The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-23

knowing them. =
How much 2?
Nobody knows anybody much II
Washington. Life overi0ws with work
for officials, and their wives are Sc
busy trying to catch UP with what is
, Intimacy Impossible, as a rule WIKI
/ those who are worth knowing
Then TIL tell YOU "a story.
GO on.
When the Civil war broke ont, Wal
Tier G. Gresham was a very promising
young lawyer of Corydon, a county seat
1 in southern Indiana about twenty
miles from Louisville. Years ago 1t was
1.-THE capital OF the state. Gresham's par
ents came from Virginia and Kentucky
and settled in Hoosierdon, where hs
and FIVE years before had married Miss
Matilda McGrain, a pretty Kentuckian
whose parents moved to Corydon when
1 she was quite young.
/ Never did young couple begin life
with fairer prospects Gresham was as
richly endowed physically as mentally
blessed with strong moral sense, he had
no regrets for the past. On the eve O.
forming a law partnership at Indianap-
oils, destined to lead to fortune as well
as fame, he read Lincoln's call to arms
! Union was in danger. Republican in
stitutions were on trial. II such as he
placed self before country, what would
become of the government? So young
/! Gresham grew more and more serious
and never having served in the militia,
| passed all his leisure in studying mill
tary tactics. His young wife, not yet
%, with a girl baby two months old
and h boy of three Juggling at her
skirts, knew what was in the mind of
her young husband and watched him
with fear in her heart.
Sumter was fired on in April, as you
know. The following September Gresh-
am felt that his hour had come. Per-
senally brave, he was a bit of a coward
where his wife was concerned, for he
knew what.a sacrifice she would make
in giving him up to probable death. But
at last the time of parting came. Gresh-
am rode out of Corydon, Lieutenant
Colonel of the Thirty eighth Indiana
Volunteers, a regiment recruited so
hurriedly that the men hardly knew
one end Of a gun from the other. and
went into active service ununiformed.
Three months later Gresham returned
home to recruit a regiment of his own,
the Fifty-third Indiana. When l say
that men under his command adored
him, / know what I am talking about.
Some of those who lived to return, told
me Gresham was a severe disciplinary
ian, but always just and kind, and new
er spared himself. That's what men
like in a leader
After the fall of Vicksburg, Gresh-
am was promoted to a brigadier gener-
alship. He took part in all the import
ant movements of the army of the Ten
nessee. Mrs. Gresham only saw her
husband when temporary cessation of
hostilities made her presence in camp
easible. / remember some of the gen.
erals staff telling with what joy they
welcomed Mrs. Gresham, and how they
gathered around her one day when she
was making cake for their consump-
ton. The unusual sight of a Union wo-
man engaged in making what was to
them the greatest luxury, created a
positive sensation. Just so long as Mrs.
Gresham stirred the batter or superin-
tended the baking, just so long those
delighted men stood as if rooted to the
spot 1t reminded them of home.
Gresham commanded a division
marching through Georgia, and was
terribly wounded at Atlanta. Prior to
this misfortune he had been shot at,
but had escaped with a, few scratches.
The wound that shattered his left leg
in Georgia made up for previous i'm
munity. He was carried off the field
and conveyed to Nashville by a round
about way to avoid falling into the
hands of the enemy. Thirty miles Of
the journey We're made in an ambu-
lance. Imagine the agony of Gresham,
who had had an inch and a half of
bone shot away. So fearful were the
roads that the stones had to be cleared
away before the ambulance could pro-
coed; and then it was at the risk OF the
generals life
'Did Mrs. Gresham go to the 'front.'"
Yes; she met her husband at Nash
vile. Strangely enough, as she arrived
at the front door of the st. Cloud hotel,
General Gresham was carried in a
stretcher through the back door. 1t
was a fight for life. Their next move
came to sudden halt at New Albany
The wounded man could go no further.
and thus the Greshams became resi-
dents of Louisville'S Indiana suburb.
For ten months Gresham did not leave
his bed. One chance in hundred, but
I believe you'll pull through, said the
surgeon, and he was right, Had Gresh-
am been dissipated in his habits, death
would have been certain.
We'll, after that man got out of bed
he was five years on crut3hes. He went
into the war a stalwart Uf IS; he came
out a wreck. Six years later at the
age of 81, he found himself famed for
! life, with an impaired constitution. Was
it easier for the woman, do YOU think ?
Care kills cats, and care told as effec-
lively on the young wife and mother
as on her husband. Both were soldiers.
( Both fought battles in different yays,
] think the men at the front had the
best of it, for they had the excitement
of campaign life, with its many Incl
dents, thrilling or humorous. as the
case might be, while women lived in
solitude and suspense"
Suspense is far harder to bear than
danger / agree with you that Judge
and Mrs. Gresham are patriots, and !
dare say they came to Washington at
President Cleveland's request instigated
by q desire to serve their country
Now you've got at facts Official
| life had no fascination for the Gresh.
ans. They had gone all through that
experience in Arthur's cabinet. Gresh.
ans appointment by Arthur as Judge
of the circuit court, with a pleasant
residence in Chicago, suited the Gresh.
ans down to the ground. Surrounded
by their children and two grand-child.
rem, they were far happier, I'm sure
than they can be boarding in Washing.
ton and undergoing the annoyances in.
separable from official life. Those PEG.
pie belong to the church nilitant. my
friend, and don't you forget it."
/ shall not. No one can look into the
faces of the secretary of state and his
devoted wife and not see lines OF
thought that place them far above the
seekers Of place for vanity or fame.
A NEW INDUSTRY.
| [From Judge.l
''What do you teach ait your school,
professor"
..Tlre art of conversation