Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1920 — CHIVALRY NATURAL TO HIM [ARTICLE]

CHIVALRY NATURAL TO HIM

Brave Act of Virginian Soldier In France Had Ite Counterpart In Deed of General Lee. It was not often that the soldier boy would talk at all of those days in France, but one evening he had been telling his uncle and some of the lads who had dropped in of the rescue of Parade Rest Parade Rest was the company’s mascot, a rather nondescript dog. of do marked intelligence but devoted to and beloved by the boys, who had given him this sobriquet because of the position in which he always stqpd, with one foot turned out. One day at Chateau Thierry he had been left behind in a dugout, but had followed the boys, and at a moment when there was a lull in the advance, there, a tempting target for the enemy, silhouetted against the glare, stood Parade Rest. ' "It doesn’t seem much to tell now,” the soldier said, looking over the quiet little group on the home porch, thousands of miles away from that battlefield, “but it was some stunt. My bnddie dashed' out among the falling shrapnel and bursting shells and seized Parade Rest so -quickly we couldn’t tell how it was done.” “Where was your buddle from?” Inquired one of the boys in the group. At the answer “From Virginia,” the soldier boy’s uncle smiled, a reminiscent, comprehending smile. “He was only repeating an act of one of the greatest of Virginians, my lads,” the old man began, and then the little group remembered that here in their midst was a veteran of that war of the Blue and the Gray. “For one day, during the long siege of Petersburg, General Lee, in his effort to encourage his men, took up amost dangerous position on the front Uries. But having been cautioned aqd later besought, he retired to the rear. Only a few minutes later, however, seeing some fledglings fall from their nest to the battlefield, he rode out, jumped from his horse, and restored them to safety. It. was done very quickly but not so quickly but that the general, on his well-known gray horse, was visible to the enemy. But the enemy did not Are upon him in that act.” —Christian Science Monitor.