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HORRORS OF WAR. aphic Description of War Times Written From the Bat tlefield. ederate Veteran. J. T. Dargan, of the Atlanta i sends a remarkable paper follovin- introductory note: h enclose you a copy of tten from Phillips. Va., of August 6. 1S62, by vidson and addressed to s. Maclean, who was at Clara Dargan of Co Mr. Davidson was well ny years as one of the rv characters in the 4es and a man of pro ip. Poor fellow! he in Florida. I simply ter as a thrilling bit *e from the battle . It was written in while he was in camp. was"at that time attached to a th Carolina regiment. As a cur sity I send you the original, show ing that every word was written with punctilious care and without a scratch anywhere. This is certainly remarkable, consideringthe surround ings he must have been facinz at that time.'' The following is an exact copy of the letter except the omission of italics: Vivid Description Written at the Time. Phillips. Va., 6 August. 1S62. And you would have ''the grand eur and glory of the real battle" "impressions. incidents, and acci dents?" The mag-nificence of blood is a theme worthy of a great poem, and all that I have seen written up on it is as nothing to the truth that lies hid-hid to all save the eye that has seen it all-behind those common words. I would not if I could, my young friend. nor could I if I would, produce in your mind the feeling awakened in mire by the tragedies I witness: and to approach as near this as possible .iS the end of the literary aftist. Look for no such effort now. A touch here and touch there. and memory would hurry from those scenes to seek relief in atmosphere of some treasured past while hope citehes a breath of a peaceful future. I have a 'brother in the 4th Texas regiment, -under Jackson,.-and I have -not seen that brother in fifteen years. He is an old man-past fifty-and very gray. -- Friday's tornado of battle at Cold Harbor,.on Gaines's Farm, had swept over gur.,heads.haIj&4unk downi-when the signal for rest was given in the line of battle as we were, too weary to unbuckle any of . my trappings. With gun in hand .I. slept a. broken sleep of the ibattlefl1d, drencehed as -I was in perspiration, fasting -for ov er a day, and almost covered with mud and dust. Momently came from the plain around us, imperfectly aud ible in that troubled' slumber, the edeep groan of piereing pain-wrung of some friend or foe or-brother.' Igi various directions over the field passed, passing and recrossing each other, many delights of the infirm-. mary corps and the ambulance corps seeking the wounded. The cautious hail and the low reply barely broke the horrid silence. Morning came at length with its pe'uliar train of things to shudder at: but let us pass that, and with broad daylight look over the field of yesterday's agony. Impelled by a feeling I could not control, though exhausted by such la bor as I had undergone and almost prostrated by a chill during the night I strolled over the field of gore after I had eaten a cracker and a bit of bacon. The area of the field is at least five square miles, partly plain -and partly woods. No burial had yet been made. (Here an order to strike tent and march arrested my.pen and closed my kn,apsack upon your letter till this the 14th of August, at which time I resume.) In the shrubbery we nd a few of our own men ly eand there stark and still; gan to ascend the rising plain, our poor men thick and fear ngled with cannon shot and g at long range. Next up w lay the blue-vested reg he s~core in lines, as fire from our side had been d nto them during their ad ce. To the left, over five or six es. lay the Zouaves-the dead and e mangled-all over the plain. he scenic effect of their blue jack ets and red trousers (a la Turque) with the fez, a red skullcap. was rath er ornamental. But a wild, deep, new feeling of (may'be it was re venge') anuer maddened my eye and* stifled my breathing. For hours I walked often alone among thern ..hrouigh wood and field and looked unon the faces of many dead ene !