The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1864-06-22
fiOSPI4AL SCENES.

The following Is an extract from 4 letter Of
a lady at Washington, who with her sisters. is
most untiring in devotion 10 our sick aud
wounded patriots as they come IN there Just
from the bloody conflicts 10 Virginia.
cannot begin 10 tel, you of the scenes We
witness here in The hospitals The mortality
IS perfectly irightiul. aud the surgeons cauuot
account Tor IT, \ man IL a. parrntly doing
we'll in every particular as far a. they can s,e,
wien a sudden change takes place. aud Ia less
than twelve bOurs he IS dead.
Dr.. - seems terribly worre ed ! imag
ine there Is 40 otter surgeon in the country
and ever since the war comm, nc. d be has breu
particularly successful IN hls amputatiOus until
now, when a large proportion die. | was much
interested n a maa rom Pennsylvania who
vas suffering from terribly fractured Inigh
He was almost distracted 10 see Ills vile. but
laid she bad three little children aud could not
come 10 him Alter taking awDIc with blm
1 found the real difficulty was the WAut oi
means for irieud next door WOULD Willingly
take tie children; therefore told him 10 make
bis mind easy, she would come lie fairy sob
he'd aud cried for JOY. ! knew the case was
hopeless, but went after the surgeon TO ask his
opinion. He said he believed the man could
1--we for ten DAYS at least. probably logger.
J.
mail. NJ. remained TWO or lhree hours after
left, but when she returned, brought the sad
news that the WGs dead. He commenced
sinking soon alter lett, and thus passed away.
wrote again TO prevent the poor vile from
coming, and We sent the body home to her, she
was 30 anxious to have IT, The bodies are all
emDalmed at the hospital, without cost TO those
who are too poor to pay. Deaths occur almost
as suddenly every day Every day come wife
OF mother arrives just too late.
"a will relate the scenes we witnessed In one
day at one hosp tai. Before leaving the even
lug before. We had been talking to a most iu-
teres ting young man, who told US hat bis faith
er, mother and wife were to be there the next
day, and then be should get WELL His story
was that he was engaged 10 be married. but as
both were very young, he determined 10 wait
until he could ama.s sn" =" make her com
Portable; but be- could not stay at home while
the war was going on. so he persuaded her to
marry him, before be enlisted, and at once left
her, and it lad been two years since he saw
her.
He died that night. The next morning all
three arrived. fully expecting TO meet the son
and husband The wife Looked Ike a child.
aud when she learned he was dead vas almost
frantic NJ. would not let her go into the dead
hOuse-tbere were so many there; a vacant
Dtu Ndc elduuluB 1T tue uOOI from WI cl a poor
fellow had just been taken. So be MAS laid on
il. and lifted into a vacant tent close bg When
the child wife saw him you might have heard
her shrek for squares. The parents were more
quiet. The aged mother stood looking on ber
10Y very calmly; presently she raised The sheet
and saw that one leg was gone; she dropped as
senseless as though shot by a cannon bali.
They all left in the afternoon train with the
body. In the next ward | met one OF the
nurses. leading out dear looking old lady
with gray hair. black dress aud white cap; her
ace as white as marble, but beautiful 10 look
at. Her hands were clasped. aud she said, as
though TO herself, The only son of a mother
and she a widow" Then for moment she
paused. and added "The Lord gave and the
Lord hath taken away. blessed be the name Of
the Lord Her sou had died just ten minutes
before she had reached there and was still IN
his bed The next were two old people look
lng for their youngest boy; be. too. had died
in the night Soon | saw them in an ambu-
lance the father on one side the mother on the
other, Of his coffin, Fastening to the depot"