Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-03-10


to heavy fire. One Of the last shots
fred found its way into the breast
of Capt. Chas. Minnigerode. of Gen.
Lees staff. Captain Minnigerode
fell from his horse apparently dead.
| There was no time To care for his
body, but Fitzhugh Lee, dismount-
ing, pinned on his breast the follow
ing note:
"This is the body of Captain
Charles Minnigerode, of General
Fitzhugh Lees staff. Whoever
finds it will confer a great favor by
seeing that it Is properly cared for
and sending Information To his IA
Their AT Richmond.
'FITZHUGH LEE"
The lines of combat shifted, and
presently IA New York regiment
passed over the ground. The sur
geon noticed the body of the Con-
federate officer and, Shopping over
it, saw theno and also that the
man was not dead. Taking up the
body in his arms he Union surgeon,
who was powerfully built man,
carried it about third of mile
over a held to a hospital. Here he
gave his young charge special atten-
| ton and noted with satisfaction Il
gradual Improvement. Capt. Min
nigerode recovered, and after the
war went to New Orleans. The
surgeon returned to New York and
| renewed the practice of medicine at
| Poughkeepsie.
On Thursday evening General
Lee, now an officer of the Virginia
Volunteers, (National Guard) ac-
companied by party of officers of
the Thirteenth, was in a box at the
Casino witnessing the performance
of the Queens Lace Handkerchief
There were present in Gen. Lees
box Col. Austen, of the 18th New
York Col. Wertenbaker, of the Sd
Virginia Col. John A. McCaull,
| Quartermaster Ackerson, of the 18th,
and Capt. Minnigerode, who, being
on visit to New York, had been
invited to accompany his old COM
mander to the theatre. An usher
entered and told the captain that a
gentleman wished to speak with
him. The gentleman came in and
Capt. Minnigerode went to the rear
! of the box to meet him.
"YOu do not remember me-" said
the stranger.
"There is something about your
face, sir, that tells me know yOu,"
replied the captain.
"YOu were left for dead on the
| field of AppOmattaX, and"
eyes, yes" hurriedly broke in
Minnigerode, light of recognition
stealing over his expressive face.
/ GGT .aty1 AF ~ rt.lr -
my God sir, you are the man
who saved my life."
The two men fairly Rugged each
other for moment and then the
captain, turning to General Lee,
said:
General, this gentleman saved
my life undoubtedly" AS General
Lee greeted the doctor the latter
said, smilingly: "Yes, sir; / took
the bullet out"
land here is the bullet" said
MinnigerOde, taking it out of his
pocket and holding it up between
his thumb and fOrefinger. For a
few moments the rich costumes and
pretty women on the stage were
forgotten, the little group of officers
| gazing instead on the two charac-
tiers VINO bad just reached a happy
! climax in the drama of life.
| How They Play the Piano IN New Orleans.
/ Times Democrat.
II was lOafing around the streets
\ last night" said "Jim Nelson, one
of the oldest locomotive engineers
running into New Orleans, 'and as
/ had nothing to do / dropped into
a concert and heard slick-looking
Frenchman play a piano in way
! that made me feel all over in spots.
AS soon as he sat down on the stool
| knew by the way he handled
himself that he understood the ma
chine he was running. He tapped
the keys away up one end, just as
if they were gauges and he wanted
to see if he had water enough.
Then he looked up, as if he wanted
to know how much steam he was
carrying, and the next mo ment he
pulled open the throttle and sailed
out on the main line, as if he was
half n hour late.
"You could hear her thunder over
culverts and bridges, and getting
faster and faster, until the fellow
rocked about in his seat like era
die. Somehow l thought it was
old '36' pulling IA passenger train
Special The fellow worked the
keys on the middle division like
lightning, and then he flew along
the north end of the line until the
drivers went around like buzz saw
and 7 got excited. About the time
was fixing to tell him to cut her
Off little, he kicked the hampers
under the machine wide open, pull
ed the throttle away back in the
tender, and Jerusalem, jumpers how
he did run. i couldn't stand it any
longer, and yelled to him that she
was pounding on the left side, and
if he wasn't careful he'd drop his
ash pan
but he didn't hear. No one
heard me. Everything was flying
and whizNing. Telegraph poles on
the side of the track looked like q
row of cornstalks, the trees appear
ed to be a mud bank, and all the
time the exhaust of the old machine
sounded like the hum of a bundle
bee. | tried to yell out, but my
lounge wouldn't move. He went
around curves like a bullet, slipped
an eccentric, blew out his soft plug,
went down grades fifty feet to the
mile, and not a cOnfounded brake
set. She went by the meeting point
at mile and halfa minute, and
calling for more steam. My hair
stood mp like a cats tail, because /
know the game WAS up.
"Sure enough, dead ahead of us
was the headlight of the special
In daze ! heard the crash as they
struck, and saw cars shivered in
to atoms, people mashed and man
gled and bleeding, and gasping for
water. | heard another crash as the
French Professor struck the deep
keys away down on the lower end
of the Southern division, and then
| came to my senses. There he
was at standstill, with the door of
the fire box of the machine open,
wiping the perspiratiOn off his face
and bowling at the people before
him. If lived to be thousand
years old I'll never forget the ride
that Frenchman gave me on a pi-
anO.'
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