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Southland Times, Volume 1, Issue 8, 5 December 1862, Page 2

Notes of a recently discovered forget J^ the Bank of England appear to have oth ( extensively circulated in America, ecu some of them continue to arrive in al <blei each steamer from America. ""' r<rci Battle Scbkss.— After the engageme the 25tb, some of the scenes were frip*i¥«l to I L,^,, Among the rebels brought in was on epharpsb of whom they had a number statiou&Mii Jta lea pick off our officers. This man was mortally w j e j ed, a ball having crashed its way through bis .-^ his headfpresented a ghastly sight as bis brain ;^ M out while he lay there dying ; bis face thicklj ; ted with gore, one eye destroyed,' and thcyother i _ but covered witb the film of death: Some fir hand had covered his disfigured face with .pa hide it from the curious gaze of the looker* < g whom the covering was now and then reo) fg^ revealing the work of doath. But there w |Qe need of this, for .the convulsive heaving of the j,^. and the spasmodic twitching of the heart st hovr fast the life was ebbing away.. Not . si 9 t j,, from here lay one of our men also mortally w j ed, the two meeting then in the friendly b« tM a death. It was a young Jersey boy, with a pll :jß^ face, pleasant even" in death, lor a soft and ,y^ expression 'was left upon' the clay as the ; «;^ slowly bore the soul away J The ball had enter j,'^ n| back of his head, leaving his face untouched, p p contrasted strangely with the ' disfigured cot g, t j, anec of the dying rebel by his side. As 1 there with his head supported hy a bag of gw , „,. blood was flowing over hi* '.long- bUck nail |g'C thickly ctaining the rode pillow on which he