The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-12
SHORT ONE WAR STORY.
SIMEON THEUS THoUG HIT HE KILLED
BROWN AT GETTYSBURG,
And ne Has Becn Telling How re Did It rop
the Last Thirty Henrs-Hut II WINS All =
RHistaLe-Now Hnpk and Reb Are to Have
n Social Reunion ana Explain ThInes.

the Last Thirty H~ehrs-But n wns All =
NEistaLe-Now Wink and Reb Are to nave
n Social Reunion ana Explain ThinEs.
From the Savannah. Ga, Nstps.
Col. T. Fred Brown of Cincinnati will shortly
come TO Savannah, Ga, where he expects to
meet, for tho first time since the war. a man who
thought he had killed him nj Gettysburg.
For more than thirty years Mr.. Simeon TheS
Of Savannah has been telling n story of how III
came to kill the only Federal who fell in battle
from n wound inflicted by his hand. And aftot
all these years that sam Federal is coming to
Savannah TO be tho guest of Mr.. Thous.
There il Il world of interest in the story, which
tells OF Mr.. Thcus accidentally asccrtainingt that
his dead soldier is a real live business man, fully
abreast Of tho times, and doing a thriving com.
mission business in this city. They are now
fast friends, and the Yankee is under grateful
obligations to the Confederate for shooting him
down on the field that second day at Gettys-
burg. The reason of his gratitude is because
the next days fighting was OF such n fierce and
furious nature as to cause nearly all Of his COM
mand and every officer associated with the
command to be swept to death by thebattle.
1T was this way said Mr.. Theus to a re-
porter OF the Neus. 81 was with Ranso
Wright's brigade, which was that day under the
command of Col. Carswell of the Forty eighth
Georgia. We were making a desperate charge
at Gettysburg when for some reason the ro-
mainder o. the division halted, but Wright'o
brigade kept on abreast of the fury Of tho battle
storm. with Gen.. Hunt, chief OF artillery Of the
Federal army, in front of us. Wright's brigasS
broke through the lines, capturing all the artna
lery In their immediate front, among the cap
tured being Battery b Of the First Rhode Isl.
and Regiment OF Artillery. commanded by
Lieut.. 4. Fred Brown. All this time Wright,S
brigade was far in advance of the rest Of the
division, away up The mountain side, an eighty
Of a mile ahead and alone.
1,, nPhaite ,S ,h y had been len, given SStnro the he command oI9n e
be executed Wright brigade reached the four
right guns Of the battery. The four left guns
gap in a stone wall, placed quickly in battery
and opened fire on our advancing line, the ofii-
Ger in NINA at intervals riding down in
the infantry, who had been broken up in the
SnaFs' Failing ena @nE in T this, 'i he e6oR his iisT posftio ahe ON
the left Of the guns and continued the firing
battle. grew thicker in those parts. but Wright's
brigade, realizing that they were alone, and
With Determined onsiaueh., and in a few mo.
me t.n the remaining re anaI guns had been captured:
roam horse, full OF action, with a pistol in his
hand, was all the while urging the fight on tho
Iederals' side, and one of our men said to me:
ievelied down, on the officer and shot him in tho
assured OF having killed him. Ever since tho
war ] have been telling the story, and saying
that this man was the only Yankee ] was sure
of having killed during the war.
Not long ago l wrote to the Providence, R.
l., Journal, asking for a list Of the living off,
GERS of this battery, designing to establish the
position of our brigade exactly as held in that
sscertainins the name Of the officer I had be-.
lieved to have been killed by the ball from
My all FIfio But shq' s@ day' in Th.s was not has sn led %y Il, % the
discovery, that my man was not killed, at all.
l nm aNppllppf gentleman and "A prnanarpua huli.
Col. I. Fred Brown, who was shot down by
Mr.. Theus that day on the battlefield, in reply
other things, without knowing he VA, writing
BPo%n's 70 BATTERY G { 'h 5. First rhode f fsIand %r1f-
dent Of the Charge Of Gen. Wright $ brigade
toward the close of the afternoon of the I'd OF
were si yesterday. That ia, up to the time | was
left for dead on the field. shot through the neck
horse and left lying insensible. I was trying
to withdraw my battery behind the stone wall
baa FtaSSs sa i BEEN In f left OF out the ne f tTSSps Of th shs lin Ms
all the, afternoon, expecting TO be called upon
to o." our am lsft p ie ssip enough Geni 6le to hear from one of
those gallant, gentlemen In gray whose line
doomed up before me so erimly in the fading
daylight, marching on remorselessly until
Later, when Mr.. Theus made honest confess
sion to his correspondent that he was the man
who had shot him that day in battle, the vet
eran wrote as follows:
All the incidents you describe Mt perfectly.
buckskin. though excited and covered with
sweat and dust, was nearer roan-horse, dancing
as YOU may say, for he was taken out of an am
bulance team. and was not used to battlefelds.
By and bv he was shot under me, and had to DO
abandoned. / was flourishing a derringer
which | had drawn, trying 10 make the men
passing through my battery stop and lie down.
though you were the man to whom i am in
debtcd for my life. for the engagement next
! iay Epuld have henn my last had | not been
shot down. there is no sort of doubt"
After the Gettysburg engagement Mr..
Theus's dead foeman WAS made Brevet Major,
and later Lieutcnant.C Colonel OF United States
volunteers. and he was at App0mattoN. 1t was
he who opened the fight at Bristow Station
later in the war.