Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-10-14
.NP. BONSer'S 5 Var Record

evening as he looked ap from hl'
newspaper.
"The war; queried Mrs, BowSer
"The war, OF course. Eye been
thinking all day that if | was only
five wears younger nothing should
keep me flom going 10 the mont
II makes my pulses thrill TO read
of the booming Of big guns the
screams or sbelis-the beToic IN
difference Of men under fire. IL
we're offered ii commission l De
lieve IA 90 anyhow
Whes the B0wseis were married
Hrs. BowSer understood that Mr
Bowser mad served IN the civil war
She also understood that he had
g1ue IN as p,iyate and come ou'
A. a colonel. Now and then he in
tereSt,d her with descriptions OF
battles and bis brave deeds on thu
field. For tue first few mouths
she implici ly believed in all t'
saId. as was the duty of a trusting
woman. Later on, when she be
can to read up on tue war, Sn'
conldn't make history and MT
Bovsel's statements agree. BN
and by he ceased to call hlmsei
"CJlonel1 BOwSer, or to talk &!
war. ard she was glad enough t.
have The subject dropped. 1t had
got so that she must condemn
very historian as liar or con
clude that Mr.. BOwser had never
been 20 the front.
YES" continued Mr.. B)wser, as
he got up and walked around The
room. "Fd like to lead regiment
into battle again. Lands but th'
exc.t ment of 1.-THE exultatlOn-
TIE g,ory. When | think of 1t
( can ha dly hold myself"
Mr.. B,wser was very foolish
man to call mp his war record aud
'ry a game of bluff on his wife
| lie should have been warned bN
The queer look she gave him auC
the silence she maintained, bu
Temporary enthusiasm made hiw
,eckless aud he continued:
Glands? but that day at GETTY $
burg-shall 1 ever forget il! Fo
ap bour we were under such hail
storm of death that / did not ex
pect a man IN my regiment t.
come ont alive"
Mrs. DJwser looked at him in
DUBIOUS way, but had nothing Il
say. This Wqued the Old VA
, horse, and he turned on her with
"Womau, did you ever wonde
j to yourself what battle was like
How you can sit there likC a OumI
on log when they may be fight
ing and cheering aud dying with
10 miles of us Is a puzzle to mt
Why don't you swallow That cu'
of gum and ask me some Que'
tions3"
81 WILL" she QOietly replied.
"Were YOU in the late war;"
"WhaI What! was iu the lat
wall
; ~ hat regiment"
"1Ee Eighteenth Ono, of cours'
'd I've told Nou so fifty times owe
At the battle Of Autietam We lOi
1870 men, and was promoted lroI
private to sergeant"
"Where is Anlietam?'
"Where-wheIe is Anilelam
u he slammered, as his face began
reGden. "Anlietam is in Virgin
OF course. Where did you think
was-m Wisconsin,"
$40, sir. knew it was
Maryland What the Federal hi
tories call Antleiam is cali
Is Sharpsburg by the Confederate
1t Is a lltl,e to gn on the POtOma
in Mir,land.'
.5l "You-you set out to post me
ru AntIetaum be shouted, as he stO
off and glared at her, but at t
s,s same time realized that lie b
ily been caught.
Y; Certainly. Headley. Gree
Losing aud all other writer's
the war locate AntietaD as
have.p
> "Then they are base liars a
deceigers, and ought to be 81
OPP Wneu did you Otgin to read up
3 Ear what you call hlstory|
i'm "rve been at i Tor some tim
M.
IAN Al, pIacldly replied Mrs. Bows
ed. They sy lave been wrong aP'
Va Auiietam, but bow does it hapI
that The Eighteenth Ohio Is
mentioned as one of the Fede
regiments participatlngT
"Not mentioned" shouted
BoNser, as be swallowed at
lump in his lhroat-"Eightee'