| Show THE HORRORS OF THE BATTLE the following extracts from letters written on the battle field near richmond by C C baker of the ad michigan to bis big hi mothr mother in lu Brook brooklyn lyns N Y published antho in the journal of comme commerce ace ar are exemplifications of the horrors of war BATTLE FIELD june 2 1862 DEAR DIAX I 1 wrote you yesterday a short letter note and so you know that I 1 am ain all safe and sound although I 1 have been in the hardest battle I 1 believe that was ever fought on this continent it is awful I 1 cannot describe it it is beyond all power ower of deac option n I 1 have seen a spot 0 of ground this morning g some fifty or sixty rods across and I 1 cant tell how long but altogether too long where the rebels first attacked us it is a positive posit ive lve fact you can scarcely get your tee feet t 0 on n the ground between the bodies of the dead they lie four tour and five and in some few places more than that deep of dead and wounded there are so many it will take three or four days yet to bury them all and ard do the best beat we eany cany too I 1 hope and trust I 1 may inay never see such a sight eight again and what i is is more may I 1 never go into or on another battlefield battle field I 1 have never realized it until today to day the horrors of a battlefield battle field while in the fight I 1 never tho thought lit hit of it but I 1 wab was under the excitement ME of the moment As the battlefields battle fields grow thicker the dread of going ino the battle does not grow grew any less but after the first gun has been fired that all ali goes and I 1 am as calm and cool as an you are at brooklyn at the battle the other day only seven companies were in out of our own regiment two went in about two while the right wing five companies did not riot go in uni unil 11 abut six we were put in a place where a whole brigade had bad been driven out and in less than two minutes aft att after erthe the enemy opened on lisp ties us every fourth man was wa hors du conj cons combat bat bao it was indeed an awful sight th s B morning only 1200 men le i e fi fihnn men are all that can be got together of our bri brigade ade 5 our boys have buried bome some 1800 rebels ati and have not got them all buried yet our loss is estimated in killed wounded and miss misi ing at 8 the rebels say that is some of them that we have taken prisoners that their loss was over dont you think I 1 have seen been some pretty hard fighting I 1 believe I 1 have hate been where it was not very safe to say the least I 1 want to go into one on more skirmish I 1 have not wiped out quite alte as many as I 1 want to yet I 1 believe I 1 have ave done my share on that score what do you think our brigade numbus numbers now it has baa been in two fichta since we came here we numbered bared some men when we were at york fown wn but now there ars are ar only 1130 in the whole four regiments ours only ont ona year ago today to day we left detroit 1070 strong another battle will wipe us out then gord goad good bye byes to the second michigan but if it all other regiments do as well ag as we have the union will be cem cero anted together so strong with tho the hearts blood of her no power ou earth can break it BRITISH cleanliness 0 0 e of the prime british fallacies is that we are the cleanest people on earth like our domestic felicity and owr our capacity y single banded to whip any three frenchmen the delusion is mischievous we are not a clean people in the ordinary arts of life in which cleanliness is a main element we are far behind even the european standard our cookery that is 19 the cookery of common life lite is not only the least scientific but the dirtiest and most slovenly practised practiced by sy s y modern nation I 1 requires but to compare the pots and kettles ard and pans pang of average kitchen sas well as of hotels either in france spain or germany with tose 0 of england to disenchant ourselves aa as to our national r of cl an liness we desay say nothing 0 ii about holland which is to a proverb tidy tl d y and a gd clean it is only probably in the navy and in prisons and hospitals that tidiness is practiced practised among ourselves by rule and 0 on P principle r e As to the lower classes cleame in E enal enar 1 land a d the they have a positive hatred of cleanliness and sanitary ru eg es saturday review |
