, 1866-04-11
SHILOH.
Tho Ho.ro.r Of the Ratt

The Horrors OF the Battle Field.
Roger A. Pryor, Of the Memphis Argus. has
taken Hde over The field Of Shiloh, and con-
tributes many inter- sting anl soms horrible
facts to thAs journal. He says:
The whole tsce a the county, between Co1inth
snd Ift'sbnrg Landing. Is scs,red. scratched ana
wounded ui'h almost indeI.ble traces or ru'htese
war. unes OF earthwusks and en'reOehmsn.s
neloss ali the ''thoutnud aud one foids; lone
chiinnfys, bu,nt and hatlened tree. ann heaps Of
Enbbisb, where once stond snt Ing homesteads;
whole iofcsts p.a!ed or thafked and deslenen BY
io1.ahle With hark beds; DWELLING. stcEe and out.
spa decay; teld., isace,ess and untepded: sIe mp
idly growing wild arnln-lheac ere conc Of the ey-
Ofthe borrors Of the field he wrltes:
The war dnnng its progress, presented many hor-
wbrre hundreds Of confedera,e dead hsd been
rooted out Of lhei. shallow coveylugs-1 cannot cal
th q c1ayrt-'hear 1ceh enten BY tho hogs and
uron IN every otreHton. It t1snscends anJthinE
recorded tn civilized hIstorT It almost tEanseens
bclie'; vas ,old ~ .oms Of The people residing
hunan carbon, that the pork became 20 offensive
1t could not be eaten: and to this day, come Of the
ladies informed NC they dare not tonch fpy hogs
1ost ,hey aould Be- guilty of eannioalism to do col
In one place, aoout 800 yards sonth Of the churca.
on the Rhta place. fAW where lNge number
($UppOSeU ID DE 4Us a. lC0skl Ql S01leutlal18 Aau
been tlinhl.d into gnly and covered up With .
thin lsycr Of dit. The washing rains and The
hoer, together, have c1po:ed the bones here most
10 tieees. eyIdt trfly since they were unearthed.
All the other scattered er1ve* Of the Coufederates,
where they wcTe coyetrd up BY ones, t@os, tnEee.,
and SO On up TO dozens. In Il piace. over the
whole field arc In The same ml-etable CON
dillon In hut one place did see Con-
fcderale grave that had not been rooted
up by the hocs- Tint YES On the extreme let,
Hbcre, ar Mr. HarRrosts inform. d me, there are
btar three hundred OF each side buried In parallel
trenches. Generally. the Federal dead, As At
Cor1nih, were buried at the pn per depth and gen-
e1ally With head and footboards, 1uscIined with the
nsmes, companies regiments, &C. Aany Of these
tcad md foot boafdl however, have been DESTROYED
or deiaccu BY tie annual Aces which burn oil the
Federal burial trench where ioe hogs had 9ptutned
tnr boncs, md that was bnt slightly. They aEe
generally buried too deep for that, and IN some
plau + CIR Eravrs are e1cloeed with fences made
Il oCe or rn1fe.
Al The con!edefate gritty r1oe and at a1l the Con-
federale etaves-or, rather. plac-s where the Cou-
Ieder1tc dead were slightly covered up on the
ground ~hese they fell-kkn1}s, thigh, h1p and lek
bones, Tbe. vertebE etc, etc, lie cred around
in Ill directions. In o1c place, saw wheia two
C0nfederaset had BEEN covered up II the middle Of
the road; ID another, where one had been p,rehed
into teep rut, o. hDle, tnade by wagon wheels At
the rcadslde, and 70 covered: In sill smother. l
saw where two Couiede1aee htd been placed between
Fill other places they were thrown BY The ride oil
log. las nj Coriutb) and only halr covered up. In
at ztse pieces. ihe bones were morn or les *