Show SCENES OF sufferina SUFFER INu INCI some personal reminiscences of aba days in the hospitals at fredericksburg grant was battering away at the confederates and the wounded and sick from the and spot 4 were taken into the city churches public buildings and private houses being converted into tern tem horary hospitals and many a poor poo fellow after leaving the dissecting table gave up his life and answered the reveille in a different country relates the correspondent of the american amerlean tribune reinforcements many of them raw troops with gay uniforms occasionally passed through the city pinging glory hallelujah and battle cry of freedom and many soon returned singing quite another song wounded and sick old men young men and even boys were stretched upon the naked floors simply a blanket for a mattress and a knapsack for or a pillow some with legs off arms and hands amputated others with bullets in their bodies and many sick early in the morning after being divested of their money and watches the dead were taken out placed in rows pinned in blankets with a slip of paper attached giving the name and regiment and soon removed by the army baggage wagons taken near some cemetery and there inte interred a pine slab in pencil giving name etc and there left alone in their glory martyrs to liberty and union one little drummer boy wounded in three places lay in the basement of one of the churches in a hastily constructed cot one leg held firmly to a post pcs t tenderly cared tor for by an elderly woman a volunteer nurse who would sit by his side tor for hours and watch over him giving a moth er ers s care late one evening during her absence he was taken again to the tile dissecting room operated upon a and nd in a few moments passed away never more in earth life to beat the long roll for taps were beaten and his life extinguished where wheres s my boy cried the good lady in the morning when she saw the vacant cot and then burst into tears an artillery officer belonga belonging ng to tb the eleventh massachusetts battery with brain crazed imagined himself on the march and kept crying to his hors borcea es until a halt was made and he too passed away leaving a widowed mother somewhere among the hills of new hampshire A young lady attached I 1 sup suppose pose to the sanitary commission visited us often and after distributing a has ket of delicacies to the soldiers would pause by the door and sing pat patriots rioth airs mid a deadly silence recalling to our minds our dear mothers and sisters at home that young lady I 1 saw seme time afterward at the front apparently unconcerned amid the fly ing bullets but who she was I 1 know not members of the Christ christian lan commission seeing the approach of death would kneel by the side of the departing soldier utter an audible prayer and give all possible consolation there were constant arrivals all were hastening on to washington for arnt and his army were marching and fredericksburg was soon vacated |