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AN INCIDENT OF THE REUNION.
By courtesy of Miss Pauline Com
merford, we print the following
sketch, which was written by her for
the Washington Tribune;
We become in a measure accus
tomed to sad and romantic incidents
told by visitors who are seeking the
graves of friends and relatives in the
National Cemetery, but the follow
ing is more than usually pathetic.
Probably there are many incidents
like it that have never come to light
buried sacredly in the sad hearts of
the many who suffered on both sides
during the war between the States.
This is an aftermath of the Grand
Army reunion recently held in Chat
tanooga.
She came to the office of the ceme
tery late Sunday afternoon—a tall,
slender old lady with snow-white
hair, accompanied by four of her
girlhood friends. She was trembling
with emotion and excitement, and
with difficulty told wvws what she
wanted.
“Can you find for me,” she asked,
“the grave of Robert Mueler, a cap
tain of the Twenty-sixth Wisconsin
Infantry, Volunteers?"
We turned to the records and in a
few minutes found the following
entry: “‘Captain Robert Mueler, Cap
tain of Company C, Twenty-sixth
Wisconsin Infantry, Volunteers, }
killed at the battle of I’oachtree‘
Creek on July 20, 1864; body re
moved from grave there in 1366.1
Grave No. 2291, in Section C.
As we went up the hill to locatel
the grave for her I noticed her in
creasing agitation. She could not
keep back the tears.
“Was he related to you?” 1 asked.
““He was my husband,” she said,
simply, *“‘and until this day I have
never known where he was really
buried. A Grand Army post and
Woman's Relief Corps in Milwaukeo |
bear his name. He was very bravu.l
“We were born in Milwaukee, h(-‘
and 1. We were the children of
neighbors; we played together; we
went to school together; we at
tended the same high school, undl
soon after we both finished school v e*!
were engaged and married. 'l‘lnwfl
the war broke out. He raised a com- |
pany of volunteers, and they made
him captain of the company. 1
watched him march away at the
head of his company. He was twenty
three and I was twenty, and 1 held
in my arms our baby--a little boy
four months old. It was the last
time the baby and I ever saw him,
but the letters came as often and as
fast as he had gpportunity to send
them through the lines from battle
fields in the South. I had letters
from Chattanooga and all along the
line of battlefields through Georgia
until the day he was killed, at the
battle of Peachtree Creek. They
wrote and told me that he had been
killed in battle, and that his com
rades had buried him in a grave
that could be identified on the
shores of Peachtree Creek.
“We were poor. I had not the
means to come South then, and the
struggle for existence brought so
many hardships in the ensuing
years that I dared not think of it.
1 had my boy to raise and educate.
So though my heart was down here
with the lonely grave, 1 could not
come. Our boy grew up to be a
fine man, and is now over fifty years
old. I can say with thankfulness
and pride, ‘God took my husband
away, but he gave me a good and
faithful son.’
“When I learned that Chattanooga
had invited the Grand Army to hold
its reunion there and that the re
duced railroad fare made to the vet
erans would enable my slender purse
to meet the expenses of the trip at
last, I was so excited with the idea
of finding his grave after fifty years
that 1 could hardly wait for the
time to come. These ladies who are
with me are old school mates of
mine, and decided to come with me
and help me in the search. The five
of us have gone over every inch of
the ground he went over in the
‘Sixties,” and have lived those days
over as he described them in his let
ters to me. I read these love letters
of his to me, so dear to ufe. for the
last time the day before I left home.
‘1 am seventy years old,” 1 thought.
I may not get back. 1 cannot bear
the idea of anyone else reading these
letters. They are sacred. [ read
them again and cried over them, and
then burned them, every one.
“After the reunion we went on to
Atlanta, for 1 thoughi he was buried
The bill passed at the last session
of the Legislature providing for a
change of Government for Marietta to
a Board of Commissioners was voted
on, Wednesday and was defeated by
a majority of seventy nine votes.
The total vote cast was 577.
Interest was immediately centered
in the possible candidates for Mayor.
Friends of Ex-Mayvor E. P. Dobbs be
gan at once to urge him to allow uis
name to be used but no expressioni
was given out by Mr. Dobbs Wednes
day night.
The election for Mayor and Coun
cil will be held within a few days.
‘somewhere on the shores of Peach
tree Creek, not knowing that the
Government had carefully removed
the bodies of all the soldiers that
they could find to the National Ceme
tery at Marieta; in fact, I did not
know that the cemetery existed. We
hired a guide to take us out to the
old battlefield of Peachtree Creek.
All day long 1 searched the banks
of that creek for his grave, and re
turning exhausted after a fruitless
search, late in the afternoon, to our
rooms in the Kimball House, I met
by chance a veteran, to whom 1 told
the story of my search.
‘I think you can still find him,’
he said. ‘Don’t give up. Go over to
Walton street, take the car for Mari
etta, and on arriving at Marietta
anyone will direct you to the Na
tional Cemetery, where the bodies
of all the Northern soldiers who
were killed around Atlanta and all
through North Georgia are buried.’
“You can imagine with what fresh
hope 1 started for Marietta.
“To think that I am at last to
see his grave—and fifty years have
gone by. This is the picture of
him, as he was in those days.”
She wore at her throat an old
fashioned large brooch with a war
time minature of her husband. 1
gazed with interest at the face of
the young man, whose grave we were
about to visit. 14 was a strong,
young face, clean shaven, as she
had told us, of twenty-three. 10 her
he will always be the boy of twenty
three, who marched off to fight for
the Union fifty years age He can
never change: There W.s something
of the youthfulness of those days
about her, too—traces of the grace
of girlhood and the beautiful ex
pression in her eyes that an undy
ing, unchanging love had brought to
her countenance.
