Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1862-04-18
Later from Pittsburg.
Highly important Details Agoniztng
an the Hospitals.

iusouF5 correspondent says the sum and
substance of the battle isl
On Sunday we were pushed from dis
aster to disaster till we had lost every d.
vision camp we had, and were driven
within half mile of the landing, when
the approach of night, the timely aid of
the gunboats, the tremendous effects of
our artillerists, and Buel's approach
saved US.
On Monday, after nine hours hard
fighting, we simply regained what we had
lost on Sunday.
Not division advanced half mile
beyond our old camps on Monday, except
Gen. Lew. Wallace's. The lowest esti-
mates place our loss in killed and woun-
ded at 5000, and in prisoners 5000 to
1000.
The rebel loss in killed and wounded
is probably 1000 heavier.
The rebels in their retreat left acres
covered with their dead, whom they had
carried to the rear. They also destroyed
the heavy supplies they had brought up.
The correspondent of the Cincinnati
Times, who was in the battle, gives the
following description of the field after the
fight
a visit to the field Immediately after
the retreat of the rebels and the pursuit
Of our forces exhibited a spectacle seldom
to be witnessed, and most horrible to con-
template. The first approaches occupy
ing the further range of the enemy's
guns showed at the first glance the work
Of devastation made by those balls and
shells which had overshot the mark
Large trees were entirely cut off within
ten feet from the ground, heavy limbs lay
strewn in every direction, and pieces of
exploded missiles were scattered all
around. The carcasses of dead horses
and the wrecks of wagons strewed all the
woods, and other evidences Of similar
character marked every step Of the way.
Half mile further on, and the more
important feature Of the struggle was
brought to view Dead bodies in the
woods, the dead and dying in the fields,
lying in every conceivable shape, met the
gaze on either hand. Some lay on their
backs, with their clenched hands raised
at arms length, upright in !he air. 9th
ers had fallen with their guns fast in their
grasp as if they were in the act of load
ing them when the fatal shaft struck
them dead Others still had received
the winged messenger Of death, and With
their remaining strength had crawled
away from further danger, and shelterng
themselves behind old logs, had laid down
to die. Here were the bodies Of those
who had fallen in the fight Of yesterday
and mingled with them were those from
whose wounds the blood was yet trick
ling away. The scene beggars all de-
scription, and | DO not wish to attempt to
depict its horrors. The fatality on the
open space have referred to as the open
d" Battalion Drill Ground, was the great
est which came under my observation.
The canister which had swept it over
during the morning had been terrible in
its results. Strongly contested as its
possession had been by both sides, yet the
dead were as five to one on the side of
the rebels. One man here was in ben.
position, resting on his hands and feet,
resting on his hands and feet, with his
face downward, yet cold and rigid as
marble. One had crawled away to the
border Of the woods, and ensconsing him
self between two logs, had spread his
blanket above him to shield him, perhaps,
from the rain of the previous night. He
was a wounded rebel, and he pitifully
asked " if we could do anything for him?"
AT his feet lay the body of one of those
Union boys | have spoken of as having
his hair burned from his head. On in
terrogatiDg the rebel as to the cause Of
his being in such condition. his only re-
ply was, 81 do not know; l did not DO
it." We assured him that an ambulance
would soon be at hand to take him to
better quarters, and we left him.
The large guns had done some strange
work. One case l saw where the lower
portion of a mans foot had been carried
away, leaving two toes and the upper
portion remaining. Another had been
struck by bullet on the forehead, and
the missile had followed the curve of the !
head entirely around to the termination
of the hair on the back portion of his
Uranium. The case of the celebrated
Kansas scout, Carson mot KiO was hor-
rifying. His face and the entire lower
portion of his head were entirely gone,
his brain dabbling into the little pool of
blood which had gathered in the cavity