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Show The Barn Hospital. It is with regret that many will hear that the famous Shealo.r's barn, e-loso to the battlelield of Gettysburg, is to be torn down. It has loug boen a picturesque pic-turesque figure of the neighborhood, with its thatched roof, its history of hospital service, and its bullet-scarred sides. It. is decaying fast, for it has stood for nearly a century and a half, but its memories aro such' that on such a spot, tho Mecca of maivy who find a glory in patriotic sentiment, that there is a feeliug that tho. place might woll be preserved by the Government as a memorial. It was the proper! v of Mar-lin Mar-lin Shoaler, who enlisted in "the Federal Fed-eral army and perved through the early stages ol the war. Ho was wounded and honorably discharged, and whon ho. cams-home cams-home he found that his barn had been turned into a hospital nnd that it was tilled with wounded. They wcro in the haymow, ia the stables, and in tho grain bins, as comfortable an thoy could bo made. Shealer was a Union soldier, an! tho wounded men were Confederates, but so long as he was convalescent Shealer and his wifo cared for tho sufferers, suf-ferers, aud whon he got wejl and started start-ed off to rejoin his army he left his barn still tilled with tho wounded, and he served throe years moro with tho Union troops. |