with him. In fact, the citadel of their affections invariably capitulated when he laid siege. upon his shoulder, and whose heaving bosom was beating against his own, knew nothing of that-she only knew, as she said, that in that great city, among strangers, without the Major her heart would break. The Major was introduced to the fair widow by the Captain in charge, and he had a soul to sympathize with her in her affliction, so to his special care was she How benevolent the Major's intentions assigned. It was soon a mutual discovery may have been can only be conjectured, that their tastes and sympathies were sim- for unlooked-for events will sometimes. ilar. Did he admire any particular scenery play the deuce with one's arrangements. along the shores ?-ditto, she. Together At least it was so in this case. The fact they would pass hours in some retired was, the wife of the Major learning of his place upon the guards of the boat, in arrival made inquiries, and ascertaining sweet interchange of thought and senti- that he had taken No. 1 resolved upon ment. a pleasant surprise for him, so with two He had never met one before for whom of the little majors in tow she proceeded he had formed an attachment so sincere, and she, from the moment when first introduced, felt that she saw in him the realization of her hopes. In him she saw the only one who should ever catch the untamed mustangs, and again bring joy to the ranch. Thus did this enamored pair pass the long hours of the journey. Arrived in New Orleans. Would the Major be so kind as to secure her rooms at the hotel, and to make some inquiry after her uncle, who resided somewhere in the city? Of course he would. Mine host of the St. Charles provided the proper apartments, and, the widow duly domiciled therein, the Major sallied forth to make inquiries after "our uncle," in which he was entirely unsuccessful, not being able to find any gentleman of that name. The widow felt sad-was disappointed. Her uncle was formerly a man of wealth and influence, and she had not calculated upon having any difficulty in finding him; but this cruel war had changed everything; and then the beautiful eyes of the fair and fascinating widow filled with tears. It grew rather embarrassing to the Major. He was expecting to meet his wife, who was waiting in the city for him, having come around via the Gulf. But the fair creature whose head was reclining to No. Passing an adjoining room she overheard the voice of the one sought for, and thinking there must be some mistake in the number of the room, and that where that familiar voice was heard must be the right one, she pushed open the door and entered. Whether the scene which met her eye was calculated to increase her faith in the constancy of her spouse, or otherwise, those who are able to judge must decide. It is known, however, that the Major's baggage was removed to another part of the house before many hours had expired, and that he was the recipient of a note, through the clerk of the house, to the following effect: 'DEAR MAJOR :-Having unexpectedly found my uncle, I will relieve you and yours from any further care upon my part, if you will be so kind as to settle the bill which the clerk will present to you. Adios. L. Letter of Sympathy from a Union Soldier to a Confederate Officer's Betrothed. It was in one of the skirmishes between the Fourteenth Army Corps under General Sherman, and the Confederate forces, that Lieutenant Ross, of Georgia, was wounded and captured. Grim War and the Innocents. Rev. Dr. Maginnis stated at the session of the Christian Commission in Saratoga, that he was at Easton, attending a Synod, when Harrisburg was in danger, and the people came rushing down to meet the common enemy. There he saw a compaHis wound ny marching resolutely along the street, soon proved fatal, but he was carefully and among the multitudes who gazed upon nursed to the last by Major Fitzgibbons, them as they passed was a little girl whose of the Fourteenth Michigan regiment. tender eye rested upon the forms of those At the request of the dying man, Major noble men with a strange earnestness. Fitzgibbons undertook to forward the perHe watched her. As the company came sonal effects of Ross to a young lady in by she clasped her little hands, and then Oxford, Georgia, to whom he was engaged began to shake and quiver, as she scanned to be married; and accompanied them by closely every soldier's face. Suddenly the following letter: she wrung her hands, and her childish CAMP 14TH MICH. VET. VOL. INF., voice broke out in faint agony-"That's him! that's him! That's papa! Papa! He's going! he's going!" and she bowed her head upon her bosom and wept. NEAR ATLANTA, GA., Aug. 8, 1864. Miss Emma Jane Kennon, Oxford, Ga.: Three Noble Union Girls. During the advance of Colonel Streight's ill-fated raid in the spring, a portion of his command had a heavy skirmish on the last day of April, near a place called Day's Gap. A Union soldier was killed in this skirmish, and as a matter of necessity, his body was left in possession of the foe. The latter, after stripping the corpse, buried it beside the road on the spot where he fell. They then