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The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
heck, and nothing is either gained or lost. Our wounded — at least as many as can be safely moved — have been sent away, and Corinth presents much the same aspect as before the battle. I remarked in a preceding letter that most of our wounds were in the extremities, and many of our killed were shot in the head. This is accounted for by the fact that being a woody country, our troops frequently took shelter behind trees, Indian style, and thus protected the body. It is reported that Dr. Chapin, of New Orleans, who served on the staff of General Beauregard in Virginia, performed thirty one amputations on Sunday. Probably large numbers of limbs will yet have to be sacrificed to the surgeon's knife, because the necessary operation was not performed upon the field. These, however, are difficulties which, in an army so peculiarly organized as our own, cannot be obviated without more experience than we yet possess. From one hundred and fifty to two hundred of our wounded were l