The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-10-11
Scenes on tho derman
Battle Fields.
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OFT The commissioners distatobed Ia
gel thellassfets and field Hospitals by the
Patriotic Help association Jfiffsys.
odd ifsIhJ Of Vienhh HAYS j0st published d
b9aoiHnk and interesting fepDft The
"Reminiscences we're Baron G6rtfy,
Anaf 0befltehtehhnt Nbhfwitz and M 10.
odi lax p They begin ~ fAtnafkiiig tIiat
the Association hays n wide field for
rlnythsif lhbofs III Northern Bohemia
9A3 alone, bud draw a pitiabIe picture Of
tho condition Of Tho t,easahify For
90 pklx months their odtfhlfy his been 90,
fhoenpied by great armies FIRST by the
htap Amstfihns, then by Che Ahstfiaus aud
% Psassihba. and lastly by the ensmy
iHf hone, The PEASANTS food has been
An devouted.g his fields laid wastA, his
house burnt or torn down aud laid IN
WE'D lsfls iifbariSds Ii many places.
aud that the poisoned air destroyed
the living. Nearly all the ampntaf
ha stions made by thu military hafgaGn
were nhsubeessful aud ended fatally,
bnL no dih0fenaai was made in tho
treatment Of Austrian aud Prushian
wounded by Tho medical insn Who had
~, charge, Of them SILL, they found tho
condition of tha hospitals ia all that
% related 70 btrai0g hnd itledieai attend.
anee se!deplofable", that The. subaor
sa. Afforded ny the Hilsiyefein was tpeat
The commission klHftnd 10 1trnnn
sat5 on the Let Of August With fifteen
~ wagon loads Of medical comforts. III.
s ~ WilkeFsdof they found "A PtuspiaH
company m guard ton cholera hos.
ta pltal, Tho pestil6ndD WIS % bad that
n short time four hundred and fifty
tna had died ott of seven hundred paa
9,setleata, and the officer in command
ssss P III + sGas H T b. i iesS
aaa sfewf days. FgYp Wllkersdorf.
(which was inside tho deinafkation.
eaf line, no PfpkaiAiis we're visible but
They hAd. loft their traces. 40 che iields
vi And by the road sides, for the trees
had been cut down 10 make enoainp-
a msIis, Al PfFd.sbIts they found
We're getting wall 10 airy we'll we'll asa Nd
.9tanisqq The pFassian comma aant
provided them with every thing but
" money Although entitled to fifteen
thalers d month, they could not, got h
sog penny, Al koniHgraLz itself thsy
n, found the hospitals oyefstouked and
abort 81 what was needed ale
,tfu. In one house there. were one hun,
t' dfed and fifteen wounded officers, aud
IN another we're one hundred and
ninetyseisht more. They needed
Aplinta, lint, ,handages,s anedioines, To-
tons, ar vol as tobacco aud wine,
=" All were supplied by the Commission,
oul un tho 9th the Qommisaioners Visited
Haa0,tta Nalf.w e.
and Hrakek, aud describe with hafs
,i ror and aatoniahmont tho condition of
the country, The handa and feet Of
the dead were atieking out of the
haety made graves, As TO tho hohpi-
tails IN tho places, tho pemiuiesionars
declare all appliances aud neceaaar.ea
were deficient Tho Prussian doctors
deplored their own wants Of auoeeas
In computations, ...s.......
Many of the wounded had been left
fortyaeght hours on the field witt ont
help and were, Of COURSE In the most
uniayorable condition for treatment
OF the knife, On tho 10th the Conn
miHaionera went 60 Nodelitz, Milowitz,
Maslowed Gerwis and Hozetz, of
which they relate the aamo story On
tho 18th they visited Jaromiera Ska.
lite and Naehod, aud gu the following
days Opooud Kreni aud Neuatadt,
aud finally kokus, Koniginhot, Rot.
tsrdorf, aud all tho hospitals up to
,a. Tteutenau, la all case5 their sup
~ plies were most welcome, and tho hos.
pltal commandments gladly Avaled
themselves of the articles in the Gem
tral depot, The report affords a tor.
rble Peep behind the scenes ola great
battle--the dpFes, when the conuuaror.
has moved off with drums and trump,
cts, and banners ilylngln the setting
sun, and night settles on the dying and
the dead seq fgH sfssf SPiis ~