Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-03-25
The Rattls Of Pea Ridss.
ICorrespondence n. 7. Herald ]
HogPIrAI sOINEs.


The morning Of the 9th | passed the hos
pital, where most Of our wounded were
carried on Che previous night. Here lay
dead officers and soldiers mingled indis
criminateiy together, most Of them having
died after or during amputRtion. Outside
Of the building were several less and arms,
the former with the stocking and occasion
ally G portion Of the pantaloons still unre.
moved. A row Of oorpses lay in front Of
the principal hospital, and 3 number Of
attendants we're busy in their removal.
"ThAts Captain -" was the remark,
ss blanket was turned down from the
faoe Of 3 corpse, revealing at the same time
the double barred shoulder strap. That's
Private -, Of COMPANY" or That's
. Sergeant Of the - Regiment" and SIM
liar remarks were the only hOspitsble eu-
logiums as the column OF dead Was passed
By. Whatever bravery and daring we're
shown when these death wounds we're re-
ceived was here unBoticed, the duties Of the
surgeons and his aids not requiring such
knowledge. satiated with these horrors |
turned away and hastened to the field,
where the final battle was about COmmene-
ing.
BkTTEE FfELD HORRORS.
The appearance Of the hill and woods
shelled by General SigePs division attests
the terrific shower Of missiles that fell
upon them. Walking over the ground i'm
mediately after the flight Of the enemy, and
the pursuit by our forces, ! found ii thick
ly streWn with dead and wounded, most Of
them having fallen by the deadly artillery
pFojectiles Tree after tree was shattered
or perforated by shot and shell, and many
were flled with grape and canister balls
One tree was pierced through and through
by solid shot, its top shivered BY she'll,
and the base Of its trunk scarred by seven
teen canister and rife balls. In one place
lay the fragments Of q battery wagon,
wherein a shell had exploded, utterly de.
stfoying the wagon and killing two mules
which had been its motive power. A
ruined osisson and Eve cannon wheels were
lying near it. Two dead artillerymen
were stretched on the earth, eaok killed
by grspeshoi, and by their side was
third, gasping his las with his side laid
open BY q fragment Of q she'll On the hill,
where tie eannonade had been severe,
trees, rocks and esrth bore witness to its
ferceness. Fifteen wounded rebels lay in
one group, and we're piteOusly implOring
each passer by for wafer and relief for
their wounds. A few rods from them was
another, whose arm had been torn off by q
cannon shot, leaving the severed member
on the ground few feet distant Near him
was the dead body Of rebel, whose legs
and one arm had been shattered by single
shot. Behind tree a few yards distant
Ras stretched q corpse, with tWo-thirds Of
its head blown away by the explosion of
shell, and near 1t q musket, broken into
three pieces. Still further along was the
body Of rebel soldier, who had been
killed by gFapeshot through the breast.
A letter hsd fallen from his pocket, which,
on examination, proved to be a long and
we'll written love epistle from his betrOthed
in East Tennessee. It WAS addressed to
Pleasant J. WiIlisms, OhurohilPs regiment
Fs etteville, Arkansas. Around him in
sll directions we're his dead and dying
comrades, some stretched at full length on
the turf, and others oontorted as if in ex
treme agony. The earth was thickly
streWn with shot and fragments Of shell.
The bursting Of the shells hsd set FIRE to
thedFy leaves on the ground, and the woods
were burning in every direction. Efforts
Wefe made TO remove the wounded before
thehsmes should reach them, and nearly
all were taken to places Of safety. Sever
ell we're afterwards found in secluded spots,
some of them still alive, but horribly burn
ed and blsckened BY the cOn6agration.