The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-04-16
From The New York Express.
The Horrors Of War.


The following, in the New York WoslFs
correspondence from Winchester, makes one
shudder. God forgive the Abolitionists and
Secessionists, who plunged Us into this was,
for mans nature has not enough in it OF the
exalted Christian for such org7sness ss
tba,:
"The scene Of the conflict is terrible. Ci.
villains are generally prevented from visiting
il for the present. It is impossible to des-
cribe the scene so as to give realization OF its
ghsstliness and terror. which any one ought
to blush not to perceive while walking amid
the remnants Of humanity which are scatter
ed about Bodies In all the frightful attitudes
which violent and unnatural death couli
produce, stained with blood, mangled, and
iacerated, perhaps, often begrimmed and
black, lay scattered here sod there, sometimes
almost in hsapsl
"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 balls ct our men,
large numbers of the rebels lie, pierced in
the forehead or face as they rise above their
hiding place to shoot at the Federals. There
is peculiar ghsstliness in the appearance OF
the enem,'s dead. Did not their dress dis.
tingiush them their faces would enable any
one instantly to tell which weie the Federals
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 o long time at the beginning
Of the war.
In the Court. house are placed large
number OF the wounded our own and the
enemv's without discrim'na and in sew
eral places in town hospitals have been estab.
lished since the battle. II is difficult to com
pei ones self 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,
without rest, in attending to the unfortunate
soldiers in the hospitals.
"Yet, after all their efforts, il was long
be ore many of the wounded could be prop.
erly carrd for and their wounds properly
dressed.
"The courtroom was filled with the suffer
ers, lying upon the foor, so many that it was
difficult to pass about among them. Among
them was the Con nederate Captain Jones,
who had both eyes shot out, and whose face,
covered thickly with clotted bloud. presented
the most repulsive and pitiable sight which
one could we'll behold. Some, from the .oss
of blood, were wan and pale, and some, from
The injuries to the face, were swollen, distor-
ted and discolored. Some, indeed. were
cheerful, and rejoicing that, while their com.
rades were many OF them so seriously injur
ed, their slight wounds would soon heal and
become honorable scars, testifying their pat
riotism and loyalty. But the majority o
those which l say here were dangerou!
wounds, and some were to suffer ampu ationi
and their fellow soldiers about thcm, suffer
ing from their own wounds, were obliged tt
} listen to their cries and groans, and to hea
I the grating of the surgeons saw, a Fremont
3 tor Of their own hard fate. saw many i
( the agonies OF DEATH One who was raise
and seated half upright, baunts me now
with his pale, sorrowiul coun:enance. II
was almost dead, and every moment ~oul'
! raise his head, open his eyes. and stare va
cantly around. as il he would assure himsel
that he had not lost all The sense Of sight.
"Here, also, lay some who had just died
and as passed through the hall, gray
haired guard, resting upon his musket, with
! solemn grave countenance, was standing be
side a number of dead, in the attitude of
, death struggle, each with a paper pinned t
= his clothing, stating the name, regiment &c
I of the deceased"
Read, Abolitionists of the North! A
? this is. in good part, your horrible work.
You began all this twenty years ago. Yo
? laid the trains for Davis. Toombs, &C., Of th
South to fire.