The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-01

pupitchS5 " itttGl iTUIU bSVtSS but-
field, jr., of Phiadelphia in which he de-
seribeS visit which he made with several
gentlemen to Gettysburg Immediately af-
ter the battle, and an interview with some
fearfully wounded rebels who lay in a wa
gon shed, some thirtyin number. He says:
There they lay, some thirty of them,
each one apparently wounded more severe
ly and utterly helpless than the other;
some with an arm or leg off; some with an
arm and q leg Off; some with both legs;
some wounded in the head, others in the
lungs, others in the bowels; some wounded
and torn by shells in a manner too horri-
BILE for descriptions spectacle of misery
sad enough in itself, but still more aggra-
waited by it's attendant circumstances
The descending torrent from the hill the
night before had swept right through the
wagon shed, and washed away all their
scanty supply of hay or straw, and there
they lay, those who had cost mother sor-
row to bring them into the world, and a
mothers loving care TO rear them, helpless,
starving, mutilated wretches, partially i'm
bedded in the mud, nearly all of them
without shirts, some of them even without
blankets or even so much as an India rub
Der cloth to cover their nakedness.
In COW stable near by, there were 9TH
ers still worse off "The filthy water of
in upon them, and saturated straw, blan-
kets, and everything else, within it's
reach"
After relieving some of the most desper-
ately wounded, Mr.. Dufiield proceeded TO
place in an easy position highly intelh-
gent man, whom he believed to be a law
yer. This being done, the latter asked
whom he should thank. We quote the re-
mainder of the account verbatim:
"Whst is your nameY j told him.
what State you come from?' "Pennsyi-
, vania." "You were born in this vicinity,
7 L., s,,f k,a }N,, NF
and the fixed gaze of the others previously,
suggested the thought that possibly they
thought they had found in me some secret
friend or "rebel sympathizer," and l tho't
| it was but right to- disabuse them of their
error, and tell them the simple truth, which
1 did in as kind voice and in as tender
accents as l could command. "Gentie-
men," said 1, Sin some respects you are no
strangers to me. In the class of 1887, in
"Old Yale we had not few from Georgia
and South Carolina-(namingth them, and
in the fierce spirit of nullificaion that than
existed, felt the earnest of this fearful
civil war. My political sympathies are
wholly and entirely against you, and re-
cent events, SO far from tending by any
means to conciliate them, have but contrib
| uted to intensity and define them still more
| sharply. / leone from Cumberland county,
that county you have so recently ravaged,
and of which on Monday last, was the
| eyewitness. L WAS III SshitioASp VIC
town that you shelled with the women and
the children in it, without "a moments no.
tice or opportunity to get away. That old
stone church on the square, that has stood
for over one hundred years, and whose hal
lowed walls you have defaced by your
shells, was built by my at-grandfather.
My father preached there twenty years.
There was baptised, and there first uni
ted with the people of God. One of my
brothers you shot and disabled, for life, at
Murfreesboro'; do not know but that in
the recent fight near Tullahoma you may
have killed another. / need say no more
only this: that whatever kindness you
may think have now shown you, has been
altogether separated and apart from any
considerations of personal or political ma
ture, which would have led me to act far
otherwise.
For moment all were silent, when our
lawyer friend in the corner spoke-and
would to God every Copperhead in the
country, and especially every cruel rioter
in New York could have heard his wordsl
! think that to their inmDst sonl they must
have felt the tremendous rebuke that they
l implied: "Sir,'' said he, in a sort of de-
predatory tone, as if at one and the same
time to put his best foot foremost in SELF
defense, and to repay the candor on my
part by equal candor on his own, u want
YOU thoroughly to understand us-what
we mean and what we are trying to do
With the exception of the third man from
the door, who is one of your men-a Union
man who believes in the Union, and'
| with short, derisive laugh) who be-
iieyes in q reconstruction Of the Union
none of us believe in a Republican form OF
| Government! 1t is not in the power OF
such a Government to do for us what we
want. There can never be any peace; there
can never be any permanent prosperity
under it. We are in favor OF IL monarchial
| e., % nd
are trying to establish; and then, and not
| till then, can we or our children expect TO
eniov the real blessing of Government at
all" ... r.. -.....-.. #-.
"Patence is good thing" says the pro-
verb, but sometimes he will bolt; and so
found it here, that it required pretty
strong pull upon the reins to keep her fair
| ly in road. (Something like my Quaker
friend whom met the day before return
| ing from the battle field, sad and heavy
hearted enough. "You are less in favor
of war, 1 suppose, than ever" Yes
said he, "yes-but hope the rebels wont
be able to carry their Pennsylvania plun-
der south of the Potomacp') ''Weil, gen.
ttemen," said i, in reply to this declara-
| ton, to which your common silence
seems TO give a full assent, permit me to
say, with my Union friend here, that
do believe in Republican form of Gov
eminent. The Government founded and
| is good enough for me, and 1 wish to be
no happier than 1 and mine have thus
far been under it. And if here now, to-
night, IN this miserable hole, you are con-
tented with the wretched plight to which
you have reduced yourselves, in the en-
deavor to destroy this Government, land
it is only an endeavor for Vi'ksburg rs
taken and the Mississippi is now open,)
ell have to say to you is, that you are
welcome to your opinion. Gentlemen,
good nightr' -
,S1RN. BLuNr's PLANS AND OPERATIONS.
reuorts from Fort Blunt intimate
tho rebel loss in killed, wounded and
prisoners to be larger than at first indicat-
ed. 1t cannot fall far short of FIVE hun
and thirty wounded. This defeat of Coop
er destroys the last hope, followed up Wig
! orously as 1t viii be by Blunt, for the reb-
els regaining possession of the Indian
| ii. in restoring to their allowance tbe