Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1861-11-23
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Horrors of Bull Run-Feeling at

Horrors of Bull Run-Feeling at
Richmond, Virginia.
Written for the Montreal IVitness by an
e1-Montreal editor, rho, has spent Sertral
Years in the Southern States in the same
p0cdtion
The battle of NJ anassas, or Bull Ron, os il !
is somewhat pointedly styled by the North. |
erners, was sad victory to the people oil
Richmond. 10 proportion, there we're many
more citizens of Richmond present on the
battle field than Of any other city OF the
South aud the loss of the Southern army
was very much greater than was supposed at
the North. have heard Beauregard declare
his belief that three or four Southerners Tell
to every Northern soldier, Be this MS 1t may,
Richmond, after the battle, was velled 10
mourning. 1t seemed as ifthere was scarcely
a family that had not lost a friend or relative;
many bad lost their head and every male
mem Der Of their once loving domestic circle.
Manassas was hardly gained victory though
its moral effects were great; but it was
victory that spread mourning and desolation
over the land, for hundreds Of the most
beloved and cherished amongst the youth oil
the South fell on that fatal day.
They bad gone forth in the flush and comb
deuce of youthful hope aud mistaken patriot
Ism, and can we wonder that NJ sounds OF
rejoicing were heard, such as are usual after
a victory, however unexpectedly or hardly
won, even though the wall Of the widow, the
mother or the orphan child miDgles with the
hoarSe bray of he trumpet aud the shouts ol
the victors. No song OF triumph was sung
in Richmond, or in the surrounding villages
and now, for the first time, the people ap'
peared to realize the horrors oi the war they
, had entered upon, without seeming to have
, calculated its cost. Those who had cherished
, hopes, raised by the reports that those they
4 loved we're not dead but only wounded, were
a alas, doomed TO suffer more bitter august
, than that of their fellow citizens who wep
7, over the biers of the slam. No pen caI
adequately describe the horror Of the scene
y witnessed by anxious crowds, as day by da.
> the wounded were brought 10 and carried t
a the houses of their friends or to the 81
!, Charles Hotel which bad been fitted up as
"a hospital. question, indeed, whether man
OF the battle ields Of Europe have been tn
\, arena of such horrible individual suffering
,s have read of no campaign, except that {
20 Moscow, where the French soldiers perishe
~ by tens of thousands, 10 every concevabl
a. agony, that can offer comparison in tb
n respect. 1t may seem absurd to speak
or Moscow and Bull Run 10 the same breath
2" but DO not reler 10 tne IeIaliNe u'bBhituN
Id of the campaigns. nor compare the numbe
IN engaged, the duration OF the struggle, nor I,
loss Of life. My comparison refers only
re the peculiar suEerings Of the wounded, as d.
at after day they were brought into the city
on eyery conceivable and inconceiveble coDditi'
of mutilation, aud writhipg in agony whe
ra. modification had not already supervened,
if where the stupor which generally Preced
,on death by violence, had not selzed upon
bapless victim of his fratricidHl strife.
tba most battle-feds of modern times skill
i'm. surgeons and attentive nurses have been
uv prompt attendance, and the wounded ba
rex received every possible attention compat
i'm with their unfortunate position; but with
wounded Of the Southern army, at least, |
,or. was not the case.
,itb Possibly u sufficient number OF surge'
could not be provided, and know that mi
ian. who we're present were poorly supplied "
ans surgical instruments, or With medicines o
nifs nature alleviate suffering, aud that they
- the best they could under the circumstsue
but saw men brought in who had lain
ord. four md twenty hours on the field where
4 20 had fallen uusided. and without even d
of water to slsks their burning thurst.
her, men brought in dslirious Yl'b lever, ray