ROMANTIC STORY OF THE AMERICAN WAR.

Dunstan Times, Issue 523, 26 April 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)

ROMANTIC STORY OF THE AMERICAN WAR.

Henry DiHon, an ex-Union soldier, proprietor of a newspaper stand at Montgomery and Hudson streets, recently received a cheque for five hundred dollars from the daughter of the late General Stegman, of the Confederate army. During the war Dillon served in the Second New Jersey Cavalry. He accompanied his regiment on Grierson’s famous raid through Mississippi, and while on a scouting expedition one day encountered Gen. Stegman and one of his staff officers. Shots were exchanged, and the rebel general fell from his saddle mortally wounded. The staff offer Usd, lut was overtaken and captured by a comrade of Dillon’s. In his dying moments, Gen, Stegman requested his slayer to take from one of his inside pockets his will, bequeath, ing all his property to his wife and daughter, and a life insurance policy for 40,000 dollars. He asked Dillon to keep them and send them to his family. After the war Mr. Dillon advertised in vain for the owners, and he resolved to retain possession of the papers until some enquiries should be made for them. Recently an advertisement appeared in the Alabama papers, offering five hundred dollars reward for the missing will. Dillon answered it, and Gen. Stegman’s daughter came North as the guest of Roger A. Pryor. She relates the particulai-s of the long search for the will, the difficulties that had been en countered, the production of a forged will by her father’s relatives, and their Mobile lawsuits. She expressed deep gratitude to Mr. Dillon for the recovery of the will, and said that through it her mother and herself would be enabled to regain possession of their extensive Alabama and Georgia estates. The estates are valued at three hundred thousand dollars.