. Incidents among shot and shell : the only authentic work extant giving the many tragic and touching incidents that came under the notice of the United States Christian Commission during the long years of the Civil War . ere were; literally acres of wounded men, many of whom had tasted neither • food nor drink for one and two days. The Commission had not yet learnt how to equip its Delegates.^ In WashingtonTheWomded ^^ ^^^^^ g^^^ ^^ buckets, and were obliged to sub-at Fairfax tSta- . , , _. , . .. stitute butter-tubs. Having no lanterns, as they went over the doleful ground after nightfall, o
. Incidents among shot and shell : the only authentic work extant giving the many tragic and touching incidents that came under the notice of the United States Christian Commission during the long years of the Civil War . ere were; literally acres of wounded men, many of whom had tasted neither • food nor drink for one and two days. The Commission had not yet learnt how to equip its Delegates.^ In WashingtonTheWomded ^^ ^^^^^ g^^^ ^^ buckets, and were obliged to sub-at Fairfax tSta- . , , _. , . .. stitute butter-tubs. Having no lanterns, as they went over the doleful ground after nightfall, onehand must serve as candlestick, the other as ministrant. The Dele-gates filled their tubs with coffee, as fast as the contrabandcharged with its preparation could distill it, and, candle in hand, wentfrom man to man, distributing the refreshing drink with soft crack- 1 See p. 31. 2 The outfit of a Delegate, for any point whence he was liable to be called tothe front, afterwards consisted of rubber and woolen blankets, haversack, straps,canteen, two woolen shirts, blanks, badge and memorandum-book. The Base andField Stations were kept supplied with other articles of service, which were not .,8aeasily NOT ENEMIES. popes battles. 37 ers, until before the morning dawned all had been served. Aboutseven hundred were lifted aboard the box-cars; the helpless carefullycarried and laid inside on the floor spread with hay; while those whocould walk were arranged on the car-roofs. So the wounded wereborne on to Washington. Mr. James Grant, of Philadelphia, who labored amongthe men at Fairfax Station, tells this story of a Testa-ment : I was busy removing the bloody garments from a wounded Unionsoldier. In his pocket I found a small book; taking it out to ascer-tain his name, I discovered that it was a Testament. On opening it,to my surprise, I found the name of a North Caro-lina soldier. I inquired how he came to have it. He „, „,, f^ Way to Thanktold me that he was disab
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