Show 4 A Baby on the Battlefield The Mftrtmsbure correspondent of the Wheeling Intelligence relates the cHewing tor Alaaos ovary family fami-ly and individual bere hiss some bit of romance in cnaueotion with the late war Today at i musicale to whch I was kindly luvited I me a lady whose talents aa a musician and whose remarkable beauty had attracted attract-ed my attention She possessed that rare type of prettiness that is wholly Southern Great deep blue eyes the face perfeot in every feature hair rich in abundance and wonderful in ts tint This ia I her story rwenty years ago when tbe tide of battle in long bloody waves awept over the terrible field of Manaesas a baby girl was left an orphan on the battle nund Daring the changes of the fateful day tbe home of the blueeyed girl was at one time directly between he fire of both armies As the first shots whistled above the house tbe parents started to flea for a place of refuge A dozen yards from the door both were shot down anJ tae baby an orphan without brother or sister was alone in the world The battle raged on dead and dying were everywhere every-where but the baby wa unharmed The day wore away ani just as the snne last rays halt hidden ia the curling smoke sadly kissed the earth good night General Jubal E ily riding by heard the babys cries He dismounted and taking tbe little waif up oared for it until he could puce 1 it under the care of his sisters They watched it through its infantile years giving it an education and a world of love and now that baby grown to womanhood lovely and accomplished the pet of a wide circle of frieuJs who call her Waif is the sole support of those two women sisters of the rebel general She talked to me modestly yet gracefully of her early years and her beautiful eyes filled with tears aa she spoke of her two old friends If I should write her name it would not be a strange one here for all the city knows Miss Ida Henry |