The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-09
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ged TO have their blankets dried az tho
Gre, that the cold night air bad slain as
many as our bullets had done.
The miserably weak rebel hospital
force left to cope withthe awful work be-
fore them were totally unable 70 attend
to their wants at dey Of their hospitals,
but death was fast making their work
less The ampuiated legs and arms were
ly ing piled mp ike cord wood
The Federal dead were all buried by
their comrades on the 9th and.l0lh. On
the morning Of the 10th Ieslimatea tFies
thousand dead rebel soldiers lying on she
right, centre, and left in en- extoul Of six
miles Of The lire of battle Che command
ers marching of leaving them unburied
never even sending in flag of truce
asking as TO give them sepulchre They
were then lying manglnd and torn, Tester
ing and purifying, and the hogs devour-
ing theml It's the actual, horrible factl
The citizens Of Perryville then began
TO bury them to prevent pestilence, but
there are hundreds of them lying where
they crawlcd 70 die, between the logs
and in the ravnes and bushes and lodges
Of rocks, that will never be found until
the last trump will sound, when il their
conscience does not smite them before,
these gaunt skeletons will rise up in
judgment before these unchristian and
inhuman men-the chiefs and leaders Of
this bloody rebellion, who turned their
backs on their suffering and unburied
men and held high church at Harrods-
burg next day, where, with backs well
clothed and stomachs well filed were
congregated Bragg and Smith, Hardec
and Cheatham, Buckner, Marshall, and
Morgan, and last, but not least, on this
listof names, Leonidas Polk, late Bishop,
not even asking for their dead "a little
earth for charity"
The righteous Lord Is long suffering,
but for all these things these men will be
called TO judgment, leading these poor,
misguided men TO whiten this land with
their bones, and distributing whisky TO
them without stint on the morning of the
battle. Truly this land is made darker
and bloUdier land than the inhuman
Indian made il in ;he days of yore
Were these poor men dogs even, they
should have been better cared for by
their leaders and not have been left to
the mercy of the elements, and the dead
to be eaten up by the hogs roaming tho
woods If this is the Southern chivalric
idea of treating your fellow man who has
served you faithfully to the death, God
save me from chivalric honors. fear
they would press me to pcrdition Can
il be wondered that on the stacks of
arms they had piled up TO be burned
near their hospital we should find paper
inscriptions of "home or hell" portond-
ing mutiny in plain terms That their
common soldiers are brave, our own dead
and wounded too plainly attest in char
acters of blood.
They swept up (while their great lead
ers kept at safe distance) again and again
to our batteries and were decimated and
driven back repeatedly ere they siIenced
three of ours on the left Our artilerists,
when closely pressed, filed the cannon
with infantry cartridges by the capful
and swept whole scores Of rebel soldiers
TO destruction at each discharge. l
counted in one heap twenty zone men ly-
ing torn and dead, sixteen. in another
heap fifteen in another, while around
they lay scattered like leaves swept from
the trees.
Thus has ended. the memorable battle
of Chaplin Hills, where Braxton Bragg,
commanding the rebel army invading
Kentucky, made his stand on his retreat,
on ground chosen and engineered byhim,
and lost his battle, crushing his regi-
! ments so much as 10 nearly annihilate
. many Of them. Perhaps there were a
, hundred thousand men fought at IT, And
I of those there were fifteen or twenty
/ thousand either had the semblance Of
E humanity crushed out OF them or lie and
/ linger 10 oyercrowded hospitals or in the
| hot sunshine and chilly night air TO yet
. die OF their wounds by thousands, or
E travel 10 their graves through long weary
4 years of plain from wounds never 10 be
!, healed, and with amputated limbs, beg
= ging their bread from door TO door.
0 We have since pressed his army 10
! Harrodsburg, where be made preparations
I for another battle. He burnt the bridges
o and left the ground on our approach. We
= are now pressing his rear closely south
and east. IL he makes any more stands
= we may expect 10 have these horrors re-
5 enacted again and again until this invad-
/ ing army is swept from Kentucky, which
: they have devastated as q plague Of locusts
4 would. LoCHIEL.
ma 4 =