A PATHETIC INCIDENT

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4526, 7 July 1883, Page 4

A PATHETIC INCIDENT

Fsank Moore relates this affecting incident of a dying son's recognition of his mother : In one of the fierce engagements near Mechani.csvUle, a young lieutenant of a Shod* Tsland battery had his right foot so shattered by a fragment of a shell, that on reaching Washington, after one of those horrible ambulance rides, and a journey of a week's duration, he was obliged to undergo amputation of the leg. He telegraphed home, hundreds of miles away, that all .was going well, an<l with a soldiers fortitude composed himself to bear his sufferings alone. Unknown to.him, however, his mother, who had read the. report of his" wound, was hastening to sic him. She reached Washington at. midnight, and the nurses would have kept her from seeing her son until morning. One sat by his side, fanning him as be slept, her hand on the feeble, fluctuating pulse. But what woman's heart could resist the pleadings of a mother? In the darkness she was finally allowed to glide in and tako a place at his side. She touched his pulse as the nurse had done. Not a word bad been spoken; but the sleeping boy opened his eyes and said: "That feels like my mother's hand. Who is this beside me ? It is my mother. Tarn up the gas and let me gee mother. 1' The two, dear faces met in one long,, joyful, robbing embrace. The gallant fellow, just twenty,nine, had his leg amputated on the last .day: of his three y«*™' setrioe, underwent the operation and at last, when death drew nigh, resigned himself to peace, saying : II" 1 b»Te faced death too often to fear itaow."

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