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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], An interesting Incident — a soldier who was stolen from home when a child Discovers his parents. (search)
r to his eyes, and yet he did not know that he had ever been there before. The more he looked about the more familiar everything appeared. Suddenly, as if by the force of association, a name that he had not thought of in years occurred to him, and as he pronounced it aloud, and it reverberated through the cells of memory, it awoke echoes that had long been dormant, and caused a thousand old recollections to rush upon his mind. The name that occurred to him in so singular a manner was Thomas Strouska — the name his parents gave him — and the conviction that he was in the neighborhood of his native home became too strong to admit of a doubt. Whether his father or mother still dwelt there, or were in the land of the living, he would endeavor to ascertain. He entered a house to make inquiries of the inmates. While in conversation with them an old lady, a neighbor, came in. She could only understand German, and the neighbor on whom she had called interpreted to her the story of t