New-York tribune., 1841-04-12
from TIC Lhrlstlan UI
THE HORRORS OF WAR.

4 CLERGYMAN, ~h0 cen. The field ot 6GtIe after tie
l:ea of Tie Russians tie hing Of Prussia az S0idia,
and published the toOtrsag account Of nAt one
o'clock the cannonadns ceased and went out on foot TO
Sodin in order learn whose advantage e battle turned
ont Toward evening 700 of the Russian fugves 10
Sodu pitul sight indeed holding up their hands,
curling ard swearing others praying and prisins the klng
Prussia without hats, without clothes foot others
two horse with their heads and arms tied up; some
dragging along by the srrUps, and others by the horses
tails hen the battle decided, and victory shouted Tor
the Prssian venured the place where the
udnc was. After walking way, Cossacks horse
running full speed toward me- mounted him, and on
miles and half this side the ncd ot
battle found the dead and wounded lying the ground,
sadly cut in pieces The farther advanced, the these
poor lay heaped upon another. This scene
shall forget. The Cossacks they saw
cried out Dear water, water righteous God
what sight. Men, children, Russians and Pris-
carriages and horses. chests, baggage. all lying
one upon another, the hight OF man: seven villages
around in flames and the inhabitants either nas>acfed or
thrown into the fire.
The poor wounded were still firing another in the
greatest evaporation. The field of battle plain
miles and hall long, and wholly covered with dead and
wounded There to my foot without
rcndiag OF them. Several brooks filled up
with Russians. tina, affirm it, they lay heaped up ons upon
another high and appeared Ike hills to the
common ground l could hardly recover myself from the
fright occa.ioned by the and miserable outcry OF tho
wounded noble Prssian officer, whs had lost both his
legs cried Sir, you priest. and preach
necy; pray show compassion and despatch me at
once
Nigh jejore tie battle Of Prussion Eylan from Sir
Robert Wilson's Nemoirs Perhaps night was ever
awful. occasion excited higher interest he
contact the adverse asese importance o their char
and occtsthc that awaited thclr achievements
the that depended then-ikc presence OF l30,
600 men impatient for nu;ual slaugher-i!c w;sry Wild
ness OF family cheered by the partial fires on
whose blaze the darkness of The rested and whose
flames exposed the ivering groups extended around
knowledge Of the Russian suiierancecommiseratlo OF
their helpless dist.essauXey for their ate-a these kept
uncloed eaed eve, and oppressed the mind with va
riety and weight of thought
Scene after tke battle. from the same During the suS-
pension OF movements few were afforded to con
template the field OF battle and did more terrible
spectacle present itself Fifty thousand brave since sun
rise killed and wounded and great part. being struck by
cannon shot exposed still, the ground without the eans
hcu: the nope Near fifty thousand more, worn
out with fatigue and exhausted with hunger we're unable To
keep the field and about abandon their manged comrades
who were nploring Their assistance and protection
The Prlssans mad provisions but the Russians had no
than the frozen Their wants had IN
duccd numbers during the battle search Tor food IN The
adjoining villages and the PLAIN covered by ioTass
parties passing and repassns
The French left ESQ of their wounded, and I1U ~
under the OF tSo surgeons but without iASiIu
ucn or of dressing, without provisions and win
dead bodies n:eruiinged almost every ROOM ne burgo-
master Landsberg declared that 10000 wounded had
passed through hi. Although the solderv and peas
anlry had. the battle been continually employed II
buryng the dead the ground l severed with human
carcasses and parts the road towards Landsberg were
literally paved with frozen and encrsted bodies which the
returning cannon wheels had rather spniered than aceFated
Scene at Hcils5ers from tie The cannon thun-
dered and the uskey rolled illuminating the atmosphere
with continued aasne I'll gradually the combat relaxed and
The Russian lines e-acended 70 their position it;e De-
fore night deserter over 20 tie hu<sas and
informed the general that another assault preparing from
the wood Suitable arrangement. had scarcely been made
when the dark bodies Of the columns sweeping
forward Again the batteries opened and the fury of
the bat,s again ragged bs, the nssaanss unable
The progress fed back wrecked and almost snnhiated-
Theasron became sr feeble and about oeloak the