Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-08-25
NOT ALL DEAD YET.
Soldier Who Fought at Waterloo stui

Soldier Who Fought at Watcrloo Stdi
 Alive at Lynn.
 Living in the busy city Of Lynn, spending tho last dayaof a dramatic life, honored by all who know him, is John Henry Beard. one of the few survivors of the battle of Waterloo
 Having taken part Tn this battle, fighting on the side of the victors Is of itself a great distinction, but being among the last survivors of this battle, in which over 250, ,O00 men took part, is to have honor thrust upon him, Mr Beard thinks
 Few men have lived a more dra- matic life than Mir. Beard, and he delights in telling to the younger generation of the exciting times when Napoleon was spreading con sternation throughout Europe and England was almost at his mercy It is with keen eye, a ready smile and a steady hand that he greets his friends and acquaintances and is never at loss to tell a story about any particular time in the history of the century. Be can re count and picture events and scenes in the early parts of the nineteenth century with as much accuracy as a man who was a participant in q stirring event in 1870 can tell of 1t now. It is like reading history to converse with Mir. Beard for a few moments, only vastly more real, for you talk with a man who has taken part in the events.
 At the age of i5 the need of sol diers was so great that be and other boys were notified that they must enlist in the regular army. Being the son of a colonel, he was given the extra privilege of joining any regiment in the country. He select ed that commanded by his father, and few days after he had ccle- brated his birthday he was a regu- lar soldier in the service of England and a member of the Sixty sixth regiment
 "I was but n boy" Mir. Beard said, when asked about his first eX- periences in the army. There were many men in tho regiment who had taken part in battles, been wounded and who had stood for hours on a battlefield Some of the men had but lately returned from America, where they fought in the war of 1872. There were but very few green hands, or recruits, in the regiment, but was one of them. My father was very strict, and i'm mediately after enlistment was compelled to give up my residence under the officers roof in the fort and go and live with tho soldiers in the barracks.
 For four days before the battle of Waterloo he says that his regiment marched back and forth from one place to another and was almost within hearing distance of the French guns. It was not called upon to enter the conflict until the decisive day, when orders came early in the morning to march to the front. Young Beard was in the front ranks of his fathers com mand, and rememb bers, as if it were 2 yesterday, the squares formed by the English soldiers, where the : French cavalry "foamed itself away.
 Beard was wounded three times iu the hip, being struck by two bullets at nearly the same instant and being hit again as he lay wounded on the ground. He was carried to the rear and there saw Napoleon as the lat ter was on his retreat toward Paris. A number of English soldiers were lying on the ground when Napoleon passed. He saw them and ap- preached within a short distance and then rode away, Sufrounueu ny q number of his men.
 j.. Shortly after the battle of Water loo young Boards regiment was or dered to Quebec, and he accom- panied it there. It was soon after he reached the age of 21 that he SC 7, cured a leave of absence for a few days, ostensibly to enjoy hunting in the woods. lie had heard stories of the fabulous wealth to bo secured in the States. and resolved that : his experience in the army should cease. Witb this intention he left Canad2 and walked to Richmond, Me. where he married and has ,. since resided, except when III Lynn with Eis daughter Boston Globe