The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-09-17
WAKE OF THE BATTLE.
Sufferings of the Confederate Wounded
Described by an Eyewitness.

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sufferings of the Confederate Wounded
Described by an Eyewitness.
A Federal soldier once said to me: Il was
always sorry for your wounded; they never
seemed to get any care" The remark was
extreme, but there was too much justice in it.
There was little mitigation of hardship to our
unfortunate armies. We were fond of calling
them Spartans, and they were but too truly
called upon to endure Spartan system of
neglect and privation. They were always ill
fed and ill-cared for. 1t would have been
possible at this time, one would think, to send
a courier back to inform the town and be-
speak what comforts it could for the ap-
preaching wounded But here they were,
unannounced, on the brick pavements, and
the first thing was to find roofs to cover
them.
Men ran for keys and opened the long,
empty shops and unused rooms; other people
got brooms and stirred up the dust of ages;
then armies of children began to appear with
bundles of hay and straw, taken from any
body's stables These were hastily disposed
of in heaps, and covered with blankets-the
soldiers own, or else one begged Or borrowed
from anywhere. On these inprovised beds
the sufferers were placed, and the next ques-
tion was of the proper dressing of their
wounds. No surgeons were to be seen. A
few men, detailed as nurses, had come, but
they were incompetent, of course. Our wo-
men set braveiy to work and washed away
the blood, or stanched it well as they could,
where the jolting of tho long, rough ride had
disarranged the hasty binding done on the
battlefield. But what did they know of
wounds beyond cut finger or boil! Yet
they bandaged and bathed with devotion
that went far to make up for their inexperi-
ence
Then there was tho hunt for bandages.
Every housekeeper ransacked her stores and
brought things new and old. saw one girl,
in despair for a strip Of cloth, look about
helplessly, and then rip off the hem of her
white petticoat. The doctors came up by and
by, or l suppose they did, for some amputa-
ting was done. Rough surgery, you may be
sure. The women helped, holding the instru-
nlents and the basins, and trying to soothe or
strengthen. They stood to their work very
nobly: the emergency brought out all their
strength to meet 1.-THE Century
Those Who Get Along Best.
The west is making a great impression in
New York In every way, not merely in the
stock market and the produce market, but in
social life They have a freer nature, adj
vance more directly upon their objects, get in
with people quicker, and waste no time in
mere fastidiousness. In this world those
people get along the best who are the least re-
specters of persons There Is no society on
the globe where toady is not contemplate.
Looking over the general area of human
nature, one finds that with a scoundre1 he can
deal understandingly with a drunkard he
can make allowances, but the individual who
splits hairs between persons for reasons so in
fnitesimally small that nobody can get to the
bottom OF them, generally becomes monster
of snallness and selfshness, peculiar as these
terms may seem to you. I have known men
to conduct newspapers and to keep themselves
in perpetual stew for fear they are giving
too much conspicuousness TO this or that man
who might be under the ban. George Alfred
Townsend in Boston Globe