-ies and conversed with many of the woundd: Uke1 upnon many friendly faces cold in death there and hideous dead nien. 1rh1a s ti:rty (, I-hN lk since brouht in). andi oitside to were vet many magld l yin in 1t: rain upon the grass. sometimes par ly in the water puddles. One corps nearly stripped lay stark. ghast. an staring with leaden eyes up at me eVes into whiih was beating the col rai. eves that never winked or wax vred in 1tir. stoly stare right at i in their agony of physical pain. eye frorn which the -life had fled in suc haste that they could 'not close. froi uieh le soul hwl!a- ( llin thw -' geon's knife. His leg had been shu through the kness.,.. glfxaq ET 'eN through the knee, al an amputatio above, midway the thigh. had kille him. They had left him lying thei upon the plank just as he had die and had dropped the limb at his rE maining foot. The whole expressio was one of agony and despair: th wrench back of the shoulders. tli clenched fingers-all. I wa: held i amazement by hits Gorgon horrors it stared at me so-and was instin< tively bearing away from it when trod upon the extremity of the liml which was lower than I calculate< Remember, I could not look at th limb or at my feet, for my gaze wa absolutely chained by such a star( I was looking at those dead. imploi mnw eves into which the pitiless rai was beating incessantly, and the did not wink, but stared-absolutel glared-at me. The limb felt to m foot touch like a touch of pickle pork. hard and yet fleshy. In m intensest moments of feeling I neve make any sound neither a groan or er y. Fere 1 only leaped with my fu muscular might away. and lighted ov er in the weeds upon a heap-yes, pile a foot high-of arms, leg hands. feet, and fragments of these all these piled up with a corpse c two, these white and slippery an cold in the grass and puddles of wa er-some of the water was red. Noi I was fully restored from the infit ence of those eyes, and scramble from the piled mass of fragment: but not without difficulty, for dea flesh in water is very slippery. An yet I did not quite fall over all o them. On Tuesday evening, 2d July, w had one .of the most magnificen spectaeles I ever saw-a great battli at night. We were within range o shot and shell, and the danger. (on shell overor among us every bhaff mir ute maybe) was just enough to kee one's blood up. We did not fire gun, but were held as reserves tha evening, and had full leisure for set ing. As the battle raged, yet feai ful and unbroken night stole darkl upon the-scene and. wrapped. .Malver Hill in a shroud. Every flash a every gun. flared up against the sk in secondai succession-nay, ten pe second might often'he counted! An the shells could be traced by a fain streak over head; and when the burst. the pyrotechnic splendor wa grander than any view of "th [ightning's red glare painting hell i the sky.'' These when near us wer unomfortable, 'but grand. And wit all this the roar, the din, the thunde of seventy cannon played with ele( trie speed, and a mellower peal o musketry rolling sometimes throug minutes so incessant as to seem on unbroken roar. And with all thi the moral seignificance of such worl the life-and-death st-ruggle know and felt to be there. the majesty c will, the contempt of death, the ro3 alty of hate, the infinity of distant between the parties-all these thing heightened the special touches of tb scene as a material picture. Majeti murder! The shroud on Malvern Hi' covered three thousand corpses. I close this brief note to you, m young frined, in our bivouac, on th main road between Gordonsville an Orange C. H. The battle of Ceda Run last Saturday. 9th August, we within five miles of Culpepper C. I (Fairfax). beyond the Rapidan (ha to strip and wade the river), and we a hearty Stonewall blow dealt upo Pope by Jackson, who then fell bac ready for anything else. The enem lost at least two thousand; we lo! less than one thousand. I converse with many prisoners, saw three hut dred and seventy five unwounde ones, while I was in Orange. 1E are called Jackson 's foot cavalr: Our brigade was not in the battle < Cedar Run. I saw Jackson rarel: Saw some fine specimens of Virgni ladies a few days ago. Dress is is nored among us. We enter fine pa: lors with the coarsest of clothes, ti plainest of shoes, and (0, 'Cheste field and 0, Brummel!) the dirte of shirts. We sometimes do not s our baggage for ten days. How else Such is the camp and such is Jac] son 's foot cavalry. J. W.D. Three days ago I received offich notice of the death of my brother i the battle of Friday. the 27th< June. orn Gaines's Farm. I close ti: lu Ig'F i pdito. I the.". su -it to trace the eolre of1 S011mC special 1 r'p Ls-- iie I'usianian; and Texans. Both fought well, both died well. You know why I passed the route of the Tex an charge-,a charge as fatal as Bal aklava. I walked slowly and looked (may God spare all ot,her brothers from sueh a feeling ) carefully at every gray corpse. Many were shock ingly slaughtered. I could see none like him. Hope again came to me. and I