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THE AMER1CUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER: SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1891.
SENTENCED TO DEATH.
[CONTINUED FIIOM sixth I-age.]
arsuings came \Ate dally, as the tune
drew near appointed for my execution.
Finally it come. Shall I ever forget
that November morning in '63?
Ti ey had told me I would he taken ont
at 9 o’clock in the morning, would be al
lowed an officer's room in the barracks,
where my parents, sisters and brothers
would meet me and spend my last few
hours with me.
When taken ont they had to scat me
in the outer guard room u quarter of an
lionr, until my eyes became accustomed
to the piercing glare of sunshine.
Then they took me to the room where
I found father, mother, sisters, brothers
and a minister. It was the quarters of
an officer of the post, and very comfort
ably furnished.
j u -t ontside — we conld see them
through the window—stood a special de
tail of twelve men, selected as the un
willing executors of the sentenced man.
Telling me I should have until the last
minute before 3 o’clock, bnt then would
have to go. the colonel locked the door
and left me with my friends.
They had secured the privilege of
spending these last few hours with me—
1 knew, to comfort aud console, perhaps
to strengthen me for the fearful ordeal
through which i had to pass. But I had
to comfort ami console them.
JIv father was broken down. It must
be a horrid strain on a father's feelings
to .-it and look at his son, in the prime of
uianiiood, and count olf the few inter
vening minutes of that boy’s remaining
life.
Brothers and sisters could only gaze
at me in speechless misery, appalled by
the gloomy shadow of dentil that was
then eastingarouud me.
1 had to become consoler, and strained
every nerve, called forth every power tc
smile. 1 wonld not permit the trembling
man of God to offer prayers, knowing
his words wonld fall upon those loving
ears as dentil wails, as clods falling on
my coffin. I drew them, by everything
interesting that I could think of, to con
template anything but my impending
doom.
As I wonld abont succeed the little
clock on the mantel wonld strike, or a
footstep on tlie stair ontside, or some
movement of the garrison, would recall
them with a sigh to the horrid present.
That little clock on tho mantel seemed
tome in these intervals to tick loudly ns
the clatter of n mill.
It struck the half honrs as well as the
full stroke; and it seemed to me its little
whirr wonld buzz and tho tiny hummer
strike every five minutes. Ten! half-
past! Eleven! and a half! Twelve! Half!
One!
Heavens! how it ticked off the seconds,
galloped the minntes and’startled onr
pained ears with those fleeting half
hours!
We were seated aronml the room, close
to each other an we could get. Father
on one side, mother on the other of me, a
’ STOR\ OF AN EPITAPH.
Soon after the fall of Gen. Albert
Sidney Johnston at the battle of Shiloh
and the transfer of his remains to New
Orleans, a lady visiting the cemetery
found pinned to a rough hoard that
rested on the temporary tomb tho fol
lowing beautiful efijtapli. It was writ
ten in a delicate hand with a pencil,
and the rain had nearly obliterated the
character-, hut she made a verbatim
copy of the manuscript and sent it to one
of the New Orleans papers with the re-
UP.ADI.NO TIIE ORDEK.
hand clasped by each, as the little moni
tor on the mantel broke the gathering
stillness with its metal voice crying the
half honr gonel
Jnst then a step sounded without, a
hand touched tho knob, the key turned
in the lock, the door was thrown open
and the colonel stood looking in apon ns.
Instinctively I jumped to my feet, as
father and mother sprang to my side, a
hand each upon my shoulder.
How rapidly thought docs its office in
such emergencies!
My first thought was, their dining
hour approaches, and these officers wish
to get through this unpleasant duty be
fore dinner.
For a minute—it seemed eternity, and
that the littlo clock had ceased to tell
off time—wo stood, tho colonel and my
self, silent, gazing sternly at each other.
Ho evidently expected me to speak.
Bnt I did not, wonld not.
At length ho slowly drew from his
pocket a slip of paper, and saying,
“Captain, I have jnst received this tele
gram,” read, whilo wo gazed npon him
in strained, listening eagerness:
Tho execution of tho sentence In tho ease of
“apt. William F. Gordon U postponed until
further enters. Uy order of
Tux PnSSIDSKT.
Not ono of us spoke.
“Yon can stay with yonr friends till
3 o'clock. Then yon go back to your
cell," he rAld, closed the door and left
ns hurriedly.
