, 1865-11-22

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board thirty inches high and ten inches wide,
Inscribed on the inside With name, regiment,
cnmnAnY. rink. and lsse Of death. At first
lie bodies werc buried 20 far apart that there
Is otteD more Than foot OF space between tho
edges Of the heal-boaris; but In the large
seciiou In the nottAeas. co.ner, where those
who died last winter and spring are buried,
In MANY cases Is scarcely two. The first re-
corded death wss February a7. 1854 the last
An,iI 81. l4;5-pfyfnrr an aycrape OF shout 92o
deaths per month {6r fourteen months, In
The months Of Aup1st nnd Seutcmber. 1854.
tbe ayerage Of deaths appears, however. to,
have hern nearlv five hundrnd 1,er, week: snd
there were maly instances when the num-
ber exceeded one hundred per day. - =
ruH CONFEDERATE soIp1Ees.
Tho +xoons IN dntv here we,e ~ have
c,rcsdv 5ng1cs,ed ~ the 1at' Sd. I'd and
ansac! ~ G!.,-nia ee1, rasa1,as Thev nrcnn,ed a
az an stisss,.e .essi .,.a. fta t,o,ln, and
tSe s.on % ~ ~? snu Ttha So,r;ta1 ~ 49,
a3o'AeI eoneGtQa VT .. o sae sa nosps4as soa,e
ade-Say one hundred IN tne aSglesate, some
OF when are nov vacant, While DINERS e !, are
occupied Ry the uegToes. Eor me use Of tasI
slck tWo comlorlaole pnllangs were etecteo
rear INC faaHoaa+ sesenty-HFe 1oas itoni tas
depot-edch tWo stores in neignt anu twenty
BY one hundred feet In size.' They are now
TIE sroHRuousEs.
There were but two of these. They are
c1oso h., tha dcnat are ~ pithe- af3e fe rr;I.
road track. Tia bnartcrmas.srs' W building Ii Il
tbirtx hv one hurt9sed and fiye feet in s,za md
eight feet hich in the eaycs the Commissary
blildtng Is Of the same height, and forty-hre
by two hundred and sixty feet Ia size. Il can
verr readily he see seen tfat the rebels were
utterly unable to keep q weeks full rations
m Eo1d eren 1siert. fbe stockndr contained
~ NJ wore thon t1rcnty thonsand nrisnners:
Th.sa ~ 49, h,,,a;r,s nnw cn,ioin tha fcn5@hf
nn" lnSso "u ahaai5a,ae," n eh"n oroo,,e,v 3he
s,'n1,1ies Tor * ~ ,,orl
- ahn ssastsrx an9 II I3kc't,4. I 5aTnisb fcns
n' u ~ EaT.,+s * -ar;s,,s -,a-sera
po'a'' AoAA'' ''' ann"ones s''
taH foh9s.
OF these there are nine. The largest Is st
the southwest corner Of the stockale. II
mounted twelre guns, hnd three magazines,
and enclosed the, house aud yard Of the
widow Turner at the southeast eofnes -
double fort-or, perhaps snoasd say Two
single forts, one fronting soh'h ana Ine otnes
fronting cast. and enel mounting three guns
Midway on the eastern side. not far from tho
wall, Is small fort mounting three guns;
md far out In front Of that, on the hill the
beginning ol largcr one, which never was
flushed. though two guns were mounted
there. Al the northeast corner Is q fort Of
Aye euns, and another Of the sane size Is It st
Is smaller one of three guns. On the wcs-
tern side is long line OF riae8 pits, and d
square fort Of fve guns. Here then were
forty y-one guns, SO mounted that nearly every
acre al The stockgda coufu be swept with
prA,e and cauister. The forts rematn with
walls and ditches and rIatform and marazfnes
intact. but The cauuon f1ayc been rcnoycd by
the military authorities.
HEADQUARTERS.
The Headquarters Of Capt Wlrz were at
first In tho ho1se already mentioned as near
the railroad above the yillnee, They were
afterwards in the log house Of the widow
Turner, enclosed In the large fort. It has two
rooms aud Is now a gaping skeleton. Finally
they were in a large frame building erected
for that purpose, over In the yiilaEo not far
from The church. 4 piaxza has feceatly been
added to 1t, and it il now occupied by q white
family.
THE WATER PRIVILEGES.
In the northern part Of the slope On which
the Yillaca is batlt, are springs whose outflow
fonna q little stream runninr or to The south
east, dust sonth OF the YIl1age arc other
springs. which u1nkr a Nlt}c atream
two form iunctfon in the marsh
iust west of the bake-house. and thsnce
dow eastw ardly thtouch The stockul-giy-
Iny a sluggish stream With an ayeragc acpth
OF ten OF twelve inches. and a Width OF four
I or five feet. II appears much 1arrer in the
stoekaf1e. bfcause the martial flarnn1ior of II
by the eastern va1I- piyea II A sort nj hack
now. If add TINT ttye thnusani men wonji
have fnnn ii Rtantf1v sntiIricnf for fhr'r ,1srs
the condition Of fhfrtv thonsard mrn co,n,
nej1ed 10 find Il sufficient wi1i he yert readIv
apnarent,
WHAT a1our 1AvE BEEN. =