“The tenderest are the bravest; the loving are the daring.” This finds
its illustration in an incident related by the wife of Gen. George E.
Pickett, of the Confederate army, just after his famous Gettysburg
charge:
One Sunday, just after the battle, when he was in Richmond
recruiting his division, we were walking to church together,
when we saw a little Hebrew child, standing first on one foot
and then on the other, rubbing his eyes with very dirty hands,
and crying as if his heart would break.
“What is the matter, little man?” my Soldier asked.
“My shoes is hurtin’ my feet so, I can’t walk! I can’t get
anywhere!” the boy sobbed. General Pickett knelt down, unlaced
the shoes, took them off, tied them together, wiped away the
muddy tears with his own clean handkerchief, and, taking the
child in his arms, carried him to his home. (Text.)
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=Tenderness, Contrasted=--See DESTINY.