drove a stake into the ground, evidently intending to have it pierce the body, and attached to it a placard, the blasphemy of which was most barbarous, and totally unfit to be recited. The Union people suppressed their indignation, for it would have been death to interfere. They did not, however, forget where the patriot was buried, and three young ladies, with their own hands, some time after, built a fence around the grave, removed the stake, and planted evergreens and flowers in attractive taste, to bloom and shed their fragrance over the resting place of the defender of his country. Honor to those noble girls! Bereaved Girl: With melancholy pleasure I herewith send to you the valuables and personal effects of the late Lieutenant Ross, Sixty-sixth Georgia. From his dying lips he told me he loved you above all else in the world, and committing these effects to my charge, his last sigh was turned into a prayer that I would, if possible, send you your likeness, which he carried next to and in his heart. The asperities that demagogues engender in the minds of those separated from the field of battle and the scenes of death— the unnatural bitterness of feeling that has seemingly soured the better natures of our countrymen and women in both extreme sections of our common country-finds neither home nor resting-place in the hearts of this army of ours, and I assure you that I took as tender and respectful hold and care of your betrothed as if he were my own comrade or brother. The innocence depicted in his fair and beautiful face-his heroic efforts at staying the retreat of his fleeing comrades, won my heart and assured him its sympathies and respect. With this also find his purse and papers, which, 'Vandal' though I am, I feel will be of greater value to you to get than sat said: isfaction to me to withhold. He was con- | She touched his pulse as the nurse had scious to the last, as I learned from the done. Not a word had been spoken; but officer who cared for him, and seemed only the sleeping boy opened his eyes and to deplore his death in parting from that heaven he left in you. Two other Confederate officers lay dead near him, but the necessities of the moment prevented the possibility of my delaying to find out anything in relation to them. my "That feels like mother's hand! Who is this beside me? It is my mother; turn up the gas and let me see my mother!” The two dear faces met in one long joyful sobbing embrace, and the fondness pent Praying that God will put it into the up in each heart sobbed and panted and hearts of your people to return to the alle- wept forth its expression. The tendergiance of your father's flag, under which loving but gallant fellow, just twenty-one, all sections prospered, and which only will his leg amputated on the last day of his prevent the further effusion of blood, and three years' service, underwent operation sincerely and from my heart condoling after operation, and at last, when death with you and his family in your bereave- drew nigh, and he was told by tearful ment, I am, sad girl, very respectfully, THOMAS C. FITZGIBBONS, Major 14th Mich. Vet. Vol. Inf., U. S. A. My Mother's Hand! friends that it only remained to make him comfortable, said, "he had looked death in the face too many times to be afraid now,” and died as heroically as did the noble men of the famed Cumberland. low both was "Our Darlings!" These tender mementoes of his name and children had been sent on to him by his attached wife, to cheer his heart in the far distant land to which the fortunes of war Affecting Mementoes of Gettysburg. In one of those fierce engagements Among the many sad relics of the batwhich took place near Mechanicsville be- tlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was tween the Confederate and Federal forces one which a soldier engaged in that dreadin the eventful month of May, a young ful fight picked up, namely, a small paLieutenant of a Rhode Island battery had per, which contained two separate locks his right foot so shattered by a fragment of hair attached thereto, directed to "Mr. of a shell that, on reaching Washington Wellerford," from Louisiana, by his wife, after one of those horrible ambulance in a beautiful handwriting. Below one rides, and a journey of a week's duration, lock was "Fanny Wellerford," below the he was obliged to undergo amputation other was "Richard Wellerford,”—and beof the leg. He telegraphed home, hundreds of miles away, that all was going well, and with a soldier's fortitude, composed himself to bear his sufferings alone. Unknown to him, however, his mother, one of those dear reserves of the army, had brought him; and probably he wore hastened up to join the main force. She the tender testimonials near his heart, reached the city at midnight, and the when the fatal missile separated him from nurses would have kept her from him un- those he loved in his far-off Southern til morning. One sat by his side fanning home. The tender relic of domestic love him as he slept, her hand on the feeble, went into the possession of strangers, fluctuating pulsations which foreboded sad while the husband and father rested beresults. But