Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-12-27
THE BATTLE : FIELDS.
OLD SOLDIERS TALK OVER ARMY
EXPERIENCES
dents of the Late War. and in "a
Graphic and Interesting Manner
Tell OF Camp, March and Battle.

| UFApn1C ana interesting manner
! Tell OF Camp, March and Battle.
After the great French victory of
Austerlitz, Napoleon's troop found, while
pursuing the enemy, boy 2 or 3 years
! old, lost or deserted by his parents.
The child was brought before General
Bernadotte, who ordered that diligent
search should be made among the
neighboring villages and farmhouses
for some trace of its parents.
! No relatives coming forward to claim
this wait Of war, however, Bernadotte
! placed him in charge of one of his vi
vandiers and soon the little fellow be-
came 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 re-
suit was that the great emperor prac-
child was just able to lisp that his
name was Johann, without casting any
further light upon his identity.
Napoleon conferred upon him the full
name Of Jean de Laguerre, or John Of
! the War;" and Jean was sent to Paris
to be educated. When the emperor was
exiled to Elba, General Bernadotte,
who had in the meantime been elected
King Of Sweden, brought Jean de La
guerre to Stockholm and gave him a
commission in the army. He event
ually became Swedish Minister to Ger
many and a Count Of Sweden. The
| family which he founded is still we'll
! 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 Auster-
litz.
| Such discoveries of babies amid the
scenes Of war and death are by no
means uncommon. During the Ameri-
can civil war a notable instance oc-
CURED. A baby, beautifully dressed,
was found by the Confederate troops
in the debatable 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
Confederate soldier obtained leave to
adopt the girl-for q girl it happened
to be-and at the earliest opportunity
she was sent, by means of mule trans
port corps, to his wife's home in Geor
gia. After the war, advertisements
were inserted in northern and south
ern newspapers regarding the child,
but nobody came forward to claim her.
She grew up into a handsome and
clever woman and, a few years ago,
married Thomas e. Watson, Of Geor-
gia, who was the Populist candidate for
the 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
incident occurred. A baby was found
by the British under Colonel Tarleton,
nor could it's identity be discovered. 1t
was brought up by a family named
Gibbs, and rose to fame as Lieutenant
Colonel Penwick.
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 a few days before in
Brussels, while the father, a soldier Of
the EightySeventh Cameron High
landers, fell in the great fight. Little
Donald Cameron managed to escape
from the transport wagon, where he
had been slowed, and had strayed In
to serious danger before he was no.
ticed and caught by an officer in an
Irish regiment.
Whether the terrorso of Waterloo made
an evil impression upon little Donald
although his ancestors for generations
had been soldiers. Instead, he became
guard on the London and North
western railroad, and died a member
Of the Peace Society, in Birmingham,
last summer.
Two years ago a Russian officer Of
good family was married in st. Peters
burg to young lady whose parents no
body knew, but who had no less than
900 foster fathers. Her foster fathers
were the soldiers of regiment which
had found her as baby lying, aban-
doned by her relatives, on the road
rom Plevna to Constantinople. The
soldiers put together handsome purse
for the young brides dowry.
To come down to our own times, a
little Afridi baby was found by the
British troops in Northern India, after
a skirmish with the hill tribes. The
British did not wish to leave the little
fellow on the field of battle, and took
him with them on the march. Later
on. when returning they left it on the
exact spot where it had been original
ly found. They were rewarded for
their pains. After an hour or two had
passed by, band Of Afridis descended
from the hills and carried the baby
away. Probably the dusky urchin, in