We had reached the top of the
hill by this time, and turning to
the right and descending among the
graves on the other side, I soon lo
cated the grave for her in a beauti
tul circle of arbor vitaes—‘“the trees
of life,” and in their never-ending
greenness that cannot die with the
approach of winter are so typical of
her love through the fifty long years,
and also speak to us of immortality
and the resurrection.
We left with her a tiny silk flag
and a bunch of beautiful Southern
roses and sprays of ribbon grass, so
that she might decorate the grave
she had come so far to see, and left
her alone with her lover of fifty
years, never having a doubt that he
was there in the spirit with her. She
was shedding the tears of half a
century over his grave. It was over
an hour before she joined us.
“I have told him,” she said to us,
“1 will ery no more. It won’'t be
many years before I will see him
now. No one knows how soon it
may be.”
She folded the little silk flag
around a Southern rose, and placed
them carefully in her purse.
“This,” she said, “‘is the first rose
I have ever put on his grave. 1 will
take this Ceorgia rose up to Wiscon
sin with me.”
“Love, indeed, is light from Heaven,
A spark of that immortal fire
With angels shared, by Allah given,
To lift from earth esach low desire.
Devotion wafts “the mind abpve,
But Heaven itseif descends in love;
A feeling from the Godhead caught,
To wean from self each sordid
thought;
A ray of Him who formed the whole,
A glory cireling ‘round the soul.”
Fire early Thursday morning destroy
ed the house occupied by Mr. Roberts
on Holland street, The house was
own:d by Mr. Miu'trie Sessions.
THE MARIEITA JOURNAL AND COURIER
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At every counter, in every aisle, in all departments of this holiday store are
Christmas Suggestions in abundance. ' ,
The casiest way to select your gifts is to come here in the morning before the rush
iS on and look around.
Thousands of appropriate things will suggest themselves to you---there is no limit
to the variety whether your gifts are to be expensive or moderately priced.
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GLOVES
Gloves are always acceptable giits.
We provided for a greater demand
than ever, carrying a large assortment
of stvles and qualities for men, women
and children. :
Silk gloves, in plain or daintily em
broidered in white, black and all new
dress shades.
Kid gloves, short and long
Fabric gloves for warmth Gauntlets
for the boys. At such prices as these:-
$l.OO to $1.590
Beautifu! Line Of Silk Petticoats, $1.19 To $3.50
WE ARE!C( CB"COUNTY'S LARG
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WORLD FAMOUS — _
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OUR FALL STOCK will be an object
lesson to you—it will impress upon
you the EXCELLENCE of “Onyx”
Hosiery, the wouderful variety of
kinds and qualities, and the fact
that this Store is prepared to supply
your every need. “Onyx” Hosiery is
known the world over as the most
PERFECT of all hosiery, in make, fit
and finish.
PRICES RANGE FROM 15¢ to $1.50
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BOYS' SHOES SENSIBLY PRICED.
This week we want to call your special attention to our line of BOYS SHOES. They
are not only sensibly priced but they are sensibly made. Nothing but the best grade of
solid leather is used and only the highest skilled laboremployed in their manufacturer,
Sizes 9 to 131-2 Patent and Gun Metal. Button and
Lace, priced according to quality of leather and workman
ship, from $1.25 to $2.50.
Size Ito 2s. Patent and Gun Metal. Button and Lace,
priced according to quality of leather and workmanship,
from $1.50 to $3.00.
Big boys size, 2 1.2 to 6. These shoes are made over the
same style last as men’s shoes. patent and gun metal, lace
or button shoe with a gond fitting arch and will wear better.
Prices range from $1.75 to $3.50.
Try our Elk Shoes for boy scouts. They are the best
that can be had for $2.00 and $2.50.
“WE FIT YOUR FEET?”
W.A.FLORENCE
Phone 61 DEPARTMENT STORE Marieita
Following our Chrismas custom for
years, we are offering handkerchiefs in
handsome Christmas boxes.
Every good grade of handkerchiei is
represented, pla‘n, monogramed, em
broidered. colored and white with col
ored borders.
The prices run like this:-
5¢ to $l.OO
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Buy Each Year Sgyasd <T@
Thousands of them are slim, thousands are stout, thousands aie tall, thou
sands are small. Yet each finds that the skilled R& G des'gner has
fashioned a corset that just fits her figure, that makes her gown look just
right, that makes her comfortable. When a designer builds corsets for one
womans in ten in this country of fine figures he KNOWS HOW.
There is an R & G corset fashioned for you — one that fits you—suits you ex
actly. Come in and try iton. Prices range from
$l.OO to $3.50
SHOES FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN.
New arrival for Infants and Children. Just arrived
about one thousand pairs of infants’ and children’s shoes,
some that we have just had made up to take care of the re
cent calls for Red Kid button, Red Top button, Tan button,
in sizes 1 to 5s 65c. to $1.00; 3 to 5s 75¢. to $1 25;5 1-2 to 8s
$l.OO to $2.00; 8 1-2 to 11s $3.50 10 $2.50.
We have exclusive agency for Queen Quality Shoes in
Marietta and have a complete assoriment of sizes and
widths.
UMBRELLAS
Our holiday assortment of umbrellas
for men and women is at its best right
now. The variety of ladies’ umbrellas
1s not onlv in the handles but in the
colors and shapes.
We have the choicest collection of
gift umbrellas we’ve ever shown. The
range of prices is as wide as the range
of styles
We have good gift umbrellas as low
as
$l.OO up to $5.69
Friday. Nov. 14, 1913
