The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-12
A fad Of tho hour is a sun umbrella with
Rilded sword handle.
LOST A LEG AND WON A WIFE.
A Romano Not or This war. but or the One
Next to II.

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Next TO II.
From, the Charleston Ne,rs and Courier.
A somewhat belated romance Of the civil war
is that Of Capt. Thomas H. Culp OF Perry's
Florida brigade, a South Carolinian. who hap
peued to be in the malarial peninsula when the
flag on Fort Sumter was fired on, and in that
way explains why he was not in a South Caro-
lima command under the stars and bars.
AS will be recalled, Perry's brigade, after dis
tinguishing itself at Chickamauga and other
places in the West, went to Virginia and did q
full share of the hard fighting that the Army
Of the Potomac had to do from then until the
end Of the war. It was In one Of the battles
Capt. Culp, while leading his company in 9
charge on the enemy. yho were strongly posted
behind ind some me iim pro sCtD eF tSS n.2t So %Ss sh8 fo
find that his left leg had been amputated below
the knee. The strangest part Of 1t, however.
lost a leg. The unpleasant coincidence was
time. but. ike a great many other things that
happened in that stirring period. was soon for
GOTTEN fisft sna pa SS' q sof SHt OF C Sne ,h CTlp re- returned msn; to
his old homo In South. Carolina and began life
anew. after the war closed. as a country mer-
chant. These were the flush times that there
Is 90 much talk about, and he prospered as he
deserved, and in the course of time managed
PIE pS wants Of an Old bachelor: His war com
rades were ali in Florida and South Georgia.
and he gradually Lost touch tSafr with then a. as Sa men n
sJanch old Confederate, however. and preserved
his cap and jacket until the reunion in Rich.
ing occasion TO wear them. Then he concluded
he would go on and hear the ''rebel yell" just
he brought out these time-stained relics OF the
bloody past. Thirty years Of prosperity, had
p pGSns .o hdE9e S5sH e she a S1sna sSs j waist % @t t re
cap was still available. and, with half of the
and the enthusiasm highly gratifying to him,
because he could not find one of the members
of his old command. Walking was a painful
RRfiSS c energies rHs f IN the se effo @s and and seated himsoif on
tho doorstep of a ,handsome residence, when a
weather. beaten old feliow, with a veterans
Captain noticed that he limped Suspiciously.
and was not long in learning that he, too. was
t the inquiry where he had lost It's predecessor,
and tho reply was that It was In such and such
very dGht in which the Captain had suffered
his loss, and he stated the fact 90,
the enemy from their works on the brow Of the
hill. and just as we rouse up out Of the under.
beside a big pine tree. But you won't belieye
Had their legs shot Of at the same time,
out of his mou III. and l was one Of them"
That was the signal for a little reunion OF their
own, and The proposition was made that they
hire a hack and go out to see the sIot again
II was only a few miles out, and as soon as they
had concluded o bargain with a hackman they
made q start. When they reached the ground
however, they found everything changed. tht
t~ivation. They managed to find an old stump
however, and united in declaring It tho re
mains of the big pine tree" but there was still
to.apply to the occupant of q big house a shor
distance away for information. They found 4
occupied by a handsome maiden lady of 40 oil
thereabouts. who blushinglyc confessed TO having
lived there az q little girl during the wal: ant
Captain seemed fascinated by tho spot. an,
returned To 1t moro than once before the reunion
closed. Then he stayed over after everybod,
else had gone, and in the end came away witt
a promise from the maiden lady. A short tim,
ago he returned and married her, and now live
on the identical farm where he was wounded
and In sight of the big pine stump. n few hun
dred yards from the Darbytown road.