Year: 1862

Corinth on the Oh ult., has been communicated
to the New York EUeHing Post for publication !:


g Oh, my friend how can tell you of the
toTtures that have nearly crazed me for the last
three days Pen is powerless to trace, words
weak TO convey one title of the m.eery have
endured / thought myself strong before. l have
seen so much Of suffering that l thought my
nerves sd grown steady, and l could bear any
thing but to-day am weak and trembling
ike frightened child.


" But do not wonder at it. Ny dear husband
lies beside me, wounded unto DEATH perhaps. l
have lost eli hope of saving him, though ! thank
God for the privilege of being this moment be-


side him And beside this, all around me the
sufferers lie moaning in agony There has been
little lime to tend them, poor fellows. True the
surgeons are busy sli the time but all the


wounded have not yet been brought in, and it
seems as if the time viii never come when our
brave men shall have been made as comfortable
! as circumstances may permit. 1t is awful to
| look around me. can see every ina ginsbe form
Of suffering, and yet am helpless 10 aid them
any Of consequence.


" Since night before last have not left my
| husbands side fOY moment, except to get such
things as required, or t. hand some poor fellow
a cup of water. Even as I write, my heart throbs
achiDgly to hear the deep groAns and sharp cries
about me- T. is sleeping, but | dare not close
4
II is to keep awake and IN manner relieve my
overburdened heart, that am writing to you
now under such sad auspices.


"On the morning of the Sd inst, the fight be-
gun. Ghe attack was msde on General Near
thurs division, and we could plainly hear the
roll Of the artillery here as il is aboRt two miles
and hslf distance only from this place. Oh,
the fearful agony Of that awful, awful day
! had seen F, moment early in the morning. but
it was only a moment, when be bade me gonby,
saying hurridly as he tore himself away: Pray
for me, my wife, aud if fall, God protect you ,
There was something in his look and tone which
struck chill to my heart, and every moment
| after I knew the fght had begun felt as if he
had indeed fallen. cannot tell how long it


was before 1 heard that Oglesby's brigeds was
engaged, but it seemed an age to me. After
that my agony was nearly intolerable I never
had q thought Of fear for myself; was think


ing only Of +. Then got the word that he had
| been ho.ly pursued by the rebels and had fallen
back.


Later in the afternoon 1 succeeded in gain
ing little Ineligible information Poor Gen.
Hscklemau was shot through the neck while
giving 9 command, and fell mortslly wounded.
He died between ten and eleven o'clock the same
night, l have since learned. Up 10 the time of
receiving the wound be had acted with the
greatest bravery and enthusiasm, tempered by q
c0Olness that made every action effective. Whsn
dusk at last put an end to the first day conflict,
[ lesrsed that General Oglesby had been danger
ousy wounded but could gain no intelligence
of my husband. l could not bear the suspense.
Dark Rs it was, and helpless as it seemed to
search for him then, started out to the battle
field.


"Oh, h0l0 shall describe the search of that
night 1t looked like madness 1t was mad
ness. But all night long 1 struggled amongst
bleeding corpSes, over dead horses, trsmpled
| limbs, shattered aTtilery-every thing that goes
to make up the horror of battlefield when the
confic. is over They were removing the
wounded all night. Oh, think how awful to
stumble over the dead and hear the cries of the


wounded and dying, alone, and in the night
time. had to start off alone, else they would
not have let me 60.


! Gas you may suppose, 1 could not find him,
| either among the living or dead. But the


next morning, just after sunrise, l came to a lit
/ tie clump Of timbsrs where horse had fallen
| his head shot off and bis body half covering q
man whom I supposed dead. His face was to
] the ground, but as | stopped to look closer |
| perceived faint movement of the body, then
/ heard faint moan. l stopped sud turned the
/ face upward The head and face were both


covered with blood, but when l turned il to the
| light knew it in spite of its disGgsrstion. Oh





almost to suffOcstion. With strength 1 thought
impossible in me l drew him, crushed and bleed
ing, from beneath the carcass of our poor old
horse, whom we had both 80 loved and pelted


and, dipping my handkerchief in little pool Of


water amongst the bushes, bathed mis- face and
pressed some moisture between his psrched
swollen lips He was utterly insensble, and


there was dreadful wound 10 his head. Both


limbs were crushed hopelessy beneath The horse


he was utterly beyond the reach of human skill
to save but ss soon as possible lad him con-
veyed to the hospital l have nursed him ever


since, hopelessly and with heart breaking with


grief Oa how many wives, how many


mothers, are to-day mourning the dead and
| dying He has not opened his eyes to look al


or spokea to me since he fell. Oh could he


but speak to me once before be dies, 1 should
give him up with more resignation. But to die


tbus-without look OF a word On, my heart


is breaking ~