Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1885 — Coolness Underfire. [ARTICLE]

Coolness Underfire.

An exhibition of composure under fire, perhaps never recounted in print, occurred during the Schleswig-Holstein war in 1840. A. Prussian force was beleaguering the fortress of Friedrichsort, at that time commanded by a Danish General noted for coolness and dandyism, and both fortress; and town were subjected to a most unmerciful pelting, in the progress of which a shell passed through the well of the commandant’s office, demolished a clerk or two in transit, and msde its exit through the opposite wall of the building. Naturally there ensued a moment of hurry and confusion among the people in the office. The commandant, however, sat calmly at his desk, and in his usual tones requested an orderly to stop the hole in the wall with a blanket before the draft should give him his death of cold— New York Comntercial Advertiser. '"'ti .