Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-10-14

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~, The Battle Field of Chickamanga.
One of the Editors of the Atlanta lntelligenes,
gives the following account Of visit to the battle
field ten days after the battle This account is in
terestng, and will give readers some idea Of the
horrors Of war:.~...
We visited the field of the great battle on yester-
day, commencing on the extreme left crossing
and recrossing over the entire ground. The scenes
| we witnessed are seldom exhibited on earth; we
| will try to describe some of them:
| We entered the field at the Red House, where q
few dead horses only attest the evidence Of severe
skirmish. The woods on the outskirts of the field
did not exhibit much evidence of battle until we
| reached the steam saw mill on the road leading
from R;nggold, by way Of Reeds bridge, to Chatta-
nooga At this point several dead horses are de-
caying and producinga most foul stencil. Several
graves are visible. Along the road We saw numer-
Gus dead horses and Yankee bodies. All through
the woods there were evidences of sharp skirmish
ing where little artillery firing had been made. To
the right of the road about mile, and close to the
old Savannah road, there are some old fields, in
which batteries were placed on the highest points.
Our forces charged up these small heights and left
the evidences of their valor on the field not alone
in their own tattered garments and equipments, and
the graves of our dead, but also in large number
of dead and sinking Yankees. Here We met burial
party who were really sick from their exposure to
the unwholesome stehch. Behind this hill we met
stones and situated to command the most probable
line of attack The debris of the conflict shows how
sayagely it was contested.
Along the Chattanooga and Lafayette road, some
what to the left Of Clouds farm, the signs Of des
perate strife begin to indicate the battlefield The
country is well cleared from the lowlands up the
slopes Of the broken range Of hills and some four
or five farms are seen in the clearing In the edge
of the woods on the crest of the hills the enemy
were posted with tremendous batteries, their posi-.
ton being about mile long, and bristling with
cannon fronting two ways The torn, pulverized
earth, and the mown weeds and in the path of
their terrible sweeping fire. evince the erceness Of
the conflict There is very large corn field and
fields Of sedse on the slope and was over the ex-
posed clear, open place. with fence and guley in.
cessfnlly. Atnndred dead horses, broken caissons,
dismounted cannon, broken ammunition, torn
clothes, broken knapsacks, empty haversacks bull.
let-torn cantesns, broken gunstocEs, hundreds Of
torn shoes and hats, bloody bsyonets broken sabre
scabbards torn cartridge boxes, dead Yankees IN
piles of four, five and q dozen; cord of cannon
hammers, ropes, torn harness, numerous graves
everything which is ever seen upon fercely con-
tested and bloody field Of battle. all over these
1900 acres of open land the conflict ragged with
erceness of which the evidence will long be appa.
rent Our forces carried the whole line of hills and
the enemys defence. Numerous wagon ways for
their retreatng batteries seen, but it is evident
they fell into our hands, for the paths end short
distances in the woods, and only few battery
paths seen on the rocky slope, over whose sur
face down into rayine and along the slope of the
hills behind the Yankee dead are still purifying in
the light of bright September sun.
Away far to the left of TIE opening, the graves Of
our men become numerous. Tennessee has he.
regiments marked on many, oh it makes the sor
row IN my heart for my glorious friends and COM
panions who are placed there. thousand YAM
kee dead, some buried, many still lying in their
bright blue uniforms, where our rebel bullets over
took them.
Going northward to the left of the roaG, way and
along the brow of the hill, where the tremendous
where the enemy's right was turned towards his
centre and through the deles and ravines the fight
ing must have been awful In one little dell at thu
head OF small ravine and directly opposite the old
house used by the Yankees as hospital, situated at
the upper end Of the opening, there are large mum.
Der OF our dead South Carolina here has represen.
tatlves from several of her noble regiments. A
number OF graves Of Aississippians are marked at
various points in this vicinity The place isAeasily
found by noticing the accurate points am giving.
on both sides Of the ravine evidences of the ter
rible conflict which ragged This was the front of
the enemys centre. Hundred Of dead Yankees at
test the close character of the combat and the in
vnclble efforts of our troops. Back of this point is
the highest hill, on which the Yankee centre was
intrenched on all sides. They had large plumber
Of guns in battery the brow of the hill and down
its slope they showered the storm of leaden and
iron hail which cut lanes through the woods as
though tornado had passed over it. Trees two
feet thick are cut off; limbs are hanging in all d.
rectlons; tons Of metal--balls bombs, grape and
slugs-are lying: thick over the whole wooded sur
face Thousands of balls have SCARED every tree.
shrub and bush; stones are torn into fragments.
over nearly mile in length in front Of the battery,
and all round it within range, every foot of the
ground has been torn and ploughed with shot and
she'll On the right hand northern slope of the hill
little farm was cleared and near the crest thick
peach orchard once stood; behind this is log house.
the house Of the propne TOR, MIR. Snodgrass: This
Snodgrass hill was the oper centre of the euemys
line. At the foot of the hill fronting toward the
Chattanoogs road there is a deep well, and to the
right OF this are three rows of breastworks made of
rails, logs and stones. The enemy used the house
as hospital Around it are the marks ofwar's'de
struction. Death, in his m ost horrible, ,nang,iug
and disiguring shape, was there on Sunday, and
wagon loads Of buried arm and legs and dead attest
the fury and carnage Of tt demon Of destruction
The hospital itself was UNI ouched; its flag was re-.
spected by our forces'on th. centre and right The
centre WAS charged several times. Finally, Breck-
inrdges troops assaulted acn oss the point where the
wall is seen, over the workA up the hill, through
the orehh I'd and amongst the rees to the top Of the
hull and here are the evidenc es Of their valor.-
Right where their noble and da perate courage car
ried them they have erected 8 monument It is
Of Kentucky's dead Over the spot the
roar OF . hundred caqDon deafeA ed the Senses
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