, 1890-04-17


When I rcgained consciousness
that had been carried, with many !
Others, into n house near by, and
that u woman was bending over me
bandaging my wound. | suspect |
was not the only poor fellow there
who thought of celestial visitants, but
as my mind cleared | became more
sensible of the touch of firm, cool
hands and a clear, rich voice saying
pityingly:
You must have suffered ter
ribly.'
"Ycs, I had suffered, and added;
But must he In much better con-
dition than my friend and messmate,
who fell, terribly wounded, by my
side--one of your Georgia men--and
II braver soldier than Jack stacey
never wore the gray
ut might have been the flicker
ing candle light that made the
Madonna-like face beneath its coro-
net of smooth, fair braids look so
CHASTITY, hut surely II could never
have given those clear gray eyes
that look of sudden anguish.
"Where did II happen? Tho rich
NoNc tidt liuu pttii 81 Solt anu
sympathetic sounded hard and
strange.
III could not give her very def
mite answer, but II WAS just in front
OF one of the log breastworks thrown
up by the enemy, not far away,
thought.
"Ofwhat transpired the remainder
OF that night l could never be sure
how much was reality and how
much due to delirium. 1t seemed
that II tall, falrhaired woman,
wrapped In some kind of dark
cloak and still with that deathly
pallor on her face, passed through
the hall and out into the darkness,
carrying lantern In her hand.
/ / /
"All that night there was the pass
ing to and fro of the surgeons; the
moan of the poor sufferers all
around; men coming in with
stretchers and still depositing other
MANNED, quivering bodies; and still
the fiickering candles threw over all
that fltful, unenrthly light. An
open window near me commanded
view Of part of the battle field,
and all night long my eyes followed
was 1t n single light or thousand
fitting here and there through the
'arhhesS'
"Sometimes | wondered II it were
ignes-fatui, or the bearers of those
stretchers ceaseessly going out
empty and coming I'm with their
,,r,,o.,o,,o hurdons. ,bcn vo,,Id
A., u.t,. ,ii,..,''..,,si
coii,e ''ie ''io"Eh. VI ",e'''i'o"io"
souls OF the spirit Oh oat'ie hoVering
over slain, and again 1t was IA single
lantern borne by pale, solitary
figure in q ruitless but ureless
senrch-for whom
at was just at sunrise that another
stretcher was carried into the hall.
| was not surprised when they laid
the man down to see that II was
Stacey, for Just behind them came
my nurse of he evening before, her
md ~ n,,d.s,a nj ined 'N
at seems that she was his wife,
and they had found her at dawn
holding the wounded mans head In
ner lap and lavishing earesses upon
". re nau iaih.e" IN iler nri,,s a'a
The iadies nf Tie house mot Thorn
coming i'm and tried to lead her
away, but she shook her head and
the surgeons said she might as well
stay. so for hours she stood by
lo.arey, ly, arraigIu9 pailuases All"
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al was asremoved from the place that
afternoon, soon afterward Joining
NV command and I have never
hc,.d hs e., staoa,, s;noo whon
neau .io'', '2,'ooS "."'
just peiore leaving, ! asheu V'e sur
geon what he Thought oi MS case,
he looked very grave as he said
We'll, there's chance but In.
ferred from his tone that he would
ma, e,iv. ,nncb far tho chance
D., 49,, boo uo,dood
roo, maioia' ~ "oi''re"
now ne story hau enueu.
Wheu returned 10 Atlanta the