Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-08-06

N'ucu 'or thciii 10 the best OF their ability.
Adstrians and French were mingled indfs-
crlminatcly and were treated with precise
" the same kindness and attention Asa
general thing the Atstrians were very bad
~ wounded, and seemed to suffer terribly.
ThcJ were, so far as had bcGn convenient,
placed upon the same carts, and frcquently
SIX or eight carts would arrive with none
but Austrlans upon them but still more
frequently there would be three or four
Austrlans upon cart with twice as many
frcnch-'.ahd In many cases | hare seen
French soldier assisting the Austrian, who
lay by his side, into some easier position,
or cndcnvoring to procure Cor him water or
something else of which he seemed to be
in need, All differences of nationality
were submerged in the intense and over
mastering agonics of their common fate.-
pon one cart which came up lay an Aus
TRAN who had died on the road-and close
by his side was French soldier Just able
to raise himself from his place and beg for
water. AS he raised his head he looked
over at hls companion and said, as if envy
ing his ot,-" Poor fcllow--hc nccdsno
thing now The Austrian lay at full
length upon the cart-his hands crossed
upon his breast, and his face, which was
turned directly upward to the sun, wearing
an expression of intense suffering Five
or six others, less severely wounded, were
sitting in front
| pon another cart lny poor fellow. en-
trc|y naked above his wrist, except broad
banddgc which had been passed around his
body to protect frighful wound received
from muskct ball in his side-thc ball
seemed to have passed entirely through his
hody-~hs face was pale and lncxprcssibly
sad-and he had just strength enough left
to lift himself up and beg for water. 1t
was Immediately brought, and as soon as
his condition was perceived, he was lifted
off the cart in the blanket on which he was
lying, and placed in the hall of the hospi-
tal-but he lived only few minutes longer
As they were lifting him out, the blanket
was drawn from under the feet of another
poor fellow lying in the same cart, and the
motion cxtortcd from him cry of anguish
more intense than ever heard before.
! But tits utterly useless to multiply notices
of individual cases of suffering. Indeed. it
would he impossible to mention hundredth
| part OF the instances of dreadful agony which
attracted my special attention at the time :
and if ccah one of thcm could be described
| in writing. not oven faint impression would
be given of the fearful horrors of the scene
ns it met the eye Of a spectator. If YOU can
imagine the open area in front Of the city
hall filled with carts, upon every one of which
lay from 1--WE to ten or twelve men, in soldiers
uniform, so far as they were dressed Mt all
nearly all barchcadcd, their faces, clothes
and hands clottcd with blood, groaning and
writing in pain-and then conceive Broad
way, as Tar as the eye can see, to be filled
with an unbrokcn procession of Just such
carts, laden in tho same sad stylc-thc cattle
believing, the drivers shouting, and with
the usual Accomplishments of great md
hali.'cgulacd crowd, you may form some
idea OF tho character and magnitude of this
dreadful scene. AS n general thing, the
wounded made but little noise Many of
them were too much cxhaustcd-nonc of
them cried aloud. and comparatively few of
them could he heard to groan. But there
was no mistnking the expression of tlIcir
faces, which spoke of intense agony in spite
of all their efforts to suppress and conquer it,
| As | was riding through the principal street
in Castiglonc this afternoon, passing the
largest hospital, | saw lying in the street
close to the wall, fifty or sixty tustrans
wounded, who had Just been brought in from
the field, and for whom no place within the
building could yet he found. One of them,
n large, powerful man. with an intelligent
face, was sitting upright, with his back
| against the wall, and uttcring, with chat
tcring sound, the most intense and heart
rending yells of pain. lie looked eagerly
into the face Of every one who passed, as if
he mast have help, but he could only await
his turn. In another part of the town, on a
cross-road leading from the hill in front of
| Soltcrino, | met twcnty-one ox-carts laden
with Austrians in every stage of suffering.
| One of the carts contained but two. and in
the extremity of their agony they had half
risen to their knees, grapplcd one another by
the shoulder, and were gazing into each 9TH
cr's face with n fixed and stony look of fren-
zicd horror which shall never forget
just before dark on Sunday evening,
looked into the largo church in this place to
which the greatest number of the wounded
were taken. 1t was Catholic Church. of
course, rs there arc no others here. All the
| Furniture of every kind had been taken out
from the alter and side cllapcls as well MS
from the nave of the building and upon rows
of mattresses extended lcngthwise on the
stone floor, as closely as they could lie, the
wounded were placed. All whose injuries
would permit their removal, had been taken
away and sent on to Montcchiaro, Brescn
and other towns, and only those were left
who seemed very near their end In one
side chapel lay cjgM Austrians---two or three
gospinS for breath and in the very act of dy-
ing-and not one of the whole eight could pos.
sibly as it seemed. to me, live an hour The
entire floor was covered with the poor victims
of wor, nearly all rapidly approaching the
| same extremity. Men and women, charged
with the care of them, were passing to and
fro-n0t to Osootlc or comfort the diving, for
there was no time for that-but looking for