Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-24
JULY 24, 1861.

protruding from the bullet hole and lay
spread On the grass by his head. And he
was still livingl ! kuelt by his side and
moistencd bis lips with water from my
canteen, and an officer who cams up q
moment aftcrward poured few drops of
| brandy from his pocket flask into his
mouth. God help US! what more could
we do? y surgeon rapidly examined the
wound, sadly shook his head, saying it
were better for him if he were dead al
ready, and passed on to the next. And
there that poor Georgian lay, gasping in
the untold and unimaginable agonies of
that fearful death, for more than an hour
Near him lay Virgiuinn, shot through
| the mouth, and already stiffening. Heap
peared to have been STOPPING when he was
shot; the ball struck the tip of his nose,
cutting that off, cut his upper lip, knocked
out his teeth, passed through the head
and came out at the back of the neck,
| The expression of his ghastly face was aw-
| full beyond description. Aud near him
lay another, with ball through the right
eye, which had passed out through the
back of the head. The CLASSY eyes were
all open: some seemed still gaspiug with
| opened mouths, all were smeared in their
own blood, and cold and clammy with the
| dews of death upon upon them.
| But why dwell on the siCkening details 2
| May never see another field like that !
There were on it ten corpses; two more
| died before they could be removed to the
| hospital; three died during the night; an
other WAS dying when 1 left.
| All around the field lay men with wounds
/ in the leg, or arm, or face, gronning with
/ pain, and trembling lest the barbarous foes
they expected to find in our troops, should
commence mangling and torturing them at
| once. Words can hardly express their as.
/ constituent, when our men gently removed
| them tn q little knoll, laid them all togeth-
| er, and formed circle of bnyoncts around
them, to keep off the curious crowd, till
| they be removed to the hospital and cared
! for by our Surgeons.
! There was q terrible moral in that group
on the knoll, the dead, the dying the
wounded, protected l,y the very men they
had been fighting, aud who were us ready
! then as they had ever been to defend by
their strong arms every right these self
made enemies of theirs had ever enjoyed.
/ Every attention was shown the enemy ;
| wounded by our surgeons. Limbs were
/ amputated, wounds were dressed with the
same care with which our own brave VOL
untcprs were treated. The wound on the
! battlefield removed all dircrences-in tue
/ hospital all were alike, the objects of IL
common humanity that left none beyond
/ its limits.
! Among the enemy's wounded was n
! young Massachusetts boy, who had received
wound in the leg. He had been visiting
/ in the South, and had been impressed Into
the rebel ranks. As soon ns the battle
/ began, he broke from the rebel ranks and
Isl
over TO our side. His own Lieutenant saw
him in the act, and shot him with n rcvol-
yer! Listen to such n tale as that did
by the side of the sad young sufferer, and
tell me if your blood does not boil warm
cr than ever before, as you think, not of
the poor deiuded followers, but of the
leaders, who, for personal ambition and
personal spite, began this internal rebel
lion.
All the talk among the soldiers is still
the retailing of facts and anecdotes about
this battle. | have room or time, to add
but one or two. In one of the Indiana
regiments is u Methodist preacher, who is
said to be one of the very best shots in
his regiment. During the bnttle, he WAS
particularly conspicuous for the zeal with
which lie kept up constant fire. The
/ l4th Ohio Regiment, in the thick of the
npn(. HrSQ an average OF eicEen tOuIuS 10
every man, but this parson managed TO get
in n great deal more than that average
He fred carefully, with perfect GOODNESS,
and always after steady aim, and the
boys declare that every time, as he took
down his gun, after firing, lie added, "And
may the Lord have mercy on your soul"
Evidently he thought the body not worth
praying for after the aim he had So care
! fully taken.
Per contra: One of Steedmau's men (in
the l4th Ohio,) was from Cheesedom. and
didn't like the irreverent tone adopted by
the Southern chivaIry in speaking of the
''d-i Yankees" He took deliberate
aim, but unlike the parson, after every fire
he added the invorin3le formula, '.God
d-n your Secession souls, how do you like
/ the Yankees?"
Another, an Fnglishman, was wounded.
Steedman noticed him limping, and called
out "Jack, are you wouuded 2" L" Yes,
Pm lit" Where ure you hit, Jack ?"-
"Oh, I'm 1T in tho lip, but, lin great anx-
| iety lest Steedmau should send him to the
! hospital "but it don't 'urt me. I'm only
1T in the lip; it don't 'urt me-" and away
he bIazcd with another load, somewhat
profanoly adding, ''God d-n you, guess
/ I paid you off that time" Agate. =
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