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SOLILOQUY OF A
SOUTHERN VETERAN.
Forty years ago, white the sun
was shedding its golden rays
through the, western sky, I left my
Southern home to fight iu defense
of my country. Never befote had
my home been so dear to me. Ihe
trees looked greener, the sky bluer,
the mountain loftier, the meadow
cooler, the flowers brighter and the
water from the spring was sweeter.
Heretofore all within and around
home had been peace and quietude.
The country of my nativity was
at peace with all nations. Many
long years has lasped since Gen.
Jackson won the victory at New
Orleans, aud Sam Houston had
helped to add the Lone Star State
to our Union. Not since that
time had the roar of a cannon been
heard, not a musket fired, not a
bayonet been used, not a sword
drawn in this peaceful land of
ours.
Now that states’ rights were at
issue, and southern rights were
infringed upon, the war cry was
heard far and near; I, too, must
face the battle in her defense.
My wife aud I walked side by
side adowu the shaded lane; when
near the stream, overshadowed by
willows, I took her hand in mine
to guide her across the log that
spanned the water. That trem
bling hand lay in mine as would a
wounded bird; for she knew the I
time had come when she would re
turn to that home, made desolate
by cruel war.
She said: “James parting from
you, is more than I can bear. But
six short months have passed
since we took the wedding vows;
to be left without you will break
my heart..”
I cheered her with all the hero
ism within me, and bade her trust
in the God of Battles for my re
turn. I then printed the parting
kiss on her delicate brow.
As the impess of our footsteps
grew farther apart, my manly na
ture gave way, and I shed bitter,
bitter tears. Why should I have
suppressed them? Did not my Di
vine Master weep at the grave of
Lazarus? Did not the Father of
our country shed tears when part
ing from his aged mother?
I sped on to the station, and
found volunteers cheering in ex
pectation of soon being at the seat
of war.
We went from point to point,
from battle to battle during those
long years of conflict. My com
rades were shot down on my right
and left, whilst I came out un
scarred.
Chance, the blind Madonna of
the Pagan, had no hand in the
preservation of my life. None
other than the God of Battles
brought me safely through.
With fortitude I bore separation,
hardships and privations, until I
saw our grand old leader hand his
sword to our opponent at Appom
attox courthouse; then my heart
sank within.
My country’s independence gone,
hopes gone, prospects gone, yea,
all gone; for he in whom we had
trusted for liberty ot person, liberty
of home and liberty of country had
given up his sword, and our cause
was lost.
Just as the sun begun to color
up the dawn, I left the scene home
ward bound, shoeless ar.d in tat
tered garments. Oh, the strong
grip of hunger that kept me bound
in chairs of despair! At last I
found sympathizing friends, who
shod and clothed, and filled my
knapsack with food; and I was
more able to foot my way home,
from Virginia to Georgia.
When there, I offered a prayer
to him who ruleth all things well:
He who had taken care of my
wife and child whilst I had battled
for their rights. Grateful, though
my house was burned and all other
possessions gone except the land,
that was immovable.
“My wife met me with tears of
joy streaming down her cheek.
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While my boy had no cognizance
of his father, I am glad to say he
bears the name of his parent, who
is a Confederate veteran.
As years crept on time left fur
rows on my face and silver locks
decked my brow. My form once
erect, is bent with age, yet I haye
never regretted having fought for
that noble cause. Someday in the
future there will be a reckoning
among nations that will prove to
the world that rights are righted.
When the time for my depart
ure from earth has come, I wish
to be buried beside those of my
comrades who lost their lives in
defense of the Confederate cause;
there we will rest under the shade
of the laurel, or the pine; and I
know good people, old and young,
will deck our graves with beautiful
flowers in spring, whilst our spir
its will reet with the eternally re
deemed, who are free from all
strife. — Mks. Marie T. Gilliam,
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TIIE NEWS, CARTERSYILLE, GEORGIA, DECEMBER, 1, 1901.
'Prisoner
In cs ll *recK~
Vessel Capsized, andCap
tain Was Caught In
side Iron Hut!.
predicament of Commander of
JWortuegian Ship—Confined
In Hull. He Hammered
on Iron XOaiU.
A Norwegian bark, the Aurora, in
command of Captain Sorenzin, wus
jogging along her course through the
Baltic sea about seventy miles from
Rixhoft. The sea was calm, the sky
was clear and the wind Just strong
enough to -set ripples dancing.
“On deck, there!” sang out the sailor
aloft in the crow’s nest. “Something
adrift in theyigater on the port beam!
Looks like the keel of a capsized
ship!”
Through his glass Captain Sorenzin
made out the object. As he was in no
particular hurry and could not have
sailed faster if he wished, he decided
to investigate. If the wreck could be
L J i
NIOHT AND DAT HK KEPT HAMMERING ON
THE IRON WALDS OF HIS PRISON.
taken In tow some salvage might be
secured. Accordingly a boat was low
ered and sent away.
When the sailors reached the object
they found It, as they supposed, a cap
sized vessel with an iron hull. The
wreck was nearly submerged, only the
keel and the round of the bottom be
ing above this surface. As the men
from the Aurora clambered upon the
hull they were startled by what seem
ed to be a sound of knocking inside.
A hoarse voice, unmistakably a hu
man voice, shrieked from within.
