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SCARRED HUMAN WRECKS AT THE CAPITAL
REAR ADMIRAL WORDEN
COMMODORE BADGER
GENERAL GRESHAM
JUDGE CHARLES D. LONG
GENERAL PLEASANTON
GENERAL G. A. FORSYTH
UEVTENANT.COLONEL POWELL
CAPTAIN CHARLES KINO
GENERAL O. O. HOWARD
Amoig Hood's humorous poems one of
the host known tells in a vein of uncanny
and gruesome humor the story of Ben
Battle—
A soldier bold,
Well used to war's »larms;
But a cannon ball took off his 'ess.
So he laid down his arms. .
He finds that he now stands upon
"another footing" with his lady love,
faithless Nelly Gray, who declares sho
would newer have a man "with both legs
in tbe grave," and pursues him with
aucb a running tire of similar puns tbat
be is glad to find refuge in suicide.
This is all very well as tho work of a
professional humorist, dealing with an
imaginary case. But in Washington you
so frequently come face to face with
actual heroes of the war, who have been
maimed and shattered, so many living
wrecks of humanity, made such as mar
tyrs to their country, that poems like
Hood's seem to be not only heartless but
almost sacrilegious; a profanation of .he
feelings of honor, respect, sympathy and
admiration which you gladly lay as
guerdons at the feet of the men who have
saved their country at the expense of
their own comfort, happiness and well
being.
Thero is no more notable instance than
that of Ileal Aamiral John Lorimer Wor
den. He lives at No. 1128 X street, one
of the pleasantest neighborhoods in the
city. His house is comfortable and taste
fully furnished. He is surrounded by lov
ing relatives, with troops of friends.
Congress lias showered honors upon him
for his magnificent services in command
of the Monitor against the Merrirnac on
March 8, 1862, wlien the Merrirnac was
disabled at tbe very outset ot her career
and prevented from accomplishing her
purpose of destroying the national Meet
and capturing New York and Wasning
ton, as had been expected. Undoubtedly
Worden and the Monitor saved the north
ern cause. He was retired with the high
est sea pay of his grade in 1886, and now.
in the evening of his days, he should be
enjoying the comforts which tantalizingly
surround him—tantalizingly because,
alas! be has never recovered from tbe
terrible wounds which be received in
the very conflict with which bis name is
indelibly associated.
It was just before noon that a shell ex
ploded on the pilot house of the Moni
tor, while Worden was looking through
the site. Powder and flame were driven
into bis eyes. He fell senseless.
' "No, I can't talk about it," he said to
me when I called upon him the other
day. "My memory has gone. It has
never been good since that time. It is
getting worse and worse. My head was
all knocked to pieces at Hampton Roads.
For three months I lay unconscious, and
when I awoke to life again 1 was v men
tal wreca. Since then I haven't known
the time when I wasn't suffering both
physical and mental pain. For over a
yea.' I haven't stirred out of the bouse.
It's a continuous mortification to me to
find that I can't recognize or remember
my best and oldest friends. I get letters
every day from all parts of the country.
Ah! if these people knew how impossible
it is for me to take any notice of them
they would cease writing. My vision is
nesrly gone. I can neither read nor
write without a painful effort."
Yet. though this has been Worden's
condition, he had never flinched from tho
performance of his duty, as long as such
performance was possible. He continued
in command of the navy all during the
•war, participated in the blockade at
Charleston, and was subsequently super
intendent of the naval academy (1870-74,)
commander-in chief of the European
squadron (1875-77) and president of the
retiring board till December, 188 K.
A magnificent record for a man who
sadly describes bimseli as a mental
wreck.
The case of another naval hero who
lives within a few blocks of the rear
admital is less deplorable. This is Com
modore Oscar. C. Badger of No. 1317
Twentieth street. He is a white haired,
cheery gentleman, who would bear the
weight of his 72 years easily enough were
it not for a very lame leg. The wound
which lamed him was inflicted in the en
gagement with tbe forts and batteries in
Charleston harbor in September, 1863.
••"I was then," said the commodore,
"fleet captain of the squadron of iron
clads, seven in all, on board the Wee
hawken, the flag ironclad. On the night
of September Ist the entire squadro.i
made an attack on Sumter and the
other forts. We went up within three
hundred yards of Sumter, hoping to
blow it up by exploding the powder mag
azine. Though we leveled the fort almost
to the ground and left it a mass of ruins,
the garrison would not surrender. It was
a gallant tight. I've never known a gar
rison to hold out so long and so success
fully. Early in tho morning of Septem
ber 2d a solid 10-inch shot struck the tur
ret of the Weehawken. It was lired from
Fort Moultrie on tne left. The shot drove
in a fragment of metal weighing several
pounds, which, after shatering my leg,
glanced off and broke the arm of a sailor
standing by me.
"I spent four months in bod. and at
the end of that time the bones were as
loose as ever. It was long before they
knit. That was the end of my naval ca
reer during tho war. 1 was never quite
cured. Tbe wound is still painful, es
pecially in damp weather. The leg swells
up every day, and at night time is al
ways a full inch bigger than when I rise.
I can only walk with a cane, as you see.
But otherwise, thank God! I am in good
health and have nothing to complain of "
It is known that General Walter (J.
Gresham, secretary of state, is on the
pension roll for a wound received in the
Atlanra campaign. But few people realize
how painful that wound was and how
seriously it complicates the ailments un
der which he is suffering at present. He
lies at the Arlington hotel, and only a
few days ago was thought to be at the
point of death. His physicians will allow
him to see no one. From a comrade in
aims and a warm personal friend who
was a member of his command at the
time of the casualty. I received a detailed
aoeount, possinly the first thoroughly
accurate story ever published.
"General Gresham," said my inform
ant, "'commanded the Fourth division of
Blair's corps in the lighting before At
lanta. On July 20. 1804. Sherman's army
crossed the Peach Tree creek, constituting
the left of the army. A general engage
ment was expected next day. Ife got Eis
division In line of battle to make a charge
on Bald hill,occupied, as is was afterward
•learned, by dismounted confederate cav
alry. Gresham rode out further than he
should beyond his line, and was picked
out by a sharpshooter. A shot hit him
in tbe. groin and passed out at tho hip.
Por some time it was thought that he
could not pull though without the loss
of his leg. and would have a tough job of
it even then. But tho leg was saved. A
year after I saw the general at Willard's
hotel inWashirigton, whither he had been
taken from the hospital. Even then he
was not aole to move without assistance.
To this day the wound is a continual
drain on his system, and lavs him open
to pleuritic attacks. In damn weather lie
suffers excruciating pain from tbe wound.
THEIRS A LIVING DEATH
All These and Many More Heroes and Martyrs
Have Suffered for Their Country, and Are
Today Anything but Healthy Men
GRESHAM BEFORE ATLANTA
I did not learn this from him. He is ono
of the most reticent of ni*n about his
own affairs. He never complains. Those
who are thrown with him, however, no
tice, as I have noticed, that now and
again he draws himself together as if in
an agony of pain. But never a word es
capes him. His wiie watches over him
with the most mi remitting attention, the
most loyal love and devotion. She is con
stantly at his bedside, and cannot conceal
her anxiety."
Even Corporal Tanner admits that
Greshani is a great and heroic sufforer.
"Those hip wounds," the corporal told
me, "are painful and dangerous. Gresham
will never be a sound man again. But
do you know it is a curious fact, borne
out by the records of the pension office
and the .uedical depattment. that tha
comparative mortality is greater among
those who have received wounds in tne
arm than in the leg."
We were sitting in the restaurant above
the corporal's ortice in the Washington
Loan and Trust building, at F and Sev
enth street. The corporal was thought
fully putting on a Havana cigar. He was
in a talkative mood.
"Speaking abnout hip wounds," said
he to a reporter of the New York Herald,
"let me bring the attention of the people
to a couple of strange cases that have
come under my attention as a claim
agent. One is that of Judge Charles It.
Long, now of the supreme court of Mich
igan, a G.A.R. veteran. He was shot in
the hip and has never fully recovered.
