Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-01-12
NEWPORT NEWS. VA. WEDNESDAY, JANIIARY l.
BATrLEFIEI1D PARK.
Commission From Fredericksb burg Con
fers With Grand Army Men.
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comnaission From Fredericksburg Con
/ h-rs With Grand Army. Men,
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WASHINGTON, Jan. IA sub
ic"nmittee OF the battlefield mark
commission of Fredericksburg, Va,
consisting Of Judge James b. Senior,
chairman; Mir. James tP. Eorbin. sec,
rotary; Colonel IN b. Rowe, of Gov
Eernor Tyler's staff, Hon.=J. S.Potter and
Major h. I. Morris, met today at the
Riggs House in conference with tlhe
committee appointed by the Grand
Army of the Republic at the tene.smp-
llnent at Buffalo last August, cornsis tine
OF Genera! Edgar Allen, of Richmond:
! COLONEL Daniel wv. GrosEenor, and p.
B. Ayers. of Wilmington, aDsi. a dir ia
vf~e1he department. of Delaware.s. and
General j. T. S. Goblin, comm an der-in-
chief of the Grand Armytof the Repub-
| nc, in regard to the Preservation of the
oattlefields of Fredericksburg, Cham
cellorsVille. the Wilderness and Spot
sylvanla NAourt House, into one park.
The fredericksburg SUB committees
brought with them: the Surveys of the
proposed lines to be laid out and mark
ed. It seems THAT the entire acreage
OF these surveys is only about $500
acres, just about the amount of the
acreage now embraced in the C.hicka-
| nlaugua park. Although the acreage
embraces the four greatest battlefields
! OF the war. most OF the lines are in thu.
county of SpottSylvana.iu Including Fred
| e;icksburg. 1t also includes a part OF
IOrange and the Stafford Heights. which
We're crowned with the federal artillery
| during the fredericksburg fight in ;Ds-
| cember 1862. The roads necessary IA, Nv,
! laid out and improved are said to be
| not more than the roads embraced in
the Nhichamaugua park, and probably
not over fifty miles in ALL That these
ileldS were the greatest OF, the civil war
are shown by the facts that the federal
cemetery at Fredericksburg is the lan.g-
est except that at Arlington, while th+.
aontederates have also avery large one
nearby. The commission now CON
Quoting this matter a FradericksburE
was organized by a mass meeting call
ed at Fredericksburg in April, 1896. by
the city council of the town. and par
tlcipnted in by citizens of Fredaricks-
burg, Orange and Spasylvania
counties. What little money is used has
been furnished by FREDERICKSBURG and
the counties named, and no one connec-
ted with 1t receives any salary. The
commission is about to become incor-
porated by the Legislature of Virginia,
under the name of The F'rede ricks-
burg and adjacent Battlefield Park AS
ISOLATION. with The view of presenting
the nrattAr to Congress for it's favora bic.
action. Every step in the ma tier SO
Tar has been closely following the pre-
cesient of the EhickainaugG<a incor..ura-
tron MANY distinguished soldiers on
both sides are lending their aid to the
enterprise. The committee on sites
and location of the national battlefields
park commission of Frederick bure
Inad%. a report on what points and lines
should be designated, and exhibited
maps showing their details.
The Hamilton Crossing map includes
the works on the hill occupied by Wal
kers artillery, and the woods along the |
railway bank where Meade's division
broke through Jackson's lines and |
where General Gregg, of IIili. and Cen
tral Jackson. Nf Meade, were killed |
The saloon Church map covers the !
ground where Sedgwicks at tackled Nc
and-iAaal,s1aa.5as: 4
The Charlottesville map includes
The ground around hancellorsyille |
House, the Fairview plain where the |
federal artillery checked Jackson's ad- |
vance and the Hazel Grove field. the |
two pine trees under which Lee and |
Jackson held their last interview, and |
planned Jackson's great movement |
ga inst Hooker's right wing; also the |
oak tree under which was Lees head
quarters at the battde, also the Jack
son monument ana where General Der |
ry was killed.
The Wilderness map includes the
ground along and north of the pike
fought on by .Ewell and the flftieth and |
sixth corps. Also that between THE
pike and the Orange plank road, where
the fifth corps and Wa dsworth. and the
ninth corps fought and Wadsworth
and Hayes We're killed. Also the plank
l oau 1lid ShoVtn Ot IT. Where hancock
and Hin fought, and Jenkins was killed
and Lonsstreet wounded. and where
Longstreet made his attack upon Han
cocks left.
The Bloody Angle map shows the
ground works charged by Upton and
and where occurred some of
the most desperate fighting OF the war;
and where General Edward Johnsons
DIVISION was captured by Hancock, and
the oak tree was cut down by inuskat
balls: also the Sedgwick monument.
The fredericksburg map Includes the
sunken road. the stone wall Ma1-ye's
Heights and the ground repeatedly
over by the federal ZINES.
The Stafford map shows the position
Of the batteries on the federal right, !.
he Lacy House, RurnS}Gte's headquar-
teIs and the positions OF the pontoons.
The works. the committee reports, l.
are mostly in a fla ir state OF preserve
fTszaqaand all the points,of interest on
MS IS 11fsa7nt fields can be located and
nronarlv mai d. if done before all who
took part in these great esIFpa.ve
passed away.