The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-10-14
TIE HIDEOUs FACE OF WAR.
some INSTANCES OF tJ,e:DeadIy svorl, D.ns
In Asttle.

1saA AAA1AIVOS AGE VE WAhs
sOmo Instsnces of u,e:DeadIy Work Done
In Eettle.
In the excitement of the battle the fall
of a comrade ia scarcelylheeded, and half
company might be wiped out and the
other half fight on without the know..
edge Of 1t. 1t is only after tho mpr.er.
Gus musketry have ceased their work that
the hideous face Of war shows itself 20
make men shudder and turn away. Sol.
diers who have not gone over battlefield
or been one of q burial party have missed
half the grimness aud awfulness of war.
After Gettysburg. one of the Union
burial parties buried eighty Federal sol.
diers 10 one trench. They were all from
q New York regiment, aud all seemingly
fell dead at one volley. They we're al.
mcst In line taking up but little more
room than live men. All were shot
above the hips, and not one of them had
lived ten minutes after being hit. Here
lny what was full company of men.
wiped out by one single volley as they
advanced to the charge. Some had their
muskets 80 tightly grasped that it took
tho full strength of man to wrcs. them
away. Others died with arms out.
stretched, and others yet had their hand J
clasped over their head, and n never.to-
6o'forgotten expression on their white
faces.
AT Fair Oaks, the Third Michigan
had its first real baptism of fire. The
boys hal been held back on other occa.
slons, aud now when given opportunity
they went for the enemy posted in the
edge OF the woods en- the double.uuick.
and with yells and cheers. A part ofthc
regiment hal 10 swing across glade.
and while 80 doing lost fifty or sixty me n
in the space Of sixty seconds. One com.
pony lost twenty men who went
down together in one spot and scarcely
moved limb after falling. Details of
five men were made from each company
To advance as sharpshooters, and of these
fifty men who plunged into tho woods as n
siiirmish line only ak came out alive.
and every one of these was wounded from
one of these was wounded from one to
three times.
AT Cold Harbor shell exploded in an
Ohio regiment advancing against bat
terry, and sixteen men were wiu.d out in
an instant. Of these nine were blown TO
fragments and tho others horribly mutt.
lated. The battery was firing thirty or
forty shells per minute, and this was the
work of single opc. One discharge of
grape in this same fight killed fourteen
men in Michigan regiment, and O New
Yark regiment. .yhiSh -ent in ,v;.i, 7G3
men in line came ou NTH cn!y 369. en-
one acre of ground .ae burial party
found over 700 dend men. In bit Of
woods where the battle lines had clashed
more than 1000 dead were found in a
space no wider than o square in q city
and no more than three times as long.
AT the battle Of Savage Station, during
McCieiian's change of base, solid shot
fired from u Federal field. piece into the
head of an infantry column marching by
tours, killed twenty .one men and horse
before its progress was checked. The
first ten men were reduced to bloody
pulp, and the Others crushed and bruised
10 death. At this same battle Confed.
erato shell exploded under Federal gun
and killed four artillerymen, diamounted
the gun, wounded two men, and the butt
of it flew off at tangent and killed
asecond lieutenant Of infnntry who was
eighty rods away.
AT Fredericksburg, as the Union in AN.
try marched in solid masses up the valley
beyond the town, the Confederates opened
fire from behind stone wall. The fight.
ing along this line was over ten minutes.
and 5000 FedeFals lay dead within reach
of each other. In many cases fallen
across each other. A shell from a gun
on the hill exploded in the midst of some
New Hampshire troops and killed ser.
geant, corporal and twelve privates and
wounded six Others. Before tho Union
troops crossed the river, and while sliel.
ling the town, shell struck house and
exploded in q room where there we're five
soldiers and citizen. All were blown to
pieces. and three citizens in o room di-
rectly overhead were also killed.
Perhaps the most destructive work
made by she'll among troops occurred
a few miles below VicEsburg. A Feder.
=! gnnhest was fred upon by light artil-
lery from the bank, posted In plain view.
There we're two six.pounders working
close together, and each had fred shot
when the gunb0at opened with q sixty
four.pounder. The she'll struck between
the guns and exploded. The guns were
thrown high in the air and came down
o wreck. The eighteen men around
them were killed outright, and fifteen
others who had been lying under cover
80 JanI sao tuO SatooOu u.
Of the fifteen eleven were killed outright,
three wounded, and cne escaped unhurt
bat so dazed that he sat down and waited
to be ccptured by boat which pulled
ashore. Two of the wounded died the
next day, leaving only two men alive of
the thirty three who had composed the
battalion. Nothing was left of the gun
carriages but splinters,. and the guns
themselves were terribly battered. The
oniy:remains OF the caisson that could be
found was the hub of one wheel filled
with broken spokes. Most Of the dead
had been blown to fragments, and bushes
were covered with shreds Of flesh. When
the eaisson exploded the head Of one of
the victims was blown high in the air,
and selI into the wafer within q few
yards Of the gunboat. Free
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