New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-13
THROUGH THE SOUTH.
coyFEpERArE BURIAL GROUNDS.

with any care. However, the remains OF thoS0 Uo-
longing to wealthy families are deposiVeu III 'nO
cemeteries of the country. and In some cases III IAN
iy vaults The inteunonts made on tiie oS''e "1iu
after the battle was over, remain unuisluIOeu' "
near camns and towns retired spots OF ground were
seected but DO kind of care is taken either 70 pro-
vide Enclosures or other head-stones than "eIe
erected at the time The people say they are poor
ond cannot do better. ] will state what saw near
a nice and noted town where the principal men uu
all in their power to bring on and support inc hou0
lio. On a pleasant shaded bill oVerlooAing INC
town a lot has been given 10 inc 0oioiou
peoue for church purposes ana inc ViniOoI was
living ready 70 be framed immediately ADJOINING 10
a Confederate burying ground uhIenceui ouV sumo
careful hand had placed wooden heau- W e"On
yrave with the nanle date and regiment part OF
,biob can now, be read. The graves could not have
l,aan dno more than 10 inches deep, and instead OF
a ooeip only board was placed over the body.
sav tins not because dug away the dirt but because
so little dirt was thrown in that could see It, In one
grave the board had turned uppartly edge at the
head was depression. and at the foot the tiDia was
visible along with the ankle-joint sat down on Cne
6mbers of the negro church to THINK TOT had never
seen anything like this, and wondered why IL was
that Rebels and their friends. and the Democratic
newspapers, only a short time before had com
plaiped so bitterly that they were not permitted
To enter q principal National cemetery on me-
mortal day. and strew flowers on the few Con-
federate graves there While l was thinking,
] saw human tooth lying on the short white
clover sod IL was white. thin, and hight as if had
been long exposed to the rain and sun, and looking
around saw another and another, and finally many
more. This led me to search the spot. and found
fiat thin aud slightly curved pieces OF bone
which were the ribs, and also many as half dozen
pieces of a human spine. 1t was evident that
Il of q alyalaf
around on that grassy hill. j looked carefully for
the skull but could not find it, and it must have
slipped from their grasp and rolled down into the
wagon road, or 1t had been totally destroyed in an
other way. And yet, as as is described of one
living under the droppings of the sanctuary, stood
the grand mansion of of the leaders of the Con-
federacy and he and his folks and all his friends
could have known-I do not see how they could have
failed to know-these things. In my notebook l
have the name of the soldier his age the date of his
death. hisState regiment, and company, but fathcr
or a mother, or at least some friend mOurns, and 1
forbear, for have son of my own. .
am led to conclude that the Rebel leaders had
little respect for the common soldiers and that after
they were dead and could longer be of any service
they gave them no further thought or care. Be-
tween Branchvile and Charleston, S. c., had long
talk with plain cOmmOn-sense planter, who had
small place of 500 acres, six slaves, and store and
described
house, while he lay concealed in q swamp. They
burnt his store. and one officer told his wife that
they were going to burn the house, but if she would
give him so in gold, lac would save it. Not having
it to give he told her to take out her things and they
would burn 1T; and while she was doing so, another
officer came up and told her to take in her things
her house would be burned. She told him how
it was and he got off his horse and went into the
house, and kicked the first officer all the way into
the road. The planter the army commence
marching early in the morning and they marched all
that day and until late at night, and then they
narcned till toward evening the next day and they
found all his horses and mules, and carried off all
his slaves and did not leave them mOuthful to cat.
He never felt so bitter toward anybody as he did
toward the North when he saw everything gOne but
now that it Is all over, and that he has got agOlng
again, he said he was glad of it; it ought to have
come before, for as things were neither he nor his
family could be anything unless they owned two OF
three hundred slaves. Sir" said he. these rich
planters would hardly speak to me. Yes, Sir, they
treated me like dog. and now only salvation is
to have Northern men come down and settle among
US"
II is to be added that respect for the Confederate
dead, among the common people, is by no means
remarkable The truth is they are, as general thing
80 poor that they have idea what it is for people
TO be rich. When undertake TO separate barbar-
they neglect and disregard their dead because the
living require so much of their thought and care
Another great reason why the Confederate dead are
80 neglected is because the people have lost
their government, and they are like orphans. 1t
seems to me that the United States Government
should have given the Confederates decent burial
within selected Enclosures and had them cared for
the same as father who pities undutiful son is
willing to do moro for him than he deserves. No
matter how refined and civilized people may be-
they will soon sink into barbarism if deprived of a
government; because government performs many
noble and benefcent acts such the people by them
selves never will undertake Had our Government
given the burial suggest it seems to me that les
son in humanity would have been taught-and
which is 50 important to teach-and that a tender
cord would have been touched. 1t is not too late
even now. r........
WASHINGTON.
Amsng the attractions of the Capital is the Gov
eminent garden, under the charge of William Saun-
ders and his management of pear trees is worthy Of
note. 1t is simply to plant on good ground, give
fair and clean culture, and let them grow Pinchng
pruning, and all those scientific and complicated
directions derived from the French and adopted by
our Orchardlsts he considers than useless for
he attributes blight and other diseases 10 this treat
ment Whether right or wrong. he has an argument
in his favor which ought to wegh-the trees grow as
''uncOn6ned Morals tresses !" blight is unknown,
and all varieties are loaded with fruit. It may be
said that his plan suits such latitude and soil as
Washington; if So let it DO adopted there and let
pears be grown for the supply of the country. The
fine varieties of grapes also grown here without
any disease, by placing two boards, like a roof,
along the top of the trellis / was sur
prised TO see the China tea-plant growing