Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-06-30
SECOND EDITION,
- 4O'CLOeK Pm ia
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
WAsHINaToS, June 30, 1865.
lay Cooke & Co. furnish the following quo
lone of Government Sacur;ties.
THE WILDERNESS CEMETERIES.

On the corner OF and 2lst streets is the office
of Capt. Moore, A. G. M, who, in addition to
his regular duties as depot quartermaster, has
charge Of the burial of soldiers who die about
Washington.
The Star has already noticed the burial of
our dead on the Wilderness battle field. and
given list of the officers whose remains We're
recognized, but the length of the arguments in
the conspiracy trial so filled our columns rs to
exclude details Of this commendable work.
On the sth of June, in compliance with orders
from the War Department, Captain Moore,
with his clerks burial party, and an escort of
$50 men from Hancock's corps, under Colonel
Bird, went down to the Wilderness battle field
via the Potomac, Belle Plain, Fredericksburg.
and Charlottesville. The party bivOuacked
the first night on Marye's flights, back of Fred
ercksburg, the field of Sedgewick's gallant
fight i'll May 1868. Very little remained here
to indicate the fierceness of that battle. The
dead had all been buried, the Announcements
and arms carried off or hidden by the grass and
earth, and the bullet marks on the trees nearly
obliterated by the rapidly growing bark. At
ChancellOrsville the indications of the fight
We're more perceptible. The Charlottesville
mansion was marked by heap OF ruins, the
zig-zag rifie-pts and breastworks of fallen
trees, and here and there few bones bleached
in the summer sun.
A short distance beyond this field the party
menced their labors. The first cemetery was
laid out on the old Orange Cour: House turn
pike about two miles from the old Wilderness
tavern, on the plank road from ChancellOrs-
vile to Germania Ford, and four miles west of
the junction of this turnpike with the Orange
Court House plank road. The cemetery is ~
feet by 10, and is enclosed by a neat paling
fence painted white. In it are % graves, con-
tanning the graves of 1s0men. Above the graves
are headboards marked Unknown y. S. SOL
diers, killed May, 1861" This spot is on the
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battle, and where Warren's corps made its
grand charge on the enemy. Many of our
dead were found lying Immediately in front OF
and within the rebel abattis. The Confederate
dead on this portion of the line had all been
buried.
The next cemetery was located on the Orange
Court House plank road, az miles from its
junction with the turnpike. is IS by % feet, and
is enclosed similarly to No. 1. The remains of
five hundred and thirty five men are buried
here. and headboards erected as in the other
cemetery. This is on the left of the line of the
Wilderness battle, and the field where Long
streets corps was SO slgnaliy repuised IN Its
charge upon Hancock The rebel dead Were
reetons. Two hundred lay within the space
of q few rods.
At Spotsylyania Court House the dead had
all been previously inferred, rendering ii I'M
necessary to establish another cemetery. Search
was made, however, over the field and Il large
number OF graves found, where the names
placed there by the comrades of the killed were
still legible. Over thousand of this class
were found, and in each case a substantial new
headboard was erected. The labors OF Capt
Moore's party extended over twenty miles of
territory, and Were three weeks in their com
pletion. The rebel dead as we'll our own
were Inferred wherever found unbmied, but
without record.
But few relics arctic be found on the battle
fields. The arms have all been carried off by
the parties sent out by the two armies for that
purpose and the inhabitants, and short time
will suffice to almost entirely oblterate the
marks OF these great battles The inhabitants
were all peaceably disposed. frankly acknowl-
edged their defeat, and expressed great desire
to return TO their former relations Hhttn ta
81 them are supplied by the y. S. Commissary
Department at Fredericksburg, but ha wing put
in small crops Will soon be able to support
themsely