Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-11-10
Z he BSItIe-FIeId OF ChIcka-
manga.

One of the editors of the Atlanta (Ga.)
hteltigencer who visited the field Of Chick
amauga ten days after the battle, writes to
his paper an interesting account of his Oh
servGtlons, frJm which we take the follow
ing extracts:
We leave the Chattanooga road and
turn to the right. We ride along the
avenue, and 90 every eide, thickly strewn,
are the marks of the sharpshnoter's skill.
and the terrible effect of she'll aud Crane
from the masked battery. The loss was
alone, however. with us, but ths foe
also mot his fate. He has left the dread
iul evidence If many dead bodies. In the
woods near the upper end of tits opening
we saw one Of the blue habited dead, sit
Ting with his back against log, bis arms
on bis knees. and his fingers dOvetailed to-
gether. Apparently be had sat down de-
iiherately to die. Close by. another man
bad crawIed upon log. and placing his
back against bush. and resting bis heed
on his hand, the elbow bent, the BODY in a
reclining position, he had pulled bic can
( over his eyes aud given up his spirit fror1
the battlefield. At the back part Of the
he'd, sweeping eastward and south of
east, was large and destructive battery.
! HE worn places where each gun was
! placed Indicate that ten or more guns
/ were in battery there. The dead horses
/ sni Yankees lying about tell how vengeful
/ ihe assault Was AID how succesSfl. But
/ tom the hiii whore This battery cast its
SioFGi ana =alT al sh"f. Lni 1htli, and car
! irter aud g'aVe. the evidences IF a terrible
/ ire are more apparert here than any where
! else 20 Ihe fs!i. Tie wo.ds sIe very
I thick ia tre"- sild bushes. erd the !itrls.
! tFuiKS, ard hTdnche- as they lie cut of
/ aud t"tn IN oil directions. made an ata!tis
| thr ugh which cur frees rushed ard
| charged to silence the load ihroare,i vvices
/ OF those death dealing engines. We PASS
! through the rath If the artillery storm
! and here AID there the erayee of our SOL
/ dIers- On The s-csrd hill with trees and
! limbs lying thick ab Ut. evidences Of the
/ The terrible pass'' Of man. the graves of
I mary brave Texans, the TwPniy-fourth
AID otSers, rest calmly, marked by the
careful bar Gs Of frenis; back Il these
/ are number &c Georgiaus. T. eaca we
! turn to the lett ard follow the Savannah
/ road. At intervals the opeE w,rds sh,w
signs Of the cni flict beng more severe
then In the thicsly wooded .p,rs. /, Is
along here, we are told. g H1 d AID hi,
/ made such a terrible onset ami s'aa5i,te-.
lhey AHd that portion # rur army which
aivanced from the Red ii use, and Il 70
tie road to the right uf the saw mil. dra
execution hich IL perfectly issr:oi. TIE
cArhHge vas uful-evrry syerue tae
t'een eit as by broad bosom r. dfs
'rncuon IN t5e hards Of Hecste. Battery
pafh' ere InumeTahlc. Here they fought
they demonstrating dead horses
inen, hr"s caSsIlHs. piles of ammunition
rent 81 ,hes an destruction pepsrel,v-
On ore poi"i, on the rise Of the hill vi
saw the body 1T an iumen.e NsUfsurd
land deg IL evidently va. the ret Of
( some h3tterv. I'D was shot while follow.
ing u up. Cic-e IS lin Wv counted thirt,
! eight d'ad Yankee. yearly thirty dead
nnrscs- 50" Ia r. Than tan Df shell, sho:
and canister, snd al the tr-k4n end ahsn
dnuen psrslhernhha Of strong battery
AL within the space Of eighty feet square ,