Litchfield enquirer., 1862-05-22
SHILOH FIELD AN HOUR AFTER } 7srifgas1 THE BATTLE. -5s-1 0A'

| % SHILOH FIELD AN HOCR AFTER 1 .a 7e5wsaT THE BATTLE. i.-- .'s0h l ] It was curious to see the stategy resorted tt l by some of the wounded Rebels, or their friend While surveying the killed and wounded in { thickly wooded locality, but where trunks o large trees lay about in 6 half-retten state, stepped upon one to look about the ground and, hearing something move at my feet, looked down upon the figure of man, covered up by { blanket, and lying close up alongside the log The ground was thickly strown about him with bodies, many of whom found to be only woun ded. Lifting the blanket from the wounded man 8 face, as dismounted from the log he immediately faltered out, Oh, sir, I'm wound ed; don't hurt me, myleg is broken and I'm Sc cold and wet" H sr @
 Within three feet of this wounded Secession ist lay dead Unionist, with his hair and whis kers burned off, Just at this period two ol three of our men came up, and observing the horid spectacle of their dead brother-in- arms with his hair, whiskers and clothes so burned addressed the wounded man referred to in vio lent terms, accusing him of aiding in setting fire to their comrade. For moment felt 'appre hensive that they might retaliate, but upon his assuring them that many on both sides were burned in a similar manner, quiet was soon res tored. I soon learned that the leaves aud dead undergrowth had been fired in various places by the explosion of shells, and also by burning wads the fire communicating to the bodies, burning them shockingly. Some of the wounded must ! have been burned to death, as observed one or two lying upon their backs, with their han ds crossed before the face, as person naturally does when smoke or heat becomes annoy ing.
 Replacing the blanket over the face of the wounded man, I proceeded to step over another 1 log near by, and was considerably startled by 2 loud exclamation of pain from another wounded | Rebel. Having stepped on a small stick tha hurt wounded limb of his by it's sudden move ment he was compelled to cry out. He, too was snugly laid up in ordinary, close alongside fall en tree. His wound was serious, and the poor man begged for some assistance The on ly thing could do was to get him a little water and promise that somebody would soon come to his relief. I do not think he received any however before the following day, as it was more than we could do to attend to our own suffering men, night being near. "What will you do with us?' said the woRnded man to me. "Take you, dress your wounds, give you plenty to eat, you to take the oath of allegiance, and then send you home to your family, if you have one.
 "Oh, God!" replied the suffering man; have family, sir, and that's just what my old woman told me. She said if the Northern men was sozhgly and bad as our Generals says, they must hs' changed heap" Occasionally there was pause accompanied by distorted coun- tenanc, that showed the painful character of his wound. Stranger" continued the prostrate man, I've got six little boys at home, and the biggest just goes of errands. live on the - River, in Alabama, (the name sounded so pecn- liar that was not able to recollect it.; taint further than that cottonwood from the bank, where my house stands" What has your wife to maintain the family with, or does the State help them ?' said I. 70, she's shifty,' my wife is. stranger, she's mighty shifty;' she's a Northern born woman, and her father lives in Wisconsin now. l never was North before; married my wife in Alabama"
 was obliged to leave this man, who possessed an under-current of nobility, although his super fcial knowledge had allowed him to follow the fortunes of his base leaders. He persisted in saying, as left him, that he was certain he ne- yer had killed man.
 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 sprinkled with grey, kneeling be- side stump, as if 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 in the side told of his end.
 Another powerfuI-looking man had just placed a cartridge in the muzzle of his gun, and had the ramrod in his right hand, as if about to ram it down. Death caught him in that moment, and as he lay with upturned face, the right hand clenched the gun, and the left one the ramrod. There were many instances similar to this last. n,o b,,J lol 1s, onl fn take chew of tobacco. Beside his body lay the gun, and in his right hand was a flat plug of tobacco, bearing the 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 bay onets and bullets. Two had hold of aDother's hair, and others were clenched in variety of ways. One seemed to have had gripe in the throat of his antagonist, and been compelled to relinquish it, judging from the frigid marks The most singular attitude of any that have ever observed was that of one Uuion soldier the position of whose body was similar 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 res ting on their faces, and had thus died alone and unattended. Yet the calmnes and repose of the cOunGeuanCe, as one falScu Lne COVerlHS, IHulCs- ted peaceable departure to the spirit world. Death caused by the bullet leaves quiet calm look behind, while bursting shell bayonet or sword carry with them horror that remains de- picted in death.
 It was an excellent time to choose 8 gun. All the different patterns, think must have been there, and m such large variety that an Arab even could have found his chosen Algerine riae There were the Harper's Ferry rifles, old and new pattern Springfield rifles, with the Maynard primer and without; the Flower" Enfield rifles, Mississippi rifles. double and sin gle barrel shot-guns, rifles bearing the Palmetto stamp, and made at Columbia, s. c. and Fay etteville, N C.; swords of various patterns, reek ing with blood broken and bent scabbards, par tially discharged revolvers, and military trappings in such endless variety that to have possessed them would have been the fortune of any indi. vidual.
 In the cleared field fronting the peach orchard before referred to, a variety of bullets might have been gathered-and even the following day as they were lying about on the ground like fruit from heavily-lader tree after storm.
 BOURBON INSTRUMENTS OF ToRrURE--The Campana della Gancia, of Palermo, mentions a discovery that has just been made in the castle of that capital On digging up the floor of a storehouse of artillery, three horrible instru- ments of torture, used under the Bourbons, were brought to light. One was the cap of silence.