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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. E. P. HARRIS, Pres. BLOOM BROWN, Sec. * Tress. C. P. PAYNE, M*g*r. Americus Supply Co. Successors to HABBIS & PAYNE, numbers and Gas Fitters. Machinery Supplies. V/e are now in our new building in Artesian Block, and ready for business. A Full Line of Cooking StoYes and Ranges. Gas Fixtures and Sanitary Goods a Specialty. . 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