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The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward (search)
The horrors of war --The Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Daily Times has the following description of the horrors of war. Are they getting their eyes open ? To read of a battle, with its poetry of heroism, is a very fine thing. All men applaud the bold fellow, and all women throw laurels on the gallant soldier, who is ready to throw down his life for his country's flag. If one sees it, the thing is different. I was at the defeat of our forces yesterday near Centreville, and as I witnessed the hot shot and terrible shell tearing through the air; as I saw the horrible grape and shrapnel doing its too certain work all around; as I saw my friend storming, heroically, masked batteries which the terrible incompetence of their leaders did not allow them to silence, owing to insufficient reinforcements being sent in proper time; when I saw these heroes, at eleven dollars a month losing heads, legs and arms, in thick protrusion around me; when I witnessed the horrible rout