. Incidents among shot and shell : the only authentic work extant giving the many tragic and touching incidents that came under the notice of the United States Christian Commission during the long years of the Civil War . in, youve been at Sunday-school ? Yes, sir. You have forgotten one relative, then. He looked at me inquiringly, when I added, pointing upwards— Our Father, who art in heaven; there is a Father and a homefor you up there. Doubtfully at first, then with sloAvly increasing assurance, theprecious truth was received. In a broken, childlike way he learnedto pray to this only relati
. Incidents among shot and shell : the only authentic work extant giving the many tragic and touching incidents that came under the notice of the United States Christian Commission during the long years of the Civil War . in, youve been at Sunday-school ? Yes, sir. You have forgotten one relative, then. He looked at me inquiringly, when I added, pointing upwards— Our Father, who art in heaven; there is a Father and a homefor you up there. Doubtfully at first, then with sloAvly increasing assurance, theprecious truth was received. In a broken, childlike way he learnedto pray to this only relative in earth or heaven. Soon the face grewbright and glad, and the answer of the once restless, homeless eyes,was one of trusting peace. A great favoi-ite among his comrades was M , a soldier from THE HUMISTON CHILDREN. 175 Massachusetts. After his death his mother wrote me, begging for only one lock of his hair, A comrade of the deadsoldier went down into the last resting-place, and sev- jy • ^eriiig a damp lock, it was sent on its mournful errand Perhaps no incident of the war became so widelyknown and excited such deep sympathy as the story ofthe Humiston children. The main facts of the narra-tive are these:. THE HCMIgTON CHILDRE; {An exact copy of the original picture.) Dr. J. Francis Bourns, of Philadelphia, was crossing the moun-tains on his way to Gettysburg, as a volunteer Surgeon and Delegateof the Commission. An accident to his vehicle forced him, withthree fellow-travellers on the same errand, to halt atGraefenberg Springs. Mr. Schriver, the proprietor, t, t L kexhibited to them a beautiful ferrotype of threelovely children, which had been found clasped in the hands of asoldier dead on the battle-field. The picture was so held that it 17G CHRISTIAN COMMISSION INCIDENTS. have met his dying gaze. No other memoranda, relics, or evenequipments were found on the body, so that identification was impos-sible. Dr. Bourns obtained the ferrotype, with the intention, w
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