The salvage corps at once became a
rescuing party. They found that from
one part of the upturned hull they
could communicate with, but not reach,
the imprisoned man. Curiosity prompt
ed them to question him before they
took further mea%ires for his relief.
He had been imprisoned there for
twelve days, he told them, shut up
alone in the inverted cabin of a cap
sized vessel, drifting he knew not
where and unable to make any signals
of distress.
The rescuers found it impossible to
get the man out of his cramped and
dangerous quarters. They could not
cut through the Iron bottom and had
no diving apparatus. Accordingly It
was decided to tow the wreck into the
port of Neufahrwosser, near Dantzic.
There the wreck was docked beneath
a great shipyard crane, and chains
were passed under it to prevent It from
settling. Blacksmiths were set to work
removing the iron plating.
Only after ten hours of hard work
was the liberation effected.
Amid loud cheers the imprisoned sail
or was taken out, carried to a hotel
and given medical attention. In a few
hours he had recovered sufficiently to
talk.
He was, he said, nans Engellandt,
thirty-two years old, captain and part
owner of the coasting vessel Erndte.
At Russ, near Meniei, he took on a
cargo of lumber for Oldenburg. Soon
after leaving port a severe storm arose,
and, buffeting the Erndte severely, it
continued all that day and far Into the
night.
About 4 o’clock the next morning En
gellandt turned the wheel over to the
mate and went below to his cabin. He
had sdareely taken his clothes off to re
tire before a terrific squall struck the
vessel, and she flopped completely over.
So quickly was the Erndte upon her
back that almost before Captain En
gellandt realized what had happened
he found himself sprawling on what
had been the ceiling of the cabin, with
the ship's keel instead of Its spars over
head.
At the same time the pressure of wa
ter from the outside closed the cabin
door and held It fast. Captain Engel
landt was a prisoner In the cabin of an
overturned wreck. In any event be
was better off than the three members
of his crew. They have not been seen
or heard of since.
Water rose to a height of five feet in
the cabin and then -topped, being held
back by the volume of air compressK.
within.
When the ship vras built a recepta
cle had' been constructed beneath the
floor of the cabin between it and the
keel for the storage of spare sails. As
this compartment was now overturned
and above the water, Eugellanut sought
shelter there.
Fortunately a chest of drawers con
taining condensed milk, prunes, rice,
sugar and smoked sausages was with
In reach of Engellandt.
Twelve days of indescribable anguish
followed. Cooped up in a dark, ill
smelling hole, with little to eat and not
knowing what minute the ship might
go down, the plight of Engellandt was
most pitiable. As he wore nothing hut
his underclothing, he suffered at first
severely from the cold. After awhile,
however, he found some bags and oid
sails in the cuddy hole and managed
with them to make himself more com
fortable. He also made n rude bed.
A hammer which by some-chance
had found its way under the cabin floor
was very useful to Engellandt. Night
and day during his waking moments
he kept hammering on the iron walis
of his prison to attract attention.
On the twelfth day, hearing an mi
usual noise, apparently near the ship,
Engellandt redoubled his hammering.
Voices became audible, and to his
great joy lie heard them hail. The
men of the Aurora came none too soon.
2>A 'RIJVG JUMT
LIB CUT y
It Failed qf Success, but y ear 4
Later Inother Jump
SasJed a Life.
“Some days ago,” said Attorney Lu
ther Laflin Mills of Chicago, “I read in
the papers an account of how a during
prisoner leaped from an upper story
of the criminal court building in an at
tempt to escape.
“The case brings to my mind a sim
ilar one that occurred about twenty
years ago at the same building. I pros
ecuted a young man for burglary, and
he was convicted and sentenced to six
years in the penitentiary. The pros
pect of such long imprisonment made
him desperate. After sentence, as he
was being conveyed by a deputy sheriff
from the courtroom to the jail across
the passage connecting the two build
ings, he suddenly sprang over the low
hand railing. He fell forty-five feet,
yet somehow landed safely and at once
made a bold dash for liberty, running
at top-speed north In Dearborn avenue.
The alarm was quickly glren, and dep
uty sheriffs and policemen started in
pursuit. After an exciting chase they
captured him iu a barn not far from
Lincoln park. In due coarse he was
taken to state prison, where he served
his term.
“One evening about twelve years ago
on approaching the Clark street bridge
I found it open, and an excited crowd
of several hundred persons was shout
ing and gesticulating. A policeman in
formed me that a woman had fallen
into the river. She was drowning be
fore their eyes, and a A they did was
to crush one another and yell like Imbe
ciles. Suddenly a young man forced his
way through the throng, stood gazing
for an instant and then plunged into
the water. He got the woman as she
was going down for the third time,
struck out for the bank, and both he
and she were landed In safety.
“ ‘What is your name?’ inquired a
spectator of the brave young rescuer.
“ T have no name that the public is
interested in,’ he replied. Then he
HE SPRANG OVER THE LOW BAILING.
shook himself like a wet spaniel and
disappeared in the crowd.
“But like a flash I had recognized
the young man. He was the same that
I helped to send to the penitentiary,
the same whose leap for liberty may
still find a plaee In the memory of
criminal court attaches.
“His leap for liberty, his own, was a
failure; his leap for life, another’s, a
success.
“I am pleased to add that the yon nr;
man, his old record outllyed and for
gotten, is now successfully establisLe
In commercial life In Chicago.”
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