The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-03-07
The Battlefield Around Fort Don.



One OF the Northern correspondent s graph
icaiiy describes The bloody field of Fort Don
eison, an nAmentions a mum Der Of IL ciden t. In
connection Herewith, some por ton Of which
we copy
Ihe battle continued three DAYS, com.
inehoihg on Thursday and ending OF Sat r
uay as uaIs; but n this last day it was most
- a.; ihursday wTs very cold. the msr-
cuFF peihg only 10 deg. above ze'o and du-
'ing the nigh IL sle.ted and showed as n did
also the fofowinS night Friday was warmer:
sun IL fr1zs at day, and the snow did Ioy
melt till after the fort SURRENDERED
The distance br ween the twoaru,ies durtre
the tcree days, In many cases was so sliRhi
that we could not bring IT our dead and ihs
wounded who could nei her walk nor crawl
remained where they fell till Sunday morn.
ing, so ne, even til late that day a prisoner
told me hat some Germans lay wounded be-
fore eir esrthworks on Friday ntght, calf.
ing fsr help and water, aud that they went.
ou: 20 bIiog < them in, but, /; being moonlight,
or men fIet ou them, and the! Were Q bi god
20 60 back. IL was e1Ily Sunday morning
before taty veniuyed ont again, when they
brought them IA They We're sail alive buL
o!ue with cold and covered wl;h frost and
So w. rhev did wnst thev could tor them.
out II was not much, snd for this reason
for week they aad been gnsrdiug their
eirthworss, three mules In length and fr ,m
THURSDAY they had been OUT IN force night
nd day III aay OF them ~ tEs rins pi,s f-ozs
heir feet and hands. Ga the a,at l .su
soc uug,. and as they did t. tue ssin from
various parts Of The feat came along witn
them. In passing from thei: works 10 lhsir
q'aI ers they fsqGeuiiy hie so wnda sluss
= Isl deep a"d hen lay Il wn 10 ,leap in
.oeIr wet clothes. The least result was vio.
emf cold In add don, oul gunb)ats kept
shSm IN con- Jant ii 'rm, and l.tc artIlsrls,s
Ve' g wCTu out Wi h Constau wat hing
The {. even iliEois sudd MY cora.txpo.
"a tb6 eucE4y, 'Qrced % retrgat th
~ awful sb0wcr OF Seils he Maic. tLsu
:a!isdfo5 VcluGieere % bring n he vnuut, q.
twenty 81 tGIT y stevLsd, era " ing snh nay
orCught cft feG, but som. OF theo, ,r,r.
Wou' dea IL ,be attempt. y Sain yoiuy tsers
we're C~i..d trr. and .hsy app ga, he'd a,1in An
cred III ia way The stts,l " -vas m anne.
us. -Eet, tnt caves 10 B. tire aud coveted bv
ne smoke, cur Eed Iu,Aeu o. aud saved =
~ mors oui ise cia hes OF th,sr haa raasn
dES, and some poIishsd nIegahly Tnos.
mo w re left ofc urss pGrisled
General Or Ut oTdere 'hat no fra. Should
ne Dull "t hieh but hrts wer- buiit, md
Ley iinIained The woods ior mules. 1t would
nave bee" merciful If at zoe clDse OF e.ch
lay, we uad been permitted under a truce to
brmg off our wounded; bat II WAS not so.
tnd they lay IL the fros. aud sieet be TIVE en-
ne two armies-many TO hear, but none 10
help them
The severity OF the cold is we'll Illustrated
ny the statement naue by our field officers.
WHO rode from post to post during the high.
| nat IN the mOraing their clothes were N,
in that could they have been taken or they
would Davr stood alone 1t is oout t.uI
whe her suffering was greater though H. VISA
| onger, Ill Ihe retreat of the French from
| MOSCOW Lee 10 one hereafter say that cur
50 diers a. . paid too much.
Mos OF the horses OF many OF our batteries
| were shot down They had be sn we'll trained
| and stood fire well The horse l. ,he INST
| iHtelligeE sot ali animals tehasa thinking
| EYE, 1T sfarkles with inquiry as you appro- h
| him he loves music, aud in tn horrors of
| cattle is not AFRAID Herodotus ellis the
L h.v..
| terstood. saturday morning, Wien rhs enc
| my came on In heavy columns with knap-
| sA"Es on, and three times were driven back
with tremendous slaughter. some batteri,s
| w-re ordered to positions which tho euemy
| had be'"rr lttie while occupied rhs
no ses hesitated no. to tread ON me wounded.
dy ing and dead, and the pondeious artiiiery
| wheels crushed limbs and skulls l. WAS NJ,
| AWFUL sigh TO tenold weak, wounded men
| ifting their feeble hands b.neaLh the horses
| Ia )ois Sighs at least are dus to the uobly
| horses which fell in This battla. Going over
| this part OF the field on sunday, where the
| ieHd fay thickly, and where the track OF the
| arnliery could ee traced some words OF the
| pid poet came TO mind:
| $50 the tis-ce cou-sers as the chariot roll,
TRAD IN whole raIks aud crush out ceroes'
souls,
D.sheo I'm their hcofs, while o'e. ,he dead
| they 7,
| Bsck bloody drops the SIN mokiog chariot dye;
| The spkey wteeis through heaps of carnage
| tore,
| Ard thick the groaning sxlss dropped with
gore
| The town of Dover, con tainirg, %, aps.
| ore hundred houses, must be considered n
part of hs tttl. fled, il WJs wi hin tho
| r-bel lines. Every room containeo sica ,
W6unded d or dead men The n hhabitan 3 n Il
I II q. me Of ouy sold ef. were sackng A.,
| contrary to express orders l s.w plaiss,
| ives and forks, and articles of fiae ferna 4
| wearing Hep57cl, on the hJoT; hi .dy rage
| were every wler and often piece OF human
| nesh cut away b. the surkeonq, and you cOu4a
not open IA door wi fhout near ng groanS no
| mU-teI hoW grand or how low, how reurpd or
how public he nous. m rnt be. it WIS ali the
| same Ihundrr ana lightning, cholera or
| other pesti ~ &c, OF the most awful earth
| quake, could nOt have caused such scene II
I horror.