The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-01-19

Most Saneuiuasy C0nAies.
The battlefield Of Shiloh, In Tshnss.
soe, lies .twenty miles northeast Of
Corinth, Miss The Tennessee river;
flowing north, 10 on the cast Of the
ground over which the battle was fought;
Snake crssk, with its continent, Owl
creek, forms the northern, and Lick
creek the southern, limit Of the battle
neld proper. The ground on the west
b broken Into high ridges and deep
valleya Il WAS covered for tho most
part at the date Of the battle, with
heavy growth Of forest trees. Towards
the river the surface Ii more level, but
cutsin soms pisces into deep gorges. It
was mp one Of thesc--callcd Dill's
Branch-that tho gunboats fired dur
Ing the battle.
The road to Pittsburgh Landing Is
little changed since the day we marched
out from Corinth. It Is hard to repeo-
pie this country highway, 30 quiet and
pastoral now, with q moving army; TO
realize that It was once crowded from
one end to the other with soldfery; that
ARTILLERY, wAgon-trains and ambulances
blocked the way. It seems an age since,
s.burning with high hope" we went
ont TO that fatal Held s'made rankly
fertile with the blood Of men," Every
milo Of the way 10 marked BY some
remembered incident. Beneath the
spreading branches Of wild-cherry
tree, which still stands near the edge
OF IN old ield. we bivouacked with q
icomrade the first night out. At Monte
roy We saw General Albert Sidney
'Johnbton ride along the lines; and q
little further on. staff officer rode
back and showed US the battle-iag OF
our corps. At Lick creek, we met the
first prisoner; he had been captured In
. little affair with the cavalry. Bold
and defiant he sat his horse, and gave
back to the boys ''as good as they
sent In the way OF "chaf" Further
on, the last bivouac for many brave
men, where we lay within rifle shot Of
the enemy's lines, silent and waiting
Tor the dawn Of that "woful Sabbath
morning" which came at last, and
with 1t the call to arms. Down through
the woods, en- echcion, moved the gray
lines. Then came tho struggling fire
from the pickets, the whiz and sharp
spat Of bullets, and then the roar OF
musketry. the thunder Of artillery. the
shrek Of hurtling shells, the whir Of
grape and canister. the hiss Of Mimic
balls, the cry of the wounded, the wild
shouts Of charging lines, and above all
rose an ever-thickening cloud of blue
and sulphurous smoke, out Of which
rushed riderless horses. and men man
gled and bleeding were borne. and the
earth beneath it was thickly strewn
with tho dying and the dead. I.
To-day, after twenty-five years have
rolled away. we looked down into this
Valley Of the Shadow of Death-where
sleep for all time "the unreturning
brave" Beloved with the foliage Of
waving forests, golden and bloody red
with the dyes Of autumn, and glorified
by the sunlight ofa perfect autumnday,
It stretched far away, and seemingly
swept on to where. bathed in . purple
hase. distant hills lifted their heads be-
yond the shining river. quiet and
psaceful now. as II that dreadful and
deadly drama nad never peen enacted
there. xet before Us iay Shiloh'
spring ana Cnurcn; tne duncan
E1eidi the oia rescn orcnard; tho
Sunken hoad ana nornets Nest;
ana tne ureadiui hollow On iii
msn.s brancn-eacn with its separate
sto.y o. Irigntinl carnage nerce ASSAULT
ana neroic resistance.
Many changes nave taken place sinco
'tne Daetle Every piece OF tne 0id
cnurcn mas poem Carried away py reno
hunters, anu . new one mas oeen ou,it
wnere IL $1,000. Inc pastor OF tne
orieinsl cnurcn was one VOL Dy yname.
history 10 silent As 70 whesner nc was
tne kind OF = won one wouid wisn 70
keep rom ms aoor; out evidently tnis
part'cuisr won was KEPT from ms own
aoor-H ne Wss sne ieass ois airaid OF
viiainous saitPstre -ior wniie' o.
least
Inc spring wnere thousands VINO arc
now gone Deycna tne Ah-quiet hiver
once quenchea their thirst u - dry a.
Powderkeg; the duncan Field Is y
oanaoned; the feacn orchsrd 10 . thing
o. the past; the old Sunken Road 10 on
tirely disused. ana the"red brush that
RroW 10 thtCklY at the Hornets Nest.