B battlefield BATTLE 1 FIELD 1 ELD jno inc INCIDENTS ide N T S j some one might easily gather t from ambulance men and hospital dressers incidents enough for vo volume volline luine their experiences eXper lences are ard full of interest Int erbst and often exceedingly graphic in their illustrations of individual individual character the ambulance men merl aro tre vre are tra the first to reach ili lil the wounded and ard d the dressers know more about 1 thon then them thian fiAn thad surgeons themselves if ther els eis anything peculiar about them ei el therin their su sufferings fe temper ha habit habitor bitof of thought orpa tient endurance the dresser aresser knows it and nd if he bela belam man nn of observation he finds much in the multi multitude tudo tude of tares with which he 1 is brought in contact both to interest and instruct As a specimen of what whai ight bedrit be writ ton I 1 condense a cc few incidents in the eer een experience lynce lence of a dresser who has been in the service from the beginning orthe of the war his ursi first the first Mul eui lIffin battle re tulance hu lanee lance and tells lils ills history story ius lus ly as follows 1 we ambulance men knew but little uttie of the work before benore 61 lis is like a great many others who ought to have known better I 1 went out to td that batt battle battie levery very much as t I 1 would have gone to a allm bake ba ke at home with no than that the jaunt would bea be a pleasant one perhaps a little exciting but not really dangerous but we were soon brought to our senses in five minutes after the first shot was fired I 1 was called upon to take a wounded lieutenant to the tile hospital he was not more than twenty years of age and had his sword arm wrist shattered he had fainted as he fell and was still insensible when up the surgeon meon geon soon made his appearance and the arm was amputated and the poor boy comfortably disposed of before the effects of the chloroform chloro torm had passed off his first question was as to what had happened and when told to d be he suddenly enli eniy rose up on his elbow and ana inquired what did you dewith do with my ring ning the surgeon handed it to him thelier tenant kissed it asked me to place it on his other hand handy and almost instantly went to sleep sleeps he was conveyed safely to washington soon recovered and did good service in a score of battles when the battle was rain ra raging in with the greatest fury and when we ne NJ adl all supposed we had gained the day I 1 was directed to remove a venerable looking lookin grey bearded major to the rear beha he had d been stunned by a nearly spent canister which hit him on the head buthod drawn no blood I 1 found him quite delirious li and I 1 remember the first words I 1 heard as I 1 reached him were willie my boy go right on with your men you seem to skulk I 1 will be with you directly I 1 afterwards learned that this willie was the majors majoris son he had behaved as his father wished him and after the night fight fl 0 ht had leave to accompany him he recovered from of the concussion before he reached washington washinton nto ton I 1 1 I was soo soon n arter after afterwards mirds ordered to take a wounded fire zouave to the rear he had been lilt hit in the left hand by a minie ball but paid no attention to it until he fainted from loss of blood As we were lifting him he recovered and sw oreatus swore at us terribly for daring darlng to take him from the field he declared he go and a surgeon being at hand fiand two of his fingers were amputated and alid roughly dressed when he broke dway away from us and rushed back into the fight three days afterwards imet the samo same zouave in the hospital with a gashed cheek which lie he had received from irom the sabre sabie of a black horse hore 4 daval davai val ryman an whose horse he had bayok bayoneted eted and whom lie he declared he lie had killed with the butt of his bis musket after aften he received his sword gash brave bravo fellow with majors straps on his shoulders at antietam r another case I 1 remember a tall rawboned raw boned private from a western state tate the lieutenant colonel of the regiment had been wounded in front of one of the rebel masked batteries from before which our troops had been driven and lay there his men had made several attempts to get got him on but in every case they were driven back this good fellow told his companions he would try to get off the body if they would permit him to go alone permission was given he b boldly 0 idly walked out erect to where thie the lieutenant colonel lay took him up tenderly in his arms interposing his own body as much as he possibly could between the enemy and the wounded WO undid of fleer officer and proceeded to carry him off during buying the perilous marchee march he riece received ived three bullet wounds but neither made him abandon his burthen which he brought away safely ail all although thus thug brave in this severe trial in dres dreg dressing sing slag his wounds which were not dangerous but painful he ho was as timid asa achild as child he shrank from the probe as I 1 do not believe belleve lie he would have done from a bayonet and seemed as fearful of beino being hurt by a 6 doctor as if he was about ta to be raked by a chain shott and this sort of timidity js hoftell seen in the bravest men they would face the cannons mouth without a shudder but they cannot bear dear to lie down helplessly to have their wounds lids dressed by a sur surd geon geoa in a hospital pr or a house ho he is a superlative superlatively ly brave man who nighta nights calmly and suffers himself to TO be tortured by the tho surgeon with equal equanimity albany journal timp THERE n we were ev i in existence c e at the close of or the year 1804 exactly 77 23 jesuits of these 4 75 were in in the papal 2399 2329 23 99 in france 2 aw ax in asia in africa 72 in south america 19 in north america and 55 in