what woman's heart could neath the silent clods of a Northern valresist the pleading of a mother then? In ley,-his grave probably unmarked and the darkness, she was finally allowed to undistinguished from the hundreds around glide in and take the place at his side. him, who met their death on the bloody field of Gettysburg. His wife and chil-| As the last words faltered upon his tongue, his voice hushed in death. By the dim light of the stars I hastily scooped a shallow grave and buried him with his Pretty Widows and Imprisoned Lovers. A good looking young widow who "bossed" a sewing machine in Wheeling, Virginia, was in love with a notorious rebel bushwhacker who had committed several murders of Unionists, and was confined in the Wheeling jail. His name was George D-, a son of the notorious Dan D-, and the widow's name Mary B-. Mary was allowed to carry delicacies to George, until she was detected in attempting to pass something of a contraband nature through the bars of his cell, after which she was debarred by the jailor from the premises. One night, about ten o'clock, the jailor heard a noise on the outside of the southern wall of the prison, and going round there with a lantern, he discovered a parcel on the ground. While in the act of picking up the mysterious package, the widow B. alighted sock upon his back from the wall, which was twelve or fifteen feet high, and disputed his possession of the property. In the fall her righ. leg was broken just above the ankle, but she struggled manfully, and in the contest a bottle of nitric acid was broken, and the contents spilled upon the jailor and Mrs. B., both of whom were stained and burned. The valiant feminine finally sank exhausted, and was carried into the jail and placed under surgical treatment. Upon examining the parcel, the jailor found that it contained a bottle of chloroform, a bottle of nitric acid, a chisel, a box of steel pens, and two love letters from Mrs. Briggs, and copies of various newspapers. As descriptive of one of the letters, love is stated to be a word of hardly sufficient strength. The infatuated woman had climbed to the wall with a ladder, and was about to attach the package to a long pole and extend it to the window | were married. The bride was as beautiof her Dusky's' cell, when she dropped ful as the morning; her eyes like heaven's it, and was thus discovered. orbs. The husband was patriotic; he enlisted and went to war. A libertine from Chautaque county saw the beautiful wife, and exclaimed, "Ye gods, how beautiful!" He sought her society, and ostensibly won her confidence; she consented. He gave her ten fifty-dollar greenbacks to make necessary arrangements. She accepted. The hour was fixed upon. The villain went to his hotel to smoke the impatient hours away, when the following letter was put into his hands: "MR. have to inform you that Pathetic Offering of Genius to the Dead. Here is a theme for one of the poets. The scene is at Newport News, Virginia; the subject-A Soldier's Grave. The author would have the melody of the moaning sea for inspiration, and his imagination would find material in the tragedy of the Cumberland and Congress. The name of the sleeper it would be difficult to ascertain; nor has the curiosity of the visitor been able to ascertain the name of the unconscious genius, who possessed such power circumstances beyond my control will preof condensation, poetic feeling and pathos, vent me from fulfilling my engagement to as are exhibited in the simple epitaph on this lonely grave of an unknown hero. husband home on furlough soon, to spend elope with you to-night. I expect my Here it is in words and figure: Christmas and New Year's, when we shall enjoy a hearty laugh at your discomfiture. Meanwhile, I will keep your money as a Christmas present for him, and, when this cruel war is over, it will come handy to assist him to start in business. Yours tenderly,' It is safe to affirm that one might travel over all the graveyards and the field of the dead in all Virginia-that modern Aceldama—and find nothing more touching in the lapidaric offering. Beware of a Soldier's Wife! C. T. N." "P. S.-When next you attempt to play the libertine, you would do well to select your victim outside of Alleghany county; and, above all, beware of a soldier's wife." Howard, the Havelock of the War. Major-General Howard, commanding the Union Department and Army of the Tennessee, was often styled "the Havelock of the war," because of his so closely resembling the great English commander of that name in his habits and manners. He was strictly temperate, never imbibing or any of a nature in An incident of quite a romantic charac- of alcoholic drinks, ter-and something more-occurred in toxicating. His language was always Alleghany county, New York, which ex- chaste, firm, and right to the point; no hibits human nature in some of its peculiar lights and shades, though perhaps not so very strange, considering that "there is nothing new under the sun." A couple word or sound of profanity was allowed about him; tobacco he utterly discarded; and himself and staff held religious meetings for the good of themselves and the coun |