Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-04-07

battle of Oustee being in the vicinity OF the creek
and railroad station Of that mama. Oustee Is Semi.
mole name, aud signifies "Blaok Wat,r."
The area OF ground on which the battle was fought
is triangle the base Of which the enemys line OF
battle and as could judge Ia half mile long.
The apex Of the triangle, where they fled OF in the
road on their retreat, is II miles distant.
Approaching this area, fret quantities of gum
timber cut down by the enemys sho and shell; large
pine trees broken of the top, and often in the
middle whilst hoee star ding up scared and spin.
tered and sometimes perforated through, by small Gold
shot, the marks Of rife and musket balls being Thick on
the treep ranging the enemys ride, from five feet
10 forty from the ground.
Here YOU came upon the dead Confederate soldiers,
"their faces Heaven, their feet to tie foe." The
wounded have all beer carried of to field hospitals
during aud soon at the fight None Of our dead had
been robbed, but many had their imb8 Strengthened
aud their bodies arranged in decent positions BY con-
siderate Iassers by.
fact worth recording is that although the cannon
aiding was severe, did not one Of our men who
bad been Killed by cannon ball Most of the wounds
were in the breas and where this was the case, tue
fingers invariably clu ched in the bosom, tearing
open the clothes.
large majority Of our killed struck me as being tall
spsre, eighty built, and very young men.
Alb ut two hundred yards beyond these, came upon
the bloody ground occupied by the enemy for the grey
coats and blue coats were not mingled The scene was
horrible Heie literally piles Of dead and wounded.
counted in one group eight, in another ten, and In
another thirteen, white and black No kind hand had
arranged their mbs but they lay just in the attitudes
in which the vital spark had left them. Here one sat
erect AGAR st tree eyes staring and his legs and
arms sened cut before him. Here negro had orawled
into some brush to die; his back was bowed up like
hoop his face to the ground and he resting entirely
on the POINTS Of his extended fingers and tos. The
eyes of all wide open and the whites of those Of
" Culfee," well his teeth, displayed with
peculiar grmace
The wounded often made pillows of the dead, aud
in this way the piles, which generally considered
an exaggera ion, do occur.
witnessed sad sight, aud stopped my horse to
regard it in respectful silence. A man, himself Sc
verely wounded, was on his knees bending over the
face OF dead soldier, one around his neck and
the other across his breast the tears streaming down
his cheeks-the picture Of deep affection and intense
woe NJ one put any idle questions TO hun, and he
did not seem to be aware of the presence of any one
The dead Yankee horses presented pteous spec
tacle on one spot, where had capture ed bittery,
counted twelve and suppose there forty others
scattered about.
Our dead we're all decently inferred by twelve o'clock
NJ In single graves. Then began the work Of putting
in possession Of their free farms" some 450 of the
enemy's dead. Instead of the promised farms, how
ever, they received only Email aud raster crowded
tenements, with fifteen or tweny joint owners, white
and black-the former often occupying the ground
floor or tier.
| Such was the case with the redOubtsble Colonel
Frieb!e, of a regro regiment, in whose pocket
found letter from his wife, asking him to "confscate"
for her "a nice saddle when he reached Tallahassee"
Yes the black hearted Fhebls had dog burial
leader Of horde of Infatuated negroes, mission of
MURDER ROBBERY and rape ought he not 10 have been
left 10 rot the pain for the obscene BIRDS TO fatsn
on his vtas aud the gaunt wolves TO gnaw his boness
vsriety of trophies could be around our camp
fires the night of the battle many of them Yankee
tons in the shape of little conveDiences for the soldier
in camp or the march, put up in the smallest CON-
pass. Letters, diguerrCotypes, &o, Some Of the lat
ter tken from negro knsp.a cks OF aey dressed
white females showing that the Yankee theory Of
"misceg enaton" is in practice. There also fouGd
very many cato-ninetsils" such as were used in the
navy formerly.
The wounded negroes were all verJ humbls-the slaves
detected in the extreme. The Northern negroes, at
6rst Proke as to their equals but found it would
not CO. Said one of group to Confederate soldier
standing by, Il say, my friend Just les put my arm
around your neck, and raise upa little" Confed-
crate scdier-"Don't call me your friend, d-n you.
ri just as soon blow your brains out as not ard
wouldn't touch you with ten foot POLE"