Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-24
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SCENES AFTER THE WAR=-7ao Wounded IN
ZtGzy.-The Newark Aelrerttse1 of August 10th
gives the following interesting details from a
private letter, dated Reaci, July 90:
= 81 am most happy in being able to
TeasSure MADAME 81. Her noble son is cons
yalescing; cheerful, and as we'll cared for in the
family Of the Marquis, as he couldSin her own
palace Itisicertainly proper that she should
know the whole truth. Though not danger
ously hurt, no was hit seCen times, but yielded
only toward the close of the day, when he fell.
with tearing shot in the thigh. Two of his
men droppcdSwith fatal wounds whilegnttempt:s
ing to take him off, whcreupon he cawled to-
the rear, and was taken care ofby the surgeons.
His horsewas killed early insthe action. He
loses the left hand thumb andathc lobe Of one
ear. Thesball in the thigh did serious mischief,
butsitwill be repaired. The other four wounds
were superficial: His actual suffering is COM
paratively light.
ssThOusands# of these matated wretcheS are
lelormed for life. Fancy the hideous spectacle.
More than 5000 limbs have been amputated.--
Many have lost both legs; and there is one poor
trunk, fine spirited young Frenchman, who
has been deprived Of all four limbs that's, both
feet, one arm entire, and the hand Of the other.
And yet, alasl he lives; not certainly, as5one of
your English wits once said to the mourners
DER fatal case OF like mutilatior, to be an or
nanient to society!
'"Ihe hospital reports yesterday reduce the
sick and wounded remaining to about 5000,
chiefly French and PiedmontcSe. The morality
among the Austrians is surprising; only about
90 remain; they are well provided for in the Ca
thedral, one of the 40 improvised hospitals,
attended by their own surgeons, who We're
among the prisoners. The extreme heat under
which all nature is l0nguishng aggravates the
suffering; but this humane people bring oil their
resources TO mitigate it. All the ladies appear
to have become Sisters of Charity; with the
heavenly spirit Of Florence Nightingale, though
without her reward. The grateful miserables
call the dear creatures angels; who have, indeed,
done better for them than all the priests and
doctors in the service, though numbered by the
hundred. One told mo the other day that she
had written 1913 letters for the dying, swith ten
der messages to dear ones at home
There are about fifty deaths daily. Gen.
Armada and the Duke d'Abrantes have both
succumbed at last There must be something
near hundred thousand OF these infirm and
manned relics of the war still lingering in the
country, for nearly every town from Milan to
that of Lombardy And this is one OF the
bloodiest chapters of it. A richer province
ncverinyited the cultivation of man, and yet it
has been the battlefield of ambition for count
less ages They kill the elephant for his tooth;
so these rich plains seem doomed to suffer
through their veryScharms.
"Garbald was here on a brief GRAND the
other day. He feels deeply the chagrin which
the terms of peace produced in every breast
Troops and people seemed struck with moral
paralysis, and they are not likely to recover
through the doctrine of diplomacy. The army
could much better have borne defeat in the
field. Those that remain here, lounge round
the streets, like tired laborers after fruitless
harvest, spiritless and spitcrul"