Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-13
A ROLL OF GREESBAcKs.
Inquiry Started by an Article sn the IAN.
mails Of the War.
lFrom The Atlanta constitutlor

from the Atlanta Constitution
War has its horrors--but no less ,ts
amenities, as the following curIous
story will show: A short time sco
Colonel b. +. SAWYER wrote nm article
for the Philadelphia lI'ceLig Times de-
scribing the battle of Shiloh. The ar
ticlc was copied extensively through
out the country Among other papers
!. FOUND It's way into
the St. Louis Globe Democraf.
Then Colonel Sawyer re-
ceiyed letter from David Baker Of
Atchison. Kansas. MIR. Baker, who
was first lieutenant IN Company G.,
Eighth, Kansas Infantry, wrote !:
Seeing an article in the 81. Louis
Globe Democrat, written by you for
the Philadelphia Weekly Times, giving
an account ofsome Of ourexperience,
| take the liberty to ask If you We're
colonel of the Twenty-fourth Alabama,
and If you were present and took part
in the battle of Chickamauga,
Georgia? And, if SO, you doubtless
recollect on Saturday night, the 10th,
after the close of the fighting for the
night, that, as you were pass
ing over the battlefield, you came up
to me as lay severely wounded; in
conversation with me told you had
some money which gave you, you
saying that you would take 1t and keep
it and return it at some future time,
| being afraid that some irresponsible
/ parties might take 1t from me. You
/ gave me your name and address, with
7 the assurance that you would return u
! to me again. From the effect of til,
wound wear an artificial leg. Th'
amount gave you was Sill.
! Colonel Sawyer was surprised, OF
course. He at once wrote to Mr. Ba
ker: ~ remember IL well. l found
YOU lying badly wounded in the leg
You told me your name was David
Baker, first sergeant Company II
First Kansas Regiment Tor at leas
this is the rank made on the meme
random), and that you had some mon
CIV you wished me to take charge @
and send to your wife, Mrs. EliZabetI
Baker, Lafayette, Indiana, she beini
living there mt the time with her father
You had one hundred and seventee
dollars, think. in greenbacks. | r,
luctantly took the money, and WRAP
ping il In leaf torn from note bool
! wrote on it: "This is the propert
of Sergeant David Baker, Company ]
First Kansas, to be sent to his wifi,
Mrs. Elizabeth Baker, Lafay IL
diana. wrote by the dim and unce
tain light of the moon. | was parti'
. ular to write, az then explained, thu
in the event of being killed or cal
tured the next day, there could be 4
doubt rs to the money found upon III
person.
Colonel Sawyer's letter added tn;
the money was sent by him TO arm
, headquarters with the request that
he forwarded to General Rosecrans III
+ der flag of truce. Colonel Sawye
! having written to Mr.. Baker, the
wrote to General Walker at Charlie
ton, South Carolina, to trace tl
money if possible. General Walk
. has been in correspondence with Il
brigade commander, General Man
gault, OF Columbia, about it, and ge
eral search for the money Is going Q
a curious episode of the war Il
G whole story makes. After TWEEN
years chance publication brings
: tgether once'more the two soldiers, WI
fighting under opposing flags, met
!; q battlefield and parted after hurri
. clasp of the hand and n whisper
q word of sympathy.