Morning enterprise., July 28, 1911, Page 4, Image 4

MOUNINO ENTERPRISE, SATURDAY. .TIILV 13"
I am one of ih old maldi who be
came sacb by tli civil war. An old
woman with no balr ou tut bead aavt
what Is white aa maw, 1 have pasntxl
half ceutury alone, yet not alone,
(or our I bave aeon blra.
lie waa killed la on or the battlex
around ilicbuiond during McClelluo's
advance upon tbat city. A year be
for h had marched away "with the
aoldler boy of '01 how young they
aeem to bare been now and bow
trang that thos who 'live ar be
coming tottering old men and tbat tb
boya' mothers and th girls who loved
them could send them out to die! he
had gon down Into Virginia, carrying
my heart with him. II bad faHvu
and been thrown Into a trench, and
then for the first Urn I wondered tbat I
conld bar consented to his going.
No on has ever taken his place. 1
hav lived a though we wer one, be
In th heavenly, 1 In the earthly
pher. For many years 1 wished to
go down to Virginia and visit th apot
where be died, and yet 1 dreaded to
do so. It was not till th . beginning
of this century that I could make up
soy mind to do so.
I went to Richmond and visited
th residence of th president of the
Confederacy, which is now muse
um. ' There I aaw the arms and uni
forms of Confederate heroes. But
what took me nearer to th conflict of
years before was a southern lady who
told me bow when a girl she had lis
tened to the distant booming, gaining
hope when it receded and losing cour
age when It drew nearer. From there
I went to the battlefield.
, J went alone. The battle In which
h waa taken from me Is called Seven
- Pines. Why It Is called Seven Plues
I know not There ar thousands of
plnea there now, but 1 believe they
hav all grown np alnc th battle.
It was fought In a cornfield. But It
has pot been tilled alnc tbat day In
18U2. and the trees hav had ample
time to grow.
- 1 found a long line of low earthworks
that was thrown np by McClellan's
army, behind which to resist the Con
federates hurled against It by General
lie. - Forty ' years ' had passed over
thee works, during -which the pines
had grow a up aa if to shield the dead
and the trenches beneath them, ' In
which so many soldiers' bodies were
thrown. Walking on the line of earth
works, every now and again I came
to a redoubt, where atood cannon, and
there beneath were the rata made by
the gun carriages. . .
Before going on to the field I had
been told that I should have a guide.
I declined to take' one or to go with a
party who were conducted by one. I
went alone. It waa late In the after
soon, and most of th visitors were
coming away. It seemed to me a sac
rUege t listen to the story from a
human voice told so eloquently by
those In trench men ts. the rises here
and there In the ground over the dead,
the waving plnea. which with every
breeze signed a requiem. And I wished
to be where my boy lover had fallen,
without any one to Jar upon me.
So I lingered till every one else bad
gone, sitting alone on the rampart,
looking out upon the trees thst ob
structed further view. They were not
there on that temoie day of '62. Aa I
' looked they seemed to dissolve and
their place to be taken by waving
grain. I aaw a long brown line ad
vancing, heard the word of command
among them and the louder word of
those preparing to resist them.
Whether a change tbat came over
m waa In tb day or in the nlgbt.
whether It was In me or In my sur
ronnolngs. whether I saw what I
seemed to see or it wss a half con
clone dream, I know not. But I was
back In '62. and It seemed ss If the
wrath of heaven bad come upon the
earth.
The thunder ceased. The light was
from scattered campflres. The sounds
were th chstting of burial parties and
the falling clods, with occasional vol
leys fired over th dead.
Suddenly 1 felt a touch on my shoul
der. I looked up. and there was my
oMIer lover. Could this be he whom
I bad looked upon aa a man? Why.
be was but a boy not a sign of a
beard on bis face. It was round and
full, while In my head were many
gray hairs and my face waa wrinkled.
One moment be stood looking down at
me. I reached out for bis hand, but
before I could clasp It he had faded
way.
When I came to myself the morning
sun was - shining down through the
pines. I wss lying on my back on the
- rampart, looking up at a patch of sky
between the branches. It was blue
and beautiful, with scattered whit
eloods sailing peacefully over it
. I was filled with consternation at
having passed a nlgbt out on that bat
tlefield of forty years agon. I raised
kyself with difficulty. My eye csugbt
So roc thing mingling with the earth. It
was a worn silver ten cent piece. I
took It up. rubbed the dirt from it and
em It traced with difficulty three let
tars M. IS. I
I bad forgotten that th nlgbt be
fore be marched I bad given blm a
Mt ten cent piece on which he had
cratcbed my Initials.
Is It anything to me whether or no
Bay story Is believed, whether I dream,
d. whether where so many souvenir
of soldiers hsve been picked np It Is
to be wondered thst I should hsv
fotrad one wttb my Initials on It? In
my own mind there Is do doubt.
A Souvenir 1 I p I JT ' j J ri I I J 'fj f
tSII )d yinnl in n- W H WW
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Miller has sn office In the Oambrlnus
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