The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-14

window. | threw my arms up over my
head and clasped my fingers under the
windowsil outside The doctor took hold
of my ankle, put one foot against the end
of my bunk and one pull brought the
bones together. The pain was intense.
'On the night of the 23d, by deccrving
one of the nurses | obtained a second
dose of morphine and spent one night in
delightful comfort, conscious of everything
about me, but absolutely devoid of pain
Mr. Chase and scores of other wounded
were moved on a train of flatcars to Aqua
Creek during a thunder shower, blankets
being the only covering and from there
taken by steamboat to Alexandria The
handling in the process of transferring
him had broken the leg once more He
was taken on a stretcher from the boat
to the Mansion House hospital and there
received his first bath and change of cloth
ing and was placed in real bed. During
the 21-days journey from the battlefield
his leg had been broken and reset four
times and much of the time the bones
were out of place.
About the middle of July large abcess
formed near the wound The surgeon
thought a piece of loose bone was the
trouble, but found a piece of bullet. This
he has preserved, he has three of the
| bullets that hit him, one in two pieces
Late in September he was removed to
| the hospital on what are now the fair
grounds in Brattleboro. He had not been
on crutches long and the long journey
| caused the wounded limb to swell to ex-
| ceptional size. He remained in the hos
| pital here until May Is, 1864, when he
received his discharge. Ills leg was two
and one-half inches short and for II years
| there was an oper wound in the leg. 1t
| Io- haH haf III,
| Gale and DR. c. A. Gray performed an.
other operation and removed loose piece
of bone In February, 1902, DR.. C. \.
/ Gray and George E. Greene operated
again and removed a tibrous tumor caused
by the wound. tie says that after all oil
his pain and trouble he has a leg that
| serves him well, and he has never seen
| the day when he wished it had been am
putated.
Mr.. Chase entered Leland and Gray
seminary in Townshcnd in September
1865, and in the spring of 1867 went tc
| Burnham's American business college il
Springfield, Mass, graduating IN Decem
Der He came to Brattleboro in 1865 and
has lived here since He worked for one
year in machine shop and three years
| in the Estey organ shops. Tnlrty -sever
lNCaIs ago he began market gardening
making speciality of tomato plu,tS. H,
was the pioneer III this section in Z or
ing dandeions for the local market ana
growing the seed for seedmen. He fur
nished the government at Washington
with 1900 packages of seed III one OF
der. In recent years, owing to declining
health he has not been so actively en-
gagged in gardening
He married in Bratteboro. June II
1868, Miss Fannie A. Howard of ia
maica. Three children born to them die
IN infancy. Mrs. Chase died Sept -
1901. He married in Brattleboro, Oct. y
1903, Mrs Julia +. Jillson Belknap, for
merry of Dummerston, who is living.
In 1891 Mr.. Chase wrote history o
Company /, ID Vermont regiment, Civ
ing a condensed history of every man VIII,
had been member of the company. Ii
the fall of 1865, soon after Sedgwicl
post. c. \. r., was organized. he ioinet
the post, and is now its oldest member
He was its commander in 1896. He wa
one of the delegates to the National en-
Ecampment in st. Paul in 1896. Mr.. Chase
is member OF Columbian lodge, I an,
: A. NJ Fort Dummer chapter, r. 4 NJ.
Connecticut Valley council r. and s NJ.
and the First Baptist Church. His hom
is at 10 Chestnut street, i'll a house whel
he built in 1880.