Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-10-08

that she married one. No doubt she
is thoroughly reconstructed"
One mile further down the road.
beyond Charlottesville, and we come
to the place where Gen. Stonewall
jackson was killed, and where a sim
pie monument stands to mark the
spot. Our guide pointed out the place
where ssStonewall" and Gen. Lee
held their last interview, and the
forks of the road where they parted
for the last time. All through this
region the lines of battle are easily
traced by the remaining breastworks,
which were thrown up for every new
position.
We 90 on four miles further, or
fifteen miles from Fredericksburg,
and reach the old stBrock Road"
which crosses this Wilderness on
plank road at right angles. Up this
Brock Road marched the hosts of
/ Stonewall jackson when they came
round on our flank and drove from
its position the eleventh corps. And
here too, our troops stood in the Will
derness fight. The breastworks
across the road and along behind the
Brock road remain as the troops left
them, subject only to the falling
leaves and brushwood of twenty-five
years. The timber growth remains
the same, so thick and eniangled that
passage seems almost impossible.
Here we turned down the Brock
road and travelled where Stonewalis
men had marched , and where Grant
had moved his men ''by the left flank"
toward Spottsylvania. Traces of the
battle are everywhere. Shattered
and bullet-scarred trees, old, half
burnt pines where the fire ragged,
and where our wounded boys were
burnt in the relentless flames.
At Todd's tavern we stopped for
dinner. Well for us that we took
along our own supplies. Under the
broad branches of a friendly apple
!, tree we ate our lunch and talked OF
: bygone days. A regular 'secesh''
came out of the house and visited
with us. He was boy them saw
but one who was of adult years in
| war times in all that trip-was very
, friendly and social. From one OF
his little girls | procured a Sixth
Corps badge which she had pickec
up in the cornfield.
Our next stop was at the house
where the body of our noble Sedg
2 wick was laid. The lady of the house
told the story of those times-a pitt
L full tale-how the blood was so thlcl
t on the floor of her house that it tool
!; three weeks to soak it all up even b.
t daily application of water; how TO
t two weeks the only food for hersel
e and children was the pork and hard
: tack secured from the haversacks o
: the Union dead.
: A little further on and we halt Of
. the ground where Sedgwick fell.
e monument erected by his comrades o
It the Sixth Corps marks the spot. LII
II old White Cross cut in the solid ston
s indicates that heroic body of battl
i veterans which he so long and abb
) led to victory.
n From here we went to the ''burr
Is woods" about a mile distant, bein
/ guided by native. Mr.James Lew
l. of our party thought he could ldent
5e fy the spot where he laid in I'll
,e woods under the mouth of ten gur
20 that played upon the rebel positio
lie some twenty or thirty rods ava,
a And when we reached the line thel
N were the places where the guns ha
y stood-ten in number easily coun
it ed. and the old breastworks just ;
If the troops left them, except that I'll
z logs over which the earth had bee
ne thrown had rotted down. Betwee
In the two lines, where the trees we
It. burnt away, field of oats. In eros
+. ing that field, every one IN our par
rt found one or more bullets, and son
1g as many as eight or ten. pick
t. up some pieces of bullets that hi
ly melted by burning timber, probah
Oh shot into the tree, and melted as tn
n were consumed. A well preserv
SIS soldiers tin plate was picked up
of one of our number with a bullet nc
k through one edge. The bullets
mt cured from this field were all ''ya
nd kee" bullets. Our men were on I
le- low ground and many of their she
II fell short while it is possible the re
We fired over. Our native guide to t
Of interesting point of the field took
it'll back to his little store and showed
" q line COllSCUlOn vi lSAiON' S'eo
On from the vicinity. Before we left
zen presented each one of us with ''rt
ep' bullet. I thanked him, and t.
the him l thought they had wonderful
cut improved in their method of pres
TIL tation of bullets in twenty-five yea
18th We next drove to the ''bloc
the angle" This was the key to
mes Spottsylvania battlefield. One
The our party had charged over the brei
me works at the point where large
re- had been completely cut off by mil
bullets. That same stump is L
DID, in the national museum at WASH
and ton. This comrade said he coun
oul- the rebels seven deep behind
the breastworks at this bloody an
VS. I some of the under ones not being
,OOl daad In the capture of that al