Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-02-10
Bat.IeneId Of AnIietan,.

The n. Y. Methodist has an interestiul
article on the battlefield of Autietam from
which we copy the following:
In the two months that have passed. thu
| greater portion OF the debris Of battle anc
camp pas been carried of. Thousands o.
, travelling sstchels and trunks have herr
stutted-the light buggy, the numbering
truck, ana the iOur-hOrse wagon have beer
loaded with the ofal from this human
slaughter-house-the leayiDgs from thu
festival of the war-god.
Still one cannot walk; over these
/ fields and though these woods without be-
Ing reminded, every few PAGES, that here
men had recently met in mortal combat
met with all the terrible enginery of mod.
ern warfare. Here the limb of a tree had
/ been Topped off by the wbizzine she'll
there tree itself has been shattered and
shlyered by a solid shot, as you zee them
sometimes by lightning here ngain a six
! pound shot has been cut out by the relic.
seeker $ axe there is another still buried
IN the hard hickory, fifteen feet above
ground, while two feet above is another
mark indicating that the missile lust blazed
the tree and passed on.
You walk through miles of woods, not
continuous but scattered here and there in
strips and patches, and mark the same evil
dences Of the fierce ARTILLERY deeds
Through these same woods still lie.also.
strewn about, other proofs OF the tramn and
conflict Of armed hosts-hats. cans. gar
ments or portion of garments, haversscks.
rent knapsacks, battered canteens. cart
ridge boxes, cartridges themselves, un-
spent and innocent blood, fragments Of
shells, bayoDet sheaths, and multitudinUus
other things nameless to a civilian. PATS
into the open felds-open indeed for many
OF them are still fenceless- and the same
intense struggle shows itself by the same
aDd otbor indications Here is a house
that stood in Ihe range of the batteries. 1t
is still tenanusrs. There ball has Passed
through a9d through tearing a cash in the
wall, at the place Of exit. Here probably
smell struck and exploded, rendinp off
large patches Of outside lath and plaster-
lng-lt was Lighthouse, rough-cast. Here
again missile ihas struck the sash of an
up-stalr window and knocked it in. There
small ball has neatly cut circular hUls
through pane Of another window. as if
with diamond-ouly the cracks radiate
from the hole like the rays of a pictured
sun in old books. Various marks of rife
The soldiers graves scattered about these
tields-sometirnes solitary, sometimes in
grouds of n dozen or two-are object of
sorrowful interest. Our own dead seem TO
have been gathered up carefully by their
companions, and inferred as deceptly
circumstances permitted. Headboards are
set up at each grave, with the name and
OF that OF the regiment ana company ON
Al.
upwards, IN place, by the side of a field.
or the edge of wood, are generally en-.
closed with rails. One pauses especiaJIy
at the names of familior regiments. and
medItates how many hearts at home have
been rent with grief by the sad tidings that
a son, brother, a husband, or a father
had fallen on the bloody plains. Some of
these bodies have been already disintered
and taken home for permanent burial
Others doubtless will be. But yerv many
VIII sleep on here till the resurrection
morn.
Sad as may be our meditations over on
own dead, more melancholy, as it SCENE
to me, are the thoughts that arise in cor.
tenplatlng the enemy's dead and their
friends. Holy Christianity teaches ms not
to be careless ofthe feelings of our enemies
LOW many fathers aad mothers, sisters aud
brothers, wives and children of the South
mourn over dead friends, buried On this
pattIe-heid, by the hands of strangers, of
enemies, (So held with not even board.
or fence rail, 10 mark the spot-buried in
q trench with hundred others, in the
midst OF corn or clover fed.
'unknolled, uncofined and unknown,v
Few Southern fathers and brothers. after
this war is over, will be aIle 10 find uno,
the field at Antletam the spots where their
dead lie buried. Here, perhaps." father
will say, 'undistinguished amo5g tirty. or
hundred and fifty, lies all that is mortal
OF my son; or perhaps be may be in that
trench, or in that one still farther over. or
in some other part the ield-Wbo knowsp
None but God" Fa'her may tread over
the grave of son, brother Of brother end
all be unconscious Of the fact. OfaII tho
Confederates found dead upon the battle.
heId and buried by our men, perhaps not
the name OF one Is kncwn, or, if ascertain
Cd by papers IN his pocket or knapsack, il
has not been noted. But as large portion
OF them were not buried till two or three
Gays alter the battle, they were then in no
condition Ter an examination of this M.
ture. Those details to perform the unyeI.
come and rev ltIng task, we may be assur
ed did 1t as hurridy as possible. Thus the
Southern dead lie in undistnguished mas
sess-not q stake or a rail to point out the
trench itself. You only know these trench
es by being first told, Rebels are buried
here" Afterwards the sight of these places
become familiar to you as you pass over
the field.