Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1862-04-03

r0r, which any one ought to blush not
to perceive while walking amid the
remnants of humanity which are scat
tered about. Bodies in all the frightful
attitudes which violent and unnatural
death could produce, stained with blood
mangled and lacerated perhaps, often
begrimed and black, lay scattered here
and there, sometimes almost in heaps
Some had crawled away when wound
ed to comfortable place to die. Two
men lay almost covered with straw into
which they had scrambled and lay until
death had 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 balls at our men,
large numbers of the rebels lie, pierced
in the forehead or face as they rose a.
bove their hiding places to shoot at the
Federals. There is a peculiar ghastli-
ness 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 Federals
and which were not. One would think
they were all Indians, so very dark had
they become from their exposure, sleep
ing without tents as they did for long
time at the beginning of the war.
One who has not seen it cannot tell
what it is to see battle field
If there is anything more dreadful it
is visit to the hospital after battle.
In the Court House are placed large
number of the wounded, our own and
the enemy's without discrimination, and
in several places in town hospitals have
been established since the battle. 1t is
difficult to compel ones self to dwell
long enough upon the scenes witnessed
there, of the dying and dead, to give
them a faithful description. Surgeons
and attendants have been constantly at
labor, without rest, in attending to the
unfortunate soldiers in the hospitals.
Yet, after all their efforts, it was long
before many of the wounded could be
properly cared for, and their wounds
properly dressed.
The courtroom was filled with the
sufferers, lying upon the floor, so many
that it was difficult to pass about among
them. Among them was the confcde-
rate Captain Jones, who had both ewes
shot out, and whose face, covered thickly
with clothed blood, presented the most
rcpulsive and pitiable sight which one
could well behold. Some, from loss of
blood, were wan and pale, and some,
from the injuries to the face, were swol-
en-, distorted and discolored.
Some, indeed, were cheerful, and re-
oicing that, while their comrades we're
many of them so seriously injured, their
light wounds would soon heal and be-
ome honorable scars, testifying their
'atriotism and loyalty. But the major
ty of those which saw here we're dan
,erous wounds, and some were to suffer
and their fellows soldiers
bout them, suffering from their own
were obliged to listen to their
'ries and groans, and to hear the graf
ne of the surgeons saw, prcmonitor
If their own hard fate.
| saw many in the agonics of death.
)nc, who was raised and seated half up
light, haunts me now with his pale,
orrowful countenance. He was almost
cad, and every moment would raise his
cad, open his eyes, and stare vacantly
round, as if he would assure himself
hat he had not yet lost all the sense of
light.
Here also lay some who had just died,
nd as passed through the hall, gray
aired guard, resting upon his muskct,
nth a solemn, grave countenancc, was
landing beside number of dead, in
he attitude of death struggle, each
nth paper pinned to his clothing stat
ng the name, regiment, ETC., of the de-
cascd.