The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-10-09
AFER THE. BATTLE.
The Crewsome Incident in Which He
Participated at the Second
Battle of Manassas

whenever see a tasseled Turkish
fez' said a Confederate veteran
whose attention had been attracted
by smoking cap of that pattern in
Canal street window, II am remind
ed OF a curious and rather grewsOmc
incident of my campaigning days
i; was Oh he morning after the sec
ond battle OF Manassas" he contin-
ucd in response to request for the
: Dry, and Seyera! of us from my
company had gone over to the field
in the hope of picking up a few things
hat we badly needed and for which
he dead had no further use-water
proofs. for instance, and sound can
teens.
During the previous days engage
mcnt you may remember that a regi
mCnt of freshly recruited New York
zouaves held the crest of hill and
we're charged and almost annihilated
by Hoods b.isade. They were now
ed down like ripenel grain and fell
so thickly tnat their corpses literally
carpetod the earth. | dare say it was
rs awful Il slaughter, considering the
ndmber engaged as occurred any
where in the course of the war;
when We came to this hill and began
20 get among the dead men. The
poor fellows had been mustered into
service less than a week before and
hey were said to be the most gor
geously uniformed military troop
ever organized. They wore scarlet
Turkish trousers. blue jackets en-
hroilered with gold bullion braid
and purple fcZes with long pendent
assets.
being lust from the outtittters, all
his fine regaiia was perfectly fresh
and new, and somehow or other it
added 10 the ghastiness of the spec
tacle on the hulslde. The cOrpses
were in all sorts of strange pOstureS.
and their fantastic costumes gave
hem an air of horrible grotesque
ness that | couldn't begin to describe
| in words.
However. to come to my point
| had picked up feZ to carry away
as relic and was about to leave the
| spot when | happened to notice a
| much handsomer specimen on the
head of a little Zouave stretched out.
stiff and stark. a few yards away.
with a handkerchief over the face.
stepped up to make swap but had
| barely touched the tassel when a low,
sweet toned voice under the hand
kerchief said: please don't"
| For moment" continued the vet
eran. that unpleasant protest. COM
ing from what | had supposed to be
a corpse, made my hair Dristle on
my head. Then lifted the hand
kcrchief and was shocked to see the
delicate, refined features of boy
not over Is. He was pale as death
and evidently desperately wounded,
but he looked at me calmly. My God.
| exclaimed. what a lad you are to
be here I'm afraid I'm dying un-
less have help. he replied. DO you
think the surgeons will be around
pretty soon?' The Lord knows.'
groaned. for the boys courage touch
ed me 10 the heart. Your surgeons
have ALI run away, and We only have
a few. with more wounded than they
can attend to- Then | guess all
can do is TO lie here quietly and die.
he said in the same gentle voice.
Can you get HE little water before
you go?'
Il took his canteen and hurried
down to branch at the foot Of the
hill, where the first thing l saw, by
the way, was the corpse of a zOuave
floating in pool. went up the
stream far enough to get out of the
horrible death zone. filled the canteen
with pure water and was soon back
at the boys side. l gave him a drink