Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1864-07-02
Hospital Incidents.

\ writer from one of the hospitals of the Army
of the Potomac, thus dsscourses
':Coming out from church in the morning, we
found line of ambulances going down the street.
4 driver told me that they had just left hun
dred bully boys at Judiciary Square hospital.
Do you think the adjective coarse and vulgar
one? Go anywhere from Pleasant Hill-what
sting and satire there is in the name -go any
where from the banks Of the Red river-forever-
more coursing bloodily through our memories :
anywhere from Alexandria to Spottsylvania, and
see how it is refined and sanctihed by the men
who battle for us, and you will be ready to do as
| dd-follow the leading. | went to the hos
pital. In one of the wards found man, or
rather he found me-for | marked him as re-
served man, while passed. who would choose
to be left to his own thought. But he called to
me say, you're Yankee. 1t seems that
my dozen years of knocking about the world
have not worn off all the marks of nativity yet
though had hattered myself that | was grown
a cosmopolfte. So | told this soldier. | knew
you, because I'm Yankee too, was his an
swer-which pass to students of mental
organism | found him man from Maine. lie
had bad flesh wound arm and one leg
was off just above the knee. Don't mind the
leg but tell me about Sheridan's raid read
Secretary Stanton's telegram relative to it. 90,
tell you, we'll fetch EN- yet Old Lee IL find
what It's to come to judgment before he gets
through with it, guess, in Il way he didn t look
for. Go down by that room and read that to
that man on the right That was my dismissal.
and went.
The on the right, found to be a Boston
notion, red of hair, frcckled of face, blue of
eyes, square of chin broad of nostris, in word
not "A man with whom Aramnta would fall in
love at first sight, not a man whom Susan Jane
would idolize as the hero of romance
Mornn', was his answer to my situation
terse and pointed as possible. What could say
to one who cut me off in that way? While /
stood an instant he made an inventory of me-
felt he passing judgment only man can
whose wits have been sharpened by long expe-
rience at picket duty. Suddenly he opened his
large eyes to their widest, and said what S
the news 2 | saw that one arm was gone above
the elbow, and judged there was body wound
somewhere, and l knew by the working Of his
forehead that he was in pain. | own this ques-
ton astonished me. | briefly summed up the
morning papers for him. Then as saw he was
in extreme pain, | made remark about his arm,
and asked if | could do anything for him For
answer | got, % id the arm what's the diff
ference if we only lick the rebels ! We had
further talk, and l found him hero from head
to foot-every quarter inch of his five feet nine.
His parting word was: q Somewhere you II
find youngster with hole in his leg-hes a
kind of pugnosed boy, with white hair, but he S
got the grit know him. and he up in the
ambulance with me please get him an orange
or two if you find him, and cheer him up-he 5
little down in the gils this morning, but he'll
be all right in day or two Yes, he will be
all right in day two, for he will be where
pain and death never come.