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IP. -ftthe enemy's force. On yesterday thesecond day after the fighh I visited allHi n • f S 1 * nr. « ip n * «■ f ™ Jt- r ai — ■ m w p-parts of the field. The dead were gathered in heaps all along their lines whichwere about 3 miles in extent some withfacesexplosionterrible shell; some with their limbs tornm- i ■ ^ .Sft n . Erl * Jk: » * I: * * ‘ ‘dk IT ~v'~~ *r’~ I voff and mutilated in all parts of the-body.I then went to a farm house whd^e lay 700 wounded rebels, and may Heaven■* | 4. a» * ” i l * 9 *p y ■ ii * ■ »grant that I may neyer he,compelled to whnejis another such a scene. Theirm W£5r - ^ r* - v . - • .General had left the poor victims ofSouthern delusion with nothing to satiatehunger. They begged for something to eat, i gRve alt I had with me.and I eould not repress the involuntarytear at the 'tight of such a va^t amountof eufFerrng 1 ask whose .-eart is so com-4« rr **xami + rr *« -f i *■ r% w*n ■ i ■ ’•j p P „ LT 1 J i r iF'pletely frozen to all the'better impulses. ftC ■ V I vif I ’ ■■ a ■ 2 a « TIB i ftof our nature a to look upon hundreds■* -kind, who but a few hoars beforesuddenly downunsa liablem asaidpelledeminent they still loved, and against apeople whom they would still like ti callbrothers. The poor men of the South| (m — IjBi —• Tsm Ml R * *4 BB^Hr* *7 - -r“*subject* of a despotism far moretytaoicai than in any of the countries* -the old World—relentless, treacherousdamnable, If any man warn*incontestable of an endless hell I say tosucl, vntit some of our bloody fields anlt;i linen to, the heartrending cry of the wid ' ow and the fatherless, as they find in thlt;heaps of1 the dead their only hope for support in life. Many such I have seen,whose cry cannot sorrow* will never bo heardmilicten. There is a future iorutuob demons.
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Brownville Nebraska Advertiser
Brownville, Nebraska, US
Sat, Jan 03, 1863
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