The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-11-28
Horrors of Bull Rum Feeling at Rich
mond, Virginia.

1HoTfre0I Ed1kOr ac1O has spent SeUpya
gears IN Tie Southern States in the sam
SOcQtiOn
The battle o. Manassas, or Bull Run
as 1T Is souewbst poiutedly led By th,
. Northerners, wa- sad victory to the peo
pie of Richmoud. To prop ortion tb.r,
were many more citizens o, Richmond
present ou the battle field than OF an,
other city OF the South; and the los,
OF the Southern army vas very muct
greater than was supposed at the North
l have heard Beaurekard declare bis Re
lief that three or four Sou,herners fell to
every Northern soldier. b. this a. il
may. R,cbmond. after the battle. was
veiled in mourning 1t seemed a. if there
vas scarcely family in Richmond th at
bad not lost friend or relative; wany
bad lost their head and every % ale mem
ber OF their once loving domestic circle.
Msnss-as> ss- hardly gained victory.
though 1t. moral effect, were .reaf; but it
was victory that spread mourning aud
desolatiou over the land, for hundreds of
the most telosed sud cherished omopust
youth OF the South fell on that fatal dsy.
They bad gone forth 10 the Hu.h and
eonhdenss of youthful hope and mistaken
patriotism. sDd eau We woudrr that DO
sound OF rejoicing we're beard. such as
are usual after a victory. however mex
pectedl, or hardly wou, even though the
wall of the widow. the mother or the or
phan child mingle. With bosrse bray of
the truGpet aud the shouts Of the victors.
No songs of triumph was sung 10 Rich
moDd. or 10 the surrounding villages; and
DOW for the first tune. the people APPEAR.
ed to realize the horrors of the war they
had entered upon, without seeming to
have calculated its cost Those wbo had
cherished hopes. raised by the reports
that those they loved we're not dead but
only wounded. were, als-, doomed to .uf.
fer more litter ansuI.b than that of
their fellow citizens who ~ept over the
biers of the slain. No pen can adequate
ly describe the horror o! the scenes Wit.
messed by anxious crowds, as day by day
the wounded were brought in and carried
to the bo1-es OF their friends or to the St.
Charles Hotel, which bad been fitted u2
a. hospital. question, indeed, wbeth.
er many OF the battle fields of Europe have
b'en the arena of such horrible indiVidu.
al -ufferiDs.
| have read Of no campaign, except
that o. Moscow, where th. French SOL
diers persisted by tens of Thousands. in
every conceivable agony, that can offer
q comparison to this respect 1t uay
se' m absurd to speak of Moscow and Bull
Run in the saae breath; but | do not re-
fer to the relative magnitude of the cam.
Paign-. nor coorare the numbers en-
gagged the duration of the struggle, DOR
the loss of life. My comparion refers
only to The peculiar >uferings of the woun-
ded. a day after day they ~ere drought
into the city 10 every conceivable and 10
coD1Ition Of t utilaton and
writbing 10 atou, where modification bad
not already suptrvt Ded, or whore the >tu-
por which generally pr'crde- death by
bad not seIze upon the hapie-s
victim Of this frstricldel strife In most
ba tile 6elos OF uoirrD times .klllful sur
peoDs and attentive Dur-es have been in
prompt attend aDce. aud the wounded have
received every possible ate nt,on compat-
ibIe with their unfortunate position; but
with the wounded of the Southern army,
at least. this VA DOT the Gaze.
Possibly sufficient number Of surgeons
could DOT be provided. and | know that
UaDy who we're present w-re poorly sup
Piled With surgical iDstrom- Dts. or with
medicines OF a nature to alleviate >uf
log, and that they did the bet they could
uDGer the circumstances; but | saw nen
, rought in who had lain four and twenty
hours on the field whsre they had fallen.
uDaided. and without even a trop of wa
ter to sIake their burning thirst. ssw
meo brought 10 delirIous with fever. ra.
wing like u al urn, and iaiiID, to recog-
oome we're torDr past. upon whose l,.id
features death had already set bis seal
the pItI'ul appealing glance o. the fast
gl-zin- eye being the only SIN that l''e
It'll lin. cred The features of many
we're so distorted by pain that they
scarcely appeared to be humsD; and 10 ost
horr,Llr OF all. | witnessed at least a doseu
poor creatures brous ht IN who bad either
lost limb ty cannon fsll or had suf
tered the sputatloD o. a leg or aD arm
1t l. hard to decide which Of these two
Q asses of victl n- had uttered the great
est agoDy-tbose who had lain uncarrd
for. save by some friendly comrade who
b had hound his kerchief over the limb to
top the effu-ion Of blood. and thus pre-
-er.e the vital spark-or tho-e Who bad
endured the PAIN OF amputat'on, either
too hurriedly. or else uuskillfuliy per.
torm,d.
In several of the latter cases the liga-
ture. bad slipped or become loosened, the
babdages had fallen of. AID the bones
protruded beyond the mangled hesb. while
in both alike, the bones and flesh. where
black aud iesterIng. and sw.rGipg With
% sggots People sbuodered and sicken
ed az they turned away from the horrible
spectacle; women tainted 10 the streets