Father drew a long, trembling sigh
“Dd sank slowly to tho floor, where
mother liad already fallen. Their snp-
I»rt gone, the sadden, unlooked for lift
ing of the cloud of death, the rush of re
lief from the horrid nightmare, caused a
'1’iick revulsion of feeling that made me
hmp as a rag, weak its a dying babe,
■^nd 1, too, sank between my parents.
Hie minister said something 1 did not
hear, brothers and sisters knelt around
"a. and I heard th? preacher pouring ont
•1 prayer of gratitudo that the dark
shallow of death had passed by, leaving
‘he light of life.
My sentence of death was commuted
to imprisonment and labor daring the
War.
But it was life!—W. F. Gordon in
Southern Bivouac.
OF.N. A. S. JOHNSTON.
quest that if possible the name of the
author should lx* published. This
gladly done, and the exquisite lines went
the rounds of the press of this country
and England as a model of English com
position. Lord Palmerston pronounc
it “a modern classic, Ciceronian in its
language.’* Public curiosity being
aroused, the authorship was traced to
John Dimitry, a young native of No
Orleans, and a son of Alexander Diini
:ry, who lw?fore the war occupied a dis
tinguished position in the state depart
ment at Washington. Young Dimitry
though only a boy, served in Johnston
army at Shiloh, and on- visiting New
Orleans and the grave of his dead chief
tain wrote tho lines on the inspiration of
tho moment and modestly pinned them
on tho headboard as tho only tribute he
conld offer. When tho question arose
concerning tho form of epitaph to be
placed on tho monument erected to the
memory of tho dead Confederate general
the committee of citizens in charge with
one voice decided upon this, and it is
now inscribed upon tho broad panel at
the base of tho statute. The • lines may
be appropriately recalled on this Me
morial day:
IN MEMORY.
Beyond this stone is laid.
For a season,
Albert Sidney Johnston,
A general in tins army of the Confederate states.
Who fell at Hhiloh, Tennessee,
On tho sixth day of April, A. !>.,
Eighteen hundred and sixty*! wo;
A limn tried in many high offices
And critical enterprises.
And found faithful in all.
Ills life was one long sacrifice of interest to
conscience;
And even that life, on a woeful fribbnth.
Did he yield ns a holocaust at his country's need
Not wholly understood was ho while lie lived
But, !u his death, his greatness stands coufussci
In a people's tears.
Resolute, moderuto, clear of envy, yet not
wanting
lu that finer ambition which makes men great
and pure.
In his honor— Impregnable;
In Ills simplicity—sublime.
No country e'er hail a truor son—no cause
nobler champion;
No people a bolder defender—no principle a
purer victim
Than the dead soldier
Who sleeps here*;
The cause for which lie iicrisbcd Is lost—
Thu people for whir.ii he fought nre crushed—
The hopes in which he t rusted are shattered -
Thu ting he loved guides uo more the charging
lines.
But bis fame, consigned to tho keeping of that
time, which.
Happily. U not so much the tomb of virtue as
its shrine.
Shall, In tho years to come, flro modeet worth
to noble ends, t 1
In honor, now, our great captain rests:
A licreaved people mourn him.
Three commonwealtlw proudly claim him;
Ami history shall cherish him
Among those choicer spirits, who, holding their
conscience unmix'd with blame.
Have been, in all conjunctures, true to them
selves, their country and their God.
A fair of Them.
Lieut. Fauntlcroy, of Sirnm’a Confed
erate states battery, had a confirmed
habit of stammering. Ono day, during
ihe retreat from Camp Bisland, Louisi
ana, while riding along the road he came
up with a straggler from the St. Mary
cannoneers who, it seems, was similarly
affected in his speech. Him tho lieuten
ant accosted in his peculiar vernacular.
“H-h-h-o-o-o-w f-f-f-a-r is tho a-r-r-r-b-
t-t-illery nhe&d?”
“D-d-d-dam f-f-fi kn-n-n-ow.” stam
mered the boy.
In a rage tho lieutenarc ont with his
sword and was about to go for the of
fender, when the soldier held np both
hands, crying, **H-h-o-o-old on, 1-lieuten
ant, I-I-I s-s-w^r I c-c-an’t talk a d-d-
dara bit b-b-b-etter than you can.”—
Southern Bivouac.
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