Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-02-24
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Editor Register-Many OF us have
lately enjoyed reading 1.-The Women
of the South in War Times" and Mrs
Duckett's narrative was especially in
teresting to me becausee | knew her
sister, Mrs. Robert Bowie, Of An
napolis, who was Julia Waring before
her marriage to her cousin Robert
Bowie She told me Of her arrest dur
ing the war. and that she was taken
to Baltimore and confined in hotel
for sever. lays. but always added:
"W lr tines were TOO sad to talk Of"
He fathers home in Maryland was
called "Ba.d Eagle" from the num-
Der Of eagles that made their nests in
the tall trees The Waring family FED
these wild birds and protected them
carefully from hunters guns.
After the Civil War ended, and some
of the family OF Colonel Waring re-
turned TO the old home on the Patuxent
river, they learned that the eagles had
all left "Bald Eagle" while the Yankees
had possession Of it, and returned when
its owners came back. Mrs. Bowie
said that two eaglettes fell from the
nest during the war, and she carried
them to the house, nursing them back
to strength with great interest, and
during that winter she made great
pets of these wild birds. In the spring
she was leaving her old home forever
and what to do with the young eagles
she could not tell. She at last offered
them to the Geological Gardens in
Baltimore. in the Druid Hill Park.
Many years afterwards, when she
was grandmother, she was visiting il
Washington, and took her small grand
son out to the Geological Gardens. AS
they walked about the grounds they
heard the noise of an eagle up in some
tail trees. The superintendent told
them it was an old eagle, so wild and
fierce that it would not let anyone come
near it. She asked the man where
they had gotten il, and he replied from
Baltimore. He said there had been two
sent over from Baltimore. but one had
died. They had become So unman-
aCable that the park superintendent
/ had asked them in Washington if they
would take them. Mrs. Bowie said
she felt sure they were her little
cat lcttes, as she knew they lived to &c
very old, and also that she had heard
they had long memories. 1t was a
tradition in her family that these
eagles at "Bald Eagle" always knew a
Warnings Voice. She asked the man
to give her a piece Of meat to feed the
eagle, but he said it would be of no use
to call the eagle. However he got the
food, and Mrs. Bowie gave call she
had often used with the young eagles.
Much to the keepers establishment, the
eagle came down from the trees and
greedily ate the meat right beside her.
| Mrs. Duckett said that President
Lincoln directed that Patuxent farm
| be restored to Colonel Warinp and
what furniture they could swear to in a
warehouse at Alexandria," Mrs.
Bowie told me of this, and that the
furniture had to be identified in some
way. She said she went to the ware
house and saw handsome old desk of
her fathers but the guard demanded
some proof that it belonged to Colonel
Waring She told him there was a
secret drawer in it that she knew how
to find and in it were some legal pa
pers she described and some Mexican
coins. Touching the spring, the draw
er flew open, and there lay the papers
and Mexican money. The desk was
then given her to have removed to the
old home in Maryland. Mrs. Bowie
died about six years ago and An
napolis lost one of its most interesting
citizens.
MYNNA THRUSTON.