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SKETUHtS L’r UJiCULN. The Old Story cf Hew He Fell In Love. rEscnuTicu cr aitiie eutledgs. Young Men Who Laid Siege to the Heart of This Attractive Maiden Cane of John McXamar—Death of Anne — Effect on Lincoln's Mind. [From “The Life of Lincoln” Vy William H. Bet Ion in I .1 ■ \. v i k. < by Jesse W. Yv'eik. Copyright, 1 . by D. Appleton & Co. J
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Sinoo t'10 days when in Indiana Lincoln sat on tho river’s Dank with littlo Kato Roby, danglin!' his Dart) foot in tho water, thero has boon no hint in these pages of tender relations with any one of the opposite sex. Now we approach in timely order the “grand passion” of Ins life—a romance of much reality, the memory of which threw a melancholy shade over the remainder of his days. For tho first time our hero falls in love. The courtship with Anno Rutledge and her untimely death form tho saddest page in Mr. Lincoln's hi..-
tory.
James Rutledge, the father of this interesting girl, was one of tho founders of New Salem, having come thero from Kentucky in IKS!!. Besides his business iuten sts in the store and mill at New Salem ho kept the tavern where Lincoln came to board in 1883. His family, be-
sides himself and wife, consisted of nine children, three of whom were born in
Kentucky, the remaining six in Illinois.
Anne, the subject of this chapter, was
tho third child. She was a beautiful girl, and by her winning ways attached people to her so firmly that she soon be-
came tHo most popular young lady in the village. She was quick of apprehen- j sion, industrious and an excellent house- | keeper. She had a moderate education, | but • > not cultured except by contrast , with those around her. At every “quilt- |
ing” Anne was a necessary adjunct,
and her nimble fingers drove the needle more swiftly than any one else. Lincoln i used to escort her to and from these \ quilting bees, and on one occasion even went into the house—where men were j considered out of place—and sat by her I
side as she worked on tho quilt. He w.' ispered into her ear the old, '
old story. Her heart throbbed and her (
umerreo. .i i nu-i mu correspondence ceased altogether. At tins point we are favored with the introduction of tho ungainly Lincoln as n suitor for tho hand of Miss Rutledge. Lincoln bad learned of McNaraar’s strange conduct, and no doubt when ho began to pay her attentions she was the most attractive young lady whom up to that time he had ever met. Site was not only mod. it and winning in her ways and full of good, womanly common sense, but withal refined in contrast with the uncultured people who surrounded both herself ami Lincoln. “She had a secret, too, and a sorrow—the unexplained and painful absence of McNamur—which no doubt made her all the more interesting to him whose spirit was often even more melancholy than
her own.”
McNamar seems to have considered 1 Lincoln's bashfulness as proof against the alluring charms of Mtss Rntludge or anybody else, for ho continues: “Mr. Lincoln was not to my knowl- ' edge paying particular attention to any of the young ladies of my acquaintance when I left my home iu New York. There was no rivalry between us on that score. On the contrary, I bad every reason to believe him my warm personal friend. But by and by I was left so far behind in the raco I did not deem my chnaoes worthy of notice. From this time forward ho inadi^apid strides to that imperishable fame which justly
fills a world. ” A Pathetic Event.
Lincoln began to court Miss Rutledge in dead earnest. As bo pleaded and pressed bis cause tho Rutledges and all New Salem encouraged his suit. McNantar’s unexplained absence and appan nt neglect furnished outsiders with all tho arguments needed to encourage Lincoln and convince Anno. Although tho attachment was growing and daily becoming an intense and mutual passion, tho young lady remainded firm j and almost inflexible. She was passing
| through another fire.
