Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-04-08
'Ir IS FRED AINsLIE. "

said he, "how terribly scared was at the very idea of being obliged to fight, and how, but for you, would have wrecked, perhaps lost, my life in that vile attempt at assertion you so nobly frustrated and even after so generously concealed You remember, too, how, when we came under fire at the Wilder ness, was utterly paralyzed by terror until you cheered me up. To you, not to me, should have fallen all the luck, but you were shot down at once and thus missed all the glorious opportuni- ties have had to serve our country; and l grieve over my present wound, only because it will keep me out of the field for awhile"
 God bless you Fred, you have made me very happy" replied Herbert-and he stopped down and actually kissed the boy as if he had been indeed very own brother.
 Trooper Leslie went back next day to his own squadron, and Sergeant Ainslie was sent to the hospital at Fredericksburg where he was nursed back to health by his mother and sister, assisted quite often by Miss Jessie Glynn, whom no one would now have thought "butterfly," though she was,
  oughly discharged duties, the brightest, most cheery and happiest little soul in the place.
 About two weeks after Fred was brought in Miriam, one morning, an nounced that an officer of Wilson's cav airy brigade had called to see him. Fred tidied himself up as well as he l could to receive the unexpected visitor, and presently a handsome young fel- low, in brand new, full-dress uni form, was ushered to his bedside and roguishly introduced by Jessie Glynn as "Lieut. Herbert Leslie!''
 Fred, however, got even with the girls by solemnly affirming, then and ever afterwards, that this joyful sur prise did him more good, and more greatly hastened his recovery, than all their coddling and nursing put together! And perhaps it really was so; for cer tain it is that in less than four months the young man was again on duty; but this time as sergeant in his friends troop, and the whole army could boast of no better soldier than was he.
 When (January S1, 1s65) the constitu- tional amendment abolishing slavery was passed, all men saw that the end of the fratricidal strife was near; and al- ready the matrons and maids of our war-worn land indulged in fond hopes of speedily welcoming to peaceful homes those of their dear ones who still sur vived-though, alas! many brave men. on both sides, were yet to fall.
 In several of the greater or less inn portant battles occurring in the follow ing month Of March, our young heroes took part, and at that of Five Forks, fought on April 1, both won promotion by conspicuous gallantry in the field.
 In this battle, as everyone knows, the cavalry in great force assaulted the enemy full in front, while the infantry attacked the rear, the result being that the federals took five thousand prison CTS at loss to themselves of about one thousand men.
 As the cavalry, en echeLon, moved up to the attack, the regiment, in which served Herbert and Fred, found itself confronted by a vastly superior number of confederate horsemen, and, despite a stubborn resistance, was in imminent danger of being routed, when Lieut.. Leslie, whose captain had fallen, called Sergeants Ainslie and Boyle to his side, dashed with them to the head of his own troop, charged furiously into a dense mass of yelling foes and, cutting down or riding over all who opposed
 his progress, made an opening for his
 closely-following men, who spurred in with reckless abandon and quickly re- deemed the fight, Leslie himself bear
 ing off a guidon, fairly won in single combat, from the enemy's standard
 bearer, while Ainslie, whose horse had
 been shot under him, actually, when
 thus on foot, struck 2 confederate off cer from the saddle and, mounting in , his place, rode off with his victorious comrades.
 5 Jolly Sergt. Boyle received an ugly r slash on the cheek during the scrim 2 mage, but was, nevertheless, lively al ] a cricket and brimful of fun, as hi'
 squad gathered around their little camp . fire that night.
 Fl ''Begorra, bhyes," said he, wher : speaking of the days doings, 'yez may < say phwat yez loike of viterans an al !, that, but do yez smoind now, tha
 smooth-faced spalpeen the 1iftinan
 calls his fi-fi-f- ('Fidus Achates, prompted some one)-yis, yis, hi e fidus achates, bates the .divil himself 5 Whin his haste rowled over to-day i. giv the bhy up for a goner, an win . cuttin' away right an left to make 2 kind of divarshun in his favor, whi1 ], phwat does he do but pulls himsel from under the dead crathur an quicl I as lightnin' runs that tall Johnni \ through the gizzard, hops into hi \ saddle an was in the thick of the ful
 agin in no time. Faix, the hftinantl
 haveto transhlate his turin name int !. plain English an call him fghtees q \ tGkees, I'm thinkin'. It's himsilf that ,, made this no April fool day at all, a !. aHr