The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-08-03

CIVIL War MEMORIES.
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Editor West Yirginian:
PrccIaiming myself veteran Of
the ciyil war only because T saw
much Of It's field and camp life. want
to tell you a little story that led upftc
a most touching reunion Of three Ma.
rion county veterans up at Mountain
Lake Park, Maryland, the other day
Throughout that war, my husband
was an oficial in the U. s. Quartermas:
ter,s Department, and wherever duty
called him, there was l.
Among a number of young Union
soldiers to whom l became a sort OF
big sister, was a tall, slender, smooth.
faced Virginia boy, whom ! first met
at Grafton, West Virginia, in $50. Lei
Ter on our Office force was ordered to
Gallipolls, Ohio, and when mustered
out in the summer of ga, this boy join
! ed us there, he and my husband work.
ling side by side in the same Office
and we we're members of the same
military family until the war closed.
Then the young soldier-clerk went
west ito grow up with the country
and we settled down in our home in
this city. He became lawyer, and
for years his professional duties have
often called him to Washington before
the Supreme Court Of the United
states and the departments. The
friendship of war times remains I'M
broken, and when his work permits
the diversion, he has always been a
welcome guest at our home.
That soldier boy is now Judge Hen
ry Clay McDougal, Of Kansas City, Mis-
souri,.
Back in the war times, l often heard
him speak of Captain Maulsby AMI
some years ago read a speech which
he made at a reunion of Maulsby's
Battery. From all this, knew tina,
the Judge and the Captain were bouud
together by the strongest ties Of com
radeship and friendship. So, when
the Judge, who was again at Washing
ton on legal business, came to my
home the other evening, with tele'
graphic invitation urging him to visit
Captain Maulsby at Mountain Lake
Park, and asked me to join him, |
readily consented, for he needed the
recreation and wanted It.
Being an old campaigner myself,
was soon ready, and together, we two
hiked off the next morning for the
mountains over the B. and O., riding
in a palace car, taking a superb lunch.
con in the dining car. "This is tri'
file different" quietly said the Judge
"from the way / travelled over the
same road in the war, for then we
rode in cattle cars and subsisted on
hard tack and fitch"
Arriving at Mountain Lake Park
we were warmly welcomed by Captain
Maulsby, who, during the three days
reunion, provided us with comfortable
quarters and abundant rations, to say
nothing of the delightful drives
through Oakland, Deer Park and the
adjacent mountains. And such re,
union! Present for duty: Captain
Thomas A. Maulsby, of Fairmont,
West Virginia, late Commander OF
Maulsby's famous battery; Private
Henry C. ATcDougal, late of Company
A, 9th West Virginia Infantry and
Captain Amos N. Prichard, late of 18th
West Virginia Infantry. All three
went into the Union Army early in
the Civil War; fought 1t out, suffered
all Its privations, but would do 1t all
over again to save the Union.
These meetings by the wayside are
becoming infrequent, for the boys Of
'G1 are fast falling in line for the last
roll call.
But those who stool shoulder to
shoulder in the ranks-who shared
the hardship and danger of march and
battlefeld-who Joined in the frollc
and hilarity of camp-life, and who
with honor and often with SCARED and
manned bodies, returned to the du.
ties of civil life, have one and all a
love for their comrades passing the
love Of woman"
Though the years have brought
gray hairs and cruel wounds still
ache, the three were once more boys
again, in spite 'of the fact that Cap
tain Prichard boasts of more than
four.score years to his credit and Cap.
tain Naulsby has passed the allotted
three-score years and ten, while Judge
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