The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-10

new wound covered with flap cut from
above, and secured in its place by silver
rivets The General is doing we'll, though
he les with his head fast fixed as in q
daguerrean vice, his jaw tightly closed,
and without the possibility of receiving
food, except beef tea and stimulants in
serted through his clenched teeth.
Scene on a Battle Field.
The correspondent of the Cincinnati Conn.,
mercid with SHERMANs army, gives the
following picture of field of battle, and
the dead picket:
have just rode over that portion of the
battle field where the Goth corps repulsed
the enemy yesterday, and the sight pre-.
sented is enough to make the heart of one
long accustomed to war, ache. The am
bulance corps, so complete in all its de-
tails, is gathering in the wounded, and the
groaus of the sufferers is grating to the
ear. All the rebel dead and wounded are
LETT in our hands to be cared for. The
ground is thickly strewn with the victims
in about equal p oportionH, excep ing at
those places where desperate charges were
made upon our line, when the enemy came
out OF his breastworks; there the rebels
largely predominant. There, within few
yards of me, wounded rebel is stopping
the blood that endeavors to make its ext.
through a CHASTITY grape wound in the leg
OF 8 Union soldier, while over yOnder, be-
meath an oak, wounded Federal is in the
act OF giving water from his canteen to an
enemy who fell beside him, and w.Ose
llfe-blood discolors the garments of both.
After the shock of battle has passed, the
helpless inhabitants of the rtie-pits aud
trenches are no longer enemies. A COM
mon sympathy seems to. inspire them, and
they are once more friends and brothers
children OF one Father.
The Bead Picket.
On the fed yesterday, on tho left, near
Tilton. where our cavalry engaged the en-
envy, a beautiful garden, clothed in ell
the loneliness that rare plants and south
ern flowers could give it att acted my at.
tention and was drawn to it The house
had been deserted by its owners, and the
smiling magno!ias and roses seemed to
stand guard over the deserted premises.
entered through an open gate, stopped
to pluck rose from the bush, when
discovered one of the enemy's pckets ly =.
ing partially covered by the grass and
bushes-dead. He was a noble looking
man, and upon his countenance there
seemed to rest the remnant of smile.
The right hand clasped a rose, which he
was in the act of severing from its stem
when he was struck by the messenger Of
death. In the afternoon the cavalry dug
narrow grave, and, with the Federal SOL
diers for pail bearers, and the beautiful
flowers for mourners he was laid to rest,
the rose still clasped by his stifFened hand.
Nothing was found to identify him, and in
that lonelygrave his LIES history lies en-
tOmbed. No sisters tears will baptize the
grave, among the roses where the dead
picket sleeps.
A Legless Hero In Charge Of an
Arlnless One.
We find the following incident in the
Boston Transcript:
A friend in Washington writes that in
cidents and scenes full of interest-the
consequence Of the late severe battles-are
witnessed at every step in that city. He
says: 81 met, for instance, q sailO-, both
of whose legs had been shot off. He had
been home on furlough, attended by a
one.srmed soldier friend. The parties
were cheerful, even Jolly; it was amusing
and touching to see the legless man borne
about in the embraces of the one arm of
his companion. They expect to have art
supply the place of nature soon, and be al
most as good as new; and neither appear
ed to have any special dread of crippled
future, or were at all disposed to complain
of their sacrifices in the past.
Aid for the Wounded.
The sufferings of our wounded volun-
teers melt the hearts of all classes OF peo-
pie. As Surgeon General Dale was about
getting into the cars at Andover, to-day,
gentleman handed him q small roll of
bank bills, with the remark, "These are
for our wounded boys" The parcel con-
tanned about fifty dollars. The Surgeon
General had hardly reached his Office in
Boston when there appeared in his pre-
sence gentleman from Cape God, who
said that one of his sons had been killed in
the recent battles. and he had lost another
in previous campaigns. He was very anx-
ious, as may be imagined, to 60 to the
front. He was furnished with a letter to
the State Agent at Washington and made
temporary agent himself Ten dollars of
the fifty given by the Andover gentleman
were put into his hands, to be expended
for our soldiers as he saw fit The cases
Of suffering in Virginia have furnished an
occasion to illustrate the OVERLOOKING BEN
evidence of the people of this State.
General George II. Thomas.
a correspondent of the Philadelphia
Iaquirer says:
General Thomas on both days was
among his men all the time, sitting on his
steed like grim old warrior as he is,
whom neither success nor disaster can
move.
lie often exposes himself to danger, but
always does so in the strict line of duty.
Watching every movement of his troops,
as far as possible, especially the process Of
placing artillery in advantageous positions,
he sits upon his horse carelessly. to the
casual observer, and if everything pro-
crosses satisfactorily he caresses his wbis-
kers, moving his right hand down mon
them from the chin. If anything critical
presents itself, up goes his whisRers. the
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