The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16
THE RIGHT WAY
Or the Gospel Applied to Intercourse Be-
tween Individuals and Naions.
BY REV. JOSEPH A. COLLIER.

wounded man for a clue, try to con-
ceive of the aggregate pains of all the
others. A writer describing the bat
tle-field of Reseca de la Palma, says,
1.-THE evening closed on hundreds of
them-the Mexicans-wounded. dy-
ing, and dead upon the field and on
the road to the river. In the panic of
flight, self-preservation was the single
thought of each individual. The
bleeding and the exhausted were borne
down and forsaken by the sound and
the strong. The parties on foot were
trampled by the cavalry; and none of
the multitude fleeing from their foes
found help or comfort from their
friends. The thickets and the hollo Ws
distant from the scene of strife, long
afterwards told the story of many a
wounded soldier who had struggled on
to some secluded spot, there to linger,
to thirst, to hunger, to bleed, to faint,
and to perish alone in his long and va
ried agony"
The battle of Borodino, in which
two hundred and sixty thousand men
were engaged, is thus described by an
eyewitness 1.-THE fire of two hundred
pieces of cannon enveloped the two ar
mics in smoke, and moving down
whole battalions of men, strewed the
field with the dead and wounded. The
latter fell to expose themselves to a
fate still more terrible. How agoniz-
ing their situation. Forty thousand
dragons, crossing the field in every
direction, trampled them under foot,
and dyed their horses hoofs in their
blood The flying artillery, in rapid
and alternate advance and retreat, put
a period to the anguish of some, and
inflicted new torments on others, who
were mangled by their wheels. .
Night separated the combatants, but
left eighty thousand men dead on the
field" In traversing the field the
next day, he beheld "a surface of about
nine miles square in extent covered
with the killed and wounded"
But" he adds, 'the most dreadful
spectacle of all was the interior of the
ravines, where the wounded had in
stinctively crawled to avoid the shot.
Here these unfortunate wretches, ly-
ing one upon another, destitute Of as
sistance, and weltering in their blood.
uttered the most horrid groans. Loud
ly invoking death, they besought US to
put an end to their excruciating tor
ments."
The same writer, describing the sick
ening horrors that attended the en-
trance of the French troops to Mos
COW, says, "The hospitals, containing
more than twelve thousand wounded,
began at length to burn. The heart
recoils at the disaster which ensued.
Almost all those wretched victims per.
ished! The few still living were seen
crawling, half burnt, from the smok-
ing ashes, or groaning under the heaps
of dead bodies, and making ineffectu.
al efforts to extricate themselves" a
similar occurrence took place during
the siege Of Sebastopol, when hospi.
tai of that city, said to have contained
two Thousand sick and wounded, was
set on fire by the guns of the allies,
and burned to the ground!
Mr.. Russell. the London Times cor
respondent, thus describes the scenes
subsequent to the battle of Inkermann,
in which about eleven thousand were
killed and wounded: "In every bush,
Oh every yard of blood-stained ground,
lay q dead or dying Russian. The
British and the French, many Of
whom had been murdered by the Rus
slams as they lay wounded, wore terri
BILE frowns on their faces, with which
the agonies of death had clad them
Some, in their last throes, had torn uE
the earth in their hands. and held the
grass in their fingers up towards heav'
en-. But the wounded-fol
two long days they had lain where the
hand and the ball had felled them.
The Russians, grooming and
palpitating as they lay around, were
far more numerous. Some of these
were placed together in heaps, that
they might be the more readily remov'
ed. Others glared on you from the
bushes, with the ferocity of wild
beasts, as they hugged their wounds,
Some implored in an unknown tongue,
but in accents not to be mistaken, wa.
ter, or succor-holding out their mutt.
lated and shattered limbs, or pointing
to the track Of the lacerating ball"
The same writer thus describes the
scene presented by the hospital of Sc
bastopol; Immediately after its occupa-
ton by the allies: "Entering one of
these doors, / beheld such sight as