Renew War Idyll After Fifty Years.
A romance of Civil War times will reach its climax in Richmond, Va., when Miss Gillie Cary, once one of the belles of Richmond, becomes the bride of Colonel W. Gordon McCabe, former headmaster of McCabe’s University School, who for some time past has been devoting his time to literary pursuits, writing for English and American magazines.
Sweethearts during the stirring days of 1861-’65, when McCabe was a dashing young officer in Lee’s army, the two are said to have been parted by a trivial lovers’ quarrel. The colonel, after the war, married Miss Virginia Osborne, of Petersburg, where he established his school and made it one of the best in the South, educating many young men who have since risen high. In 1895 he moved the school to Richmond, and seven years later retired from active work. In 1912 he lost his wife.
Not many months ago Miss Cary, who had remained true to her first love, was rummaging among old papers, when she came upon a batch of poems that the young officer of war days had written to her. Soon afterward she met him and the old flame was fanned to new life. The colonel once more became a suitor.
Now they are planning to spend their honeymoon in Charleston, S. C., where one of the colonel’s sons is head of a large cotton firm.