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ik ! serve «i short time, and then moved on i Con]-1 A ,*to the Potomac to guard the road by f 111iyatir-sumiwhicb the enemy were expected to re- j ^)r0(jtreat to Williamsport during the night, port, Our position was taken on a steep, rocky j eitie j bluff, on the hank of the river command- j an(]erac® ! in the main road; and as the sun sank 1 beneath the western horizon, and dark- j j e'glorntlie*y11sinness gathered round, the roar of cannon anydied away, and we sank down on ourarms with a rock for our pillow, and theskv for a shelter, to dream of home andhertereideciA r dwe 1es,is-... , friends which we so recently left. We il- ' remained in this position until Fridaymorning, during which time several pris- ; objeoners were taken by our boys. We then jpn I _ • • •• t , /» i i l oceu, I moved on to visit the battle-field, and as • be I . Itnel[n_ : the enemy left their dead and wounded, j e(jUjcd the hospitals presented such scenes as 1 ties.re- j never again wish to look upon. Aroundthe amputating tables the poor fellows! were lying looking’at the operations withsupreme indifference, not knowing howstallion j soon their turn might come to indulge in am0the same tortures. Imagination cannottoThlt;cd-0f picture the horrors of a battlefield, after an engagement. The sight at first seemed! eryalmost unendurable. The blood of some „rlSS Iwas trinkling away in silence, while theP.ni,,ndmgnil,;es,)u-dissevered limbs and disordered brains of i '\ others, made them give rise to sounds, that i w^,( God grant I may never again witness. But j °11 ye mothers, who now seek a son, and ye tj^jsisters a brother, or wife a husband, knowand be consoled, that even here the hand and nf merev is watchful, and better care is an(^
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Warren Mail
Warren, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Oct 18, 1862
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