The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

embraced her; their silence spoke the
goodbye which their hearts were too
full to allow lips to utter he turned TO
his company, gave the command
TO FORWARD
and they were separated. Mrs. Tread
way went to Petersburg, to await the
coming Of her husband. Imagine her
grief when she learned, three days
afterward, that he had been killed the
very day upon which she parted With
him at his camp. His company had
skirmish that day with the enemy Cap
tain Treadway was wounded and left on
the field for dead, hence the report which
was sent her.
HE WAS TAKEN PRISONER,
and conveyed to field hospital
in the northern lines, and when
convalescent, was removed 10
Johnson's Island, where he was kept
until his recovery, when he was ex-
changed. Broken hearted, almost, the
wife left Petersburg to return to her
home in Missouri. After a fatiguing
trip, she reached the Missouri line, but
found no friends for
A REBELS WIDOW
because she never attempted TO conceal
the fact that her husband was an officer
in the confederate army. She finally
reached her hOme-nOt her home either,
because McNeill's bushwhackers had
aid il in ashes. What could she do?
She felt it unsafe to remain there.
Where could she go? Not to her rel4-
tives IN the north.
HER HUSBAND KILLED,
and home burned by northern soldiers,
she could not hope for assistance from
those whose sympathy was on the other
side. With the courage. characteristic of
a true woman, when nerve is wanted,
she set her face southwark, frequently
walking long distances, and at last, in
the southern part of Arkansas, she ar
rived at the house of an old schoolmate,
whose husband was away in the army,
east of the Mississippi. To this friend
she told
THE STORY OF HER WOES,
and in answer she was given home,
where she remained until few months
ago, when she left the hospitable roof
which had sheltered her so loEg.
After the war Colonel Treadway re-
turned to Missouri, to find the bleak
ruins of what was once his happy home
there was no golden smile to welcome
him nor could any tidings of her he
loved and now thought lost, be learned.
From that day
HE BECAME A wANDERER,
never satisfied to remain anywhere any
length of time. He had travelled all over
the south had been to Mexico had
worked as railroad laborer-well, to be
brief, he had done a little of everything,
bnt he never forgot his VOW to be ''true
to his country and wife" But one mo-
iAe governed his Ictions, but one
thought filled his mind-he might some |
day find his wife.
When questioned as to what induced |
her to leave her home in Arkansas and !
come TO Texas, where she could not hope |
TO fnd others than strangers, the lady |
told the reporter that by the merest acct |
dent she saw in Texas paper where
MAN NAMED TREADwAY
had been arrested and tried before the |
mayors court, at Denison, for some mis- |
demeanor ray of hope filled her heart |
and nerved her TO seek for him, for some |
nOW siie luOuSul HeI HuSDdHu WIS SILL |
living. Here the husband spoke up and |
said that he was the man tried by the |
mayor of Denison, and that the offense |
he had committed was striking a man
who had insulted him. She learned at |
DenisOn that the man she was seeking |
had left there for West Texas she fol |
lowed. How devotedly she chung to
the hope of soon
MEETING HER HARRY
is shown in the persistency with which
she travelled from town to town; the |
joy she experienced in finding him,
when least expected, cannot be ex-
pressed. Let the curtain fall upon the |
husband and wife who were parted in |
war and united in peace. Bidding the |
colonel and his wife good day, the re-
porter left them. They will return to |
Arkansas, to live near that friend of the |
school room, who sheltered the forlorn |
widow { rs she thought when the world |