The national Republican., 1861-07-26

killed, wounded, and missing, yesterday morn.
ing, amounted 10 206 men--92 of the first regi. |
ment, and ia of the second.
Among the killed in the 6rst Ohio regiment |
are William Fair and John W. McFadden.
THE FOURTH MAINE REGIMENT.
This regiment maintained It's ground, without |
faltering, under the severest fire of the enemy, |
and when the order for retreat was given, re.
tired in good order. II remained at Centre. |
vile on Sunday night, and is now stationed ct
its former quarters over the river. Its loss in
killed and wounded is fhy.nine, and one hun.
dred missing.
LETTER FROM AN EYE WITNESS.
was on the field of bsttle, at Bull Run, on
Sunday, and am just sufficiently recovered
from the complete prostration which followed
my march Of sixty miles-from Vienna to bat
tie and back to Washington-to be able to give
brief account Of what saw. As Was but
. civilian, my chief occupation was to help
carry of the wounded, and minister, as far as
possible, TO their comfort.
assisted to bear several 10 the little hospital
at the corner Of the woods-near the battle.
Geld-perhaps $50 rods from the enemy's bat.
teries. Such scene Of death and desolation
Men, dying and dead, covered the floor and
filed the rear yard with frightfal misery. Civ.
ilans and soldiers turned surgeons, and smpu.
tsted and bound up the wounds Of the injured
and dying. A shell from the enemy struck
harmlessly near the front yard, and cannon
balls Aew over and around, with their prolonged
"whsh!" as II the sacred white Gag above our
heads, honored by all people besides, was
special target for the hateful and insolent
Confederscy.' learn that this hospital was
burned soon after, With all its suffering in.
mates, by the heartless and diabolical foe.
Soon after, man was brought along on bis
way to the other hospital, and l assisted in
carrying him thither. 1t wsssomewhat further
of, on the road Of approach, and was extern.
porised from Church which we had passed
just before reaching the battlefield. 1t was
scene too frightfhl and sickening to witness,
much more describe. There were in it, scat
tered thicky on the floor and in the galleries.
sixty or seventy, wounded in every possible
way-armes and legs shot Of, some dead, and
scores gasping for water and aid. The pulpit
was appropriated for q surgeons room, and
the communicable Of pious anarchy became
an amputation table, baptized in willing blood,
and consecrated to the holy uses Of Liberty
and Law The road and woods, on either
7 side and all around, are strewn with manned
and mutilated heroes, and the balls from ritled
cannon go over us like winged devils. There
/ sits colonel, with his arm bound up, asking
! to be put on his horse and led back to his reg
iment; here lies . captain with q grape shot
! through his head, and blood and brains oosiug
!. out as we touch him tandarly to see il be il
a dead; and yonder comes 10 a pale chaplain,
3 cut by canister, while, sword iu hand, he led
his brave little parish, in the name of Almighty
God, to the fight And again va enter the
hospital with him, Oh .Godi What hide.
GUS sightl Step into this CORY tabernacle.
: You may grow pallid and faint, as some even
OF the strong gheartsd do, or you may find your
self cool and selfcommanding, as do, against
my own snticipstions amid such sights and
scenes. have known men who could walk ny
= to flashing wall of bsyonsts unblanched who
r. would faint at the sign Of suffering. Lool
a around you here. The grim chambers, wher,
O the deity of strange despotism was worship
ped, is turned into an altar of Freedom, snt
h sanctifed anew by the warm life of heroes
# Fit choir, that in the galleries-the intermit
"a tent yels Of the dying and the subdued groani
n Of brave men! Eloquent preacher, in tha
It pulpit so long de6led Glorious burden OF
i. that sacramental tablet, splendid wine Their
% Aowing-where Christ has been so often cru
Is cited: Precious and acceptable Eucharist
IN And these are the services to day, in this chape
sr of psganism, once dedicated, with lying lipt
q. to God. The house which Baal built rises owe
\. q holocaust of heroes. And this is the hol
D. Sabbath dsy-the worlds White Day, so lon
e, kept as blessed symbol of fidelity, purity, hu
e, msnity, liberty, and peacel
J. That ghastly picture Of carnage will be eve
10 present before my eyes, and those desthap
At peals, and those halcsmothered sobs An,
o. groans, will always ring their dreadful choru
,t in my ears.
At And now on, and on past us fly the panic
D. stricken troops. We are not beaten, but thes
g. think we are, which is just as bad for our cans
ID tonight. Good generalship and guarded bag
,e gsge.wagons would have saved US, we Of tn
At unmlitary corps think, but it is too late nov
D. And 80 the whole nation is 10 suffer then, fo
te the dark crimes Of years-the South for its tel
ribls guilt of commission, and the North fo
it's moral dsbauchery which has betrayed
Is into such fearful completely. Had We remeu
le bered the Divine decree though hand Joined i