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Show HEROES OF WAR. From the Chicago Times-Herald. The feeling of admiration for heroes of war seems to be innate in the human heart, and is brought to the surface as the opportunity oppor-tunity and object, for such hero worshio presents itself. Among those -who proved their heroism during our Civil War was A. Schiffeneder, 1 ick Street, : Chicago. He is on Australian by birth, came to America at the age of twenty, and soon became an American citizen. He was' living at Mil waukee when came, early In 1862, and he prompt- '7 enlisted in . . Company A, of Ee rec"vti a wound. he Twenty-sixth Wisconsin Volunteers, in the Army of the Potomac our hero saw much fighting campaigning in the Shenandoah Shen-andoah Valley. In the first day's fighting at the battle of (jottysburg, Schiffeneder received a wound in the right side, which afterward caused him much trouble. With a portion of his regiment he was captured and imprisoned at Bell Island and Andersonville, and afterward after-ward exchanged. He returned to his refitment, refi-tment, which was transferred to the army of General Sherman, and marched with him through Georgia to the sea. In this campaign Mr. Schiffeneder's old wound began to trouble him and he was sent to the hospital and then home. He had also contracted catarrh of the stomach and found no relief for years. "I happened to read an account of Dr. William's Pink Pills for Pale People about a year ago," he said, "and thought that they might be good for my trouble. I concluded con-cluded to try them. I bought one box and began to take them according to directions. They gave me great relief. After finishing that box I bought another, and when I had taken the pills I felt that I was cured. I recovered my appetite and ate heartily. I can testify to the good the pills did me." Mr. Schiffeneder is a prominent Grand Army man in Chicago, whither he moved some years ago with his family. |