A long struggle with hor feelings fol- : lowed, but at length tho inevitable moment came. She consented to have Lincoln, provided he gave her time to write to McNamar and obtain his release from her pledge. The slow moving mails carried her tender letter to New Y’ork. Days and weeks, which to tho ardent Lincoln mtist have seemed painfully long, passed, but tho answer never came. In a half hearted way she turned to Lincoln, and her looks told ijim that ho had won. She accepted his proposal. Now
told her
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■k rights reser%•it. I KM PH IS, tho Vicksburg of it.-: time it ml head of Confederate navigation on tho Mississippi, was tnk on by tho Union licet in a brilliant
UHT-TY 1>1) l VP L 1 1 I necE ot lanu opposite mo town, rarragut J .t'MjK lilt A > ti FiLIiri I >*. ordered !ie upper licit to movo down and join him. Returning up tho Mississippi
with tho message the Eliots steamed Into the unknown waters of tho Yazoo, covering Vicksburg on tho north. In alarm tho Confederates there destroyed three gunboats and with no enemy to fbrht, the Monarch and Lancaster procoodod to Memphis. Tho upper lleot moved down tho river to unite with Farragut. Colonel Alfred \V. Ellet about that time turned over the ram Hoot tog tie hoy colonel, and proceeded to organize a coiiuimnd as unique in Its way as was tho ram licet ami which was to include that. This was tho .Mississippi Marine brigade. Resides t rams, there was a large f«.roe of sharpshooters and Infantry and cavalry for land service, tile whole corps being designed for irregular warfare in the rivers and bayous of Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and ■
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Young Eliot choso tho Queen for ids | flagslilp and joined tho naval squadron at Vicksburg. While Grant was preparing to get across Young's point it was discovered that both Vicksburg and Port Hudson tho stronghold which hold Banks and the gulf fleet and army, below—received supplies from Red river. This stream drains n rich region and empties into the Mississippi between Port Hudson and Vicksburg. Kllct was selected to run the Vicksburg batteries from above, get into tho Red river and establish a blockade. On tho morning of Fob. 3, 18ti3, ho started in tho Queen and passed the first battery nt I full speed. An alarm gun from the fort aroused tho gunners below, and when tho Queen arrived opposite the city a score of I guns played upon her. Moored to tho levee, Eliot saw the largo steamer Vicksburg. Turning the ram, ho gave the steamer a fearful blow, and with shot rat tling all about the Queen, stopped to toss lighted cotton bulls aboard the Confederate. !
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soul was thrilled wfith a joy as old as that they were engaged he
the world itself. Her fingers momentarily lost their skill. In her ecstacy she made such irregular and uneven stitches that tho older and more sedate women noted it, and the owner of the quilt, until a few years ago still retaining it asn precious souvenir, pointed out tho memorable stitches to such persons as
visited her.
llandHotnr and Good. “Miss Rutledge,” says a lady who knew her, “had auburn hair, blue eyes, fair complexion. She was pretty, slightly slender, but iu everything a goodhearted young woman. She was about B feet 2 inches high and weighed in tho neighborhood of 120 pounds. Sho was beloved by all who knew her. She died, as it were, of grief. In speaking of her death and her grave Lincoln once said to me, ‘My heart lies buried there.’ ” Before narrating the details of Lincoln's courtship with Miss Rutledgo it is proper to mention briefly a few facts that occurred before their attachment
began.
About the same timu that Lincoln
tl, 1802. In a grout degree the desperation as well as the most picturesque features of the light were duo to the actions of the wooden rams of the contending fleets. The south-
ern flotilla consisted of river steamers tilted out with guns and rams. It lay in double line of battle along tho wharves of the city, and when tho Union vessels, gunboats in front, steamed down tho river opened flro. In rear of tho Union gunboats, some miles up the river, In fact, but bustening to the scene, wrr the rams Queen of the West, Monarch and Switzerland. These terrible engines of v.-nr had been fitted out at short notice by Charles Ellet, a clever and inventive engineer. They wore ordinary river stoi rn. rs like the Confederate rams, but not so effectively remodeled for war. To afford some protection to tho Itoih rs bulwarks two feet thick were plaood around them, and solid timber bulwarks 13 to 10 Indies thick fastened from side to side strengthened somewhat, the hulls. An Ell (.commanded on tho decks of the first two—Colonel i Charles, tho Queen of tho West and his brother, Alfred W., tho Monarch. Civilians by training, they had to win their spurs fighting the terrible rams v hioh long ruled tho Mississippi for tho Confederacy. El let’s rams carried no guns. A dozen : sharpshooters wero the solo lighting force on board. Neither were they armed with ramming beaks. Great weight, strong motive and striking power, celerity and audacity in attack were what the designer i had aimed to secure. On approaching Memphis that morning in all husto, just I as dawn broke, a cannon shot was heard down the river. Colonel Eliot called from tho dock of the Queen to his brother on the Monarch: "It's a gun from tho ene- ! my. Round out and follow mo. Now is
j our time.'’