When he starts out walking he may go
100 yards withou a mishap. But some
times at every five yards or so down he
goes prone on. the pavement, and lies
there until somebody conies and lifts
him up again on his pins. Then there is
an other veteran who bears the honored
name of William Shakespeare. He is a
Democratic lawyer in Kalamazoo. First
he lost bis left arm. Then be was wounded
by a rifle ball, which struck the leit nip.
just escaped the intestines by a miracle
and landed in the right groin. That
wound has never been allowed to heal,
if it did blood poisoning might set in and
lio'-.i be a goner. Up to six months ago
no less than 22,000 operations had hnen
performed on him by other lianas than
his own. You see the fact that he has
only one hand, and on the opposite side
from his wound, makes it impossible for
him to operate on himself. During tbe
Harrison administration botb these cases
received the full pension of $72 a month.
They were.among the first to be cut down
by tbe present administration. But I be
lieve that I will succeed in restoring them
to tbe full pension.'"
Corporal Tanner, as he is well known,
has himself lost both his legs and walks
around on wooden ones. I asked him if
he would tell mo tbe story cf how he was
wounded. He drew himself up as I
thought, a little suspiciously.
"I understand,", he said, "thatsome of
Colonel Waring's friends have been hunt
ing up my war record since I had the
pleasure of saying a few words about him
in New York. They are welcome to do
so. My record is in the war department.
As to my wound, I received it at tbe
second battile of Bull Run, in Kearney's
division, where I belonged. Apiece of
shell struck me and smashed both my
legs. Since then 1 have submitted to
three operations, the last on February
Otb. I feel as 1 had been distrbutini
pieces of my body ail over the country. '
Then tbe corporal remembered that bis
wife was awaiting dinner for him, and
stumped off without the formality of a
leave-taking. Did he think I was one of
Colonel Waring's friends?
A great sufferer is General A. J. Fleas
anion, the hero of Chanccllorsville. who,
by bis personal gallantry, saved that bat
tie from becoming a disastrous rout.
Once he was among the best known and
most popular men in Washington. His
name was in everybody's mouth as that
of one of the greatest of Northern cavalry
officers. For five tears he has been in
absolute retirement, the victim of a fistula
contracted at the time when he spent
fin- majority of bis working hours in the
saddle.
Tbe last doctor who bas seen bim pro
fessionally was Surgeon General Bliss, a
lifelong friend. He performed several
painful surgical operations, rendered still
more painful by the fact that tbe general
stoutly refusedthe aid of anaesthetics.
The operatins were successful in remov
ing the fistula, but a number of abcesses
broke out ail over the patient's body. He
is now coverod with them, but he will
not take professional advice. He swears
that doctors aro no good.
The general is confined to bis room in
a curious little old fashioned boarding
house, know as as the Greason nousc, at
No. 1303 E street. It is kept by Martha
W. Greason, whose father wus a friend of
General Fleasanton. Sixteen years ago
the general came to live in the house,
fleeing from the influx of visitors who
annoyed him at the larger hotels in
which he formerly lived.
"It is because they obey orders that I
have been here so long," he said the
other day.
Mrs. Greason. in fact, prides herself on
her obedience to orders. She mounts
guard in the parlor every day una allows
no one to pass up to the invalid's room
save a few intimate and congenial
friends. She is a large, good-natured
body, who suffers trom dropsy and shares
the general's contempt for doctors. ■
"Four years ago, she told me, "I be
gan to swell up. The doctors said they
could help me. They brought tubs and
things, such a lot uf them that I
thought now I'm going to emerge quite
nice and genteel looking. But lor! they
tapped me and filled up their buckets and
carted them away, but I grew larger than
ever. And now I have no more use for
doctors. Neither has the general. He is
one of tbe wittiest and most entertaining
men you ever saw. A doctor friend of
his insisted in leaving him some pills.
He took one ami it was so nasty that he
spat it out and threw tbe whole box
away. Next morning there were a couple
of dead sparrows lyiujg under the gen
eral's windows. 'YeS'says he'ana I'd
have been with tbe sparrows if I had
taken the pills.' "
Mis. Greason laughed so heartily as to
show a full row of very pretty teeth.
"Such a generous man as the general is,"
she went on. "He reads all the medical
avertisoments and tries everything that
he thinks would do him good. Ana if
it does he insists on sharing it with me.
