Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-11-10
CHAPTER OF INTERESTING GOSSIP FROM
BRACES ARMY-THE PROSPECT.

Cny five miles-fr0m Chckamauga depot TO the nes OF
the army. How much. worse muS be the case OF the
Yankees who have 10 haul thirty forty miles over
worse roads IL IL known that the Yankees in Chatta-
nooga are nearly starved. Their pckets offsr to- give
blanket or overcoat worth $50, for pone OF
bread They to have coffee, though for they Of
fer four pounds Of coffee for plug Of tobecco Our
men would tiads With them briskiy at these PROPOSE
TONS but il is against ORDERS and the officers OF the
pckets have keep vgant watch to prevent the traf
fc. Deserters constantly coming in TO our pckes
with pitiable tales Of famine. The other night YAH
kee captain ard his sergeant deserted them. Ihave
report that Yankee Major and seven have come
in Tnere s no doubt OF sharp famine and great de-
moral alton amsng the Yankee garrison in Cnattanoo
ga Very WE'LL We reversing the Vicksburg
story.
Il seems that am bound 10 be prophet. In the
letter that you from here Immediately after the
battle Of Uhicamsuga, told you that General Bragg
would neither storm nor besiege Chattanooga. This
op MON was not c,ncurred in by anybody, but five
weeks have passed. and he has done neither. SLOW
bombardment tried one day, but alter expanding
$40 600 worth oammuntont ordered TO be stopI ed
The fie sss Intellectual. Nevertheless head
tlery Major by all the poHeis Of cold iron and
powder that he could plant the right sort of pieces
Missionary Ridge and Lookout and blow Chattanooga
into 'emithareens."
THE RoUr OF raI ESSMY-AMUsVG CoEIoQUIEs.
As army pursued the enemy into Chattanooga the
answers Of old women TO questions to the pass
ing Of the Yankee fogtives were very amusing give
some colloqhes:
COnfed.-" Madam, have any Yankees passed up this
rosdg"
Old Woman.-"Lal have ttsyI First, the Yankees
they came along, aud poor fellows! they looked 10
tired, and they nearly scared 10 DEATH They look
ed 30 pale. Then Mr.. Braggs eretW men, they came
along after the Yankees m as hard they could
they did, and sieh time they had never saw."
By "cretur-nen," the old woman meant cavalry,
thus designating them, because they ride horses cre
Nnraa III nlA ,aIle haWta
With another old woman the following coll0quy was
had:
oOnfed.-"Madam, have any Yankees passed by
hereS"
TIE old woman had on two pair of specs, tae lower
pair her nOce and the other on the TOD Ct
her head. Thus prepared, she responds:
Yes, they have. The Yankees they come running,
a. fast they could run. Then here Mr. Brsggs
men, and they formed their line of fight right through
my yard and they turled my ash gum fold lady
eIcited)l W0uldnt have took five dollars for that ash
gum"
THE YIELD OF BATTLE A MONTH AyrER THE F1GHF-HoR-
RIBLs SCENES
have just returned from ride TO the battle fed
with party of officers /. ia lust FIVE weeks TO day
since the battle and your readers may wish to know how
the field looks The aspects OF the ield have great
ly changed: Where it was dry and dusty, il is wet
and Doggy. The changing season has changed the
pect OF the woods but these the slightest changer
non the piles of ammunition, the guns and accoutre
menl aud the clothing and most OF the de 3D. have all
disappeared. The only memorials left to mark tie scene
Of mortal strife the hasty entrencbments Of logs and
rock; the torn SCARED and Iven tees bearing marks
which century will not efiace here aud there kbap
sacks and scraps Of torn clothing broken and pero-
rated tins, afew shells and round shot, the graves OF
Confedeates and, NEST revolving Of ALL the heaps
OF yet unbured Yankee dead. All OF our dead except
two, buried. These overlooked by our bury
ot.l-a ". n
Who killed on the bill where Grace's brigade /
fought late on Sunday evening, very handsome
ly dressed in fine blue pants and dark grey
cashmere jacket. He tall and apparently /
young His hand seemed q small aud hand- |
some one, bit he was almost skeleton, and his /
mother would not have known him. The entire battle
field is yet numbered with heaps of dead and unburh
Yankees. la most the Il .sh had fallen from ths
bones and the fhere skeleton remained The egbo e.
fcom hip to foot held together, and of the upper
bones of the body, but the bsckbones generally were
deointed from the hips In cases the flesh had /
shrunk rather than decomposed and the muscles of The
leg we're still distinct In many the skin still
whole and preserved, and parts of the body had much
q ,sh on them. The heads were sometimes only bald |
skulls in others the skin yet covered them, and few
p0or-hsrs remained. Here and there cruel mocker
had severed the head from the body and set the head
upon stump, whence is "grinned horribly ghasy |
smile" Some Of the heads contained fine, beautiful |
teeth, and my unsenme1tal companion remarked that
dentist could make fortune by getting these teeth
u hence, children unborn in their sports upon
this field will FIND skill or bore Of the poor vicms
a1d wonder aud ask what It is And then some graz d.
father will tell them of the great battle Of hckamauga.
Oar own dead are buried upon the very spot where
they fell. In most cases their names, company and
giment are written in pencil upon hesdbosrd. Thus
is shown the pays Of the field where the various regi
ments fought Heavy details made TO bury
the Yankee dead, but only partially done. sup.
pose our men grew tired of the offensive and seemingly
endless task hear that Hills corps alone buried 100
Yankees but vast numbers yet lie unbured The Yam
KEGS sho aere buried buried in shallow graves
aud their graves thus distinguished from ours |
Those who thbured were generally past the Of
fensve stage of decomposition and could ride among
aud them With little pain to clactories
But those buried in graves smeled horribly. Flies
swarmed around these graves bloated and attened up
the foul orders that reeked from the corpses through
the wet ea tn that thiny covered them Ii was very
sick ening Ny stomach stirred with qlalm and my
head grew dizzy and pain III in sympathy with II. Ny
companion had insisted upon taking a lunch withes
but on this field in tho midst of such scenes hungry
though was could not have eaten the Dat delicate
morsel from Al epicures table.
had opportunities to-day to see much of the field
which did not see in the fight. Changed as the field
was easily found the precise spot upon which fought
and pointed out the very ground which advanced
One OF my companions labored hard to convince me
hat the field where chased the Yankees was in front
)f Poes house. He said that my account of the wide
md billy field described were geographical impossi
oilty But would not give It up. l led him, reluc-
anty, to the left and showed him Dyers field point
ID GU. the very line Of our pursuit. and he Avas con-
Iincsd.
NE SENr's LOSS AT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MIGHT HAVE
BEEs.
Q From what l saw to-day am convinced that the !
Yankee loss in killed aud wounded was over 90 600.
Dur own details buried 2300 dead the field a1d
han 1000 yet lie unbured This incudez only those ID
bat were killed outright, and died instantly. The badly
wounded in most cases were taken on, and many Of
hese died, swelling the dead to 5000. The proportion
4 wounded to killed unusually large, ABOUT eight
o one. A large number struggled of and deserted.
he aggregate loss of the Yankees in tho battle from s