The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-09-27
The Late War in Germany.
BArr1E-r1ELDs OF sADowA AND AUsrEnI1rz.

The correspondent of the New York
Worzd, writing from Paris, gives the fol
lowing interesting sketch of the battle
fields of Sadowa and Austerlitz:
/ Visited, on consecutive days, two re-
nowned .battle-6elds, Sadowa and Auster
litz. They were equally commonplace
when the struggles to which they gave
name occurred, but Austerlitz, by reason
Of its great commemoration, is now q
tourist's7town of $500 inhabitants, while
Sadowa is hamlet merely, utterly de-
populated. The cholera has killed two
hundred of the little farmers, wood-cut-
ters, &c. in it and near by since the bat
tie day, for among the putrofying car
casses the old hyena whets his appetite,
and then picks up the living neighbors.
Sadowa was moro sanguinary slaughter
than Austerlitz; at least three hundred
thousand men were. there opposed, and
possibly half million, as the bulletins
say. We all know how armies are mag
nifed on both sides, till after defeat,
and in this war the military braggart has
been as eminently elastic as in our own.
The least truthful of all contemporary
historians is the soldier himself. Had he
to write our descriptions he might make
his own reputation, but would certainly
ruin ours. At Austerlitz, Bonaparte op-
posed seventy thousand men to the allies
ninety thousand.
Sadowa was fought in the margin of
July, and Austerlitz past the meridian Of
November. The former was the most
terrible butchery, the latter the most art
full embattling. One finds in the Sadowa
battle only the Prussian Crown Princes
swift and persevering march to applaud;
but Austerlitz was piece of daring
adroitness, fought eight hundred miles
from Paris, with a great and incensed
capital to guard behind, and not as t-Sa-
dowa, the italian army of Austria COM
PEELED to face the Po, but marching vigor-
ously, eighty thousand strong, upon the
Frenchman's rear while Prussia, scarcely
inimical to him, was cdging up through
Bohemia to join the allies at the first note
of thoir success. The great inveigler
pleading false desires for peace, fsrt flush
ed the allies till they were ovcrcertain,
assisted them to advance VIGOROUSLY, till
by their very success they had become
outhanked, then drove them pell-mell llupon
his bayonets On the one hand, and on the
frozen lakes on the other, where they
were drowned by acres when the ice
crashed under the French artillery. Both
battles were equally signal defeats to
Austria. Sadowa was a more piquant
misery, because inflicted on her in the
sight of Germany, and by a lesser State.
NV ride over the field of Sadowa was.
scarcely pleasurable, because the cholera
had left there only the collapsed and
aged, and the peasants hereabout have the
reputation Of veritable ghouls and giaours,
whose atrocities to the dead pass human
belief. They have behaved worse than
any class of savages would do in America,
cutting purses and jewelry from the
wounded, stripping the dead of garments.
in a word, rcvenging themselves upon
history, which has done nothing for them
these three centuries. Sadowa itself is
an European Culpeper; for example, q
little stony-faced town, with bulbously-
shaped church steeple in it, two beer
shops, and the usual per centage of Aus
trian civil officials.
An old woman in black stockings stood
alone in the open place of the hamlet,
looking at the hospital wagons that pass
ed across the horizon. She did not know
anything, except that two of Hasmer
Somebody's boys, near by, had gone off
with the soldiers week ago to get back
their horses, impressed after action. Had
we seen them MOP That was strange |!
That was all she knew about the fight
Everything in the place is more or less
shot to pieces The. battlefield itself is q
series of hills, half corn-patch, half scrub
timber, inclined to be mountainous, and
to some extent resembling the lands at
the foot of the Blue Ridgc-Cedar Noun
tain, for example Atplaces on it there
are vistas of far white plains, prairie-like,
but of the deadly spots themselves moth
ing remains save the uneven trenches,
where the dead, dumped in as they lay,
remain to testify against the monstrous
enigma of ambition, submission, and igno-
rance, in which they perished, at that far
dim time when God shall make it plain
why our kind are thus causelessly and
perpetually slaughtered.
At this spot, the two Prussian armies
capped the double lines of victory: Sach-
now, Podoli, Munchengratz, Gitschin, on
the one hand; Nachod, Skalitz, Trau-
tenau on the other. 1t would be absurd
for me to waste time in describing Sc.
ries of bare slope stretches and curving
hills abont which none of your readers
have particle of curiosity. Suffice it to
say, that all the view of Sadowa is repe.
tition of the Virginia miseries of our own
rebellion; not any better country, though
it has the spruceness and tidness of age
over it all; better cleaned up, better con
tented, but inhabited by hewers of woot