Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-04-20
SOLDIERS AT HOME.
THEY TELL some INTERESTING
ANECDOTES Of THE WAR.
How the Boys of Both Armies whiIed
Away Life in Camp-Foraging Ex-
periences, nresome Marches-ThriI-
ling Scenes ON the BattIefseia.

Whlie pursuing Cne enemy, boy or
years old, lost or deserted by his pa
rents The child was brought before
Gen. Bernadotte, who ordered that dill
gent search should be made amoag the
neighboring villages and farm houses
for some trace Of its parents
No relatives coming forward to claim
this waif OF war, however, Bernadotte
placed him in charge of one of his vi
wanderers, and soan~the little fellow
became the pet of the army Napoleon,
resting for the first time in days, at the
castle of Baron Won Kaunitz, heard of
the boy, and commanded that he should
be brought before him. The result was
that the great Emperor practically
adopted johann for the child was
just able 10 lisp that his name was 10
hann, without casting any further light
upon his identity.
Napoleon conferred upon him the full
name of Jean de Laguerre. or John OF
the War" aud Jean was sent to Paris
20 be educated When the Emperor
was exiled to Elba, Gen. Bernadotte,
who had In the meantime been elected
King Of Sweden, brought Jean de La.
gslerre TO Stockholm and gave him
commission in the army He eventual
~ became Swedish minister to Ger
many and count of Sweden. The
family which he founded is still well
known in Scandinavia, but Jean de La
guerre never succeeded In discovering
who his parents were or how he came
TO be left behind on the field of Austen
litz
Such discoveries Of babies amid the
means uncommon. During the Amer
lean civil war notable instance oc-
Cured. A baby. beautifully dressed,
was found by the Confederate troops
In the debatahle region along the Po-
tomac during the heat OF the strife.
( There was nothing to identify the In
FAINT or TO tell the side to which its
parents had belonged Eventually n
Confederate soldier obtained leave to
adopt the girl-for a girl II happened
she was sent, by means of II mule
transport corps, to his wife's home, in
| Georgia. After the war advertise
| ments were inserted in northern and
southern newspapers regarding the
child, but nobody came forward 10
claim her. She grew up into n hand
some and clever woman and, few
years ago, married Thomas Il. Watson,
of Georgia, who was the<Populist can
didate for the Vice Presidency in the
last election. Mrs Watson believes
that her parents were Confederate
sympathIzers and that they persisted
during the war.
In the revolution somewhat similar
by the British under Col Tarleton nor
conld It's identity he discovered 1t was
brought up by family named Gibbs,
and rose to fame as Lieut.. Col Pen
! wick.
A baby was found ON the battlefield
] OF Waterloo, but in this case the child's
| father and mother were known. The
/ mother had died few days before I'm
/ Brussels, while the father, a soldier OF
/ the S7th Cameron Highlanders, fell In
! the great fight, Little Donald Gamer
/ on managed to escape from the trans
/ port wagon, where he had been slowed
! and had strayed into serious danger
/ before he was noticed and caught by
! an officer in an Irish regiment Whcth-
/ er the terrors of Waterloo made an
evil impression upon little Donald or
not, he steadfastly refused TO enlist,
although his ancestors for generations
had been soldiers. Instead, he became
/ a guard" on the London & Northwest
ern railroad, and died a member Of the
Peace Society, in Birmingham
Two years ago Russian officer Of
good family was married in ST. Peters
burg to young lady whose parents
nobody knew, but who had no less
than 800 foster fathers. Her foster
fathers we're the soldiers OF fegi-
ment which had found her as n baby
lying, Abandoned by her relatives, on
the road from Pleyna to Constantine
pie The soldiers put together hand
some purse for the young brides dow
ry.