The Lincoln County herald., 1871-04-27
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MVUoS Av6OW0 oOuuVUSUy mOVUus0uss
A correspondent oe the East Of Paris.
who accompanied the German detsch.
ment which took possession Of Mount
Avron, thus describes the scene: pa.ial I
working always rou"d to tho len, ws
sesched the crest of the hill on that face
Of the pls,ess which looks out on Mon
fssmeil, and where the summit 10 marked
by the batteries. Once inside them,
there met our eyes one Of the weirdest
scenes that imagination could eonjure up.
Ground p,onshed with shells. spbras-
sures stove 10, parallels oil bu, oblits.-
stcd, snd yet not . single cannon lett
behind. But IL the French have removed
their cannon, they have lett their dead.
One slides end s,uR,bIss over little ice
puddle. The ice blushes mp red IN bis
face--it IL frosen human blood Behind
the batteries snj inside tie bressiworks
the dsud lie thick. No man Who has
long followed this war but must be SO
familiar with the aspect Of slain men that
the original thrill and turn Of the blood
at the sight is . memory of the past at
which he all but smiles. But the terri.
bic ghostliness of these dead transcends
anything l have ever seen or even
dreamt Of in the smouldering nightmare
after my 6rst battlefield. Remember how
they we're slaio. Not with the nimble
bullet Of the needle guu. that drills .
minute hole through man and leaves
him undis6sured, unless it has Glanced to
strike his face not with the treochant
sabre cut Of the dra.oon, not with tie
sharp stab Of the bayonet but slaugh.
tered With missiles OF terrible weight,
shattered into fragments by explosions
Of many pounds Of powd mangled and
torn by massive fragments Of iron. Thcre
lay behind one Of the embrassures form
utterly heuoless-I suppose the shell had
struck the hapless being full in the face
aud carried head and throat before it in
it's fierce rush. The guillotine could not
have performed the operation more
cieanly t+ .s
But what need to dwell IN detail on
such q topic2 Let it suffice that there
lay the unburied and abandoned dead
among the snow, stained with their blood
and with those ghastly faces turned up
to the calm mooniix't, and partially Gov.
cred up BY the snowAakes which had
fallen since they had been shot down.
When will they be buried2 When will
these wan faces cease to look into the
eyes Of the moon, in silent but eloquent
proteststion sgainst the institution called
WARP When will the stray human frsg
ments over which one stumbles % be
goes, be gathered together and their
gashtliness be hidden beneath friendly
earth? Not yet. Men will not dig
graves as if they wera blasting tunnels,
aud the earth il us hard as the bowels OF
Mont Gents. The corpses on Mon.
Avron must lie there till a thaw comes
How long after, it would be rash to prog
nostica,e.
"That gruesome group 10 the camp
here, who had been sitting round the Gre
when the shell came and burst 10 it, and
blew one aud all Of them into the other
world, must remain ss it is-a horrible
mockery Of convivality . time .,
least. To look at the group from q little
distance one would conclude that its mem.
bers, lying or seated 10 . circle, were
hobnohbing geDislly round . common
pot or eating out Of one dish. Come
nearer and look inside that ring Of squat.
Ting men, or what once we're meu.
care not how Injured you gro to sights oil
horror, you will turn away sick and
scared from that circle OF carnage
Heavens that maD should b. able so to
mangle bic fellow man I"
A wsg says it is folly to expect I