The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-29
WARS BURIAL GROUND.
The Field of F0rbach after the Ffght-How tin
Dead were Buried.

The Field of Fcrbach after the Fight-How the
Another correspondent of the London Times,
writing from Saarbruck under date of August
8, says:-
"When the troops had fairly left the place fol-
lowed them TO the hills and watched them joined by
as, In an gn6roken line the main body made its
way towards Forbach. Parties OF cavalry kept the
heights the left and patroled the forest on the
right; the RrdRkentraJer went across the hills,
where numbers OF the dead were still lying, and
whence the last OF the wounded had only that morn
ing been removed; but the army, as whole, leav-
ing eLcampments and masses OF baggage
wagons on each side, marched on steadily
towards Forbach and st. Avoid, not, as the soldiers
believed to stop It's triumphant progress until it
came within sight OF Metz The heights command
ing the town. which the French had occupied for
some days after the affair OF the I'd, looked new
ike the scene OF recent picnic: Here bottle,
there piece OF paper which might have enye-
country; there the remains of a wood-hre;
there the lid OF tin poi Then more remains OF
innumerable. The sort of debris that one sees
on a race-course the day after the race-an idea
which is again suggested by number OF sticks still
remaining in the ground at distance OF fifty or
sixty yards ahead on the way TO the Spicheren
heights. These are not sticks, however, they are
neede-guns: and approaching them, | pass from
false Indications OF peace to true indications OF war;
Where these needle~guns are planted in the earth
with bayonets for roots i've Prussian soldiers have
fallen. he men are buried but their arms for this
day at least, are TO be left here few yards ahead
there are three more OF these needle plants then
nine, then dozen; then close to a ridge where the
Prussan assailants thought they would find cover but
failed to do So 81. Passing this ridge, and climbing,
not without diffculty, up the steep ascent find
knapsacks lying torn open on the ground, broken
accOutrements, battered helmets, blood-stained
Clothes and bodies rigid in the commissions OF DEATH
Prussians alone are to be seen here, and looking
down upon the plain observe three different paths
OF ascent marked, as If to show how difficult they
were, with needle-guns stuck in the turf. Every
man who owned one OF these muskets either died
close to where his weapon stands as sign, or, at
least fell unable any longer to it. The military
geology OF the Spicheren heights can be clearly un-
derstood after the first needle,gun region, the
region OF Prussan knapsacks and accoutrements; I;
then the region Of the Prussian dead whom the
dead burers, under the directon OF the sick tend
ers, have not yet been able TO remove; then the
first line OF French dead, lying thick behind the
natural and artificial intrenchments which, TO the
last moment, protected them as they shot down, or
drove back, regiment after regiment OF the advanc-
ing surprising Prussians then Prussians and French
lyieg mingled together on the summit OF the mount
then more French than Prussians, the French alone
lying across a ridge in the wood crowning the
heights. whose shelter a portion at least must
have sought, and often sought In vain; then,
on tie left side OF the battlefield, looking
from saarbrucken, nothing but graves. 'Hier
ruben in GOtt, says one inscription, '2s
Preussen, Go FranzOsen, Grab No A. Here rest
friends and foes together, says another inscription,