The Kanzas news., 1859-07-30
The Hios1k War.

The Glo.ssDzs 81 ar.
The foliovilg incidents CONCERNING thz
Hon. Henry ]. Raymond, editor. of 5Be.
7. Tines. Who vas an eyewitness 81 q
part Of the engagement:
The first intiratien We received Of an en-
gagement having taken place, was from
meeting three or four carts, drawa By oxen,
and filled with wounded-before we reached
Montechiaro on The road from Brescia AS
we had heard of no battle, ;sse naturally
supposed that these Noundsshad been re-
ceived in some slirmish: Soon, after we
met one-horse carriage, IN which was laid
at full lesfght an officer of rank, whose face
| wore 50 gkastly look as to make it eyi-
den be SyEas dying. On reaching Mente,
5zzzzIsro. and sop moment to resi-
our horses, we we're told that great bat
tie was then going on in the plain before
| Castiglione; and going at once to the sum
NIT of some old Notifications which once
defended the town, we could see with our
glasses the smoke of the engagement. We
| lost no time In pushing forward, although
we were tol that we could not reach Cas-
| tiglione because the roads were completely
occupied by artillery held in reserve. We
went on, however, continuing to meet car
riages and carts laden with wounded, and
passing the French camps of the previous
night, came to a point, at about half mile
from the town, where park of artillery
wagons was defling from their camps into
/ the road. Watching our chance, we drove
in between two of the wagons, and so we
entered town under cover of the enormous
cloud of dust which they raised. The
main street was densefy crowded with carts,
carriages, horses, doGkeys, oxen, soldiers,
suffers, persons, and animals of every des-
cription. We pushed our way, without
hindrance, directly past the house marked
the Quarter Generate, or headquarters of
the Emperor, and were thus within the
camp. We had gone but a short distance
when we came to where the great process
sion of the wounded was turning down a
cross-street to church which had been ia
ken for hospital. It was certainly the
most dreadful sight ever saw. Every
conceivable kind of wound which can be
inflicted upon men was here exhibited. All
who were able to do So, were obliged to
walk-the wagons and animals at command
being ali required for those who could not
otherwise be moved. Some walked along,
their faces completely covered with blood
from sabre cuts upon their heads. Many
had their arms shattered-hundreds had
gnefr hands tied uE,-e.-.a carried r.aast
ghast1y wounds upon their faces. Some
had tied up their wounds, and others had
stripped away the clothing which chafed
and made them worse. I saw one man
walking along with a firm step and reso-
lutte all, naked to his waist, and having a
bullet-wound upon his side, an ugly cash
received from behind, in his shoulder. Most
of them who were walking wore serious
look,-conversing but little with one anoth-
er, though they walked two and two,-and
few of them carried upon their faces any
considerable expression of pain.
Those who were more severely injured
rode upon donkeys or in carts, and few
were carried upon mattresses on men S
shoulders. But these were mostly officers,
and nearly all I saw carried in that way
were SO badly wounded that their recovery
is scarcely possible. One had both his
legs crushed by cannon-ball. Another
had received ball in his thigh, and was
evidently suffering the most intense agony.
| Many of those whose wounds were in their
legs were seated IN chairs swung across a
dopkey-one being on each side. Several
who were thus carried, and were supported
by soldiers walking by their sides, were ap-
| parently unconscious, and seemed to be dy-
ling Then would come carts, large and
small, carrying three, five, and some of
them ten or fifteen each. A steady stream
of these ghastly victims of the battle OF
the day poured through the town. 1 stood
in the crowd by the side of them as the
sad procession passed along, and watched it
at this point for over an hour. It was not
interrupted for a momeut,-exeept now and
then by crowd of prisoners,-and it con
4 tinued thus from about 10 in the morning,
when it began to flow, until left the street,
long after day. Every church, every large
hail, every private house in the town has
been taken for the service of the wounded.
Those whose injuries are slight, after bav-
1 ing them dressed, pass at once into the
ranks and mingle with their comrades. l
looked into the church as passed by. All
the seats, ratings, Dc, had been removed;
mattresses of hay had been spread upon
the floor, and wrere completely filed with
wounded men, in every stage of suffering
and peril, lying side BY side The sur
geons were dressing their wounds; Sisters
of Charity and other women were giving
them wine and otherwise ministering TO
their comforts; but morning, am sure,
viii dawn upon large proportion of them
relieved forever from their pain. IF any
thing can be more horrible than soldiers
life. it certainly is soldiers death.
Truth-Eyery word of it. Cut it OUT
and learn it by heart: