The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-05-30
Z HER YANKEE.


that time and this, but the incident has
lost none Of its pathos and beauty because
Of thai.
| can see her now as she trips along to
school, a sweet little girl Of seven years,
her sunny curls blown back from fair
forehead, her bright blue eyes glad ID the
innocent happiness of childhood.
1t was in 1864 that there were few
prisoners Of war broaght to G for in
generation and kept there several months
1 well guarded.
Later. Sallie passed the prison every
morning on her way to school, and, with
childish curiosity, though not evinoing
any fear, she would look at the gloomy
place of confinement, giving glance Of
commingIed pity and awe at the prisoners
peering hopelessly from the small windows
OF the forbidding house. The men, weary
Of the monoteny of captivity, were glad
to see the little sunbeam as it fitted by,
morning and evening. though it left them
! in shadow
There was one. however, pale and sick.
whom the child gazed at in mute sym
pathy, and he in return would smile at
her, until once he called her, saying:
sCome and bid me good morning. and
tell me your name.
Attracted by his gentle manner and re-
fined appearance, she approachedand said
my name is Sallie, and what is your
Manner
Charlie, he answered; then he said
My dear little girl, if you have any thing
| in you bucket please give me something
o.eat, for am sick and can not eat prison
| fare"
q will give it all to you, but I don't
know how 10 get 1t way up there"
| ASK the guards to let you pass
| With childish confidence she went 10
the nearest guard, but was courteously re-
fused, and gong back, told the Yankee.
He then babe her ask the guards to pass
the bucket to him.
Returning to the sentinel, she said so
earnestly, Please carry this to that poor
man, who is SO sick, that The Confederate
soldier could not resist the pleading eyes
and manner, or the compassionate feelings
of his own heart, and taking the lunch
/ passed it as requested So it continued
I for week, until the child was seen COM
ing with two buckets. one for herself, the
otner for sFher Yankee"
She was afraid to reveal her secret at
home, fearing that she might be denied
the privilege OF feeding her Yankee, and
/ when her mother asked her why she car
ried two buckets and why she chose the
dantiest and best of all on the table, she
replied: 'Oh, mamma, it is for poor per-
son not able to buy nice things to eat.
The evasion was pardonable under the
circumstances. Often did she deprive
herself OF delicacles to pltinto the 'other"
bucket; and so it went on for four months,
the guards allowing her to pass freely, aud
( her mother encouraging her in her chart
table deed, but never dreaming who was
the recipient.
AT last Sallie passed one evening and
the prison was empty. Her Yankce and
his companions had been exchanged and
had gone to join their respective com
mands. Sallie quietly stopped taking his
lunches, and her mother supposed SHE had
simply become tired OF IL.
| -Four months passed, when the dread
cry was heard The Yankees are COM
ingp Everybody tried to be calm and
collected, but very few succeeded, Soon
the town was ''blue," aud Salie's mother
had her front yard and porch full of the
blue-coated strangers, and among them
| two Lieutenants and one CAPTAIN. The
| lady had shut all her little children into
the bedroom with the Injunction, "Be
perfectly quiet.
The Captain announced that he would
like to have dinner for himself and men.
Pale and solemn, not afraid, but feeling
that the intruders were her euemies, she
left them, and going TO her room to see
after the children found them mute rs
mice" with the exception of Sallie, who
would run to the window and turn the
blinds. Her mother begged and scolded
in an awful whisper-.sDon do that
Sallie just little bit, mamma. l
won't let them see me, aud suiting the