The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-05-05

drop off to sleep before they can be
attended 20, and some of them never
wake again. The only sound Is the
crunching of the surgeons' sawH and now
and then the melancholy music Of ran.
dom shell dismally wai!ing overhead.
Few the prayers that are said, but I can
yet hear the soft voice of boyish soldier
as he 10 lifted on TO the table. his limbs q
mass Of quivering lacerated flesh, quietly
say: ooh, my God, offer all nv
sufierings here Ia atGnenlent for the sins
by which have crucified Thee" Out
side the members of the Christian Com
mission arc hard at work relieving all
within reach, the strctcher.carriers hur-
rying the wounded from the field; O few
priests aud the chaplains were quietly
moving among the cuffering thousands,
ehriving, giving them comfort eud sootil-
ing their dying. At the Bernard House,
where he had been carried, died at mid
night, the youngest general officer and
one ofthe most beloved of all that fell,
Gen. George d. Bayard Of the cavalry.
While converting with some other off,
cers early in the day q shell struck the
group. passing though the overcoat Of
Capt. II. G. Gibson, destroying his eabre.
It crushed General Bayard's thighs end
carried away portion of his abdomen.
He lived fourteen hours after being hit,
and passed the time In quietly giving
directions and in debating letters to his
friends. In one to Col. Collum he,
said.
"Give my love to Gen. Mcclellan and
say. my only regret is that did not die
under his command" He was to have
been married on the following Wednes-
ho hrfI staI I,
who never came, Bayard, aana peur et
sans reproohe. The loasea in some of the
commands were unusually severe.
LOSSES IN HANCoCK's DIVISION.
But the most appalling loss was in the
division Of Gen. Hancock Of the five
officers composing his personal staff three
were wounded, and four horses were
killed under them. The General him.
self was struck by a rifle ball. but not
seriously hurt OF the sixteen officers
Of the Sixty-ninth New York every one
was killed or wounded, and the regiment
lo-t 20 per cent. of the enlisted men, and
lett the field with its fourth commander,
three having been disabled. The Filth
New Hampshife lost seventeen out Of
twenty-three officers during the fight.
The One hundred and Sixteenth Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteers had all the
field and staff and many Of the line
officers killed or wounded, and was taken
of the field by the fourth officer in COM
mand during the fight. The first color.
sergeant, William H. Tyrrell, held UP
the flag until hit with five rifle balls.
The Eighty first Pennsylvania lost twelve
out of sixteen officers and rs per cent. OF
the enlisted men. The fourth COM
mhnding officer brought the regiment off
the field. The Fifty.soventh New York
lost nine out of the eleven cfficers pres.
ent. The Sixty.sixth New York had four
commanders during the battle, the three
frat having been killed or wounded.
Many other regimentO Of tho division
suffered almost as severe, yet, notwith-
standing the great loss, on the morning
of the following day, when ordered to
support the Ninth Corps, the command
fell in ready and willing, and the con-
templated assault with the Ninth Corps,
led by Ger. Burnside in person-f. ON
which he was happily dissuaded by
Gems. Sumner and Hooker at the
moment that all was ready to make the
attack-was the last attempt of the cam
paign.