The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-09-11
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The Late Battle at Culpepper Court
House between Generals Pope and
Jackson
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down toward Slaughters Mountain, pass
ing upward of a score of battery horses
slain in the traces by the splendid firing
of our advance pieces on Saturday mid
night. The noble animals, whom thun-
der could not jar nor iron rain intimi-
date, lay close beside each other the
worms already making havoc in their
flesh, their limbs sunened and their
CHASTITY hoofs extended llere was a
splinlercd wheel, with blood and hair
upon the spokes, and a stain, like riyu-
let, extending little way down The
clay. Beyond, Icame upon the usual in-'
dications Of rctreat-jackcts, bayonets,
cartridge boxes, and knapsaCks thrown
here and there conlusedly, tmmpled,
rent and bloody Thcsc iraces grew
moro numerous until | crossed Cedar
Creek, where the stencil Of dccaying
flesh, man and horse, was plainly per-
Ceptible. The ground was irainpled as if
by the desperate feet Of c0mhatanis, and
of TO the LETT, in The ruined corn-neld, ]
saw n party Of grave diggcrs engaged in
their solemn but hasty task of shutting
away the face of glory. The FIRST un-
buried corpse stared ont from the shelter
of an oak tree but the resemblance TO
man had been well-nigh obliterated, The
arms Were thrown clenchedly back and
the chin raised, with the tcndous and
thews OF the throat bare and black The
eyes had bulged through their apcrturcs
in the flesh, distended to the size of eggs,
and the hair lay long, tangled, and mat
ted with blood, over a forehead blue and
yellow by exposure and Fastening cor
ruption. What more may have been re-
marked il is useless TO say, save that no
Imagination Of death was half so terrible.
lt such feelings were cngcndcrcd by the
glimpse Of a single body what shall de-
scribe the horrible picture Of the dead
grouped, nay, heaped upon each other,
and whitening under q fiery SUM- They
lay by the margin of the tributary iigu.
let, half hidden in The stalks of corn
one with an arm drawn over the eve. an
other with arms liNedly folded upon the
chest, and others sitting bolt upright, as
if resuuected and about 10 speak. There
was no speculation in the eyes that they
did glare withal; the grave seemed to
have been opened that might sec. and
after glory the worm had come TO hold
high reyel upon the good, the gallant and
the gifted. few officers were noted
but the tinsel shoulder straps were rusty
and discolOred, and they looked like
common clay. / noticed one stalwart
fellow who had fallen with his muskct
tightly gripped 70 his side, as if he had
fallen at shoulder arms. Some seem 10
have died irresolutely, and the terror had
petrified in their visages; but the pre-
dominant expression was one Of wrath.
caused, perhaps, by the loss of some tried
cOmrade who had fallen previously. A
few looked placid, though their features
were distorted and all were so swollen
that they compared in size with the dead
horses adjacent.
The bodies Of these are lifted by their
comrades and deposited in trenches, with
out collin or headstone. Occasionally
the practical sexton discovers some old
friend, honors him with n special grave,
and quietly makes a note OF his resting
place for future eXigency All Of our
dead, so far as / saw or heard, had been
plundered of their money. arms and in
some cases of their clothing. / think
that we may have had a hundred and
fifty dead. | found them grouped in the
| edges OF the woods, in one case twenty
two together. Several Of these appeared
TO be killed by fragments of shells. and
one mans head was missing. In curious
| juXtaposition TO these ghostly objects.
saw an old-iashioned plough that had
been struck by solid shot and broken in
half War had leveled the earliest and
! last indication of industry. Bv the
! kindness of the rebel cavalry, Gen. Stew
art, 90 whom ! shall presently rcfcr, /
was allowed TO ride with Lieut. johnson
across the rebels lines and examine the
! encmy's dead. As most Of these had
been buried, | could not tell with GER
! tainty the rebel loss but il could scarcely
have been less than ours. Eight North
Carolinians lay in row by a fragment
/ Of ience--stout stalwarl rustics in home
spun clothes who had perhaps been drag
| gcd rs conscripts from their homes TO
| perish in an unholy cause. A few OF our
/ grave diggCrs had mingled with the rebel
| grave diggcrs, and both had suspended
their functions 10 hold an argument
| The Lieutenant ordered the Fcderals into
/ their own lines, and prevented, 10 may
/ be, a miniature battle among the dispu-
| tants, | must say for my conductor that
/ he had frank face and a fair manner
| goodly minglng of the polite citizen
| with the stern soldier. We rode into a
piece Of wood not half q mile from
/ Slaughters Mountain, and behold the
spot where Mon and rebel had tuggcd
and hustled face 90 face parrying and
/ thrusting with cold steel Some of the
/ rebels seemed to have edged over TO our
! lines aud fell among our men, while some
| Of the Unionists were quite turned around
/ and lay in a brvy Of their enemies. The
| rebels claim 10 have blown up several
/ cassons left behind us on Saturday eve
| ming, and 20 have picked up more than
/ two thousand arms, with upwards Of siX-
~ horses. ! saw, what had boon prcgi.
/ Ously undiscovered, about fifty muskeis
| stacked against piece of scrub timber
/ and within our lines ms re-cstablishrd
BATTERY SITES.
] did not make much inquiry as to the
| position Of the rebel batteries, bat the
/ Lieutenant cOurteously pointed out the
/ position Of the heavy thirty-twos that
/ still looked down from the mouutaiu
/ side at Slaughter's residence. He APP
/ peared TO be very proud Of the battery,
and said that il had been manned by
| the Fright sull' He likewise followed
up the various changes Of ground during
/ the course of the action, and made, i'm
| truth, a pretty fair statement OF things.
/ He said that they were particularly an
noyod, early in the engagement, by a
battery posted in the woods 20 the ltlt
south Of Cedar Greek,
REBEL HEROINE