Show ow H e vv on i Her HerB ier B By MRS ED E. E N. N SOUTHWORTH Continued from yesterday mornIng Bill the squad led by little Cattle cuino hurrying toward her door and paused In III much excitement before St t. t This door was as locked anti and barred on tInt tin outside and It required some little time anti and force before it could lie 10 en cit oien Then Major Mini with his fac- fac fiery from exertion and rushed III You are arc ho said lifting his cap cal to but he lulled falk d to recognize her 1 Dont roni you know nie- nie she u uM 14 M a moment to glance nt his straps and his precise rank at Ma jor joi Mini Dont Don't you know v me f heaven an and l earth eaith It is Miss Conyers Con Con- little Mini ml in coaster conster nation Or whet of her hei added with a wan vau smile In the Saint name of Providence how came caine you hero demanded Mini l 1111 M 1 was taken takemi as a suspected story is too long bug to tell you ma ma- jor But tell me news of our army I 1 nm dying yv ys dying dying- to hear Ilear Wo We have got Richmond said MinI Mim I t see that But Colonel Rosen Hosen- thal Ho IIo is with General Grant And General Grant Is gone after Lee And Lee Iii In full retreat down thin the valley half his army destroyed and the other oilIer half doomed So So Richmond Is ours Thank heaven hea en CU But oh oh why mild did you set the city on lIre fire Was that necessary We sot set ho city on lire fire Xo No thank heaven Miss s Conyer the crime of burning this beautiful city does docs not rest on OUt our souls It seems to have been set on fire either by tile the evacuating evac party or by the excited mob we not know which but we do know that that- when we marched In we found tui city in III names and that our oum fitt business was to go to work as fast as we could to put it out And Amid al although a- a thought though time the wretches retches that the cli city also cut the hose Ilose we are still by the lie blessing of God bringing the flames under Thank heaven for oi that tillit Tell me inc more news VS of our friends Who tho has fallen Who survive Miss Conyers U seems scents to me speak speaking broadly that all who are not Ilot are promoted Among the killed Miss Conyers Is that gallant I Iy y young fellow they u used ed to call the Dc Angel on OIl account of his fiery impetuosity I Who You know kilow-he kilow he who was so adored li Ii tile the whole brigade What hat was his again I am am the lie worst hand ham at I t teem scent to get the idea without without with with- out out the word What was it again Bird no Dash no Spring no But js is wa was 5 something with a a. rush in ii it Wing That was it Ah Au poor fellow fel low Brito- Brito m ing fOr nearly neaily a year past Dead of lf course lost unions heaps of dead in the trenches or the rivers or the woods or In the ditches oC of time the rebel prisoners Colonel thai thal has done alt all he could to discover traces of his fate but in vain And 1 I really think the uncertainty wears upon the colonel Perhaps Wing may yet be found in some of the rebel tons prisons of Ilich- Ilich mond suggested Heaven grant It Yet It is not likely Come Miss Conyers you look worn and wasted I Let et me take lake you somewhere where you can be comfortably corn com lodged and refreshed Colonel ONeill O'Neill has his quarters at the Goldsborough Goldsborough Golds- Golds borough house Ills His wile Is with him I know they will gladly welcome you Will you ou let me there for tile the present yes yes yes' Anywhere tiny tiny- this horrible place where out out of said Major MInI ordered an ambulance brought up ui placed Miss Conyers In It it and conveyed her hem to the quarters of ONeill where she was warmly warm warm- ly hy welcomed and affectionately tended by that hat gallant amiable wife ll LI Alter u II While Lot Let u us reverently puSs pass over o that awful calamity of April the fourteenth which followed so swiftly upon the winged feet of Victory quenching all hot hex lights of joy and of triumph In darkness and In blood The nations nation's holy sorrow Is too sacred a subject to tobe tobe be treated here I lake tako up my story at a point of time some weeks later when the unnatural un titi- natural and aird over strained excitement of alternated jo Joy and grief triumph and amid despair had in some measure subsided and the amazed anti anil distracted tits dis people had in some degree re recovered recovered re- re covered self self- self possession and calmness when tile the victorious legions of the army had passed in