Show 0 the faded tintype Slen beneath eath the alit of many car eav hie ilia R apted bark back wm lent but from froin hl 4 gi rutlt big blue ees there hotia i light thit th it ant I 1 nt A rail radiance lance to ills 1114 old fu gut ind its it swathe lock took lie ile filan cut about him filin with a aillie min ile then ills lit pocketbook awl AM avei everyone 3 crip win who gice hie his way war wished ollit his cm cri faro fare they the might an por lewt one cecely look ifill clothe 4 though old ind aborn were ere alwin add chit alth ith loving caro in ills trembling I 1 in fit I 1 homemade home conle made Rio ves vt the ofle well ell combed fringe or flair clr beneath his film almo almot t furgess cai cali ill all told ii i i ot eoin yonnone eone who hn loved thih tills old oh dinati ua ais much alien wn haet utts ne new A inome tit more und and ite lie unwound I 1 tho baring rii ig mill itla aleh lle ilia drw porse wt as houtin I 1 arl ami aud brought ia wealth tu to view A erni scrap of or cloth a lanell small niall ri a k i alad nt it i dime and then ho stopped in happy thoughts lie he emried lt L t j kloct j vt for a chite A faded fadel th itile that aas a ll rt a sweet i AI woI nalls fat fine and 1 iet 5 t I 1 h it lofti ere cre he lie put i it lt linck havic in place and then wy e keiek what made maile his hi lire life so 60 happ juat a wife N ife efte e da 1 ohi note it mee cl itt kimta star gen mcclellan for peace the baltimore sun of jan fail 11 sas sal Q that the following communication ad dressed to a gentleman gont leman in baltimore Dalt imore a very interesting contribution lo 10 to tile political kistoo of the civil aar ar to the effect that gen mcclellan tn in 1862 sought an interview inith ith gen lee let with the tile supposed purpose of inching peace over the heads of the at it washington and richmond bishops house east harris street sa anniah ga jan 3 1862 my dear filand your letter of 0 the lat dinst to hund hulla my recollection of the conversation to aich aou ou reter refer Is clear gen told me more ahan ban once that immediately after the tile battle at sharpsburg Sharps burg or antietam Antle tam while he anas in gen lees tent the genereau gen ereal handed him film a letter aich I 1 biad ad just received from gen C on mccmillan McC milan the commander of the federal feda ral armies gen lee gave gale gen longstreet Iong street a copy of the letter and ana agliani him to alvi j it lili illi lil i burlous sur lotis attention and on the following morning advise him gen gon lee stat he ought to do in the matter the letter gen mcclellan proposed in rn interview bot between him self and anti gen lee gen longstreet bald to me tile 1 I 1 told gen lee that in my judgment there was no other construction st to be lie placed on oil it save one and that was that gen mcclellan wanted anted to end ond the var then and there gen lee bald fald that idea occurs to int also niso but president davis and not gen lee Is the one to whom such a message must be sent gon gen longstreet TAng street took the letter to ills own quarters where lie ile found gen Y T R cobb of tills this state he lie gave it to gen ocil cobb ridging him to observe secrecy with regard to it but nob not saying Q n word as to the tile construction he placed on it after reading the tile letter attentively iely gen cobb said there ina was no doubt in his mind gen cc mcclellan ollan wanted gen lee to help hell in the restoration of the union by marching inarching to washington with the combined forces gon gen longstreet told mi of she he circumstances more than once and arill always added that he lie coincided in gen cobb views but thai that gen lee for the tile reason stated to meet gen ceno mcclellan tho the cupy which gen lee gave gen longstreet Longst was sent after III he war to col marshall I 1 tried to gel get it from col marshall who told me he be had mislaid and could never find it I 1 do not lot know of comae what became of he the original loiter letter I 1 forgot to cosay say that gen longstreet strongly ugly advised gen lee to meet aen mcclellan in order that he lie might know defini definitely tily N what hat mcclellan ellau ft anted i 1 hai havo 0 this tills moment heard of long streets death saturday at gainesville C valnes ville he ile often came canie to visit me when I 1 lived hed in fit atlanta and we nt often talked tallied of the war and its sequel I 1 recall very distinctly a reply he mado made to me tile one da when lien I 1 said well general ou and I 1 are both glad today that we ie have liae a united countey cou and perhaps peili aps in gods providence lei ce it is as i veil ell that NN we e N were ere defeated fea lp 1 I even though we e were NN ere clearly in the right 1 I do not believe in placing the bhawe on the lord said longstreet ca we ought to lime Nhip whipped ped the yankees kees i estered the union and settled tho lilt negro question ourselves ou aureli reli os but we had 1 a I big load to cai caira r ii ia some of own leaders deiy sincerely your filand benjamin J kelley bishop of savannah ga old army nurse Is dead mis mai R wheeler who recently passed away anay at the home of her daughter in beloit iowa loa was one of the heitic figures of the civil war she was as nearly 86 vears nears of age at the time of her lier death and was nas lt known ion as Ido wheeler no army nurse rendered more service to the ack and wounded boedler bos than she born new elmira Elin lra N Y may alay 2 1818 she became deeply interested in the war shortly after her marriage and at the time of the battle of bull run she left her home in penns pennsylvania evanta and A went ent to washington to look after the sick and wounded with the dying flying echoes of bull run she began here noble work and to the tho end of the war nar was to be I 1 found wherever duty called her happiest recollections were of lincoln and stanton who soon recognized her woith as a woman of ot judgment and fine executive ability president lincoln never visited the army hospital without NIt hout commending mrs wheeler for her able and systematic work she remained in washington until the bloody work nork in front of richmond Illch mond called her to fortress monroe where she rendered valuable ervice with the improved conditions in the northern noi them thern hospitals q mother wheeler was as ordered to help organ organize I 1 ze the hospital service and was in charge of a hospital at holly springs miss in december 1862 when that great supply ly depot was captured in grants rear by general van dorn ly mother lother wheeler during the war nar was kept assigned signe d at various posts and was in charge at mobile when that city was taken she was in of a pension from the government for her valiant service and went to iowa in 1872 return of the prodigal bone an utterly unusual atory story has been brought to light by the return to jacob 8 miller of uniontown Union town toAn pa of a piece of bone that was taken from his der nearly forty years ago t mr miller has been clamoring for that bone to fo keais but ha has i been unable to get possession of it until recently for dr teal who nho removed it insisted upon keeping it to exhibit as an interesting relic of a difficult surgical operation nied under adverse circumstances the fragment has played a part in many a surg surgical ic al lecture by the old doctor when mr miller was wounded in the battle of peach tree crook atlanta oa ga in III dr teal saw that he must operate immediately if he woul 1 sai save c the tile sold soldiers lers life accordingly he lie set to work ork just where he lie was inas out in the open air with a fierce windstorm raging about him it was an intensely dark night and the only light the sur surgeon geor had to work by was a haring aring jj kerosene torch the removal of the splintered bone was successfully accomplished el the patient sent back to the rear and dr teal kept the little three inch bit of bone as a long as e lived as a souvenir of a piece of good work accomplished under peculiar circumstances 0 on n his death and in accor accordance C with NN ith the sur geons dying flying instructs instructions ons that bit of bone was returned to its original owner nearly forty years after its re rea linval moval from his person |