The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-06-10
is PEACE PERILOUS ?
Christopher Stahlcy's Case
would seem to lndI.
cafe that il was.
From \. Y. Mercury

Christopher Stanley, of Logan.O.
10 which city the Cur'iss Press Clul
went junketlng Thuisday, Is nine
ty-mght years old. He Is native
of Alsatia, and was soldier under
the first Napoleon. He is old, dc
ciepit and crippled. He is minus
thumb and finger on hrs righl
hand /; lis left arm Is stiff at the
elbow and almost useless; there is
a broad red scar across his brew
and crutch and cane exc out one
ct his les that is ofr between the
ank e and the knee.
He tells vel connected story.
and one that i; full of peril and ad-
venture Sloin of its parenthesis
aud adjecfives and CALCULATIONS 1t
may be cpitolnized:
Il became a soldier at fifteen, and
was one of the $4,000, men who
went with Napoleon lc Egypt, and
was one of the fiis' to enter the city
of Malta. | was with my command
at the Pyramids and participated
in tie terrible conflict with the
Mameiukes. Thence across the
desert and through the isthmus of
Suez to GAIA and Jaffa. and saw he
Is 10 Turks put TO death for break
ing their parole and helped To ami
hilaie the allied army of Is, 600 at
Abuukir. ! returned with my com
ma 'dcr to France and saw him
made First C.nsul. In 1900 We
went To Haiy. and it was ut Maren
90 that the man of destiny turned
defeat into victory. The pc zee of
Amicns gave us holiday. 1t was
in 1904 thai We helped 10 proclaim
him Emperor and saw the prepa:a-
ions made 10 invade England. But
England WIS ST ared and Austria
,anished instead. l was in the
thickes, of the fight at Austcr!itz
and 'ook rart in most of the minor
engagements that preceded 1t. |
did my share in bringing Prussia TO
her knees at Jena in 1906. Taking
a little breathing spell we again
turned our attention TO Austria and
ended our triumphant campaign at
W.gram h. taking 90 900 prisoners
Three years of preparation and we
were on the road to to the capital
OF Russia in that memorable cam
paign of 1872. Thnre were 4S0,-
600 of us who went forth to glory.
Less than ha f the number return
ed, and the most of them after be-
ny detained as prisoners. | saw
them fall by batialinns at Smolinsk
and Borodino, and perish by grant
divisions on the retreat from Mos
COW to Smorgoni. personally nd
tended the Emperor to France
when he bade idicu TO his soldiers
a: the latter city. At Lutzen and
Butzen l saw him win new victor
les at the head of fresh army.
saw the bastard Saxon allies sde-
scri at I.eipsic. endured the fatigues
and dangers of the retreat across
tile Rhine. OF 350.6O6 soldiers en-,
tered Germany only 10000 answer
ed roll call on French soil. On the
last day of March, 1914 the allies
took Paris. the Emperor addicted
and WAS banished to Elba. His old
soldiers then waited for his coming
n gain. and in. June. 1915, at the
head of l25, 900 heroes he met un-
tied Europe at Waterloo and lost
his empire, but not his fame and
glory. | was one of the Old Guard. |
here ls a blank in my memory,
and | do not know how | got back
to Paris, but l found mvse't there
and learned that my old comman-
Ter WAS prisoner at st. Helena,
Then came the news Of his death
had taken part in fifty engage
nents great and small. and had seen
men die by the thousand, but that
ieath affected me- more than all
put together" "
But you have omitted to tel!
where you received Your wounds.
You lost your leg at Waterloo, of
course"
strangely enough during sixteen
rears of campaign, and in fifty bat
les, | never received wound not
wen a scratch The Emperor tod
ne nf'en that | bore charmed life
But how did you receive all
hese wounds and scars
"AmId the security of peace.
n 1922. in company with my wife.
emigrated to America. We
Pittsburgh by stage.
from there we floated down the
Ohio i'm fiat boat to the mouth
If The Muskingum and ascended
hat riverto GAINESVILLE in a canoe.
from GAINESVILLE l ;rundled ali
ny earthly possessions in a
veeelharrow 10 st. Joseph's, near
Somerset, where ! bought a
arm and settled down. Then
,egan my disasters. NV Oldest j
On was with me in The forest
,aUino Inrc for n harm and NV a /