Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-11-17
The Field of Chickamauga a Month after the
Fight-HOruble Scene.

From occasional army correspondence of the Mobile
A3gertie the following interesting particulars
should be stated explanation of PORTION OF it, that
Rosecrans abandoned all his dead and asked
permission to bury lhem Our army pressed Immediately
dav leaving the battle field eight miles the
and burying party left behind though immense
had all they Could attending to the Confederate dead
wounded for many days aud until the condition OF the Yam
kee cOrpses such forbid handling Thus, 1t wi
be that humanity has been shocked the Yankee
mander is, himself, TO be blamed.
The correspondent says:
have just returned from ride to the battle field with
party # OtcerS 1t is just five weeks to day since the bat
te your readers may wish to know how the field looks
The aspects of the field have greatly changed
Where dry and dusty, it wet and boggv The
changing has changed the aspect of the woods but
these the 81 ghest changes The pOughed up Garth,
the broken and captured Cannon the piles 81 ammunition,
the guns aud accoUtremens and clothing and most of the
dead, have all disappeared The only memorials left
mark of mortal strife the hasy entertainments
ofogs and rocks; the SCARED and trees bearing
marks which century will not esce here and there kna
sacks and scraps of torn clothing broken and perforated
tins, few shells and round shot, the graves OF our Cou
ederates and mos: rsong Of ALL the heaps of yet unbu
red Yankee dead. AOf our dead, except two bu-
RED These overlooked by buying parties mis-
taken for Yankees. One Of these, who killed the
hill, where Graces brigade fought late Sunday evening"
very handsomely dressed in blue fine pants and dark
grey cashmere Jacket lie was tall and apparently
but he almost skeleton, and his mother would not
have known him. The entire battle field yet numbered
with heaps of dead and unburied Yankees In
the flesh had fallen from the Eones aud the skeleton
remained Toleg bones from hip foot held together
and so OF the upper bones OF the body but the backbones
generally dSonted from the hips In some cases the
flesh had shrunk rather than decomposed and the muscles
OF the leg were still distinct In many the skin
still whole and preserved and parts the body had much
flesh on them The beads were some times only bald skulls
in others the skin vet covered them few poor hairs
remained Here and there cruel mocker had severed
the head from The body, and set the head upod stump
whence it "grinued horribly CHASTITY smile" Some of
the heads Contained 6ne beautiful teeth and my
mental companion remarked that dentist could make a
fortune by getting those teeth Years hence children
uH5orD, IN their sports upon this field will find SKULL or
bone OF these poor Victims and wonder and ask hat it
IS and then their gTand!hers will tell them of the great
battle Of Chickamauga.
Our are buried upon the very spot where they
fell In most cases their names company and regiment
are written Ill pencil upon headboard Thur sho wn
the parts OF the field where the victorious regiments
heavy details were made to bury the Yankee dead but it
was only partially done. suppose grew tired of
me offensive and seemingly endless task hear that
ulPs corps alone buried 100 Yankees numbers
yet lie uHburIed The Yankees who were buried were
buried IN shallowgraves and their graves thus dis
tlnguShed from Those no vera unbureI wprn
generally past the often sive stage of and We
could ride among over them little or no pain to
cur oacto-es but those buried graves smeed borri-
bly, Flies swarmed around these graves boated aud fat
tened upon the foul Od0rs that from the cnrs
through the wet earth that thnly covered them IL was
very sickening. Ny stomach was stirred with ouam and
my head grew dizzy and painful in sympathy with it, Nv
compsRion had insisted upon taking lunch with I but
on this hed in the midst of such scenes hungry though
was could not have eaten the delicate from
epcure's table.
had opportunities to-day to see much of the field viii
did not see in the fight. Changed as the field was
easily found the precise spots upon which fought and
pointed cot the very ground which advanced One
OF nay com23G'ons lab1ed hard 10 convince ne That the
field where chased the Yankees in front of Poes
held described was geographical impossbility. Bu
would not give it up. led him. reluctantly, The left
aod showed him Dyers fields pointed the very
our pursuit, and he convinced.
From what saw to-day, am convinced that the Yam
kee loss in killed and wounded 10000 Our
details buried 300 dead the field, and than 1000
yet lie ur bed This includes only those that were kill
ed outright aud died instantly The badly wounded il
aos Cases were taken of and many Of these died. swell