The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-10-06

get all my papers back, unit don't forget de
picture vhatefer you do
O'Neil started off 10 carry ont Karl's
wishes. Under a neighhoring peach tree he
found fine-lOOkino young rebel making
much cutlery over bullet wound that had
smashed the bones Of one Of his legs. He
bit his lip when O'Neil communicated his
message, and said
30, | expect nothing else than robbery.
since I've fallen into the hands Of Yankees ~
'Oi'd give months pay to have you
spake that way 10 me il We wuz unhurt, -
said O'Neil tempestuoasly, and without
more ado he rans9ckel the rebels pockets
taking hack all of Karl's effects, and every
other fragment OF paper that he could End
/ there. lie drew the rebels purse out and
then handed it back to him contemptuouSly.
"Opll do We a good turn for all yer in
science" he said first, by gettin' We the
drink of water that we've been shontin' that
yer dyin' for and next by sayin' that We are
sent lack 10 the rare, where the Surgeons
can attend TO you.
When he handed the recovered papers to
| Karl the latter ran them over to see if they
were all there, and then said in a tone of ex-
treme surprise:
Why, here's another one-a new letter
ningham Atherton. of the 18th NJ S."
Such was his eagerness for more tidings
! from his beloved that for the moment he for
got all about his own wants and troubles -
forgot all about the battle whose angry roar
was now dying away in the distance forgot
all about everything save her TO whom his
| heart was constantly turning. Tearing open
the letter, he read it with mounting color,
and when he had done, passed it to Walter,
who read:
COUSIN LETITIA's,
MEMPHIS, TENN, March g, 1862 !
DEAR COUSIN RANDoLpH:
/ had such an adventure since I las wrote
Won. You will remember that in my last letter
/ promised to go down TO Clarksvllc Il visit
with Cousin julie, OSfcnsbly to sec Aunt So
pbronia and her people, but Te1iiy 10 get c1,tcs
| tn see you. When we came near Clark5villc,
Oh the railroad. they trio to brighten from
going in with Series about the Yankees bur
Cousin julie and ] made mp our minds to ~
ahead and go ahead we did / wasn't a-gong
/ 10 lose my chance of ceng D0u. and | had
heard too many false alarm about the Yankees
I 10 pay much attention to ia scare. But this
time IL turned ont to be only too true. When the
train came IN o the depot a rerB nice Appearing
young gentleman, with light hair and pleasant
blue eyes, stepped up ana spoke tous. Though
| he was dressed in blue c,otucs and talked very
dfferen from our people il never once. oc-
CURED to me thst he could b Il horrid Yankee
But his manners grew stranger every minute
! and at last / asked him right ont who he was
hGd the audaciiy 10 confess that h Il Liz
/ coin Stare
/ Cousin julie and were both 50 startled that
we screamed and almost tainted, for which /
| ann usrD sorry, for If had kept my senses |
would have talked Ia the hirBling as a true
Southern girl should talk to the enemies of her
/ country, and might have said something
l that would have ode him ashamed of the
! d@'cSt'ud5 work he is engages in, and per-
! haps convert, him into one Of our friends
! Bat when we recovered ourselves VIC found
That the AbGliti0h MERCURY had sunk away.
I lie did nos dare stay and face Us after we had
/ discovered his true character. and he has no
doubt already begun 10 desptss himself for the
/ part he IS taking i'll cndc..yOring TO subdue a
pf,wl ana re people should just IKE to set
I my eyes Oh him again.
As soon as we could get away. Cousin julie
ana went back tn Nashville, only TO lind that
/ the city had been evacuated py our trooDs and
| WAS in possession Of tie Eessi IN hiTsIinqs IL
mortified me 50 that hardly wanted 10 live any
! iohrcf il our men are going 10 let the Lincoln
| ittgJsT i0CerS invade in That way
and Cousin jules husband was inst too dis
gushing Tor anything. ] wrote YOU about how
dUJW dIirG0tts he pretended t. be To 90 to he
front and ght the Ab,'Hi5n ma lSiis lie
changed bis tune altogctnt aft, ! til: Lincoln
| ties came Into Nashville. and he then began TO
lament " the folly of uur h0tieadcd leaders in
p.uH%lng tlc SOHth into "A terrible war - d
yot ever hcar OF anything so dLDfia from a man
Ginning to be 4 Southern ;scntlcIn H. and CON
ncct"d with O9a of tire very first FAM les OF the
Souti, as everybody admits ours to be? | al n
tfFH'e Gilarfel with hiDl, ia which ! told my
opinion OF Rim with mo~c trJniluess than cout-
t"sy, ana II ended by ny picking my trunk and
| leaving the house rs soon rs could for this
pe.ace, whore arrived day before yesterday,
after Il terrible tire getting through the lines,
which viii tell you about in my next
Your cousin,
ARTEMIsIA MARIA SIMPKINs
II , i have changed my mind about that pct
Yankee for the house. You need not FRY TO ret
me one. I'm afraid he might become trouble.
some "A. Ms.