The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-08-26
ANDERSONVILLE.
Captain Moore's Expedition
RURAL OF THE DEAD.
Description of the Ceremony.

n ssurn Of Captain Morris Faf'y-ne
NOR, of the Work PerfSrIned-S,OOO
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rRv Union Line cor Monroe and ater Sts'I
NV YORK, August 25-The Tribune's
Onecial saws Capt Jas NJ Moore, Assis-
tant Onartermaster who left here on the
stb Of july for Andersonville, Ga for
the purpose of giving decent burial 10
the remains of our murdered heroes, re-
turned to this city this morning, having
successfully accomplished the object OF
his visit The Captain reports that ne
arrived at Andersonville on the 2oth
ult.. after having experienced consldera'
BILE difficulty in procuring Transportation m
for himself and his party OF mechanics
and clerks. The work of painting ana
Watering the headboards for the graves
occupied nearly the whole time OF Inc
narty,s STAY. There were 300 neat head
boards set up. all appropriately lettered'
GIVING the names and. as far as known
Iha Regiment and company OF the lie
caosed The Captain found the graves
early all marked with neatly-palnt-
al stake, numbered the numbers
| ON the stake corresponding with a record
kept in the hospital ot the prison, CIV
inc the names.
The cemetry is 500 acres III extent and
nearly 300 wards from the stOckade. The
dead were all buried in trenches, i'll many
cases over 100 in trench Mounds We're
created over each body, thus forming
graves. A neat white fence has been
erected around the cemetery, and the
place made to look As inviting rs posi-
BILE Pleasant walks are heing laid ont.
which are to be shaded by trees.
Capt NJ. says the country for miles
around AudersOnvillo is almost devoid of
verdure of all kinds, except rank weeds,
stunted pines aud live oaks The climate
he considers extremely unhealthy. The
heat isintense during the day, the heavy
dews falling at night penetrating the
tents of the party and saturating their
blankets.
Just before the party left dag staff
was planted and the American colors
were thrown to the breeze
A trustworthy Superintendent has
been appointed to take charge of the
cemetery and perfect the ideas of Capt
NJ. in the laying of this modern Golgotha
and the surrounding grounds. A suffi-
cient guard has been placed over the
grounds by Gen. Gibbon, commanding
the military ferces in this region, and
every care is to be taken that the remains
of our braves shall rest undisturbed.
There were within the enclosure of the
stockade sheds about fifty yards in
length and eighteen feet in width
There were two sides to these so-called
tenements, but they were merely upright
poles supporting the roof The stock
ade, with all the buildings, areto remalu
standing until they fall by decay, fit
monuments of sthe heinous crimes com
mitted within their limits.
Miss Clara Barton, the philanthroplst
who accompanied the expedition for the
purpose of collecting evidence of the
whereabouts of missing men, returned
with Capt Moore's party,
One of the party, clerk, died from ty-
phoid fever, aud was buried IN the cem-
etery.
There were abaut five hundred buried
by the rebels, of whom no record was
kept, aud consequently their remains
could not be identified. The remains OF
only one body were found unburied, the
rest having been inferred in the trenches.