The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-06-06
ion or Confederate Generals. The
government builds just the same kind
of monument over both.

Gle OOVeTuOI W hSh lUl au dppIoplld
tiUn sufficiently large to mark the dar
ing of South >Carolinians upon thai
field of blood.
I asked Gen. Boynton if there would
be any objection to our placing the
shaft on an eminence very near tt
headquarters. He said, none, be-
cause no troops that have ever been
there yet have claimed to have gone
there but Carolinians. Just there
Kershaw captured a battery. | saw
the place marked where Capt. j. NJ,
Townsend was killed; where Col.
Bland of the 7th was killed also
where Major Hard was killed.
The graves Of the 7th Regiment
men are just where they were buried,
never having been disturbed.
I would like to ask the 18th if any
Of them remembers passing or seeing
pond just after the fight in the
weeds at the Glenn house? If so, did
we pass it to the right or left ? It is
called Bloody Pond" because the
wounded of both armies collected
there to get water. I am Of the i'm
preston that it must have been to our
right. / would like to know.
I can assure the old soldiers Of the
18th and 7th that their gallantry is
commented upon more than any saw
Don't misunderstood me [ am re-
porting to those regiments, of course,
as include all of South Carolina s sons
in the above.
We had good time and met a jolly,
clever set of men.
I told Gen. Wilder that their cour-
tesy and generosity had overpowered
me, but that I found the same dispar-
ity in numbers existing now that ]
found thirty years ago-about five to
one. Their States make very liberal
appropriations, and send more COM
missioners than we do.
Three towers, seventy feet high,
have been erected upon Snodgrass
Range, which gives you view of the
entire battle field at glance.
Gen. Wilder brigade is building a
tower at Glenn's, sixty feet at the
base and one hundred and ten feet in
height. I told him I thought it the
most appropriately placed tower on
the entire field, and when he asked me
why, I told him that it was upon the
identical spot where the 18th South
Carolina took Sheridan's battery and
no one in future ages could visit this
field and not feel that he was standing
where noble Carolinians made a name
that will never die.
Gen. Wilder, after he got used to
my jokes seemed to take quite fancy
to me. He showed me a photograph
taken from his hill just as our men
came into that field and began the
charge. He has promised to send me
one which I will send to you SO that
you can show it to the 18th men when
in Abbeville. Any man who was
with US as We entered that field Sun
day morning will recognize it at
glance.
The field is to be dedicated 10th Of
September, 1895, and / hope some Of
our regiment may be able to be there.
1 assure you that we have no concep-
tion of the field until we go there and
talk face to face with the men we
fought and hear their version and see
how entirely we agree.
I asked Gen. Boynton why the gov
ernment had bought this field in pref
erence to any other. He said that it
combined more advantages and disad-
vantages than any other field Of war.
Had either General known the field he
could have demolished his antagonist.
The Assistant Secretary of the war,
Mr.. Dana, telegraphed just after
Sheridan s division left the field that
it was worse than Bull run, and had
Gen. Bragg been posted Of the true
state of affairs just then, it would
have been glorious day for the South.
We also were able to mark the posi-
tion our two regiments occupied on
Missionary Ridge. The only breast
works saw along the entire ridge are
those built by Gen. Manigault' $
brigade. I would like to see every old
10Th soldier now and tell him just
what I have seen, and just what !
know, because I can't write as ]
would like to impart it. The National
committee, consisting Of Gen. j: S.
Fullerton, Gen. H. V. Boynton, Col:
S. G. Kellogg Of the Union Army and
Gen. A. P. Stewart of our army, told
us that the South Carolina commands
had marked their places with more
satisfaction to them, and knew more
of what they did, than any men who
had been there from any State.
The following Southern States had
part in that fight: Alabama, Arkan-
sas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri
North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten
nessee, Texas, Virginia.
While the North had Iowa, Illinois,
Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Mime
sofa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
United States regulars, Wisconsin and
Missouri.
Strange to say it took Southern
blood on both sides to settle this diff.
fculty. This battlefield is to be used
to teach object tactics to the rising
generation. And will be visited in all
ages with great interest by all who
are seeking interesting points in
America.
A visit to this field will give us
some idea of the gigantic task we had
upon our hands. The abandoned can
non of both armies with tons of shot
and shell are collected there and being
constructed into monuments to mark
the resting places of the great Gener
ais on each side. A very appropriate
disposition to make of them. NJ
more will they roar, burst and shrek
or send death and sorrow, but in 81
lence they will simply tell Of the his
toric event in which they took so con
spicuous part.
r. F. McCAsLAN.