Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-05-29

The next afternoon the army, begin
ming movement for which the little
courier had paved the way, had STRUCK
its tents and was marching along ii:
road that led past the Lane house. A:
the head of the column emerged from
wood the men saw a funeral process
sion, composed of some officers, soldier;
and few country people, leave the
house and march along to an Enclosed lot
in field near blythe family burial
place.
Two collins, the one but half the size
of the other, were borne by Confederate
soldiers. They contained the bodies oil
Tom Lane; father, and Tom Lane, son,
the one of the Union and the other oil
the Confederacy: Directly behind
walked the General Then company
of soldiers, Captains escort; and next
group of neighbors.
The procession moved slowly onward
to the Enclosure in which grave mad
been dug. The two collins were low
cred, and laid side by side in the one
grave. The General, who held in his
hands bundle ofgreen sprigs,c cast them
into the grave. The earth was shoYeled
in and a volley fired by the soldiers over
the grave.
BY this time the head of the advanc-
ing column had reached the burial
place, where the General was standing
with uncovered head, while the last
shovelfuls of earth were being thrown
upon the grave. The men of an army
are quick to gather news, and not SOL
der but knew already the story of the
two Lanes.
AS the column marched by, the men
of the leading company, seeing their
General standing with head uncovered,
raised their hats. The action was fol-
lowed by the next and the next COM
pany, and was taken up by regiment
after regiment, troop after troop, bat
terry after battery; the twelve thousand
men had passed and uncovered. Then
the little group of mourrers and specta-
tors disbanded, and the General, who
was joined by his staff, mounted his
horse and rode on in the direction the
troops were marching.
That night in bivouac the following
order was promulgated:
/. Captain Thomas Lane. Junior; agedtw
years, is announced as aide-de-camp on the sta.
of the General commanding and will be obeyeG
and respected as such.
2. The customary mourning will be observed
by the officers and men of this command for
thirty days for Captain Thomas Lane Junior,
of the staff of the General commanding, who
died gallantly in the service Of the Confederate
States. His commission has been applied for
and will be forwarded to his family
The next morning before daylight the
armies which had become
and liable to be captured in
detail, formed a junction, and together
and turned the Union left.
On mantel in the house where the
two Lanes died is a frame containing a
Captains commission.
On the day, each year, sacred to the
memory of those who fell in that dire
full contest quarter of a century ago,
the grave which holds the father and
son, is covered with flowers brought by
the neighbors for miles around. Among
these flowers, on every anniversary, is
a wreath composed of buds of red roses.
These wreaths are all sent by the same
person. Though no name comes with
them, it is we'll understood that they
ire from the man who sacrificed child |
TO save an army.-F. A. Mitchell, in |
Youths Communion.