Connecticut western news., 1881-10-05
LIN THE MORNING" !"
A True Incident of the War of the
 Rebellion.

[H. N. Adair in the Louisville Courier-Journal.]
 "Do you see that young lady in white talking with Clarke?"
 The speaker was tall, dashing look ing man of thirty five, in the uniform of cavalry colonel in the confederate ser vice. The time was a summer night in 63 the place, the hotel parlor in 8 small village of middle Tennessee. The occasion was chop" given in honor of the presence of a detachment of Forests cavalry" the daring riders whose names are household words in southern homes, from the mountains of Tennessee to the valleys of the Missis- sippi. The young lady referred to was a pretty, graceful girl, with dark gray eyes, waving hair, of dark, reddish gold, and the exquisite complexion that so often accompanies it.
 "Who is she2" asked the colonel's companion.
 "That is Picton's sweetheart, Miss Garnett."
 "Not the same one that saved his life after Shiloh ?" said Capt. Barclay.
 "The ~same," rejoined Col. Terry. "She is a little creature to do such 8 thing. but she did. You see, she was in the neighborhood at the time of the battle, and somebody told her that Pic ton was killed. She went over the field and found him, badly wounded through the lungs, but still alive. She sent a boy, that she had brought with her, to hunt up surgeon, and she stayed by Picton. The boy found Dr. Cowan, and when they got back, Miss Garnett had raised Picton up, with his head on her breast, so that he could breathe more easily. Dr. Cowan examined the wound without moving him, and told her that he was afraid it was hopeless, for the least motion, even laying him down again, might produce fatal hemor- haze. eff he could be kept perfectly quiet until morning and the bleeding checked during the night he might have a bare chance of pulling through. We'll, said the brave little woman, he shall be kept quiet, for will stay just here, and not let him move' And, by George, she did she never stirred all night, and in the morning they carried him to the nearest house, and she cursed him until he was out of danger.
 "That's 8 sweetheart worth having, ' said Capt. Barclay, with glance of ad miration at the subject of their conver sation.
 Half an hour later Col. Terry was 8 Miss Garnett's side, receiving warn greeting, that told that the two wer, fast friends.
 "Tell me of all my friends in the olt battalion" she said, presently.
 "How many ?" he asked quizzically "more than one ?"
 "I meant what said, {" she answered with merry laugh and quick, brigh blush "I have heard, from 'one' o them very recently"
 "Does Charley know you are here i? asked the colonel.
 s'No it is not a week since I lief Memphis. Will they join you here 1?
 "They?" he repeated, inquiringly.
 "The rest of the command, mean, she replied, blushing again.
 "A portion of it may, but for tha part that you are particularly intereste in, I cannot say. You know they ar with the old general, and their move ments can't be counted on with an very great certainty"
 "They are the comets of the SCI vice." said Miss Garnett. "Quite g cratic, at all events."
 "May I have the pleasure of thi dance ?" said the colonel, as the ban struck up a quadrille. 'I know it useless to ask you for waltz.'
 The dance over, he led her to chai
 and, after a moments gay badinage, WI , about to resign his place in favor { other claimants for her smiles, when I saw sudden ghastly pallor oversprea D her features.
 "Miss Alice, you are llI' he e.