Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-12-13
SOLDIERS AT HOME.
THEY TELL SOME INTERESTING
ANECDOTES OF THE WAR.
How the Boys of Both Armies whiIed
Awtly Life in Camp-Foraging Ex-
periences, Tiresome Marches-Th
ling Scenes on the Battlefield.


Some years ago, said the General. |
Il went down into Virginia on a mat I
ter of Importance to The government, /
and in the course Of events called on .
General Benjamin Stoddert Eweu, then .
president of William and Mary Col +
iege. Ewell had been opposed to Sc /
cession in 1861. but Went with his /
State and fought 10 the end. After /
the war he advocated the election of |
General Grant to the Presidency. and /
he and his brother. captured in the last !
year of the war 10y General Sheridan, /
were highly regarded by Grant.
Ewell had been president of VIII
liam and Mary College before the war.
and took up the work again ut the |
close of the war. ! was sure of n vel /
come from Ewell, but when l saw
that the faculty was largely composed !
OF wounded Coufede. ate officers | was
in doubt as to their feeling toward me. |
When we met at dinner Ewell intro
duced me to the professors as friend
from Pennsylvania, and one of the
professors said cheerly. L am very
glad to see you, sir | am part of
pennsylvania myself. | left the whole
of one leg at Gettysburg This was
an ice-breaker. and there was no trou-
BILE after that"
The case of the Ewell brothers."
said Comrade A. c. Dodds, was I'M
usual. They were on the same side,
and both won distinction. In a good
many cases, however, brothers in Vir-
ginia and Kentucky were on opposite
sides. In fact, the families in the
border States had stranger experiences
than those further South or further
North. There was one family living
on small farm in Kentucky In which
one of the sons and the father sympa-
thized with the South, while the moth
er and the other son as strongly sym
pathized with the North. In the spring
OF 1868 the Southern sympathizer and
number of his young friends decided
TO go South and enlist
They were to start for Tennessee
on Sunday morning, He said moth
ing TO his parents until after he had
eaten his breakfast that morning. when
he told them of his plans. His broth
err, the Northern sympathlzer, jumped
TO his feet and said. If you go TO the
Confederate army | will go to the
Union army After some heated dis
cussion, but without any further prep
aration, the brothers said good-by to
their parents, one starting North and
the other South. They went away on
hot impulse. leaving the father and
mother in great distress of mind, the
more so because the mother sympa-
thiZed with one son and the father
with the other
I'm one of the battles of 1868 the
Southern sympathiZcr was taken pris-
oner and sent TO Camp Douglas, near
Chicago The morning after his ar
rival he was in the barracks wash
room getting ready for breakfast,
when looking into his small pocket
mirror while he combed his hair, he
saw some one pass behind him, and
in the momentary reflection in the
mirror, the face seemed familiar, He
turned quickly and stood face TO face
with his brother, who was one of the
Union soldiers doing guard duty at
the camp. AS prisoner and guard, the
brothers. strangely enough. became
friends
"In September, 1864, while Grants
army was operating in front of Pc
tersburg, Va, a colored regiment on
duty in the rife pits took a number Of
Confederate prisoners, all of whom
were ordered 10 City Point. The pris
oners were brought down to the pom
toon bridge, across the Appomattox
river, to be put on board a steamer
and a detail of marines from one of
the gunboats was sent on shore to re-
ceive the prisoners from the colored |
guard. Among the marines was a man |
named Ed Coyle, who had shipped |
from somewhere on the coast Of Mas |
sachusetts.
"When the roll of prisoners was be |
ing called he was startled to hear
among the names that Of Frank Coyle. |
He waited TO see who would answer |
to that name. and in the man who re- |
sponded he found his own brother. |
This brother had not been heard from |
for several years. He had gone South. |
and had been counted as dead by the |
family. The marine who was to act |
as guard made himself known, but |
he was able TO do very little for his |
rebel brother. The latter went for |
ward to prison, and did not see his |
Massachusetts relative again until af- |
ter the close Of the war. Chicago In. |
ter-Ocean.
ExtOrtin2 Pastry.
Five of US were sent out one day on |