The Red Cross : in peace and war . st Division Hospital wasestablished some distance ahead of the firing lines, and it was severalhours before the lines were moved beyond the hospital. Major Wood assigned an operating table to the Red Cross. Not alight was permitted to be shown the night of the second of July, lestit should attract the fire of the enemy, particularly of the guerrillasharpshooters who were stationed in the trees about us. The operating tables were moved out into the open, and the opera-tions were performed by the light of the moon. All through the nightthe scattering fire conti
The Red Cross : in peace and war . st Division Hospital wasestablished some distance ahead of the firing lines, and it was severalhours before the lines were moved beyond the hospital. Major Wood assigned an operating table to the Red Cross. Not alight was permitted to be shown the night of the second of July, lestit should attract the fire of the enemy, particularly of the guerrillasharpshooters who were stationed in the trees about us. The operating tables were moved out into the open, and the opera-tions were performed by the light of the moon. All through the nightthe scattering fire continued around us; generally the sharp crack ofthe Mauser, occasionally the louder report of the Springfield, and some-times a heavier explosion, as of a shell or the firing of light daylight, the firing had ceased. No pen can describe the horrors of that night and the silent sufiferingof the wounded. Long rows of them, nearly a thousand, lying in poolsof water and on the damp ground, for the heavy rains had fallen every. Copyright, 1898, by Clara Barton. STARVING IN THK PLAZA.
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