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A Romance Of The War

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Day
1
Month
July
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Poughkecpsie Eagle tells tho folj lowing : Among. the passengers tín tho Jíew York express train upon the Hudson River Railroad, on Monday, was a brave fellow from the Army of the Potomac, with a comrade accompanying hiui, botü dressod in ■ tho uniform of the United States, with canteens, etc. At the first glanoe nothing uucommon eould be deteeted in the looks of the pair, uur should we havo been able to recite the romautio history couneeted with the couple wero we not made acquainted with it by a friond, who was told it by a hosp tal miree. It appears that at the breaking out of the rebellion, these lovers (for ono ■ of thêna was a young girl dressed in the i garb of a soldier) were engaged to bo mnrried, which ceremony was either to bo,postponed on account of the lover go) ing to dcfend the flag of hia country, or elso the marriage must take place, and i his fair inamoruta raust follow hiui. She ) chose the latter, and married they were, i he enlistuig afterward in the Second 3 Michigan Regiment as a private, and she, t donning the " blue," foliowed him. - Amid the crash of shot and shell at the battlo of the Wilderness, this heroie girl stood by the sido of her husband, and with her goed tnusket defouded hun, and struck for hev couutry at tho heartof the cliivahy. Passing safely through that desperate üght, they pressea on wan their rcgimeut to the bloody field of Spotlsylvania, where the bravo Michigániíer bad his arm bvoken by a piece of shell. ÈSëéibg liim F;t!l, she bound up his vvouDd, nnd raisibg him from the grouud, amid the thiokest of the fight, shc cairied him to the rear, and placing vm on a caisson, which was about starting back for ammunitioi), she had the saiisfaetioa of seoing him carried to a place of safety, he bêing sooo after eonveyed to Carver Hospital, the heioino and yoang wife atfeodiug him nntil he gat well ouough to siar-t fr home in the far West, they bfiüg en roule for ihére yrstorday. Could ioine skillful novelist get hnld of the dotails of this affair, they could be workod np into ii first class römaboe, and as uch commaod heavy sales. Such a woinau is worth her weiht in gold. A person who luoks at ihe world in somewl.at glooiny colors reocntly oouapiaiued, in Mr."Auber's presence, how hard it was that peoplu must goiv oio. ''Hard as it is,'1 replied the voteran conv poser, it sceins to bc the outy Uioau of oujoyiug a ïifö." Tlio Kichmond Scntinel, of the 6th inst., i:iys 'hat tho rieerdary of . tho u'bfil Navy has nii'i'iv.'d ii'ïiofttion , ü (a sikü the Uh ü.-t., vvith n tioot of

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Old News
Michigan Argus