The herald., 1895-05-26


own affairs. He never complains. Thos,
VINO are thrown with him, however, no
| tice, as l have noticed, that now anC
again he draws himself together as if ir
an agony of pain. But rever a word es
capes him. His wife watches over him
with the most unrem,tting attention. the
most loyal love and devotion. She is con.
stantly at his bedside, and cannot conceal
her anxiety"
Even Corporal Tanner admits that
Gresham is great and heroic sufferer.
Those hip wounds" the corporal told
me, are painful and dangerous. Gresham
will never be sound man again. But
| do you know it is curious fact, borue
out by the records of the pension Office
and the medical department, that the
comparative mortality Is greater among
those who have received wounds in the
| arm than in the leg"
We were sitting in the restaurapt above
Loan and Trust building. at and Sew
enth street. The corporal was thought
fully putting on a Havana cigar. He was
in a talkative mood.
Speaking abnout hip wounds" said
he to a reporter Of the New York Herald,
''let me bring the attention of the people
to couple OF strange cases that have
come under my attention as claim
agent. One is that of Judge Charles d.
Long, now of the supreme court Of Mich
igan, a 6. AR. veteran. He was shot in
the hip and has never fully recovered.
When he starts out walking he may 60
100 yards withou a mishap. But some
times at every five yards or so down he
goes prone on the pavement. and lies
him up again on his pins. Then there is
an other veteran who bears the honoreu
name of William Shakespeare. He is a
Democratic lawyer in Kalamazoo. First
he lost his left arm. Then he was wounded
by rifle ball, which struck the lett hip
just escaped the intestines by miracle
and landed in the right groin. That
wound has never been allowed to heal.
if it did blood poisoning mi ght set in and
he'd be goner Up to six months ago
no less than -. 600 operations had been
performed on him by other hanos than
his own. You see the fact that he has
only one hand, and on the opposite side
him to operate on himself. During the
Harrison adm mInistration both these cases
received the full pension OF $72 a month.
They were. among the first to be cut down
by the present administration. But l be-
lieve that will succeed in restoring them
to the full pension
Corporal Tanner. as he is we'll known.
has himself lost both his legs and walks
around on wooden ones. l asked him If
he would tell me the story CT how he was
wounded. He drew himself mp as
thought. a little suspiciously.
II understand. he said. that some Of
Colonel Warnings friends have been hunt
ing up my war record since | had the
pleasure of saying few words about him
so. My record is in the war department.
AS to my wound. received it at the
second BATTLE of Bull Run, in kearney' 6
division. where ) belonged. A piece Of
| shell struck me and smashed both my
| legs. Since then l have submitted to
! 9th. | feel as l had been distributing
pieces of my body all over the country. "
Then the corporal remembered that his
wife was awaiting dinner for him, and
stumped off without the formality of a
leave taking. Did he think l was one of
Colonel Warnings friends?
A great sufferer is General A. J. Pleas
anton, the hero of Charlottesville. who,
by his personal gallantry, saved that bat
tie from becoming disastrous rout.
Once he was among the best known and
most popular men in Washington. His
name was in everybody's mouth as that
of one of the greatest of Northern cavalry
officers. For five years he has been in
absolute retirement. the victim OF tistula
contracted at the time when he spent
hbe majority of his wor King hours in the
saddle.
The last doctor who has seen him pro-
fessionally was Surgeon General Bliss. a
lifelong friend. He performed several
| painful surgical operations. rendered still
more painful by the fact that the general
stoutly refused the aid Of anaesthetics.
The operatins were successful in remov-
ing the iistula. but number of abcesses
broke out all over the patients body. He
is now covered With them. but he will
not take professional advice. He swears
that doctors are no good.
The general is confined to his room in
a curious little old fashioned boarding
house, know as as the Greason house, al
W. Greason, whose father was friend of
General Peasanton. Sixteen years age
the general came to live in the house.
fleeing from the influx of visitors who
annoyed him at the larger hotels in
which he formerly lived.
1T is because they obey orders that
have been here SO long, he said the
other day.
Mrs. Greason. in fact. rrides herself on
her obedience to orders. She mounts
guard in the parlor every day and allows
no one to pass up to the invalid's room
save a few intimate and congenia
friends. She is a large. good-natured
body, who suffers from dropsy and share:
"Four years ago,' she told me. II be-
gan to swell up. The doctors said they
could help me. They brought tubs and
things, such a lot of them that
| thought now I'm going to emerge quite
nice and genteel looking. But lor they
| tapped me and filled up their buckets and
carted them away, but grew larger thar
ever. And now | have no more use fol
doctors. Neither has the general. He is
one Of the wittiest and most entertaining
men you ever saw. doctor friend Of
his insisted in leaving him some pills
He took one and it was SO nasty that he
! spat it out and threw the whole boz
| away. Next morning there were a couple
erals windows. 'YG says he and I'c
have been with the sparrows il had
taken tie pills. /"
Mrs. Greason laughed so heartily as te
show full row of very pretty teeth.
"Such a generous man as the general is, >
she went on. He reads all the medical
| ADVERTISEMENTS and tries everything thai
he thinks would do him good. And il
| it does he insists on sharing it with me.
Lor! you know. the generals wealthy.
| He didn't stay here for the economy. Hs
| gets $l240 month from the government
as pay and pension. and his sister died
last wear and left him $50, ,000."
| Here smiling colored woman of mid
! die age appeared, and was introduced q.
the generals nurse. She occupies room
| just adjoining his and holds herself ready
to answer any call. The general moves
| about little more than from the bed te
the window where on the fine days ht
sits and watches the stream of people GO
| ar,1 .in De, ex,l,