Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-07-08
CEDAR FALLS IOWA. FRIDAY, JULY g. 1864 .@@@.
IN THE HOSPITALS.

IN lktE ktOSEHTAL Las.
Linkcnsale writes from Washington to the
Dubuque Times, under date of June Goth, as
follows '' ."' .,"'
1went around to Douglas and Stanton hos
pitfalls, last evening only a couple Of squares
| from my house. II is impossible to describe
the scenes. One is amazed At the number
less ways in which the men are wounded,
and is almost awed by the wonderful forti
tude with which they endure their sufferings
| saw one poor fellow from Indiana who had
just had an arm amputated near the shoul-
der, and . ball taken FROM the calf OF his leg
He felt so much better that he vas positively
cheerful. Nevertheless, il is next to certain
he will 60 10 Arlington Heights before anoth.
er Sunday, with the American flag about his
coffin. Another was shot through the lungs.
and could only breathe BY spaslnodic jerks.
He was looking for his Mother he said, or
rather gasped, and would willingly 90, could
no but live to tell her he had done the best
hc could for the old flag. She must be there
soon, or he will never tell her. He showed
me picture Of beautiful, golden-haired
4 girl, his sister. She and he and tho mother
were all there were Of the family. Another
sun cannot yise upon the son and brother,
except to shine in on him cold and dead up
on his blue covered cot. I talked minute
or two with hundred, each one differently
wounded from the others, some to DO MAIN.
cd for life, somo not so badly hurt but they
can again return to their places, some never
again to sec the loved ones Of home on
earth. e. -.r..s .....- -...... .......
Here, too, amidst all this suffering, tho
thousandth part Of which at only two hospi-
tails no man can tell, there was much at which
we might not improperly rejoice. The Sur
geons seemed to be kind hearted and careful;
sisters of charity Of the Church Of Rome,
clothed in the modest garments Of their or
der, went about from cot to cot, giving food,
medicine, care, and consolation to the woun-
ded, mothers and sisters from far off States,
sat by their sons and brothers, or admins
tered the pieus offices of affection; fathers
and brothers wept with joy near their own,
whose wounds were happily not mortal, or
silently brushed away the bitter tears as they
stood by those who would soon pass away.
Charitable women waited upon others as
carefully and tenderiy as though waiting up
on their own brothers. There are angels Of
mercy on the earth yet. r..,... tic ~, .r
But why need say so, when, as this goes
through your press, you will have such un.
nistakable evidence Of II in your own good
city. II is not necessary for me to try to an.
ticipate tho good you will do. know that
it will be much. know that tho men of
Iowa, and the women, for the sake Of the
country which is so dear to them for tho
sake Of the gallant men of their State who
have done SO much, and suffered SO much;
who arc doing SO much, and suffering so
Oh rnr th,, nj IF tJ,n Ia,
phans become tho honored heirs OF the coun.
try's gratitude, will do their whole duty, and
that not.s,udgingly but earnestly. We shall
now look toward Dubuque with intense in
terest, and expect a glorious account from
the Sanitary Fair. Heaven bless those who
got 1t up, and who are carrying it on,
with, we will not doubt. that measure of sue.
cess to which great and good deeds are enti-
tled-deeds which the living must always
approve, and which the dear and holy dead
must forever contemplate with joy. -F'' .,
And this is by correspondent of the New
York Tribune, Iwritins from near Peters.
burg: ' ..-." 80. 2a'.. .N ..".
If you would see the I" wrnkled front OF
"grim visaged war;" visit the hospitals after
battle. Go to the operating table and OBJ
serve the delrium Of the subject as the great
finger of the relentless surgeon is exploring
his bleeding side. Blu. the poor sufferer is
all unconscious, for surgeon with a towel
saturated with ether and folded cone shape,
stands at his head, and while, he closely
watches the beating Of the pulse, applies the
blessed neutralizer Of pain, rs he deems nee
essary. Sometimes the subject lies passive
under the severest operation and at other
times he imagines himself again on the battle
field. He curses, raves, taunts tho enemy
with cowardice, and dares him to come on,
until, his physical energies exhausted, he
sinks into short sleep and awakes to find
his wound dressed, and himself lying weak
and ncrveless side by side with scores Of 9TH
srs in the hospital tent. Here Is an officer,
whose case the surgeon sees at aglance is
beyond the reach Of skill. He was shot
through the forehead by sharpshooter; a
small globe Of quivering brain protrudes
from the wound, and the convulsive gasp at
long intervals shows that the poor sufferer
is fast approaching "the sleep which knows
no waking" And yet the surgeon says he
may live in that coddition twelve hours long
er. Such cases frequently occur. Return
to the hospital ia the morning. The attend
ants are bringing out those who died during
the night, and laying them. wrapped in their
blankets, in a row outside this hospital, pre-.
paratory to their burial. Go count the little
headboards made from cracker boxes, and
standing in rows over the graves of the dead
under yonder trees. Perchance the form Of
some acquaintance or soldier friend whose
warm band you grasped but yesterday, may
rest beneath one Of those unpretsnding head
boards. But the dawn Of the great hereaf.
ter will it not behold those slaughtered ho-
roes. resurrected and beauti6cd, the recipi.
ents Of crown to which many who repose
beneath the marble Of Paria will not dare to
aspire .al 'H ~ as7i gglai 4, q
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