Arizona republican., 1898-06-20

went to Virginia and did a full share
 of the hard fighting that the army of the Potomac had to do from then until Ethe end of the war. It was in one os the battles around Richmond that the first act of the drama opened.
 Captain Culp, while leading his com pany in charge on the enemy, who
 were strongly posted behind some inn
 proyised earthworks, was shot to the ground, and woke the next morning to find that his left leg had been ampu- | tated below the knee. The strangest part of it. however, was that at the
 same time that he fell five of his men fell around him, each and every one or whom lost a leg. The unpleasant coincidence was commented upon ex- tenslvely in the army at the time, but
 like great many other things that happened in that stirring period was
 soon forgotten and passed out of the
 minds of men
 Unt1tted for a soldier, Captain CuIp returned to his old home in South Car olina and began life anew after the
 war closed as country merchant These were the flush times that there is so much talk about, and he pros pered as he deserved, and in the course of time managed to put aside snug fortune, ample for the simple wants of
 an old bachelor. His war comrades were all in Florida and south Georgia, and he gradually lost touch with them
 as men will do, and even forgot their names. He was a stanch old confed- crate, however, and preserved his cap and jacket until the reunion in Rich
 mond, couple of years ago, without
 once having occasion to wear them Then he concluded he would go on and hear the rebel yell" just once more.
 and in the fitness of his enthusiasm brought out those time-stained relics
 of the bloody past. Thirty years of prosperity had played havoc with the slender waist of the young soldier,
 however, and the jacket was returned.
 with sigh of regret, to it's box. The cap was still available, and with half of tte brim shot away was donnec again.
 Of course the reunion was a grand success. and the enthusiasm highly gratifying to him, but for the first day he was fearfully distressed because he could not find one of the members of his old command. Walking was a painful process for him, and he had
 about exhausted his energies in the effort and seated himself on the door, step of a handsome residence, when T
 weather-beaten old fellow, with a vet. eran's badge, came along and sat down by him. The captain noticed that he iimped suspiciously, and was not long in learning that he, too, was the pos sessor of cork leg. This naturally led to the inuqiry where he had lost it's predecessor, and the reply was that it was in such-and-such a fight, op such-ardsuch a day. It was on the very day and in the very fight in which the captain had suffered his loss, and | he stated the fact.
 Well. that's curious" said the vet eran. T lost mine this way: We were ordered to drive the enemy from their works on the brow of the hill,
 and just as ws rose up out of the un- derbruSh tO make rush my leg was
 shot off. right beside a big pine tree 1 But you won't believe; five other men Had theirs shot off at the same time. said the captain, excitedly, talk ing the words out of his mouth, and l
 was one of them!"
 That was the signal for little re-
 union of their own, and the proposition
 was made that they hire hack and go
 out to see the spot again. It was only a few miles out and as soon as they had concluded a bargain with a hack
 man they made a start. When they reached the ground, however. they found everything changed. the trees
 cut away and the whole place under cultivation. They managed to find an
 old stump, however, and united in de- claring it the remains of the 'big pine tree, but there was still some doubt about the matter, and they decided to apply to the occupant of a big old house short distance away for in formation. They found it occupied by handsome maiden lady of forty or thereabouts, who blushingly con-
 fessed to having lived there as little
 girl during the war, and told them
 what she could about it. But the cap
 tain seemed fascinated by the spot. and
 returned to it more than once before
 the reunion closed. Then he stayed
 over after everybody else had gone
 and in the end came away with prom
 ise from the maiden lady. A short
 time ago he returned and married her,
 and now lives on the identical farm
 where he was wounded, and in sight of
 the big pine stump, few hundred
 yards back from the Darbytoyn road
 Charleston News and Courier.