Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-11-26

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ted midnight. HE lips had the appear,
ancc of an over boiled apple dumpling
and from the shape of his feet lie SEEM
ed to DO equally adapted to walking
to the rear and front His raiment was
black cashmere and from black
SLOUGH bat foa:ed strcamer of black
Grape. He was mounted on a blaze
faced, glnss-eyed bay, that at every
advance ratified as it he had been made
of tin and filled with grape shot.
Ny companion was New Yorker
and,
Through all the fury of the fry,
He wore the blue and the gray, 49,
II was a strange scene TO witness the
soldiers of armies lately opposed to
each other riding ont together as friends
to view the field where the fight was
thickest and lasted longest. Yankee
aud Confederate were mounted, and
how new Wiley !--straight to de Crater
sab Where's the road Wiley? Right
out the JUICE um Plank Road sab
The what
The JUICE lum Plank Road sab
The Jerusalem road
Yes sab dat's ii
You black rascal, why can't you say
Jerusalem Z
do sab. scs Ju-ce.lum !
We we're off here at rapid pace, and
soon gained Cemetary Hill. Hero is
Blanford Church, built in 1913 of
brick imported from England. The ivy
has scaled its walls and clambered over
he roof until that upon the west bows
ing before the breeze kisses that upon
the east. Here in this ivy clad mauso-
leum sleep the soldier of 1912 aud 1864.
Far down to the left. within and without
the walls, lies the warriors last camp,
known and unknown. Little white
boards, instead of srowy tents, mark
his final camping ground.
The flowers and the leaves have gone
to greet the warrior in the spirit land
but
"when Spring with dewy fingers cold,
Returns TO deck their hallowed mould,
She then shall dress sweeter sod
Than fancy't feet have ever trod."
A sh ort ride brings Us to the crater,
not more than a mile and half from
the city. A huge rile of ruined earth
works loom up here and there, with a
deep, broken and uneven surface, as if
a young volcano had suddenly burst up
aud died away. Old canteens and. car
fridge boxes, tin cans and pieces OF
wood that have fallen from slell when
fired, are about all that ramain of the
Crater. Upon one of the slopes Is
miserable hut where mean whiskey, old
musket balls, shot and shell, broken
swords and scabbards, shattered guns
and twisted bayonets, clay pipes and
ruined army badges are retailed to those
who are fools enough to buy. Its keep
srs are the Griffith brothers, sons of the
owner of the land. There stands one
of them now looking like a seedy "tai
beep' who had been swallowed up in the
great explosion, while leisurely chapin
rosun,. and has after five years resi-
dence in his subteranean home reached
the surface and like Rip Van Wrinkle
stops to behold the change that has conn
over the country. He advances to NEE
us, is very attentive, paints a glowing
n;c,ure to a man who has never seeI
war: here he says was the army ant
there the picket lines, only 400 fee
apart. That hole there fifteen fee
deep, is where the tunnel has fallen in
that stake on the brow Of the hill |
where the Federal picket line ran, am
just beyond is where the mine was com
menced. 1t was the 4Sth Pennsylva'
MIA that dug the niue TLey com
mepced it on the 25th of June, 1864
ard on the 18th of July the main gal
lery was completed, being 5lO.S feet
Two lateral galleries were sent out
the right aud the left SO feet. Th
charge consisted Of 800 kegs of powie
5000 pounds in all aud was ex2lod
ed at day-break on the Both oil July
The size Of the Crater formed by th
explosion was 200 feet long, 80 wild
aud 20 feet deep. The garrison consis
ted Of four guns and about forty men
one>half of whom were killed, most {
them being buried alive, One piec
of artillery was blown high in the al
and fell half way between the contend
.i'iug armies. picked up few ball
and from the heart of the Crater drag
gcd out hat pierced through with
musket bali, aud which had been bu
ried for Eve years.
Trophy CATERERS have carried ava
all the yisable shot and shell and 20
must search where the rains have wasl
. cd the earth away to become the po
sesor Of some messenger of DEATH
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