The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-05-19

own. and in less than half an hour DC nau
beaten back, .with awful. slanehter. the In
rious enemy.
HOW HE REcEIv1p RErEL -eeapLIMESr
On Sunday nIbrning, while the air was
filed with heavy hisdes from the rebel and
federal artlIeiy, xhiSh aetnail ns& 81
be possessed viii an jassse frenzy an9ne
sirous of retfieying tie time Lost g ls en-,
forced restrsint Heretofore, q rebelS speiiN'
dropped within afew fSet Of the spot where
General Grant and General Meade were
standing, and buried itself in the earth
The formor evinced not the slightest asita'
ton, not even an extra whirl from his ID
evitable cigar. He sized for pocke.,
compass, which was furnished him, ana
coo,y walking forward, he, deliberately ex-
amined the course Of the shell, thereby dis
covering the location of the battery, whence
| it came; and,in five minutes the ieoeraf
shot and eredrcpping thickly among
| the rebel artiIlerymen, who had SO nearly
deprived the great army OF Its great eo"-
mander. e.,.,,, 80, ~, ,,s4t arr, 90 rei,,o 2
AT THE HOSPITALS. - ~. .' So
Tho scene was ssickening in the vicinity
of the hospitals, for here one sees the ua a.
side of battle. The knife and saw OF tne
surgeon were actively engaged. almost ey
nrv moment: indeed there seems little ces
sation to their dread duties. Tie groans OF
the natients suffering under cruel and ago.
nizing wounds were, terrible, - The opera
ting tables-none Of those comfortable con
trivances seen in our peace blessed hospi-
~. Lr+ axtemnorized almost for the occa.
sion-were rarely empty; but as fast as
one victim WAS removed TO recover, perhaps
to die. another would take his place. Am-
balances redwith gore and stretchers whose
canvass was dyed with the ruby stream Oh
life came and went, borne by hospital al
tepdants and soldiers detailed for the pur
nose bringing in fresh victims and hasten
| ;po aGav for Others whose sufferings de-
manded surgical assistance, These were
scenes of the da,, from early dawn until
dark. and far into the night, with scarcely
a moments cessation; while the day, min
i rled with the cries and cntreaties of the
Door fellows under the knife, was the sad
music of carnage-the boom OF cannon and
the rattle of musketry-telling in unmlsta
keable terms the stern truth that there
were vet coming still more victims for the
surgeons knife and probe : r -
HEADQUARTERS UNDER FIRE
! Headquarters. as almost every portion o.
the field, was under fer during the day
The rebels piled their artillery as fiercely
and, in some cases, as truly as we did ours
and there was scarcely a position in our
, lines which was not under fire. On one
f occasion, the shells were flying in danger
Gus proximity to Gems Grant and Meade,
but fortunately no harm ensued The Gen
erals maintaiue tue utmost cooinesS un
der these circumstances, and were not has
ty in changing their positions, ALTHOUGH
some OF the younger members OF their stalls
and one or two of the oldsters, evidently
appeared as if they would be quite thankful
for an order to ''change base" 3 aksksk
FREDERICKSBURG HOSPITALS. VsSB
Oh this city of hospitals. oh this Col
gotha Of Bureaucratic neglect and of bat
fled and hampered benevoleheeF Within
the hour have seen young and beautiful
girl from New Hampshire, avolunteernurSe
in Prof. Frank Hamiltons Hospital, beg
gino in the private houses Of this rebel city
for cotton or linen cloth for bandages! In
this hospital, and in Others, there's moi, the
material with which the volunteer surgeons
can even wrap up the wounds OF the war
riors which they dress Of other necessary
hospital supplies-of medicines-of utensils
OF even tin cups-of everything save the
eternal bareback and cof.e--it would be a
scandal to tell, and would kindle RACES
which I, for one, in this hour of Gods mer
cy to us on he field of battle, am not dis
posed to infame ''""
Bot this city is city of hospitals
Everywhere-ln all houses are our wound
ed | thought enough had been brought to
Belle Plain IN the day and half was
there, to empty Fredericksburg, And on
my way here yesterday afternoon, l rode
through a delayed ambulance train in
which were said 10 be two thousand five
hundred wounded-and they had been de-
ayed there under what circumstances of
suffering from want uf water and food, let
any imasia J for eighteen honrs. Two had
died during the halt | rode up to the
RI body Of the one not yet buried, and asked
his name. None could tell All they
knew was tat he was Of the 22nd Massa-
chusetts My heart and head had for a day
and a half been sickened with the multi
tude of the Union woundcd-the most
slightly" so to be sure-and my eyes had
got TO aching with the spectacle OF them =
But had not begun TO see the results of
the battle of the Wilderness. The moment
l entered Fredericksburg perceived hos
pital. | rode by hospitals on my way to
the Baptist Church, where Frank Hamilton
has charge of about three hundred wound
ed. visited with him in a back street. in
an inconvenient house, the wounded nf the
regiment of his son, Col. Theodore b. ham
ilton. There were other hospitals in that
back street There were more in the main
/ strnnt 1f fln city and whnn I inn 1irnd Of