The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-03-13
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he refrained all through It from claim
ing to have done anything very brave.
After driving about the field we
stopped at q farmhouse not far from
it for dinner. A woman who served
us seemed INTERESTED in our chat about
what we had seen and, being asked
whether she had lived there when the
battle took place, said:
YES, I lived here, and wish I
hadn't, for there is matter connected
regret to me ever since and always will
Philadelphia to be in the country for
her health. She boarded with my
mother, who lived in house where
part Of the fighting took place. We
country people didn't know that there
was to be a battle here and were not
prepared for it. There were lots Of
soldiers gathering here, and we were
all much excited over their coming.
This lady from Philadelphia had a
baby and had brought a nurse with
her to take care Of it. The nurse was
taken sick and went home. Then the
lady hired me to take care of her
child.
lone morning wanted to go to see
my aunt, who lived across the field
where the soldiers were to fight, and
thought it a good plan to take the
baby with me in her little carriage.
So put the bottle in her mouth and
started. I was passing along quietly
when I heard lot of firing about me,
and it seemed as if a dozen thunder
storms had broken out at once. I was
scared to DEATH"
The woman seemed to live again in
the scene she was describing and
trembled.
Then I did what I have regretted
all the rest Of my life. I deserted the
baby, leaving the little thing sucking
at its bottle in it's carriage, and ran
away and hid in the first house came
to. The child was probably killed, for
nobody has ever heard Of it since.''
II can assure you," said our guide,
that it wasn't killed, for our regiment
moved through the trees when you left
it. My captain detailed me to take
charge of it. I never have since liked
to talk about my part in the battle of
Gettysburgh-at least, to mention this
incident-for when say I was wheel
ing a baby carriage everybody laughs"
For lands sake!" exclaimed the
woman. What did you do with it,"
Put it in a. barn till the battle was
over, then found it safe and sound,
but bawling for some milk. Before
the next days fight came on I had
provided for it temporarily, and, after
the fighting was over and the Confed-
crates had withdrawn, my captain sent
me off to hunt for it's mother I
couldn't find her, and I was semitic
Harrisburgh with it, where I chucked
it in an orphan asylum"
II am that baby!'' I exclaimed.
much excited and, not realizing what
I was doing, threw myself into the
arms of the man that had rescued
me.
There was a commotion at this, and
then the rest of the matter~cam out
The woman who had been my nurse
remembered my mothers name
Chenowith-and I had been baptized
Harriet. This corresponded with the
initials III. CO. embroidered on my
baby clothes.
What remains I will tell in few
words. My mother and father were
both living, and I was reunited with
them and several brother and sisters.
They were overjoyed at finding me
and lavished every blessing on me that
they could think of. One day the
soldier who had rescued me asked me,
where do I come in?" and when I
inquired of him where he wished to
come in he said, Flinders are Keep
ers,' which, being Interpreted, meant
that he wanted me for himself. He
didn't have any trouble getting me.
after our marriage we went to the
asylum where he had left me more
than twenty years before and exam
ined the record. There L saw that
the first letter to the name had been
given was intended for G. I had
been called Getty, from the battle of
Gettysburgh, but the name was soon
changed to Betty.
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