The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-22
g0T-PLOWEDFIELD
- IL Chickamauga Retold
on the Spot.
,csrREET's AWFUL CHARGE.
= n the Great Tennessee Hattie
wr,sssn Upon HaIiowed and
historic Ground.
vouIs GIobe-Democrat.

XQUIS 0lODG-DeulotEEb
=. sisifor to Chickamauga must see the
B = .,srd MACE and the pine woods back
"a: There the interest OF the first days
81 :. s.s.e nenters. Then he should go to the
: = ~ Arm. Standing by the remnants of
= g breastworks in the woods behind
I = ss,m. Re may picture those repeated
~. by the Confederate divisions of
{ ssrne and Breckenridge. Then let him
s Sr. f. stand in the open Kelly field along
~. I.fsvefte road and recall the i've
.<..-,u made on Sunday from end to end
q d each by different brigade. to pre-
- "a Coniederates from striking in the
50, 8 the breastworks. And now ii Is
80. 4 discuss the recollections Of the
7s-.vard place, the Kelly farm and of all
!. ~ ialf Of the battlefield which lies east
! 4. lafayette road. Let the mind be
..s6e 4 nearly as possible a blank. We
-. T. the browning achievement of
<<i.k.mauea's bloody history. Trails
1'.d westward from the Lafayet
s.1d. They are through pine woods,
- slightly unduIating surface,
.,. much like the portion of
=, battlefield east of the road.
1s1low one of those trails and in
- minutes you can come ont Of the
-. It log schoolhouse. Pass the
.>Aonhouse and keep on nearly due west.
m ase still among the trees, but On your
- i the south, there are large open
fIds On your right, to the north, is
Snnaker open field. Before you rises .
~ attending north and south. and curv-
~ IS The west. But Immediately in front
1 hure knob on that ridge, considerably
firher than the ground on either side of 1t.
~ n1cent grows sleeper. The pine trees
:, dick al of the way to the top. You
-lch he summit and face about. This is
e femous Snodgrass Hill. Here there
g fighting which does not pale beside
us3hine that was done at Gettysburg.
Nih Cemetery Ridge or Little Round
N enodgrass hill viii hold its own in
fsef5. Why shouldn't it? The man
~ sent Pickett's division against the
I)njdd center at Gettysburg was on this
"a. TOO. All Sunday afternoon Long
1l,oet crowded his columns up that hill.
1T hey could not carry 1t. This was the
mofe remarkable because earlier in the
~ II had scattered the brigades on the
Cnjon right to the four winds. The morale
z victory was with Longstreet when his
1IxIvions began 10 climb Snodgrass hill.
n depression of defeat was upon the men
w sfubbornly held the height.
~ fighting of Saturday between the
union riyht and the Confederate left
6peed on the east side of the Lafayette road
4 ne Vineyard place. It did not reopen
Gen on Sunday. A sergeant. who lay
NTH an outpost in front of Cheatham's
Hne III night, said, as he pointed out the
poeIti0ns:
I'll Vas very quiet. We could hear the
Yankee surgeons talking as they went
sbout through the woods attending to
ikas wounded. No shots we're exchanged.
said TO the men with me: There are TWO
food reasons why we should keep still:
One Is. that TO shoot at men taking care of
tke wounded is not right. The other is.
hat our firing would disturb our own men,
them for t0morrow's work. So we Law
there. only lev yards from the Yankees.
and kept quiet
During ihe night the right of the Union
army dropped back to the west side OF the
roed. The Confederates remained on the
east side 81 the woods. There is strip OF
6Ee forest west of the road, save where it is
broken BY the Brotherton and Poe places.
BEHIND this : D of woods q quarter of
mite, lie the Wi ow Glenn, the Dyer and
he Snoderass farms. each with cleared
Ids Snodgrass hill, with its forest
eosuing Of tall pines, rises well back in
* MIDST OF these fields. In The strip of
xoods west Of the road. extending from
opposite the vineyard northward to the Poe
place. the Federal right waited for Long
u etfu ek An 4 \
only arrived from Virginia at midnight,
waited for Folks assault a miie away on
he Union left behind the Kelly farm,
which was 10 be the signal for HIM to begin.
BY this formation the Union right was
vest OF the road. in the woods. The
Union left was east of the road, behind the
i0g breastworks. and the Union center
crossed the road between the Poe place
and the Kelly farm. The Union army
heed almost due east.
Il has been told in previous letter how
folk oversight. aud how the attack he was
% nave made at daybreak was rot deliv-
esed at the north end OF the line until after
voclock. Division after division took up
sne lighting, and at IL O'Clock Longstreet
oeesn TO send his masses of troops for
sard. They crossed the road, went up the
itlie rise and fell upon the Union front.
Three divisions of Hood moved forward in
Z gigantic column; landmarks division
supported them. There were eight
RlRades in this monster human 5attering
nm: II the Union line had been prepared
hard TO see how such an impetus could
nave been resisted. But Rosecrans
vas not prepared. He was at that
very moment drawing troops from his
night and sending them around to the left,
Were all the hard fighting was taking
pace up to that time. A brigade had
eeen taken here and brigade there until
oe right OF the Union army was disar-
nneed. Woods division was moving to
sxecute an order TO close up on Reynolds
IL IN dong IL was really Withdrawing
ponl the front 10 pass around behind
ofannon's division. This was leaving a
peat gap to fill, which McCook was NOV
81 along northward. Davis had his two
stlgades In motion with a view of filing
- place McCook was vacating.
Ana while these three divisions are in
noaon Longstreet's great column strikes
lem: buells brigade is the last one in
woods moving division. Ii receives the
= 1aa Iorce of the shock. 1t Is caught by the
ssnk and pushed on and on. across the
zen neid OF the Dyer farm, over the ridge
- INTO The narrow dry valley half mile
SHyond the limits of the battle field. Buell.
80 part Oh inc brigade, one regiment,
III brings IL back after a time. But the
~. OF u, With its back to the rear of the
srs.ile, marches away in the direction of
eaattanooga and is not seen again.
% u was with the regiments, brigades,
VISIONS, and even the generals, caught in
s .ns smash of the Union right. The brave,
~ men. rs soon as they could
~, themselves out OF the crush. reformed
= Az were back on the battlefield, attaching
ssmseives 10 various commands which re-
y unbroken. In that action lies the
10y oil Chickamauga's Sunday afternoon
X fansing. Perhaps a third of those portions
tue. sne night thrown into confusion by Long
sa sSIs advance came back to fight till the
san went down. But two-thirds of the
~ went off the field, part of the troops
sasioning in regular formation, part of
I'LL, running like rabble. moved off and
yer came back.
ins LAWS y. two brigades. which had Just got
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