The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-25

days and the casualties were 80 l-3 per
cent.
| Contrast with these the battles OF
the Russo-Japanese war that so many
| are astounded at. At the battle of Muk-
den there were 100000 men engaged
and the casualties We're what? Why,
they were 100000, or 10 per cent. Other
| battles of the war were fought with
| 10000 men engaged and the casualties
| footing up to $4,000, or 10 per cent.
again. So, with all their destruction
of entire regiments by mining the
casualties are not equal to ours of the
civil war.
You must recall they have the art of
shelter down to a fine point now. 1t was
only after Charlottesville that we be-
gan to throw up breastworks in battles
before that We always stood right up
and fought 1t out. We used to think
there was no use Of going to the hard
work Of digging breastworks when we
might have to quit them suddenly.
What are YOU laughing at? We had to
do II often.
There can be no More awful scenes
on battlefield where a million or more
OF men have struggled than on the
fields of the civil war. There Is less ot
the bayonet than there used to be, and
this lessons the number of grewsome
sights. Fewer men get to the wrath
full hand to hand stage where often the
end of combat in pairs is the i'm
paling of both.
The guns Of the infantry nowadays
make a cleaner wound. | do not be-
lieve the Kaiser's statement that dunn
dun bullets are being used. I've seen
"A shell drop right in "A company of men
and Kill fifteen or twenty outright
And such wounds-all semblance &c
humanity destroyed; arms legs, heads
feet and hands blown and splattered
about. Men still alive but dsem-
Ibowclled, or half heir heads shot away
or crawling on stumps to a place OF
better shelter. with the instinct of life
preservation still strong in them.
AT Chattanooga one soldier knew
was picked off by a sharpshooter as he
went to get drink from a spring in @
little glade off the main marching route
of the army. The bullet pierced his
ankles-hoth of them-and unable tC
walk he lay there and suffered for -four
days before he was found. He was able
to get water and that was all. Finally
he could not even summon strength tc
crawl to the spring and so lay on his
back and gave up the struggle.
another man at Antietam lay on the
field for fifteen hours after he had beer
dropped by a shell. In a circle of ter
or fifteen feet were dozen dea,
men torn asunder and mutilated in G
CHASTITY way to contemplate. This mar
became unconscious, and when the sur.
/
posed him dead and passed on Wher
he reused from his faintng spell they
were lifting him toward a trench il
which he saw several of his battered
comrades who had been killed by the
same shell that had wounded him.
while n surgeon was trying to brac,
him up he saw soldier who was help
ing to bury bodies throw in the sam,
trench where he was TO have been laic
n number of separate arms, legs anC
parts of bodies that may or may no
have belonged to those already de
posted there. They won't have to lool
for them in case they want them again,
said the burying soldier, and he didn'
mcean to scoff mt death either. 1t wa
the grim humor Of war.
THE psychology of the BATTLEFIELD,
brings to notice degrees and classified
lions Of mind phenomena unbelievable
TO those not witnesses. Talk about ST
Philip sydney giving the cup of waite
when dying to another dying soldier
why, I've seen II done so often that
came to look on it almost as matte
of course. Men shot to pieces and onl,
half an hour from death have ha,
their sympathies attracted by the moan
ings OF another wounded man near b,
and his cries for water.
"Nou poor miserable fellow Nv,
heard them say as they weakly dragged
forth their canteen, can You crawl owe
here and get this? Never mind If YOU
can't, | think | cam
What do YOU think of soldier BRAY,
as lion In one battle and scared in tn,
next? I've seen 1t often. It's just
difference In the mood of the man or tn,
temperament of the man. A uniform
dresses men alike, but 1t don't max,
them think and feel alike. I had a mar
come To me during one battle pale anC
trembling.
"I can't fight, Captain he said. =
don't know what's The matter with me
but | can't fight
"In half "A dozen Drpyinus pnpounter,