The Union gunboats maneuvered in 1 front of tho Confederate ships without j pushing the attack, until the rams hove in sight. Then they opened line to make room for the Queen and Monarch, which held the lead in this order. Passing the I gunboats at full speed the Queen disappeared in the wall of smoko that lay lietwoen tho opposing fleets and made straight for the center ram of tho Confederate line, tho General Lovell. Tho Lovell, which was tho flagship and under steam, moved out beautifully to accept the bold oballengo. The antagonists rushed together, bows on. The people on board tho other ships and the citizen spectators crowding the bluffs held their breath, expecting a hood end collision that would send both rams to the bottom Instantly. Hut tho Lovell suddenly turned her port to shore. On went tho veteran Ellet with the Queen, crashing into tl.esouthern ship with full force. Tho bow of the Union
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The Queen had been prepared for this j Nl.U lit)' '-L - uL -o many pi. m hazardous trip by chaining a bulwark of ipccislly durin;! these hard times, cotton bales around her weakest parts. | Here's I lie reason : 11 is pianos are tin* These wero fired by the w:my s shells, and ; best and bis prin s are low. i, - a cbarwbllo all hands were nt work cutting ] leteristie of this house to make e\them loose to cast overboard, the powerful I traoriliuary nib rings. A house where current swept the ram down tho stream. : you can buy on credit as cheaply as
Without further adventurv tho Queen elsewhere for cash,
reached Red rivi r and d< f.iycil every-
what sho already knew—that ho was poverty itself. She must grant him time to gather up funds to live on until ho had completed^ his law studies. After this trifling delay “nothing on God’s footstool,” argued the emphatio lover, could keep thorn apart. To this the thoughtful Anno consented. To ouo of her brothers she said, “As soon as his studies are completed we are to bo married. ” But tho ghost of another lovo would often rise unbidden before her. Within her bosom raged the conflict which finally undermined her health. Late iu the summer sho took to her bed. A fever was burning in hor head. Day by day she sank until all hope was banished. During the latter days of her
sickness hor physician had forbidden j
visitors to enter her room, prescribing j ram cut tho timbers of tho Lovell in two, absolute quiet. But her brother relates j so that sho Instantly filled with water and
thing afloat and niong shoic. Throe Confederate £t( ami rs loaded with stores for Port Hudson wero tak n and burned. Others wore sighted from tho dtx’k.s of the ram, but they turned tail and made all speed up stream to get out of the way. Finally tho Queen ran out of coal. As there wore no supplies outside«rmy lines Ellet returned toward Vicksburg. A laden coal barge from tho naval stores above was floated past the batteries at night. Picking that up, ho return d to Red river. More steamers carrying army stores wero given up to tho torch, and in a land foray on army wagon train was disposed of in j the same way. Unluckily a pilot, who was either treacherous or Ignorant, ran tho Queen aground under the guns of a fort. The enemy opened with 33 pounders,
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that she kept inquiring for Lincoln so continuously, at times demanding to see him, that the family at last sent for him. On his arrival at her bedside the door was closed, and he was left alone with her. What was said, what vows
drifted into New Salem there camo in and revelations wero made during this from the eastern states John McNeil, a sad interview, were known only to him young man of enterprise and great no- and the dying girl. A few days aftertivity, seeking ins fortune in the west. : ward sho became unconscious and reHe went to work at once and within a niained so until her death on tho 25th
short tiino had accumulated by commendable effort a comfortable amount of property. Within three years he owned a farm and a half interest with Samuel Hill in the leading store. Ho had good capacity for business and was a valuable addition to that already pretentious village—New Salem. It was while living at James Cameron’s house that this plucky and industrious young business man first saw Anne Rutledge. McNeil fell deeply iu lovo with the schoolgirl—she was then only 17—and paid her the usual unremitting attentions young lovers of that ago had done before inin unci uiu still dob.g t.i.lay. Hi- prirtnec iu the store, Samuel Hill, a young man of equal force of character, who afterward amassed a comfortable fertuno and also w ; 'diJ..d .3ns Jittlo influence as a local politician, laid siege to the heart of this same attractive maiden, but he yielded up tho contest early. Anne rejected him, and lie dropped from tho raco. McNeil had clear sailing from this time forward. After several y»ars McNeil, having disposed of his interest in the store to Hill, determined to re f -rrt to Nmv York, bis native state, for a visit. He had accumulated up to this time, as near as we can learn, $10,000 or possibly $12,000. Before leaving ho made to Anne a singular ruvedati >u. Ho told her tho name McNeil was an assumed one; that his real uamo was
McNamar.
