Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-04-07
SOLDIERS STORIES.
ENTERTAINING "REMINISCENCES
OF THE WAR.
Graphic Account of Stirring Scenes
Witnessed ON the Battlefield and in
Camp-Ncterans of the Rebellion Re-
cite Experiences of Thrilling Nature.

that came to him six months late? In
| the course Of one Of the most active
| campaigns Of he war Mrs. Fowler, at
her nome in Wisconsin. was Frustrated
with a dangerous illness Her phySl-
| elan felt in duty bound 10 tell Mrs.
| FoWlerS mother that the chances were
against the recovery Of her daughter,
and advised that letter ~ written
AT once 10 Captain Fowler, asking him
TO come home.
At So happened that this very trying
interview was held in a room adjoining
that occupied by the sick woman ana
| at 4 t&hle in corner of the room
entirely hoyoud her line of vision. The
| door between the rooms was open, how
ever, ANA the mirror on bureau in
/ the room in which the doctor and the
mother sat was in just the right posi-
| tion 10 reflect their figures into a mir
ror in Mrs. Fowler's room, in which
! the invalid could look without chang.
| ing her position
while The doctor aud the mother
talked ia excited manner about the pa
! tient IN the next room, the patient
saw their faces and every movement
! reflected in the mirror. She knew by
| the expression ON her mothers face
! that the two were talking of her case,
| ana she OWNED that the doctor was
insisting that Captain Fowler be sent
! for. Then She saw her mother take
pen and paper and write a letter. seal
! 1t. and address it, BEFORE the letter
was mailed Mrs. +. told her mother
that she know what the doctor har
advised aud knew that letter had
/ been written to her husband advising
| him to come home
She insisted that the letter must not
| be sent, because Nh Fowler could not
come home at such Il time, and the only
effect Of the letter would he to make
! him miserable She was so earnest
about the matter that the mother de
! stroyed the letter she had written and
/ promised not 10 write another. she
told the doctor, however, Of her expert
ence, and he wrote To Captain Fowler
/ himself. That letter was in mail that
was captured by John Morgan, and in
! due time was recapturcd by the Union
cavalry. 1t did not reach Fowler an
! til six months after it was written, and
then his wife had entirely recovered
from her illness and there was no cause
for uneasiness.
'rhat reminds me, SAID the Ser
geant, of an experience in hospital at
Nashville after Shiloh. was in the
conyaleScent ward, recovering from a
wound, ana had become well acquant-
al with n jolly fellow from my own
county. one day while he was reading
the Nashville morning paper he cried
cat IN alarm. When went 10 him he
pointed. with wide ewes. to the list ~
deaths, and in it was his own name.
lie said that would scare his poor
mother to death, and was in great dis
! tress.
II advised him to w".te his mother
at once, which he proceeded to do In
! this wise: Dear Mother l take my
1 pen in haste to tell you that the state
mcnt published In tie Nashville papers
this morning tina; am dead is the
most scandalcuS lie you ever heard OF.
! Don't you believe word Of it. / am
/ alive and Kicking with one foot and
/ am well cared for 4 man vino knows
me well will swear that nm not dead,
aud | can get the affidavit Of the doe
{
/ tor il YOU want ii. But what's the use .
| any man says | am dead, bet him
! a hundred dollars | am not, and send
I your winning 10 me- Thirty years af-
! ter the war ! saw that letter in the
lands of the daughter Of the man who
| wrote IT, It had come down to her as
4 precious gift from her grandmOthcr -"
Speaking Of things happening aftcr
the war said f.. \. Gardner. Of Now
Hampton. Iowa, reminds me Of case
In point on tine Red River expedition
oar officers mess had some chickens
cooked. ready 70 eat, When the cook
went for some water the teams came
along ana one Of the tcam>tcry put the
chickens in his wagon and went ON
without remark. When the loss Of the
chickens was discovered the officers
ragged, but that wasn't The end Of the
story.
TWENTY-FIVE wears after tar war the
loamstor who stole thu cooked chickens
vas at Il 6. \. Il. camp fire ana heard
q comradc tell Of his bad Iur. i'm losing
chickens ready to eat through some
light fingered tcamStcr. He added that
II lie ever learned who the rascal was
mat stole his chickens he would choke
tlcm out Of him. While the tcainstrr
was thinking Of what ought to hc said
next, another comrHdc stood on bis fort
aud said 4 didn't steal the chickens.
but helped eat sEcm. ana ! am aeri,
to swear they were very good Eui 49,
~ choking them ont of anybody chat
ant he done. because, don't yYu see.
they were eaten twenty-five wars ag'5.'
While we we're IN The rear Of Weeks
'agg after orr tip to Jackson. the boys