Lor! you know, the general's wealthy,
iHe didn't stay here for the economy. He
gets $1240 a month from the government
as pay and pension, and his sister died
last vcar and loft bim $50,000."
Here a smiling colored woman of mid
dle nge appeared, and was introduced as
the general's nurse. She occupies a room
just adjoining his and holds herself ready
to answwer any call. The general moves
about little more than from tbe bed to
the window where on the fine days he
sits and watches tho stream of people go*
ing up and down Pennsylvania avenue.
He has frequently been confounded
with his brother. General A. .1. Fleasan
ton of Blue Grass fame. Indeed, when
tho latter died in Philadelphia last July
many of tbe newspaper notices, even in
Washington papers, spoke of the dead
man as tbe hero of Cbancellorsville. Gen
eral Alfred read the obituaries with a cer
tain grim interest.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 26, 1895.
"So lam dead, am I?" That was bis
only comment.
A well known figure in Washington ■»
Brevet Brigadier General George A. For
syth. Few who look at his oreot and stal
wart figure would, if they did not know
him and his record, believe that his body
was at one time riddled with bullets.
This was the case in a famous tight with
the Cheyenne Indians, at the Arickarce
Fork of the Republican river, on Sep
tember 10, 1867. With only fifty men he
was surrounded by a force of redskins es
timated at seven l-uadred or more. Gen
eral Forsyth and his men hastily took up
a position on a little sond Island where,
with knivc ■ and hands as their only im
plements, they dug rifle pits for them
selves and held the ene:..y at bay for nine
days, before assistance arrived. The first
day was the most disastrous to both sidef.
The Indians repeatedly charged on the
little band, and were repeatedly driven
back by volley after volley from 'the rifle
pits in the island ot death.
On that day General Forsyth received a
bullet in the r>ght thigh a"nd another in
the left leg, while a third clipped off a
small portion of his sku!l. By the eighth
day the shattered bone of his lett leg
stuck througli the wound, and maggots
had taken possession ot the exposed flesh.
Sixteen of his men wers severely wounded
one was killed and three died in the
trenches. They had no provisions save
raw mulo meat, tho flesh of the animals
killed by the Indians, which soon grew
too putrid to eat. The band was at tho
last extremity when v detachment of
troops from Fort Wallace relieved them
from their terrible position. The Indians
lost 75 killed and 200 wounded.
It was the same year the Lieutenant
Colonel .l..'mes Powell performed a simi
lar feat of valor near Fort Phil Kearney,
D. T., against the Sioux Indians under
Red Cloud. Colonel Powell was at that
very time suffering from wounds received
in Georgia during the war. With twenty
so/en soldiers and four civilians he was
hemmed in by 3000 braves in a corral
hastily constructed out of wagon beds
laid on the ground, end to end.
The first charge was from 800 savage
horsemen, who poured down from the
surrounding hills. The white men were
armed with the newly invented breech
loaders, which were unknown to tbeir
foes. They waited until the Indians had
come within thirty yards of their im
provised fort. Then there was a'sheet of
flame and a roar, and like dry leaves be
fore a gust of wind the Indians were
swept aside to tbe right and left, leaving
the field covered with dead and dying.
And now tbe entire band on foot circled
the corral. Masses of Indians preceded
by sharpshooters renewed the attack.
Again and again they were beaten back
by the intangible and invisible foe.
The fight continued from 7 o'clock iv
the morning until 3 p. m. Even befoie
assistance arrived from the fort, the In
dians, baffled, awstruck and bleeding,
were in full retreat They have since
learned the use of the breech loader, but
tbo survivors remember sail that awful
day, when the gods seemed to be fighting
on tne side of the mere handful of white
men.
Today Colonel Powell lives in Peoria,
111., a mere wreck of bis former self.
Paralysis has followed as a result of
wounds received, not in the Indian, but
in the civil war. He is wheeled around
in a perambulator by an attendant.
Captain Charles King, the military
novelist, lives in Milwaukee. His left
arm was shattered in the Apache war in
Arizona in 1874, and hejis now on the re
tired list. It is lo the leisure thus ac
quired that the reading world is indebted
for the charming fictions which prove
that his pen is at least as mighty as his
sword.
These are a few of the more notable
cases of officers now living who bear the
honorable scars of conflict against the
foes of the country. Many others have
lost a leg, an arm, or one or both eyes.
General Dan E. Sickles comes in the first
category. General O. O. Howard in tho
second. General N. M. Curtis lost an eye
at Fort Fisher.
i The privates who have suffered aro of
course innumerable. In the medical
museum at Washington is a scries of
photographs taken from life, which form
a gallery of strange and ghastly disfigura
tions. Some of the most distressing of
these cases are where the faco has been
so shockingly mutilated that the sufferer
remains.an object of pity and even re
pulsion. Some of these poor fellows find
it a most impossible to make a living, ex
cept in seclusion from society.
Hence surgeons have frequently yielded
to solicitations to repair such facial dam
ages as far as possible, even when they
had small hope of success. But in some
cases, as in that of Sergeant George
Prince, for a long time a messenger of
the treasury department in Washington,
it was tound tliat the inconvenience
likely to be caused by an autoplastic
operation would scarcely compensate for
the possible modification of external de
formity. In this case the ball entered on
the right side and emerged about an inch
below the left eye. The right eve was
destroyed, and the bones of the face were
fractured so as to disfigure it utterly.
Some triumphant cases ot reparation
are recorded, however. Dr. Buck s opera
tion on Private Klbert Hewitt is consid
ered one of tbe chief triumphs of modern
plastic surgery. A fragment of a sheil
had struck Hewitt's mouth, carrying
away the tipper and lower front teeth,
lacerating the under lip near the right
angle of the mouth, splitting the nose
and the upper lip and laying open the
right cheek.
Here tue lips were reconstructed,a plate
cf vulcanite ingeniously adapted to both
jaws supplied the loss uf the front teeth,
and the face was built up new into tolera
ble symmetry. •
A still more remarbkable case, unfortu
nately not supported, by photographic
evidence, was that of Corporal Henry
Gibbs, of tbe Sixty-seventh Ohio Volun
teers, who lost his entire lower jaw.
The report of the attending surgeon states
that a plastic operation was performed,
pins were put in. and in four weeks ihe
patient had entirely recovered, without
any apparent external deformity.
DANIEL FREEMAN IS MAD
He Will flake the City Pay for an
Accident
Tho mayor yesterday received from
Daniel Freeman a lettei notifying bim
tbat one of Mr. Freeman's best brood
mares bad on Friday fallen into a hole
in the street, near Inglewood, at a point
where the public sewer had caved in.
The writer says that it was a 12-foot hole
und it required tbo services of seven
,uen to extricate tne animal and dig her
out The msre is crippled and Mr. Free
man intends as soon as iio can attend to
tbe matter, render an itemized account
for damages against tbo city.
Incorporated
The West Coast Abstract company yes
terday filed articles of incorporation. Tne
board of directors consists of F. W.Swopc
of Riverside, and John McLaren, W. H.
Kelly, John R. Berry and Joseph Hyans
ol this city._ The capital stock is $50,000,
Of which t4G,GSO In subscribed.
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CRUELTY OP A STEPMOTHER
Tbe Undeserved Suffering of a Little Girl Who
Was Hated by a Brute
Complaint was sworn out yesterday
afternoon by Humane Officer D.S. Hutch
ins charging Mr. and Mrs. Blair of the
Highland Villa lodging bouse, at tbe cor
ner of First aud Hill streets, with misde
meanor.
Blair married a young woman after tbe
death of his first wife, and she imme
diately developed very cruel instincts
against the two little girls, Florence and
Anna. The first one dieu about tbree
weeks ago from spinal meningitis, it is
alloged. Sbo was about 8 years old. Tbe
other child. Anna, is 10 years old. and it
is for their cruel conduct to her tbat Blair
and his wife were arrested.
The case was investigated some six
months ago by Humane OrHcer Wright,
who found that Mrs. Blair had been
guilty of the most exasperating cruelty to
tho little ones. Her principal reason, t
appears, for all her inhumanity was tbat
the children so mucb resembled their
dead mother. At tbat time Blair and bis
wife separated on account of b«. ,a oo mini.
ble bohavior, and she sought refuge with
her parents, who refused to take her in. 8:
Alter profuse promises to reform Blair
took back his wife, but her conduct to
ward tbo children remained as bad as
ever. Officer Hutchins has seen over
twenty witnesses to tbe acts of abuse of
this cruel stepmother, and they are
unanimous in branding her as a most in
human being. Tbe treatment of tbe
child has been horrible. She has been
flagged, beaten,clubbed, starved to death,
eft without clothes and made to sleep in
the bed from which the body of her little
dead sister hod but just been removed.
All the ne.ghbois agree tbat the chil
dren wero nice, well-behaved, loving lit
tle girls, who deserved a better fate. An
effort will be made to take Anna away
from such unsavory parents.
IT COSTS MONEY
The City Is Quite a Large Employer of
Labor
The finance committee of tbe council
yesterday audited certain city pay rolls
for the month of April. The city is one
of the largest if not the largest employ
ers of labor in this vicinity, disbursing
over $20,000 a month regularly tor wages
Of this sum the executive and legislative
departments of the citytgovernment and
the employees about the city hall eat up
$8785.38 a month, thu pay of the police
department is $0030.07 a month,the parks
got $4802.55 a month, the pay roll of the
fire department is $3774.05 a month, that
of tho street department is $4681.41 a
month and that of the water overseer is
$278.75 a month. The figures above do
not of course include money paid out by
the city for supplies, rent of engine
houses and such thin gs.
Resolutions of Respect
At a meeting of tne board of directors
of the Louisville Water company, the fol
lowing resolutions, bearing on tbe death
of Dr. r. L. Burnett, were adopted:
J We have learned with profound regret
and sorrow of the death of Dr. Theodore
L. Burnett of Los Angeles, CaL, who. in
former years, was an honored and highly
esteemed and efficient officer of this com
pany : therefore, be it
Resolved, first—Tbat we sincerely mourn
the sudden and unexpected death of Dr.
Burnett, 011 led nwar in tbe vigor of
noble young manhood and eminent use
fulness in his profession. His official
and personal relations with the company
and its management were such as to
greatly endear him to us. and command
our high appreciation of bis noble qual
ities and attributes of heart and mind.
Second—The ways of a wise Providence
are inscrutable, aud we bow with humble
submission to Him who doeth all things
for the best, however greot and heavy
tbe grievous burnens may be.
Third—We tender our deep sympathy
to our co-director, Judge T. L. Burnett,
father of Dr. Burnett, and to his grief*
stricken farailv, and to the bereaved wife
of the deceased in the great and irrepar
able loss they have sustained.
Fourth—That these resolutions be spread
upon the minutes of this company, and
copies thereof, under tho seal or the com
pany, he transmitted to our co-director.
Judge Burnett, and his family, and to the
wife of tbe deceased.
Attest: WM. F. INGRAM, Treasurer.
I think the loveliest quality that a wom
an can have is sympathy. A woman who
has sympathy, who is honestly interested
in other people, and who bas dainty ways
and looks, however plain tbe Lord may
have made her lace, will please those who
meet her; aud make those who know love
ber; and she ia surely a loveable woman,
if not a lovely one. Tbe loveliest charm
that a woman can have is, not beauty,
but grace. I think I should say that a
woman who had grace and sympathy was
a lovely woman.—Octave Tbanet.
A. A. Kckstrom nas removed to 334 South
Sprint street with bis stock of wall papoj.
Vsz asKsm Fasily set?.
Do You Want
Fashionable Clothing ?
That is the kind we keep. Everything up-to-date;
always receiving something new. Have you noticed
those handsome patterns in our show windows in
Men's Suits for
$10, $12.50, $15, $17.50 and $20,
Or the many pretty styles in Boys' Suits for
$1.50, $2.50, $3, $3.50, $4 and $5?
On the principle " That the outside of a store is the
index to the inside," we stand firm in the claim that
our store is on the inside all that the outside indicates,
viz: A FIRST-CLASS ESTABLISHMENT. Our
Furnishing Goods Department is making rapid strides
to the front.
HARRIS & FRANK, Proprietors,
110 to 125 North Spring Street.