The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1862-04-11
From the Ne,o York Express.
The Horrors Of War,

correspondence FROM Winchester, makes
one shndJer God forgive the Abolition
lists and Se"essionists, who plunged us into
this war, for mans nature has not enough
in it of the exalted Christian for such for.
givehess as that:
1.-THE scene OF the conflict is terrible
Civilians are generally prevented from Wis
Ting IL for the present 1t is impossible
TO describe the scene SO "a To give reali-
cation of its ghas,liness aud terror, which
anv one ought to blush not to perceive
while walking amid the remnants of hui
mainly which are scattered about. Bod.
les in all the trightful attitudes which a
violent and unnatural death could pros
duce, stained with blood, manged and
lacerated, perhaps, often begrimmed and
black. lay scattered here and there, some
times, almost in heaps!
Some had crawied away when wounded
to comfortable place to die. Two men
lay almost covered with straw into which
they had scrambled, and lay until death
released them. In the woods through
which our troops had to pass TO charge
the rebels lie the largest number of our
dead, and beyond, on the other side of the
wall from behind which they poured their
volleys Of halls at our men, large numbers
Of the rebels lie, pierced in the forehead
or face as they rose above their hiding
place TO shoot az the Federas. There is
peculiar ghastiness in the appearance
of the enemy's dead Did not their dress
distinguish them, their faces would enable
any one instantly to tell which were TIE
| Fe derals and which not. One would think
they were all Indians, so very dark had
they become from their exposure, sleeping
without tents as they did for a long time
at the beginning of the war.
In the Court House are placed a large
number Of the wounded, our own End the
enemy's without discrimination, and in
several places town hospitals have been
established since the battle. 1t is difficult
to compel ones seif to dwell long enough
upon the scenes witnessed there, of the
dying and dead, TO give them faithful
description. Surgeons and attendants
have been constantly at labor. withou,
rest, in attending to the unfortunate sol
diers in the hospitals.
Yet. after all their efforts, it was long
before many of the wounded could be
properly cared for and their wounds prop.
erly dressed.
The court room was filled with the snf-
ferers, lying upon the floor, SO many tha,
it was difficult 10 pass about among them
Among them was Confederate Captain
Jones, who had both his ewes shot out, and
whose face, covered thickly with .loted
blood, presented the most repuIsiye and
pitabIe sight which one could well behold
Some, from loss Of blood were wan and
pale, and some, from the injuries to the
face, were swollen, distorted and dseoored
Some, indeed, were cheerful and rejoicing
that, while their comrades were many O
them SO seriously injured, their slight
wounds would soon heal and become bon
orable scars, teslitying their patriotism ana
loyalty. But the majority of those which
[ saw here were dangerous wounds, and
some were to suffer ampulatons, and their
fellow soldiers about them, suffering from
their own wounds, were obliged TO listen
w tiiCi' 'ltCH hht Si'tIiS, anu W mean tltt
grating of the surgeons saw. premonitoi
of their own hard fa.e. saw n,c@,TTy IN H.,
agonlea OF de%2t;u. Uue. Who was raise,
and seated halt upright haunts me nv
with his pale. sorrowfui countenance II,
was almost dead, and every moment woult
raise his hea and open lis eve. and stan
vacaut,y around, as if he would as-ur,
himself that he had not lost all the seas.
Of sight.
Here, also. Law some who hal Just dec
and as | passed through the hall, a gray
haired guard res ing upon his muekrt
with 4 solemn. grave countenanre wa,
standing beside a number OF dead in ht
attitude of a death struggle. each witt
paper pinned To hi~ clothing. staring tn,
name. regiment, etc. Of the deceased"
Read, Aboitionists of the North Al
this is, in good part, your horrible work
You began all this twenty years ago.
You laid the trains for Davis, Toombs, etc.
of the South, TO fire.