returned to our bivouac some how elated. yet crushed in heart. You have not yet caught the faint est glimpseof themost disgusting hor ror of a battlefield-to me. You will smile (as I would have don.e lang syne) when I tell you that horror is the smell-the smell of blood. A man -led corpse is discoverable in this way a distance of m.anv yards. The odor comes gradually yet surely. You sit down to rest hoping to be out of it for a respite; but the same dead, faughty, -penetrating odor steals over you, and you experience the over powering sense of blood, look around, a'nd there it is in the weeds there just at your feet. One third of his breast may be shot away; but he stares as you turn upon him, and .-! In the afternoon of the same day I walked partly over the same field Our dead had been buried, and only our foes lay there and fewer of them. The severest fire we received was on Monday evening in the fight at Williz 's Church. Here I advanced with the regiment as usual in the face as a brisk fire, one that dropped our men every few yards. This subsidedi for a while and darkness thickened around us. We were ordered to lie down, and remained thus for several minutes; meanwhile the bullets reviv ed. Some Yankees advanced to the front of our -regiment inquiring for the colonel and informing Colonel E., who was then on our right in confer ence with General G., that they want ed him. up there "to see about some prisoners." Colonel E.asked. "Who wants me?'"and was disregarding the summons and going on to carry out General G's. instructions. His order was "To your feet, by the right flank"-. Here, just as the order to rise was heard over the field and as the unknown individual had time to get out of range, there came into our faces a fire from the front such a fire as only a full regiment an pour upon one spot. It came just s we rose-just after-and some lay own again to rise no more. The fire id not have our height perfectly, lse certainly half our number had slept forever_there., hey .ealculat.ed tdr our rising and allowed too much, a few ines too much, and that few inches saved a hundred lives. Above s flashed and popped the explosiveI balls wherever they hit a tree or skull or a bone! These infernal balls ex plode whenever they hit any hard substance; hence they rarely inflict slight wound-it is miss or death. In receiving a fire in that way one thinks of death remotely in one sense, because there are enough practical things to do that absorb the atten tion; yet one remembers momently that he may fall next step. This re membrance has nothing to do with bravery; for when a, man has made up his mind to advance to do his duty even to death, he never for once dreams of changing his plans-hasn't time. Under that most blasting breath of lead our regiment moved as oolly as the nature of the ground and the darkness would permit. And in the most trying charges of Fri day, when universal Death seemed sweeping whole armies before him, our lives were always good. I never saw at any time three men waver in the whole regiment in which I was. They were never confused, and only puzzled when they could not possibly hear the words of command on ac count o.f the incessency of cannon fire over head, the bursting of shells amonag them. and the constant zip zip-zip of the leaden balls at their feet or the low groan of some com rade who sinks upon his face to die, the quick, spasmodic "O'' of the outh or the heavier "0OGod!'' deep y gushing from the soul that feels its lease on life is over that moment. So miuch of the steadiness o1f men could hardly b)e saidi of all the regi ments Th our briagade. vet none did less than their duty and none more. O::e view more I must give yo~ u he fore I ileave these exp)eriecles. It tot) you would seareely anticipate. It was a Wednesday morning. 30th July upon the bhittlefield of Mor dr. at Willis's Church. or rather near it. at a~ cottage used for~ the time as a hospital for the woulnded. Wed nes. :1v m..rinU in the peltinz rain I souht the hospital to get some in formation for some one. The cottage was jammed with mangled men. arm less. lezless, and bleeding. The wounded of Tuesday were also just comn, in. Around upon the fences. the alro-und. the g'arden. the ash hop pe boa-vryrwhere niround lav~ CHEAP RATES e Via Southern Railway. Jamestown -Ter-Centennial Exposition, Norfolk, e Va. d On account of the above occasion the following instructions will gov d ern the sale of round trip tickets to Norfolk, Va. from Ntwberry, S. 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