. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . at a removal wouldprobably be done only with the sacrifice of life. Theirminds seemed bent on having them in a house. If thatcould be accomplished, all would, in their opinion, bewell. No greater mistake could exist, and the resultsof that battle only added additional evidence of theabsolute necessity of a full supply of pure air, con-stantly renewed — a supply which cannot be obtained iuthe most perfectly constructed building. Within a fewyards a marked contrast could be seen bet
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . at a removal wouldprobably be done only with the sacrifice of life. Theirminds seemed bent on having them in a house. If thatcould be accomplished, all would, in their opinion, bewell. No greater mistake could exist, and the resultsof that battle only added additional evidence of theabsolute necessity of a full supply of pure air, con-stantly renewed — a supply which cannot be obtained iuthe most perfectly constructed building. Within a fewyards a marked contrast could be seen between thewounded in houses and barns and in the open in houses progressed less favorably than thosein the barns, those in barns less favorably than those inthe open air, although all were in other respects treatedalike. The capacious barns, abundantly provided withhay and straw, the delightful weather with which wewere favored, and the kindness exhibited by the peopleafforded increased facilities to the medical departmentfor taking care of the wounded thrown upon it by thatbattle. . — IN THE WAKE OF BATTLE. A WOMANS RECOLLECTIONS OF ANTIETAM. BY MARY BJEDINGKK MITCHELL. SEPTEMBER, 1862, was in the skies of the almanac, but August stillreigned in ours; it was hot and dusty. The railroads in the ShenandoahValley had been torn up, the bridges had been destroyed, communication hadbeen made difficult, and Shepherdstown, cornered by the bend of the Potomac,lay as if forgotten in the bottom of somebodys pocket. We were withoutnews or knowledge, except when some chance traveler would repeat the lastwild and uncertain rumor that he had heard. We had passed an excitingsummer. Winchester had changed hands more than once ; we had been inthe Confederacy and out of it again, and were now waiting, in an exasper-ating state of ignorance and suspense, for the next move in the great game. It was a saying with us that Shepherdstown was just nine miles from every-where. It wa
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