The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-05-30

At this moment the wounded boy
caught sight Of his father lying stih n
stark on the bed.
Pop he exclaimed. with . moan;
pop
lie had never seer death. but some
thing told him that this was death.
With dificulty he raised himself and
sat up on the lounge.
did you shoot my por?" he asked,
looking with his great, honest eyes at
the Lieutenant Without q word tho
officer turned as one might turn from .
storm OF bullets and left the house. The
boy fastened a ~rcproachful gaze on the
General.
.what a. y let him shoot my pop
fur?"
my boy-my little hero" began the
soldier The could not 60 on. How could
he make q child understand the neces-
| stiles OF war? Chivalrous war; that per-
miftod him TO read q child's letter and
kill the child's father, who was on the
opposite side.
II didn't do nothcn to you-uns. What
a you-uns want Z 60 m kill my pop
fur?" moaned the boy.
Little Maggie was standing by, look
ing on with childish wonder.
Mag" said Tom, II writ y that let
ter. ! writ IL all myself, all ont The
sojers token it, ! reckon"
The General drew the girl up to the
lounge and put her hand In that OF the
boy. The two children remained in
this position TO the end. The boy soon
began 10 wander. lie was riding with
the paper pellet in his mouth; he was
passing the pickets: he was conversing
with the officers and soldiers All the
while the General was trying TO soothe
him. smoothing back the uncombed
locks from his forehead or pouring q lit
tie water between his lips.
Suddenly the boy sat up.
I'm a-goen' fur to be a Cap'n" he
shouted, then fell back, dead.
The next afternoon the army, begin
ming a movement for which the little
courier had paved the way, had struck
its tents and was marching along the
road that led past the Lane house. A
the head OF the column emerged from
a wood the men saw a funeral process
sion, composed Of some officers, soldiers
and q few country people, leave tht
house and march along to an inclosed 10
in a field neal blythe family buria'
place.
Two collins, the one but half the size
OF the other, were borne by Confederate
soldiers. They contained the bodies o
Tom Lane, father, and Tom Lane, son
the one Of the Union and the other o
the C~onfederacy. Directly behins
walked the General. Then a compan.
OF soldiers, a Captains escort; and mex
a group Of neighbors.
/. The procession moved slowly VI
, 70 the Enclosure in which a grave ha'
been dug. The two collins were low
| cred. and laid side by side in the on
grave. The General, who held in hi
, hands a bundle Of green sprigs. cast then
into the grave. The earth was shovele'
in and a vollcy fired by the soldiers owe
the grave
By this time the head Of tho advane
!. inQ column had reached the burial
place, where the General was standin
with uncovered head, while the las
shovelfuls OF earth were being throw
upon the grave. The men Of an arm
are quick to gather news, and not q so
der but knew already the story OF tn
two Lanes.
As the column marched by, the me
Of the leading company, seeing the
General standing with head uncovered
raised their hats. The action was 70
/. flowed by the next and the next con
: pany, and was taken up by regimen
: after regiment, troop after troop. ba
! terry after battery; the twelve thousan
|, men had passed and uncovered. The
the little group Of mourners and spect'
tors d~isbanded, and the General, WI
was joined by his staff, mounted b
horse and rode on in the direction II
: troops were marching.
Z That night in bivouac the followin
order was promulgated:
4 Captain Thomas Lane. Junior, agcdtwel'
=. years. Is announced as aide de-camp on the 81
q Of the General commanding. and will be obey
q and respected as such.
Q The customary mourning wnl be ohserv'
" by the oficcrs and men OF this command I
thirty days for Captain Thomas Lane. Junis
p Of the stan Of the General commanding. wi
died calamity In the service OF the Confedera
\. states. His commission has been applied I
a and will be forwarded 70 his family.
n The next morning before daylight u
Confederate armies which had becon
Il separated and liable to be captured
y detail. formed q junction. and togeth
- attacked and turned tho Union left.
: On a mantel in the house where q
= two Lanes died is a frame containing
y Captains commission.
fe ON the day, zach year, sacred TO 3
Of memory OF those who fell In that dil
Ia full contest a quarter Of a century az
X the grave which holds the father 81
son. is covered with flowers brought
m the ~ncighbors for miles around. Amo'
these flowers. on every anniversary,
N a wreath composed OF buds Of red ross
re These wreaths are all sent by the sol
~ person. Though no nam comes wi
them. IL Is we'll understood tkat tn
I'd are rom the man who sacrificed a oh
IN 70 ave an ARMY. A. Mitchell,
as Youths Companion
The English sparrow.