Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1869 — Romance of a Pair of Stockings and a Chicago Girt. [ARTICLE]

Romance of a Pair of Stockings and a Chicago Girt.

.Many of the boys of the 53d M&ssachus setts regiment who were with Weitzel’s brigade when the charge was made ou the works at Port Hudson, will remember well the gallant defense which three dr four men made at the salient it was expected this brigade would take and hold until Paine’s division could come up. One of those men, so a native of Port Hudson told us, resided on a plantation about nine miles from the landing, near a farm now owned by Moody Brothers, from Massachusetts. None of the men who saw him with his “musket clubbed ” that day will doubt his being a brave man. He was afterwards captured at Chattanooga and taken to Camp Douglas, Chicago, where he remained nearly six months. About a year before his capture he had been among# party who seized a supply train of the Federate, near Corinth, Mies. In a box of stores belonging totbe Sanitary Commission he found a pair of blue cotton socks, and when he drew them on he discovered the following note inside : “Soldivb: Whosoever thou art, wear these socks, with the comforting assurance that the fingers that knit them were supplied with life from a warm and sympathizing heart. “ LiMiaVT Ou, Chicago.” This short letter (which was printed in (he, Louisiana papers at the time) was called to mind one day at Camp Douglas when he was putting on the stockings, he resolved, for the fun of it, to write toher and tell her the history of the pair pf socks. This he did, and soon after re ceived a call at his quarters from Miss Gee atfohber father. He did not see her or heir from her afterward until he was again in the Southern army and stationed ♦VBarper’s Perry. There the company in -krhich he WM Lieutenant captured a sqfiad of cavalry, and among the number wa»-the only brother of Miss Lizzie V. Gee. Every kindness which could be done for a prisoner was done for. young Gee by his new acquaintance, and when, shortly after, Gee wag paroled, he was the sworn tMhild of -the Cbnfoaefate-" Lieutenant. When the .war :<do*ed they had some correspondence, and the Confederate soldier was invited up to Chicago to attend the wedding Gee’s sister. When he got there, much to his surprise, the exConfederate. found that Gee had two-sis-ters, and that the one about to be married was not the one he h»ff.«en.. The rest of the story is told in a twinkling. He mar ried the sister that knit the stockings. For the details of latter part of this romance, see “everybody’s experience," such as sighs, palpitating hearts, a little moonlight, aua silly resolves "to die or win her." The matters which concern lovers were not told us to circulate. But the story itself we feel satisfied is a true one, as the address of the firm in Chicago, of which the bridegroom is a member, lies before us in our diary as we write.— 'Cor. Boston Traveler.