Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-09-09

1 Brnden, not big enough in the sum-
! mer time to float a skiff, flows through
| the village and high road comes down
toward the village on the eastern
side of the valley, hanked BY
4 trees. Here were the Prussians.
Stretching far to the right and left
! along this road were heaps of spiked
/ lhelmets to be seen, and car loads Of
/ needle guns collected under trees at a
! distance. The French musketry fire
had told more heavily than the PrUs-
sian. and I heard that the French ar
tillery had been very we'll served. But,
though burying parties we're busy with
the German dead on the eastern side
of Worth, there was more than an eX-
change Of the slaughterous work on
the western side. Here che Prussians.
and Bavarians had pushed forward 10
strong force, and their hre had told
fearfuIly upon the French. The high
spirit and rigid discipline Of one army
had been more than a match tor, the
desperate resistance OF the other.
Whole companies Of Frenchmen had
been moved down in their wild at
tempt to check the enemy's advance
Tt had been a tolerably equal light ID
some places, for the ground was streWn
over with German dead, put more ana
more Frenehmen had fallen 10 proper
ton. The black Turcos and wide
trousered Zouaves lay thick at many
points. and the G,Ffassiers had suffer
ed much. There were steel breast
plates and brass helmets scattered
thiekIy over the line Of retreat while
dead horses, in all directions, might
be counted by hundreds. 10 the
westward through the wood went the
traces of increasing disaster officers
and men lying grandly where they nad
fallen, some of them In quiet shady
spots. as though they were plcnlceFs
asleep in pools of blood. Where the
wounded lay had been found KNAPP
sacks, rifles and overcOats, either
thrown away in the flight or left by the
wounded on the field. Then came
snot where the French had rallied,
and where the dead Of both sides lay
thick. The Turcos might be seen, who
had clearly fought to the last, and tried
to FIRE their pieces as they lay. French
men Of the line regiments had here
and there fallen in numbers as though
having halted and faced about in regu
lar order. But the aspect Of the tight
beyoud the wood seemed to indicate q
hasty retreat. Wagons were overturned
baggage thrown out upon the roadside.
aud many knapsacks were to be seen.
No one who had passed over that bat-
tle.pround OF Worth when did could
have failed to realize what great dlsas-
fer had befallen the French arms,
though at a time when most OF the
wounded had been removed, and IN so
large a scene of action il would have
been impossible to judge OF the extent
of the loss sustained. However, see /
no reason to doubt the official return |
on the German side, which gives about
10000 Frenehmen and Z, 900 Germans |
H0z.s au e01z6zt, and about 700 prison
ers taken by the vietors, 4,OO0 IN the !
battle and 5000 more in pursuit. These |
losses. with a further loss OF cannon |
and colors, made Worth sad day for |
France. Well might the wounded
Germans raise themselves to cheer the
Grown Prince as he passed, and cry
that Germany was safe. 7
The prisoners were assembled near
the first station of the reopened rail-
way through Weissenburg. L could
see many Turcos and Zouaves among
them, though the greater part were
soldiers of the line. We drove past
them very slowly, for the road was
blocked with 4uluuuAbAou Wa%OA9i ~.
I noticed they seemed wonderfully
discouraged. There we're no songs and
no laughter to be heard among them
and the few that were picking fruit IN
the trees, that they had climbed, had
not a very lively air for Frenchmen in
such a position as fruit-picking. Then
came the conveys of wounded moving |
to the rear. Suffering had made them |
brothers in misfortune. The Germans |
and Frenchmen mingled with such, op-
posite ideas about the Rhine In their
heads, all the while sat or lay quietly |
side by side, as if they were old com
rades.