Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-13
A WAR Renaissance.
Scenes at Hatcher's Creek and Pc
tersburg Recalled.
u. scace Speaks - . Reporter Of
stirring Scenes-Escaped with . slight
Wound, but, Like other veterans, Has
Suffered Sinee-A story that Reads
Like q Page from History.

When one encounters In print the
life story OF some SCARED veteran OF
the Civil war, a feeling cf admiration
and sympathy ig the certain result.
Accustomed though we are to tales Of
heroism and suffering in everyday
life, there is something peculiarly at
tractive about these old war records.
serving, as they do, as n sacred pass
port to the heart of every true Ameri-
can. Thousands found their rest on
the field Of carnage or in the hospital,
but their comrades, when the struggle
was over and the victory won, re-
turned To their homes and began anew
the battle Of life.
John Il. Scace, the widely known
contractor and building mover Of Al
bany. N. Y, has had an unusually in
terestiDg life, n when seen by a re-
porter recently at his home, No. Is
Bradford street. told of his many .ex-
rcrienaes n adventures while serv-
ing under the old flag in the late war.
Although having endured all the hard
ships and privations Of life in the
ranks, Mr.. Scacc bears his more thai.
half a century of years with an elastic
step and a keen mind. taking an
- 1 IA plis l LII RuDut
affairs.
Mr.. Scace is a member of Berkshire
Lodge, No. 90. /. o. o. +. He enlisted
i'll the army in 1862. in Company A..
Forty-nlnth Massachusetts Volunteer
Infantry. serving under Col. W. +.
Bartlett. First Brigade, First Division.
Nineteenth Corps, with which he
participated in some of the hottest
tattles of the war. including Port
Hudson, Donaldsonville and Plain
Store. where he was wounded. His
time being out. he was discharged. but
soon re-enlisted IL sergeant in Com
pany A. Sixty-frst Regiment, Massa-
chusetts Volunteer Infantry. He was
i'll the battle bf Hatcher's Run. the
fight about Petersburg and the battle
OF Sailors Creek.
After his honorable discharge, June
1. 1865. Mr.. Scace returned to Albany
and settled down once again to his
business and social interests. He has
resided in the city ever since. 1t
seem that now. of all times, his
peace and happiness would nave been
uninterrupted. Such was not to be
the case, for four years ago, while en-
gagged in experimenting the raising OF
the immense smokestack of the AL
bany Electric power house. the lever
of a loosened windlass struck him a
heavy blow across the back. The
effect of the blow was not at first APP
parent, he being able to leave his bed
il. a few days. But the worst was to
foliow. for without warning he was
seized with sciatic rheumatism in all
its virulence. Untold agony followed.
Said Mr.. Scace. Il could not sleep for
the pain. No one will know the tor
lures the rheumatism gave me. I
know how l lived during those
days. | became little more than skin
and bones. and il seemed like life didn't
have anything but suffering in II.
Cures? 1 tried every so-called rheu-
cure that was ever invented. I
gave all of them a good trial before I
stopped taking them. My friends and
recommended remedy after
remedy that they heard of. but my
rheumatism went on just the same.
Wen. after l had almost had the life
out of me. l came across a
newspaper account of DIR. Williams
Pills, and l thought / might as
well add another name to the list as
not. so l ordered some of my druggist.
Il tell you, l was glad in those days
to hear of anything that could give
me any hope at all. Yes, | got them.
ami before l had taken two boxes that
pain began to leave me. Why.
couldn't understand it. l couldn't i'm
aSine myself being cured. But before
| had taken a half-dozen of those
| was cured. The suffering
which had made my life almost I'M
for so long had disappeared.
| was a new man.
Il began to get strong. l picked up
in flesh. and l went back to my bust
ness with all the vigor and vim of a
tcunG mar. l think everyone who
me will tell you what it did for
me. Pink Pills is the grandest med;-
cine ever discovered. and if my recon-
mendation will do it any good I want
you to use it. l hope others will hear
it and be benefited as I have been.
should zeal Of it. / can't
too much for Them" Mr.. Scace ex-
claimed. enthusiastically, in eonclu-
sion.
This is but one of the many cases in
which Pink Pills have taken such a
beneficent part in the history of hu-
MIR. Scace is now enjoying the fruits
o. an unusually large business, man
aged solely by himself. and covering
almost the entire eastern portion OF
the state. Mr.. Scacc is also an ivory
carver of marked ability. which he
solely for his own pleasure.
little trinkets. carved by the
light of the campfire. attest his skill
N this direction. -
Fan from being solicited to recon-
mend the curative which had taken
such a load of misery from his life. in
ms gratitude his praise for it is I'M
stinted and unceasinE. And from his
statement one may easily see that
Nhen he does cease to sing its virtues.
Ii will be to answer the last muster
ing in.
Or. Williams Pink Pills contain. in
q condensed form. all the elements
necessary to give new life and rich
ness to the blood and restore shattered
nerves. They are also a specific for
troubles peculiar to females. such as
impressions, Irregularities and all
'orms of weakness. In men they effect
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