Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-07
A ROMANCE OF WAR.
D,seoye'y OF Her Father by Chicago
Lady After Tweny.seven
Years,
The story of Enoch arden Not 30 Sres'
Ktction as some Have
Supposed.

Lincoln Park after 8 visit to Graceland
yesterday.
Thus admon,shed, the gentleman ap-
preaching wss more carefully Fcru tinted
than might otherwise have been the case,
though his cree, form and military bearing
would have attracted attention in almost
spy crowd. BE was over six feet in height,
straight IS an arrow, and apparently
about fifty years OF age, though he walked
with the elastic step Of one half that old.
His iron.gray hair and mUstsche were
closely trim med, his features perfectly
regular, and the keen eyes either grey or
blue.
"a foe looking man, certainly" was
the reply to 81 figuring glance, "out why
did YOU direct particular attention TO
nim?"
R,s NAMK IS CHARLES e. FITZPATRICK
he WAS in the Rebel army, and oeipg cap
| rured wss held for time a prisoner 81
| Fort l. yette, though his name appeared
IN the list OF KILLED in one OF the battles
OF the Army Of Nor hern Virginia. But
the strange part uf his history is that his
daughter, whom he had left babe two
months old when he entered the Corfed
crate service, and whom he believed to
be dead, became convinced that
1er father Was alive, snd SET on
foot inquiries that resulted in his
discovery IN an eas ern city. I am only
acquainted with the story in general
wav, bat TO me- it sounded like romance
and constituted one OF the many thou
sand untold domestic dramas that resulted
from the tragedy of the war. Perhaps
The captain himself might give you the
particulars.
Acting upon the suggestion Csptsio
Charles Fl. Fitzpatrick was called
upon in the evening, st No.
SCI North CLARK street.. aud found
TO be the gentleman his ap-
pearspce indicsted. When the object OF
the visit WAS made known, however, he
became suddenly non-cOmmunicstive,
and st first positively refused TO say any
thing on the su ject.
"Let the dead past bury its dead" he
remarked. ~ intend to make Chicago
my home, but do not wish any newspa
Der notoriety. And YETI" he added re-
fiectively after additional urging, "as all
the parties save myself are IN the grave
ysrd, no one can be harmed by my telling
the little story. It doesn't amount to
much, to be sure, aud is only one Of q my.
Rad instances of family ties shattered BY
war, the history OF which
WILL NEVER BE WRITTEN"
GAS brit fly as possible then, II you still
t5ir K it worth while," continued Captain
Fitzpatrick aiser moments thought; az
am q native Of Baltimore, aud in the
late 1903 becSne deeply enamored
with EIiza Thielmsn, a sou
brett0, who was playing in German
thester IN thst city managed by her
father. The latter had been an ficer in
the German army, but was embroiled in
the revolution Of As and WAS forced TO
fiee, coming TO this country on the same
vessel that brought Carl Schu5z and
othsrs Of the exphtristed. He had pre-
viuusly welded an actress. trsgedienne
and comediepne, so that Elizz inherited
her dramatic talent. Although my sffec-
zion WAS returned, our marriage was bit
terly opposed by the parents, not on
account of any personal election to me,
| but because she WAS the bright, particu-
lar star of their theatrical venture. A,
| last, though, q reluctant consent was oo-
tanned and We were mIrried in P0iia-
de phia. endesvored to induce my wife
to leave the stage, as could support her
in comfort, II not luxury, on the good
wages was Masking at my trsde as iron
moIder, but she though; she still owed q
duty to her parer ia and would not con.
sent. Soon after cur child was born, and
in the hope OF lettering our condition
obtained job travelling through the
south, and af.er pro'Tacted absence was
at Rjchm md on my wsy home when the
war cIoke out and communications were
cat Of Baltimore was southern city
then, nv syupathfes were all that way,
al q OF course, promptly enlisted.
"Some months st'erwsrd WAS trans.
ferred to the First Baltimore Artillery as
ftst lieutenant, being stationed for time
st Craney island, al Norfolk. l was sue
seque tIy captured ST Front Roysl, and
with Harry Gilmore and several other
eff ;ers was placed as q hostsge in Fort
Lafayette. This WAS caused by the retail
iatory order of General Pope after the
reported
KILLING OF SEVERAL UNION OFFICERS
by Mosby, and we were neld TO guarantee
toe safety OF General Prince, VINO was 10
LIBBY. l was fipslly exchanged through
the aid Of some Federal friends whom l
had been able 10 favor while they were
prisoners at Richmond, and was then de-
tailed to the office OF the Secretary OF
War, where remained until the close.
"Durirg all this time had endesvored,
In vain, to obtain tidings OF my family.
heard q rumor tom Baltimore that the
Tbielemsns had gone to that somewhat
inde finite country described IS "the
West" Knowing their thea ricsl .enden-
cies, naturally supposed they would
drift to 8 large city, and whenever could
inquire Of Chicago or St. Louis person,
especially GsImsu,I did 80, out with.
ont avsil. Then h ard that my wife's
brother had taken her back to Hesse
Cassel, as he had several times threatened
to do, and finally came the best authen-
ticated report Of all to the effect that both
wife and child we're dead. After peace
WAS declared l still kept up the search,
but these long four years had oblltersted
every trace. II not dead they were 81
com pletely los. SIS though under the sod.
"Ssveral yesrs after learned by the
merest accident that my wife was living
in Chicago, snd supposing me desd, had
remsrried. but that our child had died
long before. Acting on impulse pre-
pared to take the frst train for this city,