The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-05-19

changed by habit and discipline and a
realizing sense Of responsibility and
duty. you remember Herbert =
said he, chow terribly scared was at
the very idea of being obliged to fight,
and how, but for you, | would have
wrecked, perhaps lost, my life in that
vile attempt at dcsertion you so noblv
frustrated and even after SO generously
concealed. You remember, too how,
when we came under fire ut the Wilder
ness, was utterly paralyzcd by terror
until yon cheercd me up. To you, not
to me, should have fallc. all the luck.
bnt you We're Shot down at once and
thus missed all the glorious opportrni-
ties have had to serve our country;
and grievc over my present wound,
only because it will keep me out OF the
field for awhile
God bless you Fred, you have made
me very happy" replied licrbcrt-and
he stopped down and actually kissed
the boy as II he had been indeed u very
own brother.
Trooper Leslie went back next day
to his own squadron, and Sergeant
Ainslic WAS sent to the hospital at
Frcderi .ksburg where he was nursed
bacls to health by his mother and sister,
assisted quite often by Miss Jessie
Glynn, whom no one would now have
Thought n BUTTERFLY" though she was.
notwithstanding her serious and thor
oughly discharged duties, the brightest,
most CHEEKY and happicst little soul in
the place.
About two weeks after Fred was
brought in Miriam. one morning. an
nounced that an officer of Wilson's cav
airy brigade had called to see him.
Fred tidied himself up us we'll as he
could to receive the unexpected visitor.
and presently handsome young fell
low. in n brand new, full-drcss uni
form, was ushcrcd TO his bedside and
roguishly introduced by Jessie Glynn MS
''l.ieut. Herbert Lesliem
Fred, however, got even with the
girls by solcmnly affirming, then ami
ever afterwards, that this ioyfnl sur
prise did him more good, and more
greatly fastened his recovery, than all
their coddling and nursing put together.
And perhaps it really was so; for GER
tain it is that in less than four months
the young man was again on duty; but
this time as 4 sergeant in his friends
troop. and the whole army could boast
of NO better soldier than was he.
When (January 81, 1861 the constitu-
tional amendment abolishng slavery
was passed, all men saw that the end of
the fratricidal strife was mar; and al
ready the matrons and minds of our
war-worn land INDUCED in fond hopes
of speedily welcoming to peaceful homes
those of their dear ones who still sur
vived--thongh, alas! many brave men,
on both sides, were yet to fall.
In several of the greater or less i'm
portant BATTLES occurring in the follow
ing month Of March, our young heroes
took part, and at that of Five Forks,
fought on April /, both won promotion
by conspicuous gallantry in the field.
In this battle, as everyone knows, the
cavalry in great force assaulted the
enemy full in front, while the infantry
attacked the rear, the result being that
the fedcrals took five Thousand prison
ers at a loss to themselves of about one |
thousand men.
AS the cavalry, en- echelon, moved up to |
the attack, the regiment, in which
served Herbert and Fred, found itself
confronted by vastly superior number
OF confederate horscmen, and, despite
stubborn resistance, was in imminent
danger OF being routed, when Lieut..
Leslie, whose captain had fallen, called
Sergeants Ainslie and Boyle to his side,
dashed with them to the head of his
own troop. charged furiously into a
dense mass of yelling foes and, cutting
down OF riding over all who opposed
his progress, made an opening for his
closely-following mon, who spurred in
with reckless abandon and quickly re-
deemed the fight, Leslie himself bear
ing Off a guidon, fairly won in single
combat, from the enemy's standard
bearer, while Ainslie, whose horse had
been shot under him, actually, when