Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-26


even o faint Impression, you'd, be given of the
!eariul horroS Of thesseene as itnet the ewes 81
n spectatorss Hyoui can Imagine the omen area
IN front of the City Hall filled with carts uDon
every one of whichilay= from five to ten or twelve
men ~ soldiers uniform, SO far as they were
crossed at all, nearly all barehead their foces
clothes and hands clottedg blood ,groa min .
ana writing in pain,-and then conceive Broad
"ay' ms lar as the eye canreach to be filled with
an qnbrokGn procession of Just such carts laden
IN t9 9e{Sa1cssad style, - The cattle Believing. tie
drivers shonting,a ,and withEthe usual accountant
EmehtS of great and halE-regulatei crowd von
may iortn some idea of the character aud mag
EnItude OF this dreadful scene AS n general
\ tnlhgil the wounded made butGlittcnoise: Ma-
/ ny iotathemL were too much exausted,- ,-nons Of
i thc!n cried aloud, and comparatively few could
oe heard TO gf9an. Butthere was no mistaking
the expression of their, faces, Which smoke '6f
intense agony, IN spite Of all their efforts to
suppress and conquer it. AS I was riding
through the principal street in Castglione this
afternoon, passing the largest hoSpital | saw
i lying IN the street close to sthe wall GCty or
lsSlNty Austrian wounded who had lust been
/ brought u. from the field, aud for whom no
One OF them, a large, powerful man, with nm
!"'St!gent sfa2e, was sitting upright with his
EoacH against the wall and uttering with n chat.
ter!ng sound the most intense and heart.rendinc
1 Sei'S Oh pain. lie looked eagerly into the face
9i every one who passed, as if-he must have
Theip.out .couldEonly sawait zhis.turn.a In.
another part oflthe town, on a cross,rood lcadiny
from the hill in front of Snlferino, met twenty.
"ne nx'cNrtS iadcn with AuStrianS in every stoge
OF suffering. One Of the carts contained but two
land IN the extremity of their agony they had
nan risen to their knees, grapplcd one another
| ny inc shoulder and were gazing into each
other faces with a fixed and stony look of
trcnzled horror which shall neve;. forget
just before dark on Sunday evcnin. looked
INTO the large church in this place to which the
greatest number of the wounded were takpn.-
III was Catholic Church, of course as there
nre r no others here All the furniture of every
KIND had been taken out, from the altar and
side chapelS as well as from the nave of the
1 building, and upon rows ofmattrasScs extended
lengthwlSc on the stone floor, as closely as they
could lie, the wounded were placed All whose
Inquiries would permit their removal had been,
taken away and sent on to Montechiaro Bresca
and other towns, and only those were left who
seemed very near their end. In one side chanel
In" et9ht Austrians-two or three gasping for
! breath and-ln the-Eery net of dying-and not.
one OF the whole could possibly, us it seemed to
me, i've an hour. The entire floor was covered
with the poor victims of war, nearly all rapidly
Iapproaching the same extremity Men and w0.
men, charged with the care of them, were pass.
llng to and tro-nOt to soothc or comfort the
Idylng, for there was no time for that-but look
ing or'thoSe who might still be saved. And
over the altar, looking down upon this horrid
scene, was an immense, wcll.painted, life.like
I'plcture Illustrating the sermon on the Mount
and representing the Redeemcr saying to those
about him, m,-"BtcsSel are the Dcacc-LnGkera far
tthcy shall be called tie children IF Col" What
an awful comment did that scene present upon
that sacred text!
left the streets of CaStiglionc on the night
after the battle at about 10 o'clock, and retired
a Ia NJ ,NT
fortunate enough to secure lodgings for the
! night. At that time the place was absolutely
| cTunlnle1 with troops. Whole trains of artii
lery wagons were blockaded in the narrow
strets, their way forward to the main army
and by the carts and donkeys bringing tile
wounded lrom the field. Every house was filled
with the disabled, or crowded by soldiers seek
lnS iood-toT their camps had been broken up
oy the battle, and thousands of them were sep
arated from their corps. The Dragons were
taking their horses 10 the great fountain in the
lpubllc square for water. The great multitude
of ricGndteres, pcddlcrs, wine-dealerS, suffers
and other advemturcTs who always hang upon
the outskirts OF great army, were bustiing
and hurrying with their preparations for the
night, and everything seemed to be thrown into
the most utter and hopeless confusion. 1t
seemed impossible that the town should be
cleared OF its new population and that anything
like order should DC restored within a week
The next morning drove ,nto the town, en-
pec,ing to be checked aud bockadcd at every
turn, but drove directly through it, not meet
ing dozen vehicles Of any kind on the way.
and seeing almost nothing whatever even. Of
the remnant of the mighty and motley host
which had crowded it the night before. The
whole bad completely disappeared that
with rapidty which seemed absolutely mar
velOus. The great mass of the army which
had been actively engaged encampcd for The
night; upon fthe field of battle-each division
having its5own camp and the several portionso Of
the army being scattered over all area Of sever
al miles. During the night, or at a very carly
hour in the morning, those still in the town hud
moved forward andswere rapidly followed by
the usual train. drove through the town and
out upon the great Mantua road, to that part 6f
the open plain on which the struggle had been
most severe. We passed two or three camps,
not yet broken up. on the way, and found, at
the very entrance Of the field body Of the
the rOad-their horses standing with their heads
towards it. got out aud walked out upon the
field. The dead body of a French soldier lay in
the ditch directly beside the road and on both
sides, at distances of ten or fifteen rods apart,
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