
every effort was made to discover his
wife or rather her. bodv. for all hone
of 6nding her alive was abandoned.
The sad search vas frpitIess. it was
resumad in the morning. the neople
o,onc tho shore humane Copfederates
,andino tbeir aid Rut tbe grov. sullen
river refused to give M its dead; and
tho vounc officer half frantic with
Grief was comne,led IN go to Washing
20, witb;r wool bowovar bc re-
coiyea word from helow that the body
~ lodv had hean wasbed on shore Int
,ha,o - oo,n,r, noon,o ,oporo,o
foes had secpred II. cared for II and
were leen;pg II for him
II bapnened inst Mt hat time inner
o,ive orders were issued from the War
Denartment nrohihiting all intercourse
With tho naninsulo-o necessary pre.
caution ,gainst the premoture disclos-
ure of imnortant military plans. Col.
SCOTT anniied IN Secretary Stanton for
,ooye 70 raturn IN vi, ginio nm his mel.
oncholv dptv
..Imnossihle Co,one, -, replieI Mr.
S.ortor rruly. ..,o ono can have loove
BONN do,,r tho river NJ tbis TINA nm onv
,,r;,,,to ,~,rs;ress vbotever Our nrcsept
ax;aonc;es dem,pd tbo most stringent
nroc,n,iors and I hone 7 need not saw
20 %, that no morally n~erson,l consid-
orotions shonId he aiIoved In interfere
with creat national interests. Your
case 10 n sad one Int This is n critical.
neri,ons cruel time The dead must
h,rv tbe;r dead >,
The Colonel would have entreated.
I'm, tho brsy Secret,rv emf him short
With anotber s.imnossib,e >, from which
there was absolutely mn onpeal lie re-
turned tn his hotel unite overwhelmed.
Fortunately he was visited that after
noon Inv a friend 4, whom he told the
story Of his unsuccessful opplication
and cod rarnlex;tv and who Immediate
Nv exclaimed. "Wby not opplv TO the
Presidentpm
The Colonel had lint little hone lint
admitting that tbe nIou yos worth fry
inc drove with his friend IN fine White
Uonse
Thevw were too late. II WIS saturday
evening and Mr.. Lincoln had gone to
spend Sunday Mt Soldiers, Rest. his
Summer retreat. This was but n few
miles from town. and the Colonel's in
domitable friend proposed that they
should follow him out, and they went.
There was then n popular belief that
all the wronped. the troubled. and suf-
ferinc could find refuge in ..Father
Abraham,s- capacious bosom. a belief
not far ont of the way. Yet. there
were times when. oyerburdened. wear
led tortured. the patriarch lonred to
bolt and double lock it against the
world; times when life became too hard
and nernlexing for his GENIAL honest
nature. too serious and tragic and ras-
cally a thing by half.
1t bappened. unluckily. that the poor