The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-04-26
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that General Oglesby of Illinois was SO
badly wounded that it was thought for
some time he would not recover. The
victory was so important that Presi-
dent Lincoln, as soon as he learned the
result, wrote General Grant one Of
those uplifting. encouraging letters Of
honest congratulatiOn.
garded the victory at Corinth as the
turning point in his favor; and he al
ways keenly appreciated what General
Hamilton. his West Point classmate,
did for him in that battle. While Ham
ilton's guest ut Milwaukee during re-
union he spoke of his Indebtedness to
him for COrinth"-J. A. Watrous, In
Chicago Times-Herald.
An Affecting Story.
Perhaps the most touching incident
arising In connection with the war that
| row recall came to my notice on
railway train which also bore as q pas
seneer Il. very pretty young wife Of a
soldier, who by daring bravery had Sc
cured promotion from the ranks to q
Confederate captaincy, says a writer
in the Springfield Republican. The wife
was a Pennsylvania lady whom he had
met while visiting in the North, had
married and taken to his Southern
home just before the breaking out Of
the war. He was one Of the first to en-
list in the Confederate army; and to
devote himself more completely to the
cause he sent his wife. at the first boom
Of the guns at Fort Sumter. back to her
parents in Pennsylvania, to remain till
the great struggle was ended.
Now, in 1864, five years after the sep
aration, she was on her way south to
rejOin her husband and place In his
arms their 4-year-old daughter, whom
he had never seen. 1t was not long be-
fore all the passengers on our car knew
the story, and there was not a man
among us who did not feel a tenderness
for and protecting interest in both
There never was a woman whose heart
was so full Of love and joy. She could
do nothing but talk Of the captain, and
wonder if he had changed so that she
could not recognize him, or IL he would
not be able to recognize her. Then she
would fall TO wondering il he would
know his little daughter il he weuld
meet her i'm the street by her reDem-
blance to himself, which. as he had
never set eyes on her, did not seem
probable. Throughout that long days
ride we all entered heartily into that
dear little. wOman's hopes. fears. doubts
and joys, and shared them to such an
extent that We were quite as anxious
to see the captain as she was
We reached our journeys end and
before the train had fairly stopped a
tall, elegantly proportiOned fellow Of q
came bounding into the car. The little
woman gave such scream Of joy as I
can never forget, and in less time than
I can tell it, was standing in the car
aisle clasped in the young soldiers man
ly arms, and tears of joy unutterabIe
coCrsed down two beautiful young
faces as their lips met. For my own
part, my own eyes were so full of blind
ing moisture that / could see nothing
when the proud and happy young wife
and mother led her husband for the
first time to the place where their little
child lay sleeping.
The Fence Went Down,
ION one occasion" says an Illinois
volunteer, Forces brigade, with the
Twentieth Illinois in advance, was sent
to destroy a bridge. We struck sud-
denly brigade Of Confederate cavalry
at breakfast and we charged on them
in way TO stampede the whole COM
mand. The story Of that engagement
is told very graphically in the history
of the war, but there is one incident
that is not touched upon. As We went
charging forward in line We swept
down on the residence of an old fellow,
who was very proud of his white house
and his picket fence that covered the
front Of the regiment.
'.As we swept forward the old gentle
man came out on his porch. and, throw
ing up his hands, shouted. Don't spoil
my fence The answer was that as
the line struck it the fence went down
its full length, with a crash, and the
boys swept on, except one sergeant,
who stumbled over scared turkey,
and who caught 1t up hastily, threw IL
under the fallen fence, and rushed on
with his command. After the engage
ment and after the Confederates had
away, the sergeant came back
to where he had left the turkey. lifted
the fence. took possession Of it, and
marched off,
THE Confederate eavalrymen were
lust ready to eat breakfast when We
opened on them with furious fire.
They left their breakfast spread out
on fence rails. on logs, and on the
ground. and after We had driven them
off our men sat down and ate the break
fast themselves. the sergeant who had
gone back for his turkey losing his
share. 1 remember more about that
turkey and that breakfast than l do
about the destruction of the bridge. al
though the work there was done most
vely."-Chicago Inter Ocean,
weldinE-Table Flag at Pensacola
On the night of the arrival of Union
troops at Pensacola. two or three Of the
private soldiers were taking a stroll.
and during their walk were met by a
yery fine-lOOking lady. who immediate
Iv grasped one of the party by the
hand. and seemed SO OverjOyed that for
4 moment she could say nothing At
last she told them how happy she was
,t their arrival, and that she had long
prayed for the coming of that day:
then, taking a small silk American flag
from her bosom. she presented it to
,ne of them, saying, For nine months
have carried this flag hidden on my
person. praying that an opportunity
ike this would present itself. that |
might offer it to Il Union soldier This