Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-28
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Icy. Had they beenuninjured
ley would have been id the front
rank, but now they were actuated by
that one thought, to get to the rear:
Thers was but one ambulance, and
that had to be dragged by men, aa4the
mules were transporting ammunition
to the front. The consequence was
that,the wounded were compelled 5to
go it on their own hook, with such
assistance as they could give one .an:
other.
'.By the time I reached the road
night had fallen. The moon was par
TALLY out, and by it's half light the
poor fellows could be seen dragging
themselves along as best they could.
Here and there man had dropped. ut
the side of the roaI and was feebly
calling for water. Some of the men;
most OF them in fact, had been with
out water or food for over thirty-six
hours and their suffering was fearful.
Gas L went along giving what as
sistance I could here and there, the
sight made an impression on my mind
that shall never forget. Words can
not describe it. Why, one poor fsl-
low" land here the tears came to- the
chaplain's eyes) chad been struck by
an exploding shell; his right foot was
gone, and his leg, from the knee down,
was nothing but mass Of pulp.
He had gotten n comrade to cut a
branch from tree, and this he had
bound about the stump with wiSps of
grass, so that the leaves dragged along
the ground and protected the wound.
And so rugged up, that man dragged
himself over those eight miles on oil
fours. He took twelve hours to do it,
and when he reached the hospitaltook
his place at the end of the line of
about 600 wounded without murmur
or complaint. When the doctors
found him, as they did in going along
the line looking for the worst cases
he was calmly chewing on the end Of
plug of tobacco. The doctors all
said that he had no excuse to be liv-
ing, and that he ought to have died
from the loss of blood, but they fixed
him up, and he is now doing nicely
and will recover.
zone way in which the Spanish did
much damage was with their sharp.
shooters. The officers tied the men
away up in trees in srch way that
they couldn't get down. Each man
was given a canteen of water and q
box of cartridges. They would re-,
main quiet until we had advanced
beyond them and they were in our
rear, and would then open fire, pick
ing off stragglers and small detach-
ments with the greatest ease. 1t was
impossible for us to locate them, as
they had smokeless powder, and we
could not see them in the trees. In
this way we lost many men,"
Chaplain Galloupe found the eli
mate of Cuba better than he had ex-
pected. While it was exceedingly
warm during the day, the nights were
cool. There is but q short period of
twilight, night coming soon on the
heels OF sunset. There was shower
nearly every day. At noon, with un-
failing regularity, the clouds would
begin to gather, and promptly at 2
o'clock the rain would begin. From
then until 4 there would be the sever
est kind of thunder shower, after
which it would clear up. At '12 at
night it would rain again, a cold, hard
rain. This would last about two hours
also. These rains come so regularly
that one could almost tell the time by