The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1864-03-04

uiotloli away lnc oueieu uellcacy, polntluS
to some otner bed :-"!Give it to him; he
needs it more than "; or sometimes, if mon
ey is offered, " | have just been paid off; let
that man have it; he has nothing" Then
some Of the convalescents furnish our best
and tenderest nurses. A soldier was brought
from Richmond badly wounded in the leg.
While in the prison his wounds had received
no attention. and he was in such enfeebled
condition, that, when auputatlon became in
evitable, it was feared he would die of the
operation. Hardly breathing, made OF er
apparently unto death, Ole of these soldier
turses took him in charge, for FIVE days and
nights KEEP, close by his bed, scarcely leaving
him an instant, watching his faltering, flick
ering breath, as his mother might have done,
wresting him by force of vigilence and ten
derest care from the very clutches of the de-
stroyer, rejoicing over his recovery as for
that CT dear aud only brother. Another,
likewise brought from Richmond, won the
pity OF lady, chance visitor. She came
to him every day, distance Of FIVE miles,
washed his wounds, dressed them, nursed
him back into the confines If life, obtained
for him a furloush, took him to her own
house to complete the cure, and sent him
back to his regiment-well
Over third. ruddy faced New England
bay, hardly Yet into manhood, hung the shad-
0" of death, and quiverins lips and swim
ming tyes-sor they come, there, to love our
poor boys most tender y--had spoke his
death-wdrrant. He was silent a moment.
Even a brave soul stops and catches breath,
Il. the unexpected nearress Of the Great
Revelation then he asked TO be baptised,-
" bee ,use his mother was q Christian, and be
had promised her if he died, and not on the
battle field, to have this rite performed, that
she might know that he shared this Holy
Faith with her, and was net forgetiul Of her
wishes; and SO he was baptised AID died.
v,.nu .,. ob..u; ,,h,sas s;aa h, ia.
lay Il New Yorker, Pennsylvania, ard a
Scotch boy, all terribly wounded. By-thehy
:, : , c,r;,r. ,.o, ,,,. thor. o.s f.w s,hrs
wouLds, and almost literally none of the
baycnet; the work of destruction being, in
.,.r,,s, IL o,s.. ,aot of tho ro,d;o, N,,;a
a.r r.. s.,l.~, of -. >sr yorp.r ana
p.n,s,1,o~;a, had ms, visited ,bsn and
....x u.ra cb.,,;oy cbo.r;,v os ,ts;- bores
2t., S..,ob b.,. ubo b,d lost . -, Iooted
mn ,,..b.i, sn,i!,,., ,ls,
INV oo,her viii be here ON Wednesday,.
from, Sr,,!tnd When she t,ew that had
enlisted. She sen; me Wort. that mad done
wei. to take up arms for A country ina, had
beer so good to me; and when she heard
that was wounded, size wrote me she would
take the next steamer for the UritetlStates. "
And. as might have been expected from
such woman. on Wednesday she ras by
his bedside. redeeming her word to the very
d,v
Y, ono hos erer susnac,ad 10 l,.srs of .
Ia,e,t ancel;c pr;nc;nIe-and v.t # upna;a
l..rayols,cs corSoI,,;o, ,orrad nm vo,rao od
baa,.s homo .,;ver IN Issnoir and holm 60
poxertv and p,;ssr, bsva !, .bs,, o,,,b;,,
bsava,Iv tho, b,y. our ,a;.rs cr.,a;an
anoeI in ,bc Hysn;tsI D;rec.orv Thor. has
been 4 b,,,Ie. =, 4 ,lr,.. - fo,,r davs &C mad
dsrir., s,,s...,,, a,..j .h-n lie co,l homeless
rcusDaasr list; and yoar son. mother who
rIayr1 about your knee Only l;,,ls time ayo
and wen. ou. IN L:s vor,brnI rr;ae - ba.,lo
is there wound,d- your lovsr s;rl wbo
has ,on.bt Won tho daarsr r,s,r;r, of . MO
mor,. T.e -or ronr husband cad Woman
hose children stand ., vour / rse sc.rsd h,.
vonr ,.,.s
"Tbe regimen, stood like rock og,;ps,
the ersmv,s forions orSa, and ;,s hood
stained colcrs are forever o. Ior;ousr -. b,, :,
went out nine hundred strong. and il comes
back with two hundred. and what do Won
car4 now for lanrel vreo,bs > He is ro,
with them. There are railrosds-vou can
near the battle field, but YOU cannot reach #
YOU can enquire. but the officers must care
for the li,inc,-"let the dead bury their
dead; and while YOU are fana.ically asking,
searching. he is dvino. snfFtring. c,ll;po for
YOU: : and then vou find that the hosuital d.
rectory has trace of him. and the kindly. ma
,;ent members of the Sanitary Commission
p