The Press., 1896-07-16

lit is our intention to print under this head from week to week, items of interest from the old Stafford News Letter.
 (Continued from last week)
 After having shared tho tent through the night with our friend Lieut.. Fisk, and some half-dozen of our Stafford SOL diers, at about half-past five o'clock in the morning, the drums were beaten as signal for general "uprising' of the vast army which was visible in almost every direction. The various companies having been drawn up in line, the rolls were called and after some exercise they were dismissed for breakfast, which be- ing over we started accompanied by sev- eral members of companies I of the 18th, and B of the 11th regiments, for the never to be forgotten fields of Antietam After traversing the fields where Gen. Burnside's corps fought with such gal lantry, and after visiting the graves of those noble heroes of the 18th who fell here fighting to sustain the best govern ment and institutions upon which the glorious sun ever shOne, we spent the re- mainder of the day looking after the sick and wounded, most of whom we found during that and the succeeding day. Hav- ing made preliminary arrangements, on Wednesday, Oct. i, just two weeks after the battle, proceeded, accompanied and assisted by attachments from companies of the 18th, and B of the 11th, to ex- hume the bodies of our friends Lieut.. Horton and Augustus Truesdale, whom we placed in what were designed to be air tight boxes, with the expectation of con- veying them thus enclosed home to Staf- ford. But this expectation was not realized from the fact of the utter refusal of the express company at Frederick City to take and convey the bodies unless they were previously embalmed and put in air tight metallic cases. It was now about sundown. We all took supper in Sharps- burg and there parted, they to return to their camps, and 1 to proceed hOmeward with the bodies. I reached BOones-
 
 o'clock in the evening, staying till morn ing, then resuming my journey arrived at Frederick City about 12 o'clock, noon. My first business here was to make ar engagements for the conveying of the bodies home by express. I soon found the place where the embalming was to be done, and made arrangements fol the me- tallic cases, etc. The next day, Friday, about o'clock in the afternoon I left Frederick with the bodies and four of the wounded, and arrived home on Mon day morning. J. R. WAsHBURN.
 Oct. 25, 1862.
 Born in Stafford Oct. IA, 1869, a son to Harrison Howe. Born in Stafford Springs son to Marshall Keith.
 The funeral of James W. Brooks, whose body arrived from Antietam, will take place on Sunday at the Springs village, under charge of the Guards. Ser mon by Rev. MT. Townsend. James w. Brooks died on the 11th of wounds re- ceived at the battle of Antietam. He re-
 
 legs, one in the arm near the shoulder, from which pieces of bone were taken, and one ball passing out at the back. He lay upon the field all night, and on the renewal of the fight next morning was exposed to the firing of both armies. A cannon ball bounding by divested him ot the back of his coat and shirt, leaving a scar on his shoulders. After laying on the field forty eight hours, he was found and carried to the hospital receiving the attention of the surgeons, who were con. fident when his father left that he would recover. His age was 19. He proved himself brave young man, fighting after being twice wounded.
 To Harvey Orcutt, Esq, the assessor for this town, we are indebted for the fol lowing statistics: Application for Ii censes in the town of Stafford, under United States tax laws: