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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The unique story book - -Author: Anonymous - -Release Date: August 29, 2022 [eBook #68867] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Demian Katz, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy - of the Digital Library@Villanova University.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE UNIQUE STORY BOOK *** - - -Transcriber’s Note: - -Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). - -Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end. - - * * * * * - -MULTUM IN PARVO LIBRARY. - -Entered at the Boston Post office as second class matter. - -Vol. 2. MAY, 1895. Published Monthly. No. 17. - - - - -The Unique Story Book. - - - Smallest Magazine in the world. Subscription price - 50 cts. per year. Single Copies 5 cts. each. - - PUBLISHED BY - A. B. COURTNEY, - Room 74, 45 Milk Street, - BOSTON, MASS. - - - - -THE THREE DIAMONDS. - - -“Do you remember the diamonds we found up at old Gray Jake Wagner’s -house when we were making that little raid around Taylorsville?” was -asked of Colonel Andrew M. Benson, of Portland, Me., by a former -companion with whom he was dining at Syracuse, N. Y. The colonel at -first failed to recall the circumstances, but on the mention of a -certain Miss Wagner’s name a relaxation of his features showed that -all recollection of the episode was not lost, and the dinner party -was soon in possession of the facts, as follows: In the latter part -of the year 1864, Colonel Benson, the captain of the First District -of Columbia cavalry, with Colonel James M. Gere, also captain at the -time, Colonel Walpole, of Syracuse, and Lieutenant Cornell, of Vermont, -were confined in the prison pen at Columbia, S. C., and during December -they escaped and made their way to Crab Orchard, on Doe River Cove. -There they found a company of 83 struggling Federal soldiers. Though -in the heart of the enemy’s country, the members of this little band -were suddenly stimulated to excessive bravery by thus meeting with -their fellows, and conceived it would be a fine joke to make a little -raid on Taylorsville, a village nearly 50 miles further north. The -daring of the scheme appeared when, upon examination, it was found -that 30 of the men had just one round of ammunition, while 31 had only -one extra charge. Six, however, were mounted, and, at the head of this -plucky detachment of cavalry Captain Benson was placed. Captain Gere -led the infantry, and the whole squad was in command of Lieutenant -James Hartley. Such was the make-up of the band that started out with -more pluck than powder to capture Taylorsville. About 40 miles of the -distance had been covered when the plantation of a rebel was reached -who was notorious in all the country round. A halt was ordered to treat -with the owner, Gray Jake Wagner, who was at that time just walking out -to feed his hogs. - -“Oh, take what you want; but only spare my life,” cried Gray Jake -Wagner, throwing up his hands like a flash and dropping his pail -of swill as a bullet whistled past his ear, advising him of his -distinguished visitors. - -“We want,” said Captain Benson, “whatever you have of use to us.” And -it took but a glance to tell the astonished planter that nothing could -come amiss to that ragged company so lately escaped from the horrors -of a rebel prison. Now, among other members of the Wagner family was a -pretty daughter of the old rebel, aged eighteen, who had just returned -from boarding school to spend the holidays. After listening to the -conversation with her father, and catching a glimpse of the visitors, -she ran frightened to her own room. The troops swarmed about the place -like bees and rushed into the house at every door. Several soldiers -soon found their way even to the room of the scared young lady and -demanded the immediate surrender of her revolver and ammunition. - -“I have no revolver,” cried the frightened girl. - -“You have,” yelled one of the soldiers with an oath, “and you will give -it up.” But at just this juncture the tall form of Captain Benson, -who was then a dashing officer of 28, appeared, and he took in the -situation at a glance. Drawing his revolver, he threatened to drop the -first man who touched a thing in that room or failed to leave without -a word. The men withdrew in silence, while the frightened Miss Wagner, -with tears and sobs, expressed her heartfelt thanks to her gallant -protector. - -“What did you find in the house?” asked Captain Benson of the infantry -officer, as they left the place. “I found these diamonds,” he quietly -added, pointing to three glistening drops on his shoulder. The raid -did not extend very far beyond Gray Jake Wagner’s. Taylorsville, they -learned, was full of rebel soldiers, and the little party barely -managed to reach the Union lines. - -Miss Wagner obtained in some way the address of her benefactor, and -afterward, by letter, it is said, she sent her thanks, which she could -only partially express in the excitement of their meeting. - - - - -BUILDING A BRIDGE IN SEVENTEEN HOURS. - - -In July, 1861, General J. D. Cox’s division was chasing General Henry -A. Wise’s Confederate forces up the Kanawha River, in West Virginia, -and to impede the rapid advance of the Union troops the bridge across -Pocotaligo Creek was destroyed. The stream was only a couple of rods -wide, but its banks were steep and the bed of the creek was too much -of a slough to allow fording by the wagon trains and artillery. The -regular army engineers wanted a few weeks’ time to prepare plans, and -considered it necessary to send to Cincinnati for tools and material -to construct a bridge. The General, being informed that the Eleventh -Ohio Infantry Regiment, then encamped at “Poco,” had a company -composed entirely of mechanics, sent for the captain, and, after a -short conference with that officer, directed him to put his men at -work. Commencing at nine o’clock in the morning, in seventeen hours a -substantial “bridge” was built across the creek, and which was used by -army wagons, cannons and soldiers for a long time, probably until the -war closed. A raft of logs, timbers from a deserted house, and poles -cut in the woods near by, were the materials used for the bridge, the -tools being a few axes and augers. These practical bridge-builders were -members of Company K, principally machinists, molders, etc., from the -shops of Lane & Bodley, of Cincinnati, the captain being their late -employer, P. P. Lane, afterward colonel of the regiment. - - - - -THE COLONEL’S FORAGED BREAKFAST. - - -Colonel Johnson, commanding the 108th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer -Infantry, during the late war, up to the time he fairly earned and -secured his “single star,” was a strict disciplinarian. Straggling and -foraging were especially tabooed by him; certain and severe was the -punishment of the culprit who was caught away from his command without -authority, and if any foraged provisions were found on the scoundrel -they were at once confiscated. As it was not practicable to return the -provisions to the lawful owner, the colonel would have them served up -at his own mess table, “to keep them from going to waste.” - -As a consequence, the colonel was cordially hated by many of his men, -and many were the plans laid down by them “to get even” and circumvent -him, but, owing to his astuteness, they generally came to grief. - -One day a soldier of the regiment, who had the reputation of being “a -first-class, single-handed forager,” but who had nevertheless been -repeatedly compelled to disgorge his irregularly procured supply of -fresh meat, and as repeatedly to pass an interval of his valuable -time in the regimental bull-pen, slipped away from camp and, after an -absence of several hours, returned with a loaded haversack and tried -to get to his tent without attracting any attention. He was noticed, -however, and promptly arrested and escorted to regimental headquarters. - -“Omar, you infernal scoundrel, you have been foraging again,” said the -colonel. - -“No, I haven’t.” - -“Haven’t, eh! Let’s see what is in your haversack. Leg o’ mutton, eh! -Killed some person’s sheep,” said the colonel. Omar was sent to the -guard house as usual, and the foraged property to the colonel’s cook. - -The regimental mess, consisting of most of the field and staff -officers, had fresh meat for supper and breakfast. During the latter -meal the colonel happened to look out from under the tent fly that was -in use as a mess-room, and noticed Omar, who was under guard cleaning -up around headquarters, eyeing him very closely. The colonel remarked: -“Well, prisoner, what is it?” - -“Nothing, colonel,” replied Omar, “except I was just wondering how you -liked your breakfast of _fried dog_.” - -Consternation seized the party at the table. With an exclamation or -expletive, every one of them sprang to his feet, and from under the -tent fled. - -Omar ran for his life, and at once, as per preconcerted agreement, -over half the men in the regiment commenced barking and howling like -dogs--big dogs, little dogs, hoarse and fine, bass and soprano, -fortissimo and mezzo-soprano, dogs ’round the corner and dogs under -the house--in short, there was the “dog”-onedest kind of a racket made -until the colonel grasped his sword, and, foaming with rage, rushed for -the men’s tents; but they were too old to be caught. - -For a long time, though, they would “regulate” the colonel if he -showed signs of being excessive by barking, but at their peril, for he -would certainly have killed a _barker_ if discovered. - -After that breakfast the regimental mess strictly abstained from eating -any second-hand foraged meat. - - - - -THE NOBLE ACT OF A HERO. - - -Louis Abear, says the Detroit _Free Press_, was a private in Company -H, Fifth Michigan Cavalry, and made a good soldier. At the battle of -Trevillian Station he was taken prisoner, and before his release he was -confined in five different prison-pens and two jails. - -While he was in Millen Prison, an exchange of sixty prisoners was to be -made. The officer of the day told off sixty names at the door of the -pen, but for some reason, probably because he was too ill, or perhaps -dead, one man did not come forth. At that moment Louis, who had been -sent out after fuel, under guard of course, came through the gates -pushing a wheelbarrow loaded with wood. - -“Here, Louis, here’s a chance for you. We want sixty men to go North -and are short one. Jump into the ranks here!” exclaimed the officer. - -“To be exchanged?” asked Louis, trembling more than he did when under -fire. - -“Yes. Be quick.” - -“Then take Hank. He’s sick, and will die if he remains here,” and Louis -darted into the hospital ward. Hank had a pair of pantaloons and shoes, -but no coat or hat. Louis pulled off his, put them on Hank, and brought -him out, weak and tottering. As Hank filed out the gate and once more -breathed the air of freedom, Louis, hatless and coatless, took hold of -the handles of his wheelbarrow and started for another load of wood. - -Can mortal mind conceive of such an act? It cost him seven months of a -living death, and all for a man with whom he was not even intimately -acquainted. - -And now for the other side of the picture. Ever since the close -of the war, until a few months ago, when Hank died, these two men -have lived right here in Wayne County, Hank with a home and family, -Louis with neither; have met occasionally, but at no time did Hank -ever refer to the act in Millen Prison that set him free and saved -his life; never invited him to his home; never alluded to the past, -or addressed his savior other than as a mere acquaintance. On his -death-bed, however, he told the story, and asked his relatives if they -ever had an opportunity, to befriend Louis for his sake. It was tardy -acknowledgement of one of the noblest acts the world has ever known. - - - - -SOME OF LINCOLN’S JOKES. - - -President Lincoln has been made responsible for so many jokes, writes -Ben. Perley Poore, that he reminds one of a noted Irish wit who, having -been ruined by indorsing the notes of his friends, used to curse the -day when he learned to write his name, as he had obtained such a -reputation for willingness to oblige that he could not refuse. Mr. -Lincoln might well have regretted ever having made a joke, for he was -expected to say something funny on all occasions, and has been made -answerable for all manner of jests, stories and repartee, as if he -had combined all the elements of humor, commonplace heartlessness and -coarseness, mingled with a passion for reviving the jokes of Joe Miller -and the circus clowns. Yet he did say many excellent things. On one -occasion Senator Wade came to him and said: - -“I tell you, Mr. President, that unless a proposition for emancipation -is adopted by the government, we will all go to the devil. At this very -moment we are not over one mile from hell.” - -“Perhaps not,” said Mr. Lincoln, “as I believe that is just about the -distance from here to the Capitol, where you gentlemen are in session.” - -On one occasion, at a reception, when the crowd of citizens and -soldiers were surging through the salons of the White House, evidently -controlled by the somewhat brusque Western element, a gentleman said to -him: - -“Mr. President, you must diminish the number of your friends, or -Congress must enlarge this edifice.” - -“Well,” promptly replied Mr. Lincoln, “I have no idea of diminishing -the number of my friends; but the only question with me now is whether -it will be best to have the building stretched or split.” - -At one of these receptions, when a paymaster in full major’s uniform -was introduced, he said: - -“Being here, Mr. Lincoln, I thought I would call and pay my respects.” - -“From the complaints made by the soldiers,” responded the President, “I -guess that is all any of you do pay.” - -Ward Lamon, when Lincoln had appointed him Marshal of the District -of Columbia, accidentally found himself in a street fight, and, in -restoring peace, he struck one of the belligerents with his fist, a -weapon with which he was notoriously familiar. The blow was a harder -one than Lamon intended, for the fellow was knocked senseless, taken up -unconscious, and lay for some hours on the border of life and death. -Lamon was alarmed, and the next morning reported the affair to the -President. - -On another occasion a young soldier had fallen out of ranks when his -regiment passed through Washington, and, getting drunk, failed to join -his regiment when it left the city. To the friend who came to secure a -pardon, Mr. Lincoln said: “Well, I think the boy can do us more good -above ground than under ground,” and he wrote out the pardon. - -In all such cases as the above, where the ordinary human weakness -was the motive, Mr. Lincoln’s heart was tender as a woman’s, but to -prove that he could entertain no sympathy for a cool, deliberate, -mercenary crime, he was approached by the Hon. John B. Alley, of -Massachusetts, one day, with a petition for the pardon of a man who had -been convicted of engaging in the slave trade, and sentenced to five -years’ imprisonment and the payment of a fine of one thousand dollars. -His term of imprisonment had expired, but in default of payment of the -fine, he was still held. In answer to the appeal for pardon Mr. Lincoln -said: “You know my weakness is to be, if possible, too easily moved by -appeals for mercy, and if this man were guilty of the foulest murder -that the arm of man could perpetrate, I might forgive him on such an -appeal; but the man who would go to Africa and rob her of her children -and sell them into an interminable bondage with no other motive than -that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the -most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hands. -No, he may rot in jail before he shall have liberty by any act of mine.” - -Upon another occasion the wife of a rebel officer, held as a prisoner -of war, begged for the relief of her husband, and to strengthen her -appeal said that he was a very religious man. In granting the release -of her husband, Mr. Lincoln said: “Tell your husband when you meet him -that I am not much of a judge of religion, but that in my opinion the -religion that sets men to rebel and fight against their government -because they think that government does not sufficiently help some men -to eat their bread in the sweat of other men’s faces, is not the sort -of religion upon which men can get to heaven.” - -One day news of a great battle in progress reached Mr. Lincoln, and -his anxiety was so great that he could eat nothing. Soon after he was -seen to take a Bible and retire to his room, and in a few minutes he -was overheard in one of the most earnest prayers for the success of our -arms. Later in the day a Union victory was announced, and Mr. Lincoln, -with a beaming face, exclaimed: “Good news! good news! The victory is -ours, and God is good.” - - - - -AN ARMY NEWSBOY’S ROMANCE. - - -So many acts of heartlessness and cruelty during the great civil war -have been recorded that it is a real pleasure to have an opportunity to -record an act of manly kindness on the part of a gallant Confederate -soldier to a Yankee boy. In the town of Bennington, in the Green -Mountains of Vermont, in the spring of 1861, there lived a poor woman -with six children, five boys and one little girl, the youngest of the -former a stripling 14 years old. When the wires flashed the news from -Washington all over our land that the rebels had fired upon the old -flag at Fort Sumpter, the four older boys responded to the country’s -call and hurried to the seat of war. The younger lad, his heart fired -with genuine Green Mountain patriotism, ran away from home and, eluding -pursuit, made his way to the camp on the Potomac. But his ardor was -somewhat dampened by the discovery of the fact that he could not, in -consequence of his youth and diminutiveness, enlist as a soldier. -Determined to remain at the front; and having, as the saying is, to -scratch for a living, he went to selling newspapers to the soldiers. -Leaving the camp between New Baltimore and Warrenton about the 10th -of November, 1862, he went to Washington for a supply of papers. -Having accomplished his object, the young lad set out on horseback -for the camp, having to travel a distance of thirty miles. A change -of position by the army during his absence had occurred, and as a -consequence he ran into the rebel picket line and was taken to General -J. E. B. Stuart’s headquarters, at a hotel in Warrenton, and from there -sent to Libby Prison, in Richmond, arriving there November 13. Major -Turner was in command of the prison, and when the young prisoner was -brought into his presence, observing that he was a mere boy, the Major -spoke kindly to him, and, after his name had been enrolled, asked him -the customary question, if he had any money or valuables about his -person. The frightened boy had managed to conceal his money, $380, in -his boots, and in answer to the question, put his hand down, and while -a tear-drop glistened in his bright eye and his boyish lip quivered, he -brought it forth and handed it to the rebel major, and trying hard to -choke down the swelling in his throat, he told of his widowed mother at -home, his four brothers in the army, his having made his money selling -papers, and saving it to send with his brothers’ wages to his mother. -The Major folded the boy’s passes around the money and said to him: -“You shall have this again, my boy, when you are permitted to go from -here.” Six weeks afterward the lad was paroled, and, repairing to Major -Turner’s office, the kind officer, handing him the package of money and -the passes, just as he received them, said: “Here is your money, my -boy.” With trembling hands, but a joyous heart, the little fellow took -the package. He was sent to Washington, and a few weeks afterward was -going his old rounds selling newspapers. The boy was Doc Aubrey, the -newsboy of the Iron Brigade, who now resides in Milwaukee. - - * * * * * - -Transcriber’s Notes: - -Punctuation has been made consistent. - -p. 12: Another version of this story (George B. Herbert, _The Popular -History of the Civil War in America_, F. M. Lupton, Publisher, New -York, 1885, p. 476) includes the following additional paragraph -immediately after the paragraph that starts “Ward Lamon, when Lincoln -had appointed him ...”. - -“I am astonished at you, Ward,” said Mr. Lincoln; “you ought to have -known better. 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