The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-31 00:00:00

AFTER THE BATTLE.

The correspondent of the New York 7inzes writes
from Gettysburg on Thursday, the 9th of July :
" Most of the army surge )ns moved on with the
troops, and the few remaining here are working
night end day, but there are hundreds of wounded
men not yet reached, especially among the wounded
rebels. It has been impossible to even cover same
hundreds of the latter, for they yet lie, drenched
with rain, on the ground where they were deposited
by the ambulances. Their broken limbs and torn
bodies are swelled and festering. The benevolent
associations are to-day doing all they can for thcm,
which is little more than aurainistering stimulants
and a little food. An army of nurses and immense
quantities of spirits, brandy, whisky, wine, ex-
tract of ginger, &c., are wanted at once. Fresh
bread and other food are greatly needed.
The country around is nearly cleaned out.
Despicable men are coining money from those
who fell wounded while fighting to defend them,
charging 2 dole. per gallon for milk, 50c. for small
loaves of fresh bread, 2 dole. and 10 dole. for carry-
ing to the village those able to be moved and to pay
for it. But the worst is to be told. The Surgeon
General telegraphed to Governor Curton that there
are regular army surgeons enough, and stopped
volunteer surgeons. There is room for a hundred !
I protested against this, and it was replied that the
volunteer surgeons on such occasions came 3s gentle-
men, were unwilling to do the drudgery of dressing
wounds, but must stand at the table and attend to
capital operations.' Shame upon this feeling.
Here are hundreds, if not thousands, of undressed
wounds, fire days old, many of them of the
severest kind. The department or somebody is
responsible for the suffering endured, the lives
and limbs lost for want of early care. The
poor suffering Confederates, while they moaned
piteously, and begged for some care as soon as it
could be given, were yet quite patient at the cruel
delay, for they readily acknowledge that they took
care of their men first. But,' said a noble-looking
North Carolinian to me, ' it ain't my fault ; I didn't
want to go out, but was forced into the army.'
Both his legs were shattered by a Minie ball, and
he has lain in the same position since Saturday,
with nothing but a little soup, and had not a dry
thread on him. I doubt if to this hour his wounds
have been dressed. There are not nurses, wound-
dressers, &c., enough to go round. The surgeons say
the wounds far exceed in number and in severity any
previous battle of the war. The rebel wounded are
yet being found and brought in from many miles
around, as their armies occupied the country to the
west and south-west for a good distance. Many of the
wounded are left by the wayside, in the houses, in
the woods, and not a few crowded into the bushes,
and are only found by hearing their moanings. The
contest was waged over a space one and a halt to
two miles wide and five to six miles long, almost
every one of which gives evidence of the sanguinary
conflict. Few trees escaped the marks of bullets,
shells, or cannon balls. The rain, falling literally
in torrents, bad washed down many of the rifle pit
embankments that stretch for miles, and the cut-up
ground is much levelled, but the tens of thousands
of arms, broken and unbroken, of equipments,
clothing, &c., are scattered everywhere. Heaps of
clothing and battle accoutrements are washed into
the lower end of the gullies. The graves, now
singly, now in groups of two, five, 10, and in one
case 50, are to be seen along a space of five miles.
You cannot get out of the sight and smell of dead
horses in the fields, in the roads, on the hills, and
in the gullies—go where you will, from a mile er
more east of the village to three or four miles
south-west, and on a space averaging over two
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