, 1862-04-21

in space Of as ,n1ny feet. No such scene
E'ns ever before witnessed: in America The /
opponents lay Us they had fAuen, often the
bodies Of one heaped upon those Of the other.
Wounded men, nlang1cd horses, crushed bod
les, extended SO fut5rminably It was impos-
Eible 1ol pass through thea, aud the visitor
wonld finally be compelled to turn and retrace
his steps. Rains had soaked the ground
and covered ii with pools Of
water. and sometimes tie wounded could be
seen crawling on to the dead and lying there
died III that position, and not few of the
deaths were caused by exposure. Physicians
we're busy, laboring nobly, but instruments
became plunted and useless, and surgeons
dd!.o,rRed With tfatigue at thslE posts before
Numbers we're drowned BY being unable to
crawl away from the poaitlon where they had
fallen, and in which the water rapidly collect
ed. Your city readers can form some idea Of
Tie carnage y picturing q walk as far rom
dying, stretched away out OF sight on either
side. The woods, far beyond our picket guards
are being now explored and hundreds Of in
jured, abandoned By the enemy on their re-
treat, brought in- Every house between here
and Corinth is hospital We visited several
Of them, and found the floors covered with
the poor wretehes, lying In pools Of blood,
their arms or legs torn of Days passed with
ont aDy nouris6ment, and in half the cases
death lad outst11pped the physicians and was
coming to their relief. Certainly greater
scene Of wide spread misery never @ existed.
eroans, eobs and frenzid curses, but now the
Sufferers are quiet; not from cessation Of pain,
but mere exhaustion. We frequently, a little
one side, where first the ambulances, after
wards the dead carts, had failed to find them,
came ACROSS the bodies Of men who had bled
! to death. Around Them the grass was stained
uith h1aS1 and atta., hands E-ara n
ed conyu1sfyeIy on q few leaves, with which
+! they had endeavored to stop the life tide, IN.
! til growing fainter and fainter, they had given
; up In despair, and laid back to die. One poo,
! fellow, bog who could not have been ovel
fcn1tee1, Eas lying against . tree, 2 knife IL
| John Dan. The N was bnt partly finished
when death had compelled him to give up tht
! gloomy task Of carving out his own epitaph
The terrible destruction caused by cannon
balls was evidenced in the sight Of thret
!: bodies mangled BY the same shot. The latter
! while he was evidently in STOPPING posture
hitting him Immediately on the top Of tn.
! head, and driving the fragments of skull
downwards into the body, the shot remaining
halt hidden between the shoulders. Isaw il
three houses near our outer piekets, and twt
miles from the battle ground, four wounded
rebel captains and thirty or forty privates
BeaurcgaTd, as he retreated, bore back will
him his wounded, leaving them in houses
barns and fence corners By the way 1t i
thus they arc strcwn over 30 great a space
One Of the officers was being carried to q wa
gon as we stopped, and in the heig tut OF de
IiriuM waved an arm above his head, cheering
imaginary companies on to attack. It will b
q week before all can be collected and take
care Of, as the further out our pickets go th
thicker they find them Now that the battl
is over, it becomes suhjeet Of wonder tbs
the loss on both sides Was not even greater
For two days the bullets flew without cesss
ton, and passed like storm Of destructio
through woods md camp. We were unabl
to find over the entire area Of hundreds {
acres, where the sternest firing took place,
single tree that Has not SCARED. Some ha
thirty OF forty bullets imbedded in then
while shot and shell had covered the groun
with limbs and trunks