Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-08-25

Glynn, whom no one would now nave
thought butterfly" though she was,
notwithstanding her serious and thor
oughly discharged duties, the brightest,
most CHEEKY 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
could to receive the unexpected visitor,
and presently a handsome young fell
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 fastened his recovery, than all
their coddling and nursing put together
And perhaps it really was SO; for GER
tain it is that in less than four months
the young man was again on duty; but
this time as a sergeant in his friends
troop, and the whole army could boast
of no better soldier than was he.
When (January 81, 1869 the constitu-
tis1I amendment abolishing slavery
WAS passed. all men saw that the end OF
Tie iratricidal strife was near; anG al
ready the matrons and maids of our
war-worn land INDUCED in fond hopes
of speedily welcoming to peaceful homes
those of their dear ones who still sur
vived-though, alas! many brave men,
L
In several of the greater or less i'm
portant battles occurring in the follow
ing month of March, our young heroes
took part, and at that of Five Forks,
fought on April I, 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
ers at loss to themselves of about one
thousand men.
As the cavalry, en- echel0n, moved up to
the attack, the regiment, in which
served Herbert and Fred, found itself
confronted by vastly superior number
OF confederate horsemen, and, despite
d SluODOIn ICSlSldutS. wa III
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 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 confederate offl-
Ger from the saddle and, mounting in
his place, rode off with his victorious
comrades.
Jolly Sergt. Boy1s received an ugly
slash on the cheek during the scrim-
mage, but was, nevertheless, lively as
a cricket and brimful of fun, as his
squad gathered around their little camp
fire that night.
"Begorra, bhyes," said he, when
speaking of the days doings, ''yez may
that, but do yez moind now, that
smooth-faced spalpeen the liftinant
calls his f-f-fi- (Fidus Achates,
prompted some one)-yis, yis, his
fidus achates, bates the divil himself
Whin his baste rowled over to-day l
Civ the bhy up for a goner, an l wint
cuttin' away right an left to make
kind of divarshun in his favor, whin
phwat does he do but pulls himself
from under the dead crathur an quick
as Hghtnin' runs that tall Johnnie
through the gizzard, hops into his
saddle an was in the thick of the fun
agin in no time Faix, the liftinant'll
have to TRANSLATE his furrin name into
plain English an call him tightees an
tdkees, I'm thinkin'. It's himsilf that's
made this no April fool day at all, at
ALL"