Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-11-18
The Field Of Chickamauga q Month after the
Fight-H0rribie Scene.

From occasional army correspondence of the Mobile
Adver. extract the following interesting particulars
It should be stated in explanation Of portion oft that
Rosecans abandoned all his dead ind asked
permission 10 bury them, Oar army pressed Immediately
next day, leaving the battle field eight miles tbs
eou ae p to-
wounded for many days. and until the condition the Yam
tee corsss was such as to forbid handling Thus it viii
mander is HIMSELF to be blamed.
The correspondent says:
Ihave just returned from ride to the battle Geld with
party officers 1t just five weeks day since the bat
lie your readers may wish know how the field looks
now The aspects of the field have greatly changed
Where was dry and dusty now is and boggy The
these the slightest changes The peughed up EARTH
the broken and captured cannon the piles If ammunition
The gans and and clothing and most Of the
dead have all disappeared The only memorials LEFT
mark the scenes Of mortal strife the hasy entertainments
ofogs and rocks the SCARED and rven trees bearing
marks which century will not eace here and there KNAPP
tins few shells and round shot, the graves of Con-
deates and revolving Of all the he,ps Of yet unbu
red Yankee dead. All Of our dead except two bu
ied These were overlooked BY burying parties mis-
taken for Yankees One of these, who killed the
HILL where Graces brigade fought late Sunday evening"
was very handsomely dressed in blue fine pants and dark
grey cashmere jacket He tall and apparently q
young His hand seemed small and handsome one,
but be almost skeleton and his mother would not
with heaps of dead and unbured Yankees In most
the flesh had fallen from the bones aud the skeleton
remained The leg bones from hip to foot held together
generally dsoined from the hips In some cases the
fesh had hrunk rather than decomposed and the muscles
Of tho leg were still distinct In many the skin
aesh On them fhe heads were times ony bald skulls
in others the skin vet covered them and few poor hairs
remained Here and there cruel mocker had severed
the head from the body and set the bead upon stump,
whence it grnned horribly gastly smile" Some Of
the heads contained 6ns beautiful teeth and my unsent
mental companion remarked that dentist cou.d make
hr fhnaof Aafh ok
unborn, in their sports upon this field will find skull
bone Of these poor victims and wonder and ask what
it, And then their grandfahers will tell them ofthe great
Our are buried upon the very spot where they
fell In most cases their names, company and regiment
are written in pencil upon headbcard Tins is shown
the paris OF the field where the victorious regiments fought
Beavy details made to bury the Yankee dead but
was only partially done. suppose grew tired of
the offensive and seemingly endless task hear that
Hills corps alone buried 100 Yankees but numbers
yet lie uRbured The Yankeesswho were buried were
buried in shallow graves and their graves thus ds
generally past the offensive stage decomposition and We
could ride among or them wlth little or M pain 10
oacories; but those buried n graves smced horri
bly, Flies swarmed around these graves biosted and fat
tened upon the foul doors that reeked ronhe carpses
through rhe wet earth that thnly covered them. 1t
very sickenng Ny stomach was stirred with qualm and
my head grew dizzy and painful IN sympathy With il. My
companion had insisted upon taking lunch with u.s. but
ON this hed in the midst Of such hungry though
was could not have eaten the most delicate morse from
u bud opportunities to-day TO much hos field which
did not see in the fight Changed az the fed was
easily found the precise spots upon which f,aglf and
pointed out tile very ground over which advanced One
II my compositions iaboted hard convince me that the
field where Lchased the Yankees was Ia front OF Poes
hDnss He said that my account n the wide and billy
Geld described vas geographical impossbility But
would not give led him, Reluctantly to the left
and showed him aeds pointed out the yery line 81
oarpursuit and he was convinced. z. =. =.
From what Saw, to-day am convinced thai the an.
les loss in killed and wounded was over Svoo t1nr or
details buried $500 dead the feld and mora than oor
M lie unbed This includes only those that war. Ri
I'd and died instantly The badly vound.d !;
most cases were taken and many these died swell