Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-05-09

name sounded 80 peculiar that ! was not
able to recoIiect it; 'lhint further than that
from the bank, where my house
stands" "What has your wife 70 main
tain The family with, or doce the Slste help |
thcuiF' said l. a0h, she's 'shiity,' my
wife Is, straneer--she's mighty 'shifty; |
she's Northern-born woman, aud her "a |
ther lives 10 Wisconsin now. l never was
North before; married my wife in Ala
bama."
Twas obliged to leave this man, who
nm under.cuuent Of nobility, al
though his superficial knowledge had al
lowed him 10 follow the fortunes Of base
leaders. He persisted in saying, rs I lct
him, that he was certain he never had killed
q man.
THE STUDY OF ATTITUDES.
Perhaps finer opportunity has not for
many generations occurred, than that after
the battle for the study Of attitudes. There
was the old man, his locks sprinklcd with
grey, kueeling beside stump, rs II in the
attitude Of prayer, his face now resting in
his hands and head reclining on the top
apparently having gone to sleep in death
while in the act OF devotion. A ghastly
wound 10 the side told Of bis end.
Another powerful.looking man had just
placed cartridge in tho muzzls Of bis gun,
and had the ramrod in hisright band, as if
about to ram il down. Death caught him
in that moment, and as he lay with up
turned face, the right hand clenched the
gun and the left the ramrod. There are
many instances similar 10 this last. One
soldier had loaded bis pieco aud paused to
take chew of tobacco. Beside his body
lay the gun, and in his right hand was a
fat plug Of tobacco, bearing tho imprint Of
teeth.
In one place lay nine men, four or five
of ours and about as many rebels, who,
from indications, must have had hand to
hand fight. They were dead and bore
wounds made evidently with bayonets and
bullets. Two had hold Of auothers hair,
and others we're cenched 10 variety OF
ways. One seemed to have had gripe 10
the throat of bis antagonist, and been COM
PEELED 10 relinquish il, Judging from the
frigid marks, The most singular attitude
of any that have observed, was that of q
Union soldier, the position Of whose body
was similar 10 that of boys when he is
playing at leap-frog.
Some had lain down quietly with their
heads resting against stump or tree, their
caps resting on their faces, and had thus
died alone and unattended. Yet the calm
ness and repose Of the countenance, as one
raised the covering, indicated peaceful
departure to the spirit world. Dealh caus-
ed by a bullet leaves quiet, calm look be-
hind, while bursting shell, bayonet or
sword carry with them horror that re-.
mains depicted in death.
1t was an excellent lime TO choose gun.
All the different patterns, | think, must
have been there, and in such largo variety
than an Arab even could have found bis
chosen Algerine rife. There were the
Harper's Ferry rifles, old and new pattern;
Springfield rifles, with the Maynard pri-
mers and without; the "Tower" Enfield
rifles, Mississippi rifles, double and single
barrel shot.guns, rifles bearing the Palmet-
to stamp, and made at Columbia, South
Carolina, and Fayetteville North Carolina; I;
swords of various patterns reeking with
blood; broken and bent scabbards, partially
discharged revolvers, and military trappiugs
in such endless variety, that to have pos
sessed them would have been the fortune
of any individual.
In this cleared field fronting the peach
orchard, before referred TO, variety Of bul
lets might have been gathered--and even
the following day-as they were lying
about on the ground like fruit from heav
Iily-laden tree afler storm.