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Affecting statement.--The solemnity of the battle-field and the true nature of the work of war, have an impressive exhibition in the following:--
A soldier, who was in the battle of Bull Run, said that, after the first fire of the enemy upon our troops, a great many men fell, wounded, all around.
And from many of them the cry went up, “God have mercy on my soul.”
So earnest was the cry, and so contagious, that I found myself making, almost unconsciously to myself, the same prayer, over and over again, as I was fighting, “God have mercy on my soul.”
He said that for two or three nights after leaving for home, and arriving here, he could not sleep.
Ringing through his cars, through all the hours of a wakeful night, was the impassioned, earnest cry, a cry which he could never forget--“God have mercy on my soul” --such a cry as none but men passing into eternity could utter.--Louisville Journal.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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