The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-10-06

to stay stomachs that had been keepin:
nearly All unbrnken fast for as hours tn,
rest followed their example, and crawling il
-undressed-upon wet blankets were soor
obliyIous to all earthly things
! The next day began the saddcst of soldier.
/ ly expeiiences-the work of repair, read
! justment and the removal OF the debris of q
great battle, while those of the forces oil
! Buell., which had arrived too late to take part
in the battle, followed in pursuit of the
enemy. The bruised and shattered regi-
ments which had fought through the two terri
bic days were employed in collecting and
| burying their dead caring for Their wounded,
and restoring their battered organizations.
The carnage had been fearful Of the 40
335 men whom Albert Sidney Johnston and
| Beauregard had led ont Of COlinth upon
| Thursday, Beauregard took back 1900 on
Tuesday morning. He had left ,72S dead
upon the field, SOP wounded and 959
were missing. Out of every four one had
| fallen. Our loss had been proportionateiv
! great. In the Union armies .754 had been
| killed, 6,40S wounded and 2, $50 taken pris-
onerS or missing.
| All over the 10 square miles over which
the battle ragged the deal lay thickly strewn.
The greater part were in long lines marking
|
| the murderous dueis between opposing lines
which indicated the progress Of the fight. A
hundred yards from the line of blue-clad
corpses, invariably similar row of butter
nut-garbed bodies marked the line of the
rebels. 1t was a realistic carrying ont of the
slmiie OF the harvest of death, y for the long.
regular lines were mighty swaths left by the
! scythe OF the Grim Reaper.
For days the sad work of hunting for dead
and wounied comrades among the score of
thousands stretched upon ti,as field of death
went on. The woods and the thick under
brush made the task difficult by concealinc
the bodies of the fallen. The terrible storm
of mu5ketry and artillery missiles which had
swept the scene Of strife had cut down even
large trees and had mown down the brush.
1t was marvellous how anyone expose to that
blast hal escaped instant mutiation and i'm
mediate death. Frequently those who were
woInied or Killed were covered with great
heaps OF these shot shOrn branches and brush
The fires which had been started by the burst
ing shells and fed by the dry, dead wood of
the deadenngs communicated itself to these
piles and IN many instances roasted the help
less wounded to death
Walter and his companions found the dead
and wounded of Co. 4 Oh the first dov re-
moved the latter to tents TO await transfer to
the hospitals, and gave the former as cere-
moniOus a burial as their means woald adj
nit.
They found the body of Orderly-Serg't
Hamilton lying under the peach-;ree where
they had left it, but the drcnching rain had
washed from his firm thin face the delicate
vail OF fair peach blossoms, and left it hag-
gard and CHASTITY, with staring blue ewes
and firm. white teeth cleaning through
the half-closcd lips. The grapeshot which had
passed through his heart had drenched in
blood package of daintily addressed envel-
opes and n miniature case which showed n
ringlct Of woman's hair and a little curl
| clipped from the temple Of the baby, living
on the glass that covered the likeness of n
sweet-iaced, low-browed woman holding a
baby.
: 1t was his wife and child, - said Walter.
softly closing the case, and these are her
letters We will send them back to her lust
as they are. Their price is now above
rubies''
They buried the Sergeant at the foot of the
reach-tree aud cut his name deep into the
smooth bark,
! Returning TO the tent, Karl and the rebel
Sergeant were found getting alorg famousIv
| The Surgeon had paid them a visit and
dressed the rebels wound, which he said
would heal speedily, and given Karl such
medicine as ne needed, saying that his was a
senois clse, making it necessary that he
should preserve the most absolute quiet. and
refrain from talking Karl's ideas ~ TO what
was absolutely necessary would not bear the
lest OF The DOCTORS examination, for he was