Evening star., 1865-10-19

THE ANpERsoNvILLE DRAD-Report of Cap
tain koore.-Captain j. M. Moore, who visited
Andersonville. Ga, for the purpose of marking
the graves of Union soldiers for future identi-
ncatlon, and enclosing the cemetery, has made
IN interesting report To the Quartermaster
General. The report states that on the MORN
ing Of the 26th of July the work of identifying
the graves, painting and lettering Of head
boards, laying out walks and enclosing the
cemetery was commenced, and on the evening
OF August l6 was completed, with the exeep-
tons hereinafter mentioned. The dead We're
lound buried IN trenches. on n site selected by
the rebels, about three hundred yards from the
stockade. The trenches varied in length from
hfty to one hundred and fifty yards. The
bodies in the trenches Were from two TO three
feet below the surface and in several in stances,
where the rains had washed away the earth
but a few inches. Additional earth was. how
ever, thrown on the graves, making them of a
still greater depth. So close were they buried
without collins or the ordinary clothing to
cover their nakedness that not more than
twelve inches were allowed to each man; in
deed, the little tablets marking their resting
places measuring hardly ten inches in width
almost touched each other.
United States soldiers, while prisoners at
Anderson Vile, had been detailed to inter their
companions, and, by simple stake at the head
OF each grave, which bore q number cores
PondIng with similar numbered name upon
the Andersonyille hospital record the captain
was enabled TO identify and mark with a neat
tablet, similar TO those in the cemeteries at
Washington, the number, name, rank, regi-
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thousand four hundred and sixty-one graves
there being but four hundred and fifty .one that
pore the inscription, Unknown L. s. soldiers
One hundred and twenty thousand feet of pine
iumoer was used IN these tablets alone. force
OF men Is now engaged in laying out walks
clearing the cemetery of stumps and stones.
preparatory TO planting trees and flowers At
tne entrance gate, the words s.National Gene
terry, Andersonville, Ga" designate the city of
the dead.
DoUNTIEs To CoLnRrn Snr nIsns.-Decision
g the Attorney GeHerdl.-J. NJ. Broadhead
second Comptroller of the Treasury has ad-
dressed 10 the Paymaster General a communi
canon embracing the very important decision
OF the Attorney General that colored soldiers
entering the military service are, in all cases
TO be treated as freemen at the date of their ac
ceptance into the service, and that there is
npon the statute books no law either forbid
ding their employment in the army, or with
the exception Of the brief period OF nineteen
days intervening between the passage Of tho
act OF June Is and that of July 4, 1s64) Great
ing, on account OF color, any distinction in the
pay, allowance, or bounty to which soldiers
Mere entitled The Paymaster General is
.nereiore requested 10 direct payments of
bounty hereafter to colored soldiers where eyer.
ano, except from the 18th OF June to the 3th of
July, le64, whenever enlisted during the re-
DeIllon, tne bounty provided for volunteers by
laws exlsung at the time of such enlistment
from the most reliable information il is ne
heved That few II any colored volunteers en-
listed during the interval of nine teen days
above alluded to.
- A great meeting Of Fenians was held hast
night IN the Philadelphia Academy of Music
and was addressed by Geo. Francis Train
- Hon. Montgomery Blair last night de-
nvered speech at the Cooper Institute, New
4 ork, IN opposition TO negro suffrage
wendell Phillips delivered one Of his
dyspeptic speeches in Boston Tuesday night
denouncing President johnson as being three
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