The Osceola times., 1881-05-07
Scenes pftl,e War.

of Georgian lady. She has a mouthful
OF the most perfect teeth one can see
anywhere. With the slender and grace
ful body of girl, and the shy, yet EN-,
gaging manners of huntress, she is said
to be already grandmother. During
the war she went with Gordon to the
camp and lived with him and the family
among the troops, scarcely retiring IN
the time Of battle She has been line
horsewoman from childhood, and still
rides at her Georgia farm constantly.
Her youngest boy was born on the night
of the last offensive movement in the
rebel lines at Petersburg, and, as the
General says, the event was announced
with greater salute of cannon than
greeted the birth Of any ofthe Napoleons
or Romanoffs.
General Gordon is one of the most
popular men who ever sat in the senate.
Although the bravest of the brave on the
rebel side, he has never been aggressive
in his nature since he reentered civil life
and has always been for placating and
restoring good feeling, and therefore he
left the senate without an enemy. lie
was mining coal and iron in northern
Alabama when the war broke out and
was made a captain in the line. Ills
manners and address made him the pet
of the army, while his determined yet
quiet quality as fighter rapidly promot-
ed him, and he has been one of the best
shot men in the country.
! asked Mrs. Gordon if she did not
suffer great deal during the war, seeing
him so frequently go out to battle with
the prospect of coming back before her
dead in few minutes or hours.
"Yes," she said. 81 had much suffering
Every time he left me | thought il
might be the last; but | had rather
seen him brought home dead than to
rum
"She is the best soldier of the two,
cried the General, laughing "She can
beat me now at a foot race" heard II
said, too, that Gordon and his wife were
never separated, in marriage of twenty
six wears, over four weeks at a time"
where did you get that hole in your
face, General2"
AT Antietam, Johnny, pretty nearly
came to my end there, and Mrs. Gordon
was very close to being a widow. | was
shot through the calf of the leg early in
the day, and, although it did not pain
torn my whole leg off my body such was
the shock. Then got hole further ur
the leg, and was next shot in the arm
and then nearly had my shoulder torn
Off. felt as if had gone to pieces then,
and thought they We're putting it alto
gether rather too hard on me when got
this ball in my face, and it broke me all
up and came out below my ear-and that
was the last knew for some time.,'
"Where were you, Mrs. Gordon, when
he got all these wounds"
81 was at Richmond, but hearing OF
the battle, | pushed on to Winchester
and when | arrived there the doctors
told me the General would probably
have to die; that he had refused TO come
off the field, and had been drained OF
almost every drop of blood before he was
disabled, walking about there in his boots
with holes through him, six or seven
hours, and bleeding all the time The
doctors told me | must be very cautious,
and not disturb his nerves When !
knocked at the door of his room in
Winchester, his voice came up Just as
naturally as | ever heard it crying Come
in | opened the door. and there he Law
with his leg trussed up, and his arm
trussed up, and his face perfect mass OF
bruises and distortion. Hal ha. Mollie,
he said, here is your handsome man
do look at him he has been TO an Irish
fair"
General" said Johnny, 'you mus,
have suffered greatly while recoveriAg
from all these wounds
"Oh, yes; for a long time. The con
slant weakness, almost worse than death
was, perhaps, the greatest afllction-foi
weeks and weeks and months to lie there
and expect every breath you draw to be
the last. My jaw could not chew and
was kept alive on brandy and beef tea.
"And yet" said Mrs. Gordon, he wen
back to the same place before he was
quite well, and then came the battles o
the Wilderness, and he got wounded
again. | wanted him to come out of the
war honorably. but was in hopes after
he went off after these wounds that he
would turn out not strong enough to keeI
the field; yet he continued to grow bet
ter after he took the field again, and Sc
he went right through the war"
Here ] may say that Gordon was the
general chosen to make the last bi,
cnafEe OF tle War Ut ApHotHattpA, ant
Just at the moment of moving in as tn,
Federal cavalry drew of 10 either side
the long blue lines Of the Sixth corp'
were unrolled, and it was seen that the
Confederates would be swallowed up il
lead and fire. Then, fortunately, tn,
word came not to attack, as negotiations
were proceeding.
Gen. Gordon said "Johnny, | hop,
never to 90 through such war as tha
again. 1 don't believe | could stand i
now, but then we don't know. Som,
scenes arise on my mind as if they nevel
could have happened. often think o
Spottsylvania, where | saw my mer
standing on the dead bodies of theii
comrades, loading and firing, utterly in
different TO the death below them, the
death in front of them, and the dealt
everywhere The dead bodies were
lying down outside the works, in the
ditch which was half filled with water
and there, soaking in the rain, the deat
lay, and their friends were using theil
bodies to get little elevation in putting
| in that terrific work"
Maxican Ninas