The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-25
How tho Yankee sPecula .tes in tho Bones
OF tho Dead-Mrs. Pott1ers sooce Mona
mont-What it Cost.

mont-wh.t is Cost,
Tho following des oription OF the Nations,
Cemetery at Beaufort, 8. O., is written by
James R. Randall, ESQ.,, the editor of the Au.
gust Constituti1nalist, who has just returned
from . summer excursion to Port Royal leland:
80 much sor necessary digression. Let us
return TO our stage, COACH which has ell the
roads that lead into Beaufort: within lew, few
miles OF the town, Mr. Sellers team grew
rather legweary and the landscape did not, by
any means, Fly by" as the romancers say. As
against Beaufort, the mules halted. The sun
WAS dipping westward and below us lay the
hamlet. still brave. in spite Of the war, r,hoof,
with stately buildings And seuftropiosl foliage.
attracted by an immense enclosure. That. y
said our guide, is i"tpe. National Cemetery.
There's many. a chap buried there
nearer and looked over twenty acres of deaths
harvesting. The gr>und everywhere was lite.
rally white with snow-storm Of tombstones.
end the keepct's lodge; our guide yoIun-
teered some curious and sepulohral inforrna-
tion. Said he: 81 tell you, gents, there is
many boy In blue there, and then again,
ought to grin in their oofans for being there"
"How so.", We asked. "Why," he replied.
.'the buryi1g was done by contract, and
feST sSs G hssS Sz hsn
the Yanks hadn't declared dividends ,on Ia,
good many grey Jackets, Tor Instance but
she ssTd pfS shsss They dug
WAS made 10 pay fve Eandred per cent. Il
was q cute thing-you bet; and should not
wonder II some bumnaer's skull was at that
DO 4n in, yonder corner" oi oourse, We we're
but more awful revelations we're behind. Our
driver continued. "They did worse than that.
graveyard, and. swear, sirs, to my certain
knowledge, those picannnies are buried yon-
der as unknown boys In blue. reckon they
are among the infantry ~ Weasked this sbso-
lutte man whose monument it was that rose
above the common graves around, He knew
all about 1t, and thus ejaculated: 'Oh, thstss
Mrs. Potters memorial monument. know all
IN the Norh to bBnd Bnt s sSs s
cost $500. Some people call the cemetery Pot
ter's Field; but such fellows. you know, are IN.
reconstructed." As he concluded. the whip
they began to trudge on lasily. IAttlAst, we
moved through the melancholy outlying boun-
daries and entered. p,l.|i . q.
or this Same monument in Potter's; Field
correspondent ofthe Ne. YorksTHbune writes
as follows: zlsJl Il ,si !,
Having recently visited the National Gene
terry at Beaufort, South CarelinS, wfsh in this
season OF remembering the graves OF our SOL
diers. to tell the friends OF those. who died in
and around Charleston, Fort Wagner and
other places near, that their bodies have been
removed to the cemetery OF Beaufort, and O.
monument of Northern granite, to their honor
and memory, has been erected through the in
strumeDtality OF Mrs. L. Z. Potter, OF Charles
ton, bearing this inscription
,.1n1oarALITY
s.sr sHH Hanah'eds h''de g ssfle Defender. egla..r z
s,,. American Liberty .
-----'------ '------- Against the Great
i. f>Rebellion.'t. 81 n y u-
There is also in this cemetery a marble
tablet, on which are inscribed names from
nearly every State lini the Union, but largely
from Massachusetts, where the monument
was made, OF soldiers whom Mrs. Potter and
her husband had personally served. They de-
voted their time and means in most heroic
manner. otter hazarding their lives to servo
the suhfering.' She promised them that alter
the war was over she would erect fitting
monument to their memory; but the war con-
tinued 40 long, her means were greatly ex-
hausted, ,2and she received $500 nom the Rev.
II. w. Beecher's church to aid her IN the work,
which was accomplished under difficulties
The monument was intended for Charleston,
but government requested that it should be
placed in the National Cemetery at Beaufort.