Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1910 — He Also Was a Dead One. [ARTICLE]

He Also Was a Dead One.

Governor Stuart, brown and soldierly, returned recently, from his inspection of the National Guard at Gettysburg. He is a commander in chief who faces warfare as a stern duty, but prefers to go to war in a Pullman, with his “peacock” staff safely ensconsced in comfortable seats about him. “Duty is duty." That is the Stuart motto. So he did what the manual required of the commander —slept in camp, near the Casino, inspected the regiments, reviewed them, and was a real soldier in the mimic battles. One of the stories told at the Union League by the governor to his chums about the terrible conflict, is as follows: "It occurred after the great onslaught on the Reds. Scores of ‘labeled’ dead were on the ground. Officers were down under the rain of invisible bullets shot from noiseless and smokeless guns. The sun wept upon the scene of carnage. The wounded were carried to hospitals, past dying and dead companions. It was terrible. “Standing in front of his tent a captain was seized by a sobbing father, who in great agony cried out: “ ‘Why didn’t you tell me my son was killed?’ “ ‘How could I? I was killed myself.’ "