Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1916 — His Old Friend? [ARTICLE]

His Old Friend?

A pretty story is told of the visit to Arlington cemetery of a camp of Confederate veterans at the time of the funeral of Gen. Joe Wheeler. In passing down the long line of white stones glittering In the glow of the dying sun, an armless, gTay-haired veteran in faded gray caught sight of a name newly cut on the stone. He beckoned to his comrades, “Why, here is Jim. You all remember Jim in Company B,” he explained, in a quavering voice to the men pressing around. “I never thought I would see any trace of him again.” And with tears-in their eyes each veteran left a leaf on the mound above their long-lost dead.