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scene in the woods on the peninsula—told me by Milton Roberts, ward G (Maine)
after the battle of White Oaks church, on the retreat, the march at night—the scene between 12 & 2 o'clock that night at the church in the woods, the hospital show at night, the wounded brought in—previous the silent stealthy march through the woods, at times stumbling over the bodies of dead men in the road, (there had been terrible fighting there
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the
that
day, only closing at dark)—we retreating the
^artillery horses feet muffled. orders that men should tread light & only speak in whispers—
Then between
12
midnight
& 1 oclock we halted to rest a couple of hours at an opening in the woods—in this opening was a pretty good sized old church used improm impromptu for a hospital for the wounded of the
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battles of the day thereabout—with these it was filled, all varieties, horrible beyond description—
^—the darkness dimly lit with candles, lamps, torches, moving about,
but dark but plenty of darkness & half darkness.—the crowds of wounded, bloody & pale, the surgeons operating—the yards outside also filled—they lay on the ground
^some on blankets, some on stray planks,
or
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—the
desp despairing screams & curses of some out of their senses,
the murky darkness, the
great gleaming of the torches, the smoke from them too,
the doctors operating, the scent of chloroform, the glisten of the steel instruments
as
as
the flash of lamps fell upon them
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Sept 12
ward I bed 35
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Levi W Tarkett
co E 143rd NYV
admitted July 11
find D C Tarkett
West Brookville NY
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after
at
Antietam there was a very large barn & farm house—the barn was filled with wounded, & the barn yard,
an the
farm house as full as it could stick—a peaceful barn,
now bloody the fragrant hay they used to place the men on for operations—they turned the cattle out of their stalls
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ward F. bed 50
admitted Aug 19
Adelbert Dolliver
co B 111 Penn
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mother Mrs. Melinda Morrison
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Tidioute, Warren co Penn
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Fever, (only 15 yr's old 22 Nov.'62)
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ward G. H. or I. young man I promised to come in & read to—sick with fever—he cannot read steadily himself—his head swims—take him the paper—
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ward D bed 37
Isaac Livensparger
co H. 55th Ohio
gun shot w'd left leg
admitted June 15th
father John Livensparger
Lykenston Crawford co Ohio
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ward K bed 37
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Asbury Allen
co D. 27th Indiana
diarrhea, bronchitis, & trouble in privates
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some quince jelly
father W Allen
Noblesville Hamilton co Ind
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ward A.
Aug 28-9-'63
Bethuel Smith
cavalry, wounded in foot.
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father
Mclauc[?]lin
[hon?]
Christopher?
Smith
? Glen's Falls, Warren co. N.Y.
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ward H bed 3
Aug 29
Willis Northrop, (age 19)
co G. 108 N.Y.
chronic pleuritis, pretty weak. has had diarrhea
father Ranson Northrop
Webster, Monroe co N.Y.
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some brandy
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ward A bed 41
Pleasant Borley
co A 1 Reg Cav.
g s w left leg
brother John Borley
Epton
po
Davis
co Ind
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Bethuel Smith
co F. 2nd US Cav
father Christopher Smith
Glen's Falls Warren co NY
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Bethuel Smith
co F 2nd US Cavalry
Glen's Falls
Warren co NY
father Christopher Smith
September 9 1863—
Bethuel Smith
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