Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-04-25
An Army Experience.
How an Old Veteran Escapel Annthilas
tlon and Lived to Impart . Warming
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How an Old victorian Escapel Annthilas
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TO Others:
tFrom the washington National Tribunsl
pleasing occurrence which has just come
to our notice in connection with the New
York State meeting of the Grand Army of
the Republic is so unusual in many respects
that We venture to reproduce it for the bene-
fit of our readers.
Captain Alfred Rensom, of New York,
while pacing in the lobby of she armory,
previous to ons of the meetings. suddenly
stopped and scanned the face of gentleman
who was in earnest conversation with one of
the Grand Army officers. It seemed to him
that he had seen that face before, partially
obscured by the smoke of battle, and yet
this bright and pleasant countenance could
not be the same pale and dSath-liks visaRe
which he SO dimly remembered. But the
recollection, like Bapquo's ghost, would not
"do wn" at command and haunted him the
sutire day. On the day following he again
saw the same countenance and Ventured to
speak to its owner. The instant the two
veterans heard each others voices that in
slant they recognized and called each other
by name. Their faces and forms had
changed, but their voices were the same
The man whom Captain Rensom had recog-
mixed was Mr.. W. Z. Sage, of st. Johns
Mich, a veteran of the Twenty-third New
York Light Artillery and both members of
Burnside's famous expedition to North Caro-
lima, After the first greetings we're over
Captain Rensom said:
f'It hardly seems possible, Sage, to see you
in this condition, for I thought you must
have been dead long ago."
Eyes, do not doubt it, for if am not
mistaken, when We last met was occupying
couch in the hospital. victim of yellow
jack in its worst form"
II remember. The war seems to have
caused more misery since its close than when
it was in progress" replied the captan. 81
meet old comrades frequently who are suffer
ing terribly. not SO much from old wounds as
from the malarial poisons which ruined their
constitutions F"
81 think so myself. When the war closed
I returned home and at times I would feel
well, but every few weeks that COMPOUNDED
'all-gone' feeling would come upon me again.
My nervous system, which was shattered in
| the service, failed me entirely and produced
one of the worst possible cases OF nervous
dyspepsia. Most of the time had no appe-
tite then again would become ravenously
hungry, but the minute I sat down to eat I
loathed food Ny skin was dry and psrched,
| my flesh loose and ERbby. 1 could hold
nothing on my stomach for days at time
and what little I did eat failed to assimilate
I was easily fatigued; my mind was de-
pressed l was cross and irritable and many
| a night my heart would pain me SO I could
not sleep, and when I did I had horrid
dreams and friRhtful nightmares. OF course
| these things came on one by one, each
| worse than the other. Ny breath was
| foul, my tongue was coated, my teeth de-
| cayed. L had terrific headaches which
| would leave nay nervous system completely
shattered. Iu fact my existence since the
hoa wip
| have often prayed for release
''Couldn't the old surgeon do you any
good Pr
ST wrote him and he treated me, bat
like every other doctor, failed. They all
said my nerve was gone, and without that
to build upon 1 could not get we'll. When
I was at my worst piles of the severest ma
ture came upon~me. Then my liver gave
out and without the of cathartics
| could not move my bowels at all. My blood
| got like stream of fire and seemed lite
| rally to burn ma alive"
well you might better have died in bat
tie, quick and without ceremony"
! show many times I have wished 1 had
| died the day We captured ewberne ~
''And yet you are now the picture OF
health"
''And the picture is taken from life
am in perfect condition. My nerve toAs il
restored my stomach Refrigerated my
flesh is hard and healthy; in fact I havt
new blood, new energy and a new lease OF
life wholly as the result of using Warmers
Tippecanoe. This remarkable preparation,
| which I consider the finest tonic and stom-
| ach rsstorer in tho world has overcome al
| the evil Influences Of malaria, all the poi
son of the army, all traces of dyspepsia, al
mal-assimilation of food, and indeed made
| a new man of me-"
The captain remained silent for a while
evidently musing over his recollections OF
the past. When he again raised his head
| he said:
SIT would be a godSend If all the yets-
rams who have suffered so intensely, and
also all others in the land who are endur
ing SO much misery. could know of your
experience, Sage, and the way by which
| yon have been restored"
And that is why the above conversation
| is recounted.