The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-11-08


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dumped them Il - have den out of the
way. Not two = fkrssl wagon I0ads but
hffeen - twsntys and eseFy year the pl0w
taras mp grape and eanistsr BY the
| bushel.
| Brsvery in an enemy can BE admitted
and admired without dekracting frou, the
bravery Of friends Stonewall Jaekaon,
| with . mile and half of woods SLED
| with the dead and wpahded from his g.
600 men, here tnrned at bay and held the
full II, 200 men ssder. Hpokey and Mars
field. History admits i and Gen. Sam
| ner pssRea = Ralfhes 60 Cou iasss % ahs
C0ndnes of aks War. ssns Manusseld
| was fataliy woanded, Hooker wounded.
scores Of minor oGieers killed, and the
limbs Of the trees barely outnumbered the
dead and dying. / tore up the sOds in
that hell yesterday and found bullets and
| gr4Peshot imbedded ID the roots.
counted no less than fifty scars on tree
no bigger than my body. l pushed
through the underground and my boots
crushed skulls and bones and struck
against solid shot which time had buried
almost out Of sight. In one open glade,
hardly half an acre in extent, fell s22
Federals and 1877 Confederates. A Union
soldier who helped bury them made the
count That fierce grApple so broke
Hooker's corps that Sumner could not
find 500 Of them in an organized BODY.
| NOW PUSH THEA 70
| Reinforcements came to jackson Just in
time to prevent his utter anHihilation.
As soon as they wheeled into line the
whole force walked over the. disOrgan-
lied Federals and stopped not more until
they rested once more in the battle-Iine
of the morning. That ended the fight on
Lees left.
| BLOODY LANE.
| We retract our steps toward the Dnn-i
ker Church and turn into what people
call Bloody Lane. In some histories It
is spoken of rs the Sunken Road. It is 4
highway cut through the hills for dis
tAnce Of mile or SO, and troops passing
over it would not even show their heads
70 an enemy forty rods away. In this
sunken road two bEigades of Confederates
were nassed 20 protect Lees center.
They were there whea Burnside, who had
been ordered TO cross the Anfietam Mt 9
o'clock and attack Longstreet, finally
moved at noon. His advance compelled
the withdrawal Of several batteries ON
Lees center, and half-right-abOut face
Of . portion of the troops there, and Nc
Clellan now pushed some of his batteries
until they had the range of the sunken
road. Grape and canister went through
the massed Confederases, and not one
half Of them escaped from the trap. Cit
izens here who looked down into that
sunken road the next day after the fight,
and before corpse Of all those thousands
on that bloody field had been buried, tell
me that Il was the most awful sight men
had ever looked upon.
| II WAS A sLAUGHrER PEN.
And worse vet. Heads, arms, legs, feet,
hands and bloody trunks of mangIed hu-
manity filed the road from bank to bank,
and old soldiers looked down from the
banks and turned away sick at heart
EUKEsIDE's EhaDGK
/ They caiIl It by that name this day. 1t
is stone bridge over the Antietam, and
in crossing il from McCIellan's battle line
to Lees position there : deep cut IN the
hills as the read rises 90 suFrnoant the
range. McClellanis right and centre had
moved forward and foughi. AT noon
Hooker had pushed Jackson . mile and .
half and the center had advanced mile,
forcing Lee 70 cbange his headquarters to
brick hoase half mile back Of the
town. Had Burnside advanced At 8
o'clock in the morning Lee would have
been drivea at every point. His right was
terribly veal, as Longstreet's men were
Strung ont MI the way from the bridge
70 Harper's Ferry. The order came to
carry the bridge, bus there 10 no point
for > qaarter Of ; mile up or down that 3
aoldier could not ford and keep his car
fridge box dry. "A skinnish Ine was sent
forward, few shoss were Gred, and that's
Burnside's effort to carry ont orders AT
Q O'Clock Hooker had lot 1000 men, and
Burnside had hardly frsa gun AZ 10
the eenter I'D Lot 1000 men, and BaEn-
| aids Lad nos killed : Can5sassate. AZ IN
he vas whese dayliehs fonDd hin ~
nooa 900 Fsderals ny dead, ana Barn
aide had net loss ) laaus. He = dead nor.
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fsaing b obey orasrz
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leCIellaa % fores tke kziidgs vii Barn
aida's troopa & HaRnsiie weuld not Iead
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