The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-19
Yours, very respectfully,
w. NJ. GREEN,
Bishop of Miss, residing at sowanee, Tenn.
l,Here is Your Money. Ny Boy"
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Lancaster Herald
So many acts Of heartlcssness and
cruelty during the great civil war, have
been recorded that it is a real pleasure
% have an opportunity TO record an act
OF manly kindness on the part Of a gal
liant Confederate soldier 10 Yankee
boy.
In the town of Bennington, in the
Green Mountains If Vermont, in the
spring of 1860, there lived a poor widow
with six children, five boys and one
little girl, the youngest of the former a
stripping fourteen years old. When the
wires flashed the news from Washington,
all over our land, that the rebels had
fred upon the old flag at Fort Sumpter,
the four older boys responded to their
country's cali, and hurried to the seat
of war. The younger lad, his heart fired
with genuine Green Mountain patriot
ism, ran away from home, and eluding
pursuit, made his way TO the camp on
the Potomac. But his ardor was some
what damped by the discovery Of the
fact that he could not, in consequence
Of his youth and diminuiiveuess, enlist
AS a soldier. Determined to remain at
the front, and having, rs the saying IS,
10 scratch for a living. he went TO sell
ing newspapers TO the soldiers. Leaving
the camp between New Baltimore and
| Warrenton, about the 10th of November,
| 1862 he went to Washington for a
supply Of papers Having accomplished
/ his object, the young lad set out on
horseback for the camp, having to travel
| distance of thirty miles, \ change Of
the position by the army during his
| absence had occurred and a. a conse-
quence he ran into the rebel picket line
and was captured, and taken to Gen. J.
/ r.. B. Stuart's headquarters, at hotel
near Wlrrenton, and from there was
sent to Libby prison, in Richmond
arriving there November 13. Mai. Tur.
ner was in command of the prison, and
when the young prisoner was brought
into his presence, observing that he was
a mere boy, the major spoke kindly tC
him, and after his name had beer
enrolled, asked him the customary
question, If he had any money or val
uables about his person. The frighten
ed hoy had managed TO conceal hi'
money, $3.50, in his boot, and il
answer TO his question, put his hanC
down, and while a tear drop glistened il
his bright eve, and his boyish lip quiver
ed, he brought it forth and handed it t.
the rebel major, and trying hard to chok,
down the swelling in his throat, he tolC
OF his widowed mother at home, his fou
brothers in the army, his having mad
this money selling papers, and saving i
to send, with his brothers wages, TO hi
mother. The major folded the boy
passes around the money and said t
! him, "You shall have this again m.
boy, when you are permitted to go fror
here"
p Six weeks afterward the lad was pe
( rolled. and repairing to Major Turner
office. the kind officer, handing him tn
e package Of money and his passes, just &
{ he had received them said "Here is you
c money, my boy"
= With again trembling hands, but
I Joyous heart, she little fellow took th
1 package. He was sent 10 Washington
/ and a few weeks afterward was goiu
b his old rounds selling newspapers. Tt
l. boy was Doc Aubery, "the New
n Boy Of the Iron Brigade" who no
= resides in Milwaukee, and he gave I
d these facts during the rate reunion
n the Iron Brigade in this city.