McNamar, after mreh vexations delay, finally reached his birthplace in New York, finding his father in the decline of years and health. Ho provided tor nis immediate needs, and by his as liduons attentions undertook to atone for the years of his neglect, but all to no purpose. Tho old gentleman gradually faded from the world and early ane winter morning crossed the great tiver. McNamar was thus left to settle np the few unfinished details of his father’s estato and to provide for the
day of August, 1835.
The most astonishing and sad sequel to this courtship was tho disastrous effect of Miss Rutledge’s death on Mr. Lincoln’s mind. It operated strangely
sank be fun i sho steamed n dozen lengths. At tbo moment of collision a pistol ball fired from the deck of tho Lovell struck Colonel Ellet In tho knee, giving him a wound that prostrated him and caused his
death two weeks later.
Lying prone on deck, tho wounded com1 mander onlorod tho Queen to bo turned on 1 the nearest enemy, but sho was Immediately rammed on both sides ntonce by two i of the enemy’s ships, the Beauregard and j Sumter, losing one paddle wheel in the I encounter. Meanwhile the Monarch came ] to the spot. Seeing a new antagonist the J Beauregard turned and made for her, while tho Price rushed In to plant a blow | on the opposite side. But tho second Ellet \ was worthy his namesake and leader.
on ono of Ins calm ami stoical makeup, j Skillfully shoering the Monarch he lot the As ho returned from the visit to tho bed- j impetuous Confederates ram each other, side of Miss Rutledgo he stopped at the Beauregard crashed Into the Price,
CHARLES RIVERS ELLET. [The boy colonel.] making every shot tell. Many of the crew foil, and a shot cut tho steam pipe, letting out clouds of scalding vapor. The scene was terrible for a moment and there was no help for It but to throw over cotton bales, put the wounded on them and trust to fate on the waves Ellet was one of the last to leave On a cotton bale hocscapod, and meeting the only prize he had spared —the New Era, captured the day before— ho continued up tho river until he had picked up all Ids unfortunate crew. Turning again, ho made his way into the Mississippi to tho army landing which had been established below Vicksburg. The audacity of tho Eliots and their rams set the fashion for running tho bat
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face showed signs of no little mental agony. “Ho was very much distressed, ” j is the language of this friend, “and I was not surprised when it was rumored | subsequently that his reason was in danger.” One of Miss Rutledge’s brothers i;ay“The effect open Mr Lincoln’s mind was terrible. Ho became plunged in despair, and many of hi» friends feared that reason would desert her tbropo. His _ extraordinary emotions
wero t'< gaiiled as strong evidence of the Van Dorn to escape ,>5he stole away down existence of tho tenderest relations be- the river chased by the Monarch and Swit-
tween himself and the deceased.” The i zcriaml.
