The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-01-29
Rates OF Adver,is1ne.
Wayside War Scenes.

a correspondent of the Missouri Republican,
writing from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, gives
the following vivid description of the field over
which he has lately passed, and of the desola-
ton that is everywhere apparent
"a thousand camp fires are aglow all over
the leahess woods for a mile or two in every
direction. Wagons up and down the pike, ali
night long, are the accompaniment of the hour.
Inc great army trains were sent to Nashville
three days since 10 have them out of the way,
and with them went the tents, baggage and pro-
Visions consequently, our army Of at least
torty-hVe Thousand souls are here in the omen
air, drying themselves before camp fires, with
out a clean shirt and nothing to eat. A wagon
train came in yesterday, with one days ratious
and others are now on the way from Nashville.
Some portions of this army have lived on
roasted corn for the past two days, until yester~
day. They did so cheerfully and manfuliy.-
All are in excellent spirits, and feel determin-
ed to earn success, and succeed they will
The terrible battles have but whetted up the
Union army, and have equally oppressed the
rebels, Judging from the tone of the prisoners
we are continually taking"
"What q scene of deSolation is now present
ed the whole distance from Nashville to this
place! But two or three families now live at
at their homes on the pike, along a string of
farms and two small villages, on q stretch of
CNSibNClSHG ullISS, LllIOuSu I'LL Oiu bCtbleQ COun-
ty. Fences are gone, houses are deserted, and
a good share Of them have been burned, their
ruins smouidering, and their tall shaft of chin
neys yet standing. Not a cornfield but has been
stripped and trodden down, and ~fenceless if ad-
Joining the road. No people, nor stock no
signs OF civilization and habitation, except those
d~enoting what has been, but we now see no
more.
"Lavergne was formerly a quiet nook of q
EzHr,, .A..A.1 Ill $500 H. a-I
Murfreesboro, answering TO Shipman or GILES
spie, or some such railroad town in Illinois. -
Now, there is not Il woman or child in the place
and but two of the houses are left standing and
these are used as hospitals.
Along the road we passed many dead hors-
es and mules, fragments of boxes and barrels,
pieces of half>burned rails and fence boards,
scraps of harness, and soldiers cast>off cloth
ing-all the wreck and waste of war. Also,
about Lavergne, in the road, are strung along
the wrecks of burnt and half-burnt wagons, the
work Of rebel cavalry, in two attempts to burn
our trains. They succeeded in burning and
destroying about sixty of our wagons and am
balances, most of them loaded with army stores
and baggage. Some of the wagons were only
partially injured, a wheal, or the box destroy
ed-others were literally eaten up by fire, exN
cept a mass Of bolts, bars, and wheel>tires.-
Two or three miles and one church, have also
been destroyed, along this road.
Last night | rode over the battle field. IL
was my first experience-wOuld that ] could
say it will be my last, Here our party came to
the first dead rebel, upon the margin of the field.
His face is covered with The flap of his over
coat. Soon We came to others, lying amid mud
and water, limbs blown off, heads stove in bull
let holes through their faces wounds of every
form and magnitude. 1t is r~aining'now has
rained nearly all night. Dead horses, scatter
ed harness, broken wagons, the ground strew-
ed in places with cartridge boxes and soldiers
clothing, are met with upfT every hand
1t seemed strange, indeed, to see our soldiers
camped upon these very fields of strife, their
fires burning and their rude breakfasts being
discussed within a few yards where lay a dead
rebel, his eyes open and glaring, his features
white and ghastly, and his feet bare, white and
shtivelled, his hair matted with mud, and a
poo Of blood and water beneath and around
him. Several of the rebels lay about, dressed
in Federal clothing, but detected by their fan
mel shirts or other marks well known to our
men,