The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-09-13
ri Our Dead as Dull Run.
Correspondsaee Of New York Tribans
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p .ah- VAAAIN010H, sept Z, l064.
I Up TO last night not less than 900 of ourjdssd
at Bull Run still lay unburied-l, 900 corpsss,
black, swollen, and decomposed BY week Of
hot suns and beating showers, we're still refused
. covering Of earth. Worse than this, % revolt.
ing, and more painful, the wounded lay days-
long days and long nights, some Of them week
Of long days and long nights those pu-
trid corpses, wanting care for their wounds,
wanting food, wanting water, calling in faint
voices to occasional passers By, friend or foe.
for help, and receiving none. These are facts,
disgrsceful % they are stubborn. Last night Z
new regiment from Pennsylvania marched under
flag OF truce upon the battle. field for burial
duty. Surgeons and party of nurses from this
city have been there since Monday attending 70
the wOunded-an insufficient party of but ten or
fifteen men, whose utmost exertions but susficed
70 reach and .psrtially relieve the host of the
wounded on the seventh day.
Although under Gag Of truce. our parties we're
permitted to 60 and come at pleasure. All this
arduous work, which should have been done in
day, was devolved upon those few humane sur.
geons and nurses. Although our authorities
must have known that the dead still remained on
the field, N entire week passed before sdeousts
means we're taken to hide in the earth the re-
voting spectacle. Somewhere there has been
gross neglect Of duty.
The party who were upon the field the entire
week gathered and sent to Centervile and on 70
Alexandra over 1900 wounded; 925 we're sent
from the field Friday and Saturday, al Of
whom had lain where they fell three or four days
before succor came. The search for the poor
wretches presented the most heart-rending
scenes. Ny informant says, as be approached
the poor lads, they would look eagerly at him,
and in tones Of touching Importantly saw "Doc-
tor, come to me; you look like kind man.
Doctor, for Gods sake come 70 mel" He says,
in one small clearing, AID In the edges Of the
woods around and along the excavations for an
unfinished railroad. where had been some Of the
heaviest work of Friday, where Schurz, and
Kesrney, and Stevens fought, lay ridges Of
mangled bodies where they fell, the blue-elsd
corpses Of our dead soldiers, aud among then
I we're wounded men, still uncared for, some Of
them dying. Some of the gentlemen who were
on the Geld tell us that for some time they were
so overcome by the unpleasant sights and smels
tibet reached their senses, that they could not
Get themselves about their benevolent labors
The surgeons had provided themselves with
food. lint. and bandages before leaving Waah-
lipeton-hence we're enabled to do Justice -
each case when reached. Tn. slightly wounded
had been psroled and sent within our lines some
DAYS previously. The cases which remained
we're, consequently, of most serious nature.
There remain nov upon the field, in care Of
Dr. Coolidge and assistants, $50, who cannot b
removed.
The losses during the week Of bsttles In killed
and wounded will sum Up not far from 10, 900. =