Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-28

Some had their jaws broke and some their teeth shot out, and others were shot in the stomach, and thcSe all had to have soup, lEu know. couldn't but notice, and it s real Curious how differnt sick men arc some thanked me even with tears in their eyes and some cursed me because I gave ulem So little or the soup gave out before got to them. \ few were very much aston i>!cd and had expected to be killed. The foreign born took it as the regular thing and said nothing. They expected to be tryatrd equally we'll no matter what hands they fell into. But l must tell you of one very interesting case.
 What Colonel Rice Did.
 "Thcrc was Colonel Rico of MaSSachu- sCttS, who WAS shot through both lungs and dying I thought A day or so after l Gaw that ho was just the same, and SD I b:ought one of the doctors. He took one look and said, I've got no time to waste on such cases. and went on to help them he thought had a chance of life. put some boarlS over the cnlnnrlS head to keep off the rain, and he tuuk his chances on he bare ground, for all the inside was kept for men that had chance to live and mon "a hr operated on. A few days later found Cui, l!vl Rice just ;lS well, it seemed to me, ;t> when l first saw him, and then the doctor had time to work on him. Well, sir, in thrrr weeks he was ahlo to be took la Richmond and got well fast. Only few years ago he Camo to SIC mo and staid around some days. 1 happened to mention that there was debt on our church. and nos long after hc went homo got a letter frcm him with n draft for the whole amount, and the letter said it was r!alr up mostly hy Grand Army men and some that had been wounded there The l,:trr WAS roAd out in church, and I tell you when the rtadins> was finished thcrc were not many dry eyes. It seemed too good that th,' old f,vlins, between Amer jeans had come hack 50 completely" Mrs Benson has rather moro pointed story tu tell and tells it in n moro snappy southern way. As the ilanking division uf our army passed by the house on its way In the Sudlry ford she stood on the porch, and noting her black looks a jnculnr New York lN.y sang out. Say, old lady, where $ your rvhrl>.
 Her eyes s;lvHued as she replied: You just keep right "n and you'll find 'rm. , They Il h' glad tn SIG you tuo,"
 In the rr,ut If the afternoon these troops. as men nearly always do ill n panic, tried to find the r,nd by which they came in and , ran through the yard and garden, throw
  1 Mrs. Benson clappcd her hands and shout cd with delight till exhausted, but not one paid any attention to her Many years had passed away when, says Mrs. B, "a very gcntcrl man drove up to the house, walked in as If he had an interest in the place and appeared right glad to see Us i Rll. Don't yCu know me" says he. In deed don't says I. An, 1 had on bluC clothes when mado your acquaintance. And, would you believe 1t, t was tn, sanlo Now Yorker who spoke so saucy tC me in the morning! was delighted tc scc him. He staid round Quitc a spell ant showed himself a very pleasant gentle man" Mir. Dugan's house. whoro MT , Benson now lives, also has its litele story l On tho morning of the second Bull Rur battle the Confederate generals brcaktasteC there and s,,nn after shells wcrc flying ahnut il sn thick that the family ran int, the hollow. Thinking the battle over. the! | rCturn,d 10 rSlc house and in ten minute wCro caught between two fires. \ shel cxpl"drd in tho middle of tho room ant wounded a woman and child, but not scri uusly. Fact iS." said ono of those pres cnt. we got cutchcd both ways. Wc nat ! orally calculated they'd cumc in samo a they did at the first battle, but it wa ' faced right round the other way, CHcl
 shuuting contrary uwhat they shot before ! and completely fooled us