The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-18
CUPID SHOT THROUGH
How Love Match Was Broken
Off by Parents.
BECAUSE OF OLD WOUNDS
Case of Miss Sartosis and
John w. Wright
BECAUSE OF OLD WOUNDS

! w. NEgdt, Flfth regiment, United state
infantry. 1 may add further that l an
not engaged to any one else"
So speaks Miss Rosemary Sartoris, tn,
granddaughter Of General L. S. Grant
from her summer home. Coburg, Ontario
Canada, says a correspondent for th'
New York World.
Miss Sartoris is an acquaintance O
| mine but the report that We are engaged
to be married is without foundation.
am at loss to understand this unbound
| ed report Marriage, at least for the pres
ent. has been furtherest from my thought
am not engaged TO anyone and have III
| such present intention
| So adds Lieutenant John W. Wright
| Fifth United States infantry, now sta
toned at Plattsburg Barracks y. J., aft
er three arduous years in the Philippines
Thus ends the chapter for all time.
Miss Sartoris will never be Mrs. Wright
| Lovers once. the two young people have
agreed to disagree. Any Of their mutual
| friends will tell you that once they wer;
| engaged Now in cold and formal sen
fences they proclaim eac hother as mere
| acquaintance and authoritatively deny
! that such q thing as love or marriage
ever entered lheir headS.
| II the truth must be told, blood has
proved thicker than water.
| Their intimates know the real reason
| why these two extremely agreeable and
wefl-born young people have decided to
cast their lots apart. II was no lovers
quarrel Their acquaintance, friendship
and love opened out gradually like the
| warm sunshine OF early June.
| Isn't it beautiful asked their many
! friends, noting how smoothly their court
! shi pran
/ The young people thought so. too. To
those who held their confidence they told
! their hopes and fears. The engagement
| was to be a long one. because Lieutenant
/ Wright was too busy serving his country
/ in the Philippines TO have time or oppor-
! tunity to come back to the United States
/ for marriage and the honeymoon. But
/ just as soon as the Fifth infantry got the
| long-looked-for orders to come home for
precious three years in Gods ccun-
| try" as every American soldier calls the
| land OF his birth, there would be a for
NAL announcement. brilliant wedding
and then-bliss somewhere.
But something happened.
why has this romance of North and
Sout hturned out differently from those
in plays ana novels? their friends began
to ask. Have the rancors of forty years
ago lived in the descendants of the men
who fought across the border from 81
to 60? Has it at last proved impossible
for Northern girl 10 marry a Southern
generals son? Has the granddaughter of
General Grant, Union victor, found her
self unable to marry the son Of his van
pushed foe. General Marcus Wright?
These are the questions that people who
know the Grants and the Sartorises and
the Wrights are asking themselves.
Is Shiloh too yivide yet in the memory
of the Wrights? Is Bull Run too sad a
story yet for the Grants? So ii seems. of
you are to believe the chums OF the two
young people. They are frank in de-
clearing that both the young man and
the girl have long long had nidca Of
what happened in the days before they
were born
TIE Grants are Northerners. the
Wrights are southerners. There is your
story IN a nutshell. General Grant com
manded the Union forces in that r0ut at
Shiloh, where Beauregard and Breckin-
ridge exhausted every bit OF their mill
tary genius 10 prevent the Confederate de-
feat.
One man saved the day-Colonel Mar
Gus J. Wright, commander of a Tennes-
see regiment. His resistance was stub
born brave and keen. Ii saved the rest
OF the column. The Confederate hosts
were rallied and marched away, beaten
but not dIsgraced.
who was that man who held us
back?" asked General Grant OF one OF his
STAFF.
"A Tennessee colonel-wright's his
name" replied the officer addressed
Lock out for him" laughed General
Grant; you're apt to meet that fellow
as a general next time
And they did.
Wright was brigadier at Chickamau-
ga. and General Thomas. the Rock %
Chicamauga." found in him one Of his
worthiest opponents. In fact. General
Wright came pretty near tn making the
Battle Above the Clouds a Confederate
victory.
Grant and Wright both hved-Grant to
see his beautiful daughter. Nellie Grant.
married in the White House to AIsernou
SafIoFlSs NIlSHA - sc MS SUI i.tAflih
the traditions OF the family. and fan IN
love with Nellie Grants daughter.
To Nellie Grant Ssrtoris came three
children-AigeTnon. Jr.. Vivian and Rose
mary Algernon had a chum at school
little Johnny Wright. He met Rosemary
one day Of course By chance. The young
sters became immensely fond OF one an
other
True. little Miss Rosemary called him
a naughty little rebel and he retorted in
kind Wasn't IL chance for your up-to-
date playwright 70 weave cut another
plot'
Johnnie Wright grew older and more
poKte: Miss Sartoris waved beautiful ard
not so hasfy in epithet she went 20
convent abroad and the Wright boy want
10 William and Mar college. Va. was
graduated studied law and settled n
Washington 20 Pvsetiss-
But just then tocsin sounded to arms (
We were a war with Spain Young
wright remembered his heritage. When
soldiers wese needed be came forward 10
fight for tie flag whica his father lad
SO honorahiy and - ably he
became first lieutenant 81 fhs IrurrUnss
and finally captain He 6ld - well that
when ot5cers ~ere needed IN ire regular
service he was one u the FIRST appointed +
gaining his second fseutsns1-v IN the T
FIFTH infantry on April u 80 Two
years later found him FIRST lieutenant .
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