Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-05-19
HoRRoRsSF WAR.
Vle1o of the field of Waterloo, after the
Battle.

"On Monday morning, June 10th, l
fastened to the field of battle: was COM
PEELED to 60 through the forest for the
road was so completely choked up as to
be impossible
The dead required no help; but thou
sands of wounded who could not help
themselves, were in want of every thing,
their features swollen by the sun and rain,
looked lived and bloated One poor fel-
low had CHASTITY wound across the low
er lip, which gaped wide and showed his
teeth and gums, as though a second and
unnatural mouth had opened below the
first Another, quite blind from a cash
across his eyes, sat upright, gasping for
breath and murmuring,-'De peau =
de l'eauH The anxiety for water was
indeed distressing. The German Was
serr and the French De reau! de
peaul' still seem sounding in my ears.
am convinced that hundreds must have
persisted from thirst alone, and they had
no hope Of assistance, for even humane
persons were afraid of approaching the
scene of blood, lest they should be taken
in requisition to bury the dead almost
every person who came near being press
ed into that most disgusting and painful
service.
This general burying was truly hor-
rible; large square holes were dug about
six feet deep, and thirty or forty fine young
fellows stripped to their skins were thrown
into each, pell NELL, and then covered in
so sIovenl y manner, that sometimes a
hand or foot peeped through the earth.
One of these holes was preparing as
passed, and the followers Of the army
were stripping the bodies before throwing
them into it, while some Russian Jews
were assisting in the spoliation of the
dead by chiselling out their teeth an op-
Grafton which they performed with the
most brutal indifference. Hundreds of
fine horses were galloping over the plain,
kicking and plunging apparently mad
with pain, while the poor wounded wretch
es who saw them coming, and could not
get out Of their way shrieked in agony,
end tried to shrink back to escape from
them, but in vain.
Soon after saw an immense horse,
Zone ofthe Scotch Greys,) dash towards a
colonel Of the Imperial Guard, who had
his leg shattered; the horse was fright
fully wounded, and a part of broken
lance still ranked in one gifts Wounds
1t rushed snoring and plunging past the
Frenchman, and shall never forget his
piercing cry as it approached l flew
instantly to the spot, but ere l reached it,
the man was dead for, though l do not
think the horse had touched him, the ter
ror he felt had been too much for his ex-
hausted frame.
Sickened with the immense heaps of
slain, which spread in all directions as
far as the eye could reach, l was prepar-
ing to return, when as was striding over
the dead and dying, and meditating on
the horrors Of WGr, my attention was at
tracted by young Frenchman who was
lying on his back, apparently at the last
gasp. Some open letters were living
around. and one was yet grasped in his
hand as though he had been reading it to
the last moment My eye fell upon the
words My dear son. in female hand. "
Reader, how many such ties, think YOU
were torn assunder on that field of blood
Husbands, fathers, sons-but Iforbear.