The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-26
Our Dead at AndersonYiIle.
A Dishonest Paymastsr.
ReoonstruetIon id Georgia.
The Wirz Trial Continued.
Interesting from San Fran
cisco.
LRuriaI OF our murdered soldiers Al
AndersonytlIe---7Report or Captain


Observation-Disclosures or Captain
Moore. r.
New YORK, August 25.-The Trib-
une's special says
Captain James NJ, Moore. the Assist
ant Quartermaster who left here on the
sth OF July for Andersonville, Georgia,
Tor the purpose of giving decent burial
70 the remains of our murdered heroes,
returned to this city this morning, yhav-
ing successfully accomplished the OBJ
ject of his visit.
The Captain reports that he arrived
at Andersonyille on the 25th ult,, nfter
having experienced considerable ditfi-
Guilty IN procuring tfansp ortatien for
himself and his party of mechanic and
clerks.
The work of painting and lettering
the headboards for the Ernyes was inn
medtateiy commenced, and finished,
occupying nearly the whole time of the
party's stay. Therewere thirteen thou
sand neat headboards set up, all approa
priately 1ettered, giving the names and,
as tnr as known, the regiment and COM
panY of the deceased. The Captain
found the graves nearly all marked,
With neatly painted stake numbered,
the numbers on the stakes corresponds
ing within record kept in the hospital
of the prison, giving the names. The
cemetery is fifty acres i'm extent and
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stockade. The dead were all buried in
trenches; in many cases over ono hum
dred in n TRENCH
NIoundswere created over each BODY,
thus forming graves. a neat Willie
fence has been erected around the cen-
etery, and the place made to look as in
wiling MS possible. Pleasant walks are
being laid out, which arc to be shaded
by trees. Capt. NJ. says the country
for miles around Andersonyille is nj
most devoid of verdure of all kinds.
except rank weeds, stunted pines and
live oaks. The climate he considers
extremely unhealthy, the heat being
intense during the day, while the heavy
dews that fall Mt night penetrated the
tents ofithe party, and saturated their
Blankets
Just before the party loft, Flagstaff
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 out of this modern
Golgothn and:thc surrounding grounds
"A sufficient guard has been placed over
the grounds by Gen. Gibhon, COM
mhnding the military forces in the re-
giOn, 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 wards in
length and eighteen feet in width.
There were two sides to these so-called
tenemcrts, bat tllcS- -rtyre IisorelJ- "a p
right poles supporting the roof The
Stocknde, wlth-Hll the buildings, are to
remain standing until they fail by de-
OaY-ilt monuments for tho heineous
crimes committed within their limits.
Miss Clara Barton, the philanthro-
pist, who accompanied the expedition
for the purpose of collecting evidence
of the Whereabouts ofour missing men,
One of the paTt7 &c n elerk died pf fr6 ~;
typhoid fever, and was buried in the
cemetery. There were about 500 buried
by the rebels of whom record was kept,
and consequently their remains could
not be identified. The remains of only
one body was found unburied, the rest
having been inferred in the trenches.