. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . the top of which was then dry. They were alsounder fire in crossing: and out of 361 in killed, wounded, andcaptured at this 118th Pennsylvania lost 269.— Editor. hatless in the sun, men with cloths about theirfeet limped shoeless on the stony road ; menwith arms in slings, without arms, with oneleg, with bandaged sides and hacks; men inambulances, wagons, carts, wheelbarrows, mencarried on stretchers, or supported on theshoulder of some self-denying comrade — allwho could crawl went, and went to almostcertain death. They could not
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . the top of which was then dry. They were alsounder fire in crossing: and out of 361 in killed, wounded, andcaptured at this 118th Pennsylvania lost 269.— Editor. hatless in the sun, men with cloths about theirfeet limped shoeless on the stony road ; menwith arms in slings, without arms, with oneleg, with bandaged sides and hacks; men inambulances, wagons, carts, wheelbarrows, mencarried on stretchers, or supported on theshoulder of some self-denying comrade — allwho could crawl went, and went to almostcertain death. They could not go far, theydropped off into the country houses, wherethey were received with as much kindness asit was possible to ask for; but their woundshad become inflamed and angry, their frameswere weakened by fright and over-exertion;erysipelas, mortification, gangrene set in; andthe long rows of nameless graves still bearwitness to the results. Our hospitals did not remain empty. Itwas but a portion who could get off in any 4-P TV THE WAKE OE UNION HOSPH A BARN NEAR ANTIETAM CREEK. (BY EDWIN FORBES, AFTER HIS SKETCH MADE AT THE TIME.) manner, and their places were soon taken byothers, who had remained nearer the battle-field, had attempted to follow the retreat, buthaving reached Shepherdstown, could go nofarther. We had plenty to do, but all that daywe went about with hearts bursting with rageand shame, and breaking with pity and grieffor the needless, needless waste of life. Theamateur nurses all stood firm, and managedto be cheerful for the sake of keeping theirmen quiet, but they could not be without who had no thought of leaving her ownpost, desired to send her sister—a mere child— out of harms way. She, therefore, told herto go to their home, about half a mile distant,and ask their mother for some yellow cloththat was in the house, thinking, of course, thatthe mother would never permit the girl to comeback into the town. But she miscalculated. Thechild
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