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

drop off to sleep before they can be
attended to, and some of them never
wake again. The only sound is the
crunching of the surgeons saws and now
and then the melancholy music of ran.
dom shell dismally wailing overhead.
Few the prayers that are said, but I can
yet hear the soft voice of boyish soldier
as he is lifted on to the table, his limbs a
mass of quivering lacerated flesh, quietly
say: "Oh, my God, I offer all my
sufferings here in atonement for the sins
by which I have crucifed Thee" Out
side the members of the Christian Com
mission are hard at work relieving all
within reach, the stretcher.carriers hur-
rying the wounded from the field; few
priests and the chaplains we're quietly
moving among the suffering thousands,
striving, giving them comfort and sooth.
ing their dying. At the Bernard House,
where he had been carried, died at mid.
night, the youngest general officer and
one of the most beloved Of all that fell,
Gen. George D. Bayard of the cavalry.
While conversing with some other Off.
GERS early in the day a shell struck the
group, passing though the overcoat of
Capt. II. G. Gibson, destroying his sabre.
It crushed General Bayard's thighs end
carried away a 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-
day. The bride awaited her cavalier,
who never came, Bayard, sans pear ct
sans reproche. The losses 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 rifle ball, but not
seriously hurt. Of the sixteen officers
of the Si1ty-ninth New York every one
was killed or wounded, and the regiment
lost rs per cent. of the enlisted men, and
left the field with it's fourth commander,
three having been disabled. The Fifth
New Hampshire 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
off the field by the fourth officer in COM
mand during the fight. The first color.
sergeant, William II. Tyrrell, held up
the flag until hit with FIVE rife balls.
The Eighty first Pennsylvania lost twelve
out of sixteen officers and rs per cent. OF
the enlisted men. The fourth com.
mandipg officer brought the regiment off
the field. The Fifty.seventh New York
lest nine out of the eleven officers pres.
ent. The Sixty.sixth New York had four
commanders during the battle, the three
first having been killed or wounded.
Many. other regiments of the 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 Gen. Burnside in person-from
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.