Vermont Phœnix

Such Is War.—After the fury of the battle of Cerro Gordo was over (says Capt. Merrill, of Batavia, N. Y., in a letter to his brother), I saw a camp woman, of the infantry, who came upon the field to look for her husband. Almost frantic with despair, she ran from one to another to inquire after him, but getting no information, she immediately went to search for him among the slain. Passing from body to body, she at length found him—dead. Kneeling over his corpse, she endeavored to raise it, but finding life extinct, she gave utterance to shrieks and lamentations truly touching to hear. Her all had fallen. She continued to remain on the field (under fire of the enemy) until his lifeless body was carried off, which she followed in the deepest grief.

Will all the "glory" won in this battle compensate for the agony of a single scene like the above? And yet there were thousands such.