Year: 1870

| and strobe into the smoke and dust
| that more and more obstructed the
| view of the contest, until at last we
] could see only a cloud, in which were
/ glimpses of pOnderous squares and
/ dark lines of men, and out of which
issued a voice of many thunders.-Afls-
rat HGLSteGd to the Cincinnati CONNER
eiaI.


THE KINGS PARTY on THE FIELD.


Two carriages were near the group
one presided over by black servant,
with red cap and long cloak, the
Kings; the other Bismarck's. At the
moment Bismarck was lying down.


with a French knapsack for a pill
low, and a French tent protecting him
from the wind. I saw the big white
cap on the knapsaek and recogz
il d the important parsonage. An
officer spoke to him quickly, as
if he had to make a cOmmuni-
cation Of sudden interest. and he
got up and looked at the engagement
with a field glass for a few minutes,
when he stretched himself upon the
ground again. He was in military
dress, but his uniform was hidden un-
der a water proof coat, that came down
within three or four inches of his
spurs. It struck me as he lay there,
his head toward the battle-cloud in the
east, one hand under his head, and
the other resting on his thigh. that his
a
rate, there was no miStaking the anX-
ious th0ughtfulness of his face, and
the disposition of his limbs was that
of extreme uneasiness.


The King, in his light blue uniform,
had his Burnside elegance of appear
anee, and did not seem rampantiy de-
termined as he is said to have been at
Sadowa, to ride like a romance knight
into the thickest of the battle. The
superb old gentleman had, I suspect,
about as much to do with the actual
direction of the forces under his com
mand at the moment as the rest of the
spectators. And there was a figure a
few PAGES from the King that did not
seem wholly unfamiliar and to be
sure this man was wearing blue coat
with clusters of buttons on the breast;
and their was a strap with three
stars on his shoulder. Who could he
be other than the Lieutenant General
of the army of she United States. There
was no mistake about it, there was
Phil. Sheridan-square, hurley, put
upon his legs as if to stay-with his
field-glass steadily on the line of bat
tie, and it is only fair to say for him
one of the best military heads in the
world upon his shoulders.


On the way to the Kings position I
found a very comfortable chair, a
treasure for such an occasion, and this
I planted as near the great headquar-





study the field. NiOnville was behind
me, Rezonville on the left, and Crave
lOtte in cloud ahead and a little to the
left. The sun was hot, and the stencil
from the dead men and horses to be
seen on every side was dreadful, and
it would have been intolerable if the !
fascinating scene of battle |
had not been before us. [ had an ex-
cellent field-glass, and in my chair
was in good fix for seeing what was
going on without excessive fatigue or
exposure.


If it had not been for for the carrion
smell I never had a pleasanter place at !
an opera. There was the vast curtain |
rising and falling and drifting here and |
there in the east, fringed and penetrat- |
ed with jagged lines of hre-whirfing |
and seething volumes of smoke, the |
deep th9stn1 tbTunl, tb7'ltH1 Of artillery, |
the dismal din of the needle-gun and |
and peculiar fierce snarl |
of fire arms that have since learned /
was the mitrailleuse. On the left was
the royal box, with an illustrious COM
pany.


TRree-quarters of mile in advance |
was a hillside strewn with a asinguIar lit |
ter-dulI, white and diugy red patches |
and spots. The field-glass shows there |
some acres of dead men. The slope of
the hill Immediately in front has been
almost cleared of dead, for it was not |
nice. perhaps, to have too many |
corpses under the nose of the King, but |
dead horses yet abound. In patch of
five or six acres there are forty of them, |
and you can see them and smell them, /
scattered far and near in all directions. !


There are three squads hard at work /
within a quarter of a mile of US, bury |
ing the dead soldiers, who are so num-
erous that manifestly if the job is to |
be completed within week, the bur /
ial parties must be reinforced. Fresh |
graves here, dead men covering the |
ground there, other multitudes dying |
yonder-Uhree pictures of the utter
most horrors of war at one stroke of |
the eye i-1flt7'at TTHLSteGd 10 the Com |
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