Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-10-17

=, abandoned 10 our mercies by their
CO. The wounded, did | say No, nut
sJaad. the rotten and fostering oorpses oil the
.nld;ers who we're left To die In Their fxneme "so
nv unattended. uncarred for; packed as Close a
| H. can be slowed some ON the fioor others on
..,,oLo1 trestles and bedsteads, or pallets oil
s,r.w .opned and saturated with blood, when
a.aJ aud triekled through upon the tioor, mingled
with the droppings of corruption.
viii the roar of exploding iortresses IN their
ears. with shell and shot forcing through the
| roof and sides of the rooms in which 'hey NY
with the cracking and Kissing oi hfo n'a .,'a
| ,hom these poor fellows, who had served their
| iav,g friend and master. the Gar. but tho we'll
| ware CONSIGNED TO their terrible fate Many
| ,n;qbt have been saved. by ordinary care many
| law vet alive, with maggois crawling about IN
their wounds; many nearly mad by Tue scene
around them. seeking escape from II IN iheir
EXTREMIST agony, had rolled away, under the
beds and glared out on the heart-stricken spec
,ators-oh with such looks. Many with legs
and arms broken and twisted the iagged splln-
ters sticking through the raw flesh. implored AID
WINTER food or pity; or deprived ct speech by
the approach of death, or by dreadful injuries on
the head and trunk. pointed to The lethaI spot
Many seemed bent alone mixing their peace
with heaven. The attitudes If some were 80
hideously fantastic as 10 appall and root one 10
tho ground by sort of dreadful fascination
Could that bloody mass of clothing and white
non as ever have been q human being, or thnt
burnt black mass of flesh have ever been Il human
soul 1t was fearful TO think what the answer
mus, be- The bodies of numbers of men were
swoll IA aud bloa,ed 10 an incredltabie degree,
and ii q features distended TO gigantic size,
with yes proruding from the sockets, and the
blackeL,o d tongue lolling out of the mouth, com
pressed tightly by the teeth. which had set upon
il in the de 9th rattle, made one shudder and reel
round.
In the midst of one of these .'ehambers Of
horrors for there were many of them were
found some dead and some living English sol
ders, and m9ng them poor Captain Vaughan. ol
the 9)th, who has since succumbcd to his wounds.
confess it WAS impossible for me to stand the
sight which mortified our most experienced sur
geons-the d IA lly clammy stencil, the smell OF
gangrened wtun DIS. of corrupted blood, OF rottlng
flesh. were intoc rable and odious beyond endu-
rance. But what must the wounded have felt
who were obliged 10 endure all this, and who
passed away with out II hand to give them cup
of water, vol CO to say one kindly w"rd TO
them.
Most of these IN en- wee wounded on Saturday
many perhaps on the Friday before-mdecd 1t
is impossible to say how long they might have
been there. In the hurry Of their retreat the
Muscovites seem TO have carried in dead men to
get them out of tho way, and is have put them
upon pallets in horrid mockery. So THAT their re-
treat secured the enemy cared but litt!e Tor
the wounded. On Monday only did they receive
those whom we sent out to them during brief
armistice for the purp ose. which was, believe,
sought by ourselves, our overcrowded hos
pitals could not con, al and our oyerworkod sur
geons could not ate nd to any more.
The Great ReGan next visited Such
scene of wreck and II in, All the houses be-
hind it u mass of hruk n stoneS--a clock turret
with shot right thro u Oh the clock--a pagodn in
ruins-another clock to wer with all the clocks
destroyed save the dinl, with the words 3" Bar
wise, London" thereon cook houses, where hu-
man blood was runnin among the utensils in
place IA she'll had |, dyed III the boiler and
blown it and its cont ems. and probably ITS at
tendants, to pieces. Everywhere wreck and des-
truction. This evidently beau qaortier
once.
The oldest inhabitant could not recognise it
now. Climbing up to the Redan, which was fear
fully numbered with til" dead, we witnessed the
scene of the desperate attack and defence, which
cost both sides muck blood. The ditch out
side made one sck-it was piled up with English
dead. some of them sccrchcd and backened by
the explosion and others laceraed beyond recog
milton. The quantity of broken gabions and gun
carriages here exit aordnary the ground
covered with them. The bomb proof were
the same as in the NIalak off, and in one of them
n music book was found, with woman's name
in IT, and II canary bird aud Of flowers were
outside the entrance