grand w before before be be- fore tho thu President and ull tile the high dignitaries of hf Union before before be be- fore all the resident os of foreign courts and above all tIle llo multitude of grateful and admiring lug ing countrymen fellow who had f o 1 lir fi 1 1 1 lii I Ii iri I tit 1 honor v to W 40 tV UV v 1 iU IK their courage and devotion anti and who as 02 they looked upon those glorious veterans thought that hut il If every everyman everyman man of time the rank and amId file was not a commissioned officer nearly every one of them certainly deserved to be so Promotions were made for Cur gallant and meritorious conduct in III the service ice ICO that is Is so o far as there should be room tot for them But If every private soldier of tile the Union could have been advanced according to liEs his deserts desert we lye should have had an army composed almost entirely of major generals There Thel-o were thousands upon thousands of men In ill tile the ranks us as brave as true truo us as skillful and as mis devoted as many who commanded em divisions and corps anti and If these could not all ail be he promoted pro pro- U was only because as I once heard a schoolboy captain demonstrate to ho hits his discontented company A hl cannot can call not be corporals But if we IWO cannot decorate every brave soldier with a tt we can at putt pair of straps shoulder least lye Ive every one of them our heartfelt honor and esteem esteems s As for forUs or orUe hear dear old faded Ue Us wo never see time the blue uniform anywhere but our 11 as we hearts warm to time the wearer think of time tho nut and lightings and night the failings arid and by day vigils the tho mild and cs tIme the exposure to freezing cold and burning burn buni- exposure inconceivable suE suf- heat and all tile the ing which the to war incident f ings sakes must have hale borne for our and we must But this Is a digression get back to our story few fe days from froni the U It WitS was only a review The Tue armies had beer grand disbanded and aiti sent home rime Tho of visitors had left the city Am Alit which Willell had for week Wa hington j I been suffering under a plethora of population was relieved The rue parsonage which like every I other private house In Washington ama and I had been with company com Coni- pany s i now hlO comparatively empty circle consisted only of Brigadier General Rosenthal Colonel Fielding and amid Cap Cap- tain hIlt Hay Lieutenant Colonel Mim and Cap Cap- tain laimi Ethel ivere frequent visitors Uy 13 this you will perceive that all allour Out our friends of the army who had not hot been killed were promoted They were ivere not yet out of the tho service anti and tile they were all on dat duty in imi Washington Poor young Wing was supposed to have died in one of the Confederate prisons but it was noticeable that from the time General Rosenthal learned of the liberation of Miss Conyers Con Con- from coma Castle Thunder he ceased to mourn the untimely late fate of Wing was not in iii Washington and no iO one knew exact exactly where she was VaS at this time Immediately after her release from Castle she had written three one letters letters one to Justin announcing her safety safely one to to the tho same ef of- feet and one to the SIgnora dl And within a week after the posting hosting of these letters she he had loft left Richmond for the North Lately she had written from York announcing an an- her speedy return to Wash Wasim- ington This letter which was ad- ad dr em to Justin was immediately answered an an- SW red by n a Joint one from time the brother and sister entreat to tomake make the parsonage her home and to let them know exactly by what train she would arrive that they might meet her at the station Time They were now lion waiting her imer reply It was yet early in the day and the tho gentlemen hum had all walked out anti and was busy at her favorite pastime of decorating the room drawing with flowers and l having issued all her domestic urd Ork is r for the lie day was vas resting in an vay cas chair liz ill nor ncr own chamber when hien the sound of wheels wheel was beard turning into the gates and rolling uj UI tile the avenue toward the tho front fron of If the house It was not an aim unusual sound for there had been a great nun ber of callers within the lIme last few weeks so that lint In lii fact the tho Inmates o othe of the cottage cottage- were were- getting tired of themO them t O n t Jin I u ii eu I Irim 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