truth is .Mr. Lincoln was strangely In the staff of the mm fleet nt. Memphis wrought up over tho sad ending of the years of ago doing duty a* a ♦v.;.. tj i i . r medical oadvt. Ho was Charles Kivcrs atiair. Ho had iits of great mental do- . .... . j , , A1 iUlet, son of tbo commander. When ho pression and wandered up and down tho heard of hl8 tzthov'* wound, he hurrh d to river and into tho woods wot. i uii v ah- j but the old hero was in mood stractod. at times iu the deep) .'t di.itivss. , £„ r n udii stones. Handing the boy n flag
i i .i .. i _ colonel's exploit in tho Queen ho again “»""vF'' 1 rf,i7" : ‘i: ' arts’tr ssrtr "s
rammed her and a shell from the gunboat ^ . , , . . i i .i cousin, John A. Ellet, attempted to follow
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boiler of the unlucky ship. Noting that his enemy was in a sinking condition, El let towed her to shoal water and took off i hor crew, loos ended (Is; fight ^f the' - rams Tbo Pwitrorland got. up at tho close i of tho action, but tho gunboat ileet bad finished the work of the day, at long rr.r.^c. allowing only the Confederate ram
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If, when wo read what the mat y credible persons who knew him at tho time tell us, wo do not conclude that ho was deranged, wo must admit that ho walked on that sharp and narrow lino which divides sanity from insanity. To 0110 friend he complained that tho thought “that tho snows and rains fall upon her grave filled him with iudosciibablo grief.” He was watched with especial vigilance during damp, stormy day ; under the belief that dark and gloomy weather might produce such a depression of spirits as to induce him to take his own life. His condition finally became so alarming his friends consulted together and sent him to the house of a kind friend, Bowlin Greene, who lived iu a secluded spot bidden by tho hills a
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pressing needs of tho family. His do- 1 for some weeks under the care and ever tention necessitated a letter to Anne ex- watchful eye of this noble friend, who plaining the nature and cause of the do- gradually brought him back to reason, lay. Other letters followed, but each or at least a realization of his true consucceeding one growing less ardent iu I dition. In tho years that followed Mi. tone and more formal in phraseolo- ! Lincoln never forgot tho kindness of
gy than its predecessor Anne began to lose faith. Had his love gradually died awar like the morning wind? was a question she often asked herself. Sho had stood firm under fire before, but now her heart grew sick with hone
Greene through those weeks of suffering and peril. In 1842, when the latter died and Lincoln was selected by tho Masonic lodge to deliver the funeral oration, be broke down iu the midst of his
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phis wharves and nail the stars and stripes to tho tallest spire in the city. The order was carried out In tho face of savage
Here ho remained J threats from the mobs of tho streets, who
j hustled and jeered tho brave fellow, and I finally pelted him with stones. This was the first deed of real war performed by tho youthful novice, hut it was not to bo his greatest, neither his last. Promoted to rommand the Lancaster, a new addition to the fleet, he sailed, In company with his ; uncle and the Monarch, down tho river to I tee what was going on nt Vicksburg. EarI -agut's fleet from New Orleans lay below the batteries of this Gibraltar of tho Confederacy. The Ellet* managed to communicate with the admiral bv crossing the
in tho Lancaster, lint latter wero exploded
vessel went to pieces and sank. Her cap- ! tain and crow saved themselves on the ever ready cotton bates, t ne nwilzcriund tv hit many tines, and a w!M «b»t penetrated the holler, but sho got through to Farragut’s rendezvous. Young Ellet soon
gave tho Switzerland to bis cousin, and wl ‘ <nn i rvjoii 1, ioy^, she did good service on Hod r'vof The 1 ;i!i till'OLjlh tTaiRij Cl the
' boy colonel returned to his fleet above Vicksburg, out tbo exposure and hardship | of liU daring n..d adventurous '“e had I undermined Ids frail system, and lie ro- | tired from the field on leave. Soon after 1 Vicksburg, which he had battled for so bravely, was conquered this gallant young
commander died.
1 Tho new gunl«mts and ironclads qulck- | ly sent wooden rums to tho rear in Motive warfare, although the Ellet fleet, under I different commanders, kept their flags on high until tho Mississippi region cciuted to bo a battleground. General Alfred Eliot's ! marine brigade took part in numerous ex- ! peditions throughout 181)3-4. The men were gunboat sailors and soldiers at the same time and would leap into tho saddle j for a wild ferny inland to the haunts of guerrillas ami partisans who infested tliu I regions along the rivers and bayous. After J a time a few light guns were added to tho ' equipment, and the brigade proved a tor1 ror to those vagrant bunds of itorder rufS flans who, claiming to bo soldiers under the rules of warfare, were simply robbers and murderers too cowardly to engage in open battle. Like the Carolina swamp avengers pf Marion and Sumter in the Revolution, Eliot's marines will long lie remembered in Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas. GEORGE L. Kilmkr.
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as upon the navy, while Great Britain spends moo- than twice na much upon her navy ns upon hor elementary schools. Mr. Herbert Ia'wIs, M. P., In quoting this statement, remarked that the extraordinary progress of Japan in both directions might well give us cause for reflection.
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