Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-01-12
FnEpERrcKsnURG BATrLE-FIELps
Movement 10 Make Federal Park
of Thcm-fmporfnnf Conference.

mission, or fredeflckSpufB, va, Conhlst-
ing Of Judge James B. Sener, chairman;
| Mr.. James T. Corbln. secretary; Colonel
! NJ. -. Rowe. OF Governor Tyler's stan.
Hon. James Potter. and Major 7. Morris,
met to-day at the Riggs House, In con-
ference with the committee appointed BY
the Grand Army OF the Republic al the
| encampment at Buffalo last August, con-
slsting OF General Edgar Allan, OF Rich
| mond; Colonel Daniel w. Grosvcror and
| T.. -. Ayes. of Wilmington, Del, adJn-
tant OF the Department OF Delaware, and
| General j. Il. :. Goblin. commandments
! chief OF the Grand Army OF the Republic,
In regard to the preservation OF the bat
tle-helds OF Fredericksburg, Chanceliors-
Vile. the wilderness, and SpotsyNania
Courthouse into one park. The Freder-
lcksburg subcommittee brought with
them the surveys Of the proposed Ilnes
TO be laid out and marked. IL seems that
the entire acreage Of these surveys Is
only about $780, just about the amount
of the acreage now embraced In the
Chickamauga Park. This acreage en-
braces the four greatest battle-nelds or
the war. Most of the lines are In the
county of Spotsylvania, including FRED
ericksburg. 1t also includes part Oh
| Orange county and Stafford Heights,
which were crowned with the Federal
| artillery during the Fredericksburg nght,
| on December -, 1862. The roads necessary
to be laid out and improved are sala 10
be not more than the roads embraced IN
the Chickamauga Park, and probably not
| over fifty miles in all -.
| That these battle-helds were the great
| est OF the civil war is shown by the TACT
that the Federal Cemetery at trederlcks-
| burg Is the largest except that at Ar
| lington, whilst the Confederates nave aiso
| very large one near by.
The commission now conducting TINS
a. .l.ssn.r Nrrl1
at a mass meeting called at Fredericks-
burg In April 1896, by the City Coun-
| ell of the town, and was participated In
by citizens Of Fredericksburg, orange,
and Spotsylvania counties. What nttle
money is being used has been furnished
nv Fredericksburg and the counties
named. and no one connected WITH 70 re-
| ceives any salary. The commission III
about to become Incorporated by the Lee
gislature Of Virginia under the name OF
ssrhe Fredericksburg and Adjacent BAT
| tle-Fields Park Association" with Inc
! view OF presenting the matter TO Congress
1 for it's favorable action. Every step IN
the matter so far has closely followed the
Y precedent of the Chickamauga lncorpo-
e ration Many distinguished soldiers on
{ both sides are lending their aid TO tho
I enterprise Among these are Senators
|. Daniel Martin Morgan, and Bate, OK
! the South. and Sewell. Thurston. and Bur-
rows of the North; Generals Butterneld'
Horatio c. King, Colonel Fred ID. Grant.
and others. Ex-Governor James n.
Reaver of Pennsylvania. writes saying:
( IL am glad TO learn that an euort Is
being made to have commission created
for the purpose of preserving the pat.ie-
fields of Fredericksburg, ChancelorsVile,
Z the wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court
( house. am deeply Interested In tho
3 movement and If my name VIII be OK
anv use. or If any service which can
! render will help in the premises, you are
2 AT liberty TO use my name ana command
nv services at any time A ike spirit
seems to animate all those, North ana
? south who are lending their aid TO the
preservation Of these great batue-nelds.
The Committee on Sites and Locatoh
90 tho National Battle-Fields' PARK COM
mission. of Fredericksburg, made re-
MORT unon which points and lines shouih
. -. desienated. and exhibited maps snow
,no thejr details. The Hamiton's Cross
II inc man includes the works or the mn
= occupled by Walkers Artillery ana tne
= woods along the railroad oahh VIZ
N Neade's Division broke through Jackson
. LIS and where General Gregg o. hllh
/ Di,,,sion and General Jackson, OIL
4, Nfnada,s were killed. The Silo ana
O. church map covers the ground "nero
= cedgwick attacked McLaws, WILCOX ana
D. Malone. ...,,,dos rho
f. ground around the ChancellorsVlie must,
a the Farview plain, where tie reus, .s-,
U artillery checked Jackson 5 auNane0' 90,
tho Hazelgrove field; the two pine trees
,nder which Lee and Jackson held their
,as, interview and planned Jackson
,reat movement against Hookers Iish'
ZINC. also. the oak tree under wnlch were
les headquarters at the battle; aiso'
10 Jackson monument and where Gene
raj Berry was killed. ,,,. :,
The Wilderness map includes the srounu
,1ans, and north OF the pike. fought on by
rn,a7, and the Fifth and Sixth corps
in aIso that between the pike ana the
0ronge nlank-road, where the ritn
carns and Wadsworth and the MINI
corns fought and Wadsworth anc bayes
,yera killed: also, the plank roao any
south of Il. where Hancock ana IN
- fought. and Jenkins was killed anu i.ons
d; street wounded. and where lonss'iee'
~ made his attack upon haheoen 49, a.,
~ ground and works charged by Upton ana
~ Hancock where occurred some OK ths
es most desperate fighting OF the war, anu
where General Edward Johnsons Divi
te sion was captured by Hancock, ana inc
a. oak-tree was cut by musket balls; also
v. the Sedgwick monument 49,
h, The Fredericksburg map tnc'du's NV
II, sunken road the stone wall, Marye
L., Heights and the ground repeatedly
5; charged over by the Federal lines. rs
st stanford map shows the positions on 'ne
-: batteries on the Federal right the Lacy
e. house. Burnsides headquarters ana '"'
D., positions Of the pontoons
j., THE works. the committee reports, arr
mostly in a fair state OF preservation
ct and all the points OF interest on the on
n. ferent fields can be located and proper,
az marked IL done before all who took par
n IN these great battles have passed away
$; The combined committees were IN Son
k ference with General Goblin Tor Some .'n''
tosore and after lunch at the Riggs hous'
% to-day General Hofatio c. hlns' see.e
an tary OF The Army OF INC 49,,
mac Association, came over ase,
IS: brooklyn. 10 inspect the p'Vp'',,
TO sites and locations. Genera II.
A. Rovnton. chairman Of the Chlckamauss
Commission. and General Roy stone on'
e ~ the Pennsylvania corporators, "s''
~ also present After the joint commiSs'os
~ mad dissolved General Goblin, