The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-25

In the First, Here's In the SecoaAs
Family Paid for Funeral Notice.

New York sun.
"If / go to tho war. X there In one.
want either to be killed or come home
after It is over / don't want any rumors
about my death. II l go and YOU hear
that l have been killed don't believe it
until you get 1t straight from .omebody
who knows me-"
The man who made this request Of one
Of his friends In a public place up
town told this in connection. with the re-
quest
I'm the town where lived at the be-
ginning OF the civil war, one who enlisted
Was a young man named Bob Bradshaw.
He was a model physically. He wa Z
blacksmith. but beyond the fact that he
was Industrious there was nothing. Peo-
pie knew him as Bob bradshaw. tha
blacksmith and that was all.
II don't remember how long his COM
pany had been away before we heard OF II.
But one day the news came or the storm
ing OF a rebel redoubt. The dispatch told
that Bob bradshaw. the blacksmith.
seized the colors and rallied his company.
and that he went down In n glorious
death, etc. within the enemy's lines. That
sort of dispatches got TO be quite common
before the trouble was settled, II you
know anything about IL. But in tho first
stages Of n conflict such a dispatch, re-
ceiyed in the town where the hero enlist
ed. stirred the people nightly The next
day after the receipt OF the news there
was a meeting and a lot of sympathy and
admiration was uncorked. and resolutions
passed, and committee was appointed TO
go 10 the front and II possible secure the
body of the gallant Bradshaw and return
IL TO the soil OF the home which 'h0norod
him. and 80 ca. and so on.
Some OF the men on that COMMITTEES
would not have known Bob Bradshaw II
h. had walked into the meeting at that
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foideroi in war times. the same az fhera
Is In peace. and IL was all right then.
When the committee went to The train
hundreds of persons followed to furnish
the send of I think the committee took
an expensive coffin along. It either did
that or arranged for one TO be sent later
Then a few days afferward we got the
news that Bob bradshaw was not dead.
He had scaled the redoubt. as was FIRST
reported. but he was picked up on the
other side somewhat 5oited. and, believe,
he was shot somewhere. He was a brave
feliow-there Ii no question about that
He came home 10 r=cuperato, and he vas
the recipient Of n blowout, perhaps not
40 numerousiy attended az would have
been the case IL he had come back dead.
AT the next election Bob was TIE NOM
inee for some office. / have forgotten
what. One Of the committee that went
after his dead body was the opposing can
didate. The bravery Of Bradshaw was
mildly conceded by the opposition press.
bur the inability Of Bob Bradshaw to hold
the office 10 which he sspired and some
an;e-bellurn incidents were magnlfied. I
think Bob was elected, bat by a scratch,
and much Of his hcrolsa bad been splash
ed with campaign uud. He trained IN
politics forever aftsrward. but wss cnsuc-
eexsfni / went away from that place
after the war. but have been told that
when Bradshaw died for good. az they
put g. his family had 70 pay for the
funeral notice.