Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-07-28
Procession Of the yvounded.

Mr.. Raymond of the New Y ork Times,
in another of his graphic and intensely IN
teresting letters from the battle field Of
Solferino-or near there at Castiglione-.
on the day after the great battle, describes
the sad procession of the wounded, thus i:
Gas fast as their wounds could be dress
ed they were removed to the next Town be-
yond-which is Montechiaro, FIVE miles
distant-and from thence to, Brescia, II
miles further, that being the first town Of
any considerable size and at all adequate
to the care of such an immense number of
persons. / was at Montechiaro when the
great procession began to arrive. AT the
entrance Of the town stands a large build
ing used as a hospital, fronting upon a
small open space and being placed at the
angle of two diverging roads. As the
wounded arrived, those of them who could
go no further were taken off the carts and
left here, while the rest moved on TO Bres-
cia. I never saw so heart rending sight
as was presented in front of that hospital.
Everything for miles around had been call
ed into requisition. For The most part
they consisted Of the rude, heavy ox-carts
of the farmers, made to .carrv Stone or 9th
er ponderous articles over the fields. Each
Of them had a fiat platform six, or eight
feet wide and twelve or fifteen long. Some
hay was spread upon this, and upon that
the wounded soldiers were placed as thick
as they could be laid-without shelter Of
any kind, or pillows for taeir heads, or
blankets for their limbs, except such as
they might happen to have upon them
The weather has been excessively warm
the storm on the day of the battle being
thelast rain that has fiillen-and yesterday
and today the SKY has been perfectly clear,
and the air heated with the warnest rays
of an Italian sun. The roads are perfect
ly hard and very dirty-and it was. utter
ly impossible for well persons TO travel
along with any comfort without protection
of some kind from the heat. '
You can Judge then of the intense suf-
ferihg which these thousands of manned
and mutilated creatures must have endur-
ed during the fearful journey of ten or ff-
teen niles-performed at the slowest pace
of heavy oxen, and compelled constantly
to stop by some interruption of the pro !
cession. 1t was enough to melt the most !
obdurate heart to. see the state in which /
they. arrived. . The peasants who drove !
them seemed not to have the Slightest sense |
of their condition, or take the least pains !
to alleviate their agony. Some of the sol 4
diers themselves Whose wounds were least |
serious and permitted them to move about |
bad cut branches from the willows 4
and other trees that border on the road, |
and made of them a slight shade for some
of them who could only lie on their backs, /
their faces turned TO the brazen and burn
ing sky. As far as the eye could see, a
dense cloud of white dust marked the ap-
train. AS the carts came into
town, many of the poor wretches stretched
out their hands, pitiously crying for water,
or for wine, as they were perishing ofthirst.
The people Of, the village had prepared, so
far as possible, for their reception. Com
mittees had been appointed, a quantity Of
soup had been prepared, and the young
women and men Of the place went to
work to supply the most pressing necessi-
les of the poor creaturer who were suffer
ng on their behalf They went. about
he carts, asking what. each needed, and
provided for them to the best oftheir abil-
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If you can imagine the open area in
ront Of the City Hall filed with carts,
lpon every one of which lay from five to
en- or twelve men ia soldiers uniform, so
ar as they were dressed at allNnearly all
their faces, clothes and hands
iotted with blood, groaning and writhing
n pain-and then conceive Broadway, as
ar as the eye can see, filed with an un- /
'roken procession of just such carts laden 5
n the same sad lstyle-the cattle below :
ng, the drivers shouting, and. with the u.s. /
ual, Accomplishments of a great halfregu-
sted ,crowd, Won may form some idea Of
lie character and magnitude Of this dread. +
al scene.a AS general thing the wound
d made but little noiseisl Many Of them I
sere too much exhausted of them s
ried daloud, aud comparative few could be !
card TO groan. But there was no mis-
aking the expression Of their faces, which J
poke of the intense agony, in spite Of all
helr efforts TO suppress and conquer it. & I
BOO Il-lg l-ls11 ~. -ll.s{gs e I--lalis lEli \
Es- The notorious English Bill" has, r
18th low and characteristic cunning, sug il
ested himself for the Speakership of the f