Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1864-06-30

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Tho Bdagspors lcoaas Rwabliean
Fnsaer cassaias the follo~ing. nndeF the
aheve aatkon:
aIs is almost impossibia 10 form ANY
conception Of TIE havos Of war, Or its
and waste Of lighting men.
Va read semstimas Of battles whsrs from
l0, 900 TO 20, 900 are killed, wounded and
missing; bat We ssill fad that the variousf
sssps sf the army ase ara IN their uEgsa-
ixalian, and number By thoassnds;-wsl
have of&eial reports Of aaighs skisaishss.
raeenncisancea In foros, grand charges,
is all Of which our losses are said 20 DO
snall, nothing IN comparison Nth
those Of the enemy, and % the ap-
parent majority Of the people fling up
their hats, shout In praise Of the victories
won, and declare that the war must 50
oanntil abe sfrebsilion 10 crushed oat.o
We read, too, OF monstes hospitals, Ia
which thousands upon thousands are saf-
cring from disease, dyisg By scores and
hundreds, and The masses have no rsal-
iaing sense Of tbs magnitude and horrors
of this unnatural and fendish strife
Tharo is more sadness more speculation,
moro excitement over steamboat acci-
4
dent like that on the Hudson river the
other day, or the development Of such
tragedy a. the one over which our popu-
latisn have, for weeks past, gone wild,
and where bat Que life vas sacrificed,
than over the thousands Of our country
men, daily mangied, torn, crushed, dis
figured, IN the prosecution Of THE unhosy
war.
/ ssThs PEOPLE are given up 70 frenzy
| horrible to contemplate. They Dc not,
will not, resliss what is sraaspiEing.--
i There ara times, however, when many
gloryinz IN this wicked crusade are silent.
4 There are times when these ,Roisy war
howlers find such list "a that presented
, in our columns this week, chrouieiing the
/ fate Of their own townsnen, friends,
! brothers, cons, h0sbands--EheF consa an
| hour when ons name in that CORY list
, crushes exultation, hope, life itself
/ when one killed or wounded man or bog
ia moro to them than all the ensanguinet
j GLORY won In this weary war. Think 81
/. 1t, men and brethren; think Of il, women
D and sissers-between three and four hun.
/, dred of the sons OF Litchheld county, il
pride, and strength, and glory, stretches
0 wounded, bleeding, dead, before the gun
: of an enemy men who should be thei
frseads and brothers, and all for What
r 10 save the Union2 Those who admins
9 Ter the Government; the men who condue
y and continue the war, say they would no
!, have it Of any priee. TO preserve 80
10 Coustitutionl These yeEy very rulers Q
- ours have no respect for IL, spit upon Il
K defy and denounee its provisions. soE
row, weeping, mourning, reigns in hun
drods of homes In rugged Mseh6eld eoun
sy; desolation siss supreme in the heart
: Of stricken ard bsreaved snes, while ,
Il s;ow degrees they learn the story Of mul
. der, Of battle, and Of blood.
= sat other times there come home
! as the survivors OF those regiments who's
fame and deashless acts win live IN hii
:. tary, In attestation OF their glorioE
{ dseds,-a1d d solemn sadness possess
the souls Of those who gaze upon tt
deeimated, battered ranks once called
. regiment. II seems to the iookez- on, b
yesterday that thousand men marehS
from among Us, with waving banner
: blazing, FURNISHED weapons, gag an
I'd forms, drums beating, and jubilant ste
70 and to-day hundred, may be, three hat
" dred men, come back 70 as, broken
health, ragged, Scared, TO tell the stol
be of their deeds, and auswcr the pitif
p quessionings pf those who ID net fad |
rpong this remnant their loved ones. Al
be this is war, and some o. It's glorio'
fruitsg
~ son Friday night last such regime
= passed through Bridgeport. Three yea
agoI the Third Maine left that ssates
b. mid the cheers Of thousands Of frien
.. and relatives, for the seat Of war, | q
or STRONG. OF this host, just lis men r
r, turned, 10 command Of one Of the survi
ID Ing captainsl
ID ssThe same afternoon tho remnant
d the Garibaldi Guard returned to M
- York. We happened to be Ia the cit
y, when that regiment, thFse years ago, To-
nd lie departure for the battlefield. IL "
d. composed oil Italians and Germans,
II wearing felt hats, and clad In singula
no II picturesque uniform. They march
en- down broadway. accompanied hy thou
ands Of friends, men and woneus juh
la liant, triumphant, full of high hopes al
as great resolves. Forty buglers made ID
On grand, splendid street. ring with ths
Wild music. EvsEy window and hoas
i top swaraaed With spectators, cheerin
"a shouting, wilTwiih excitement. The
feet vas dramatic In toe extreme. II
regiment has fought bFavoly siaes, ii
now comes home for resting spell,
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