Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1877 — A Romance of the Rebellion. [ARTICLE]

A Romance of the Rebellion.

At tlie battles of Antietam ami South Mountain a Colonel was wounded—his arm fearfully shattered—and he was borue from the field by his brothers and a private soldier. They carried him across the country a long and toilsome distance, every step of which was torture to the sufferer, to the house of a Maryland Union farmer. Then came the übiquitous Yaukec surgeon with his glittering knives and cruel saws, and made liasty preparations to amputate the ailing member. The farmer vehemently protested, declaring that the man would die if the arm was cut off. The. surgeon insisted that the patient would die if the arm was not taken off, and the Colonel’s brothers coincided with the surgeon. But the determined old farmer dispatched his son od his fleetest horse across the fields to the other side of the mountain after his friend and neighbor, a country physician, and a rank rebel. When the rustic Esculapius arrived there ensued a long eontentiou with the Yankee hewer of bones over the sufferer, but tire result was that the arm was saved, and, after some weeks of careful nursing, the Colonel galloped oft' to join his regiment, a comparatively souud man. He subsequently became Governor of Ohio, and now fills the Presidential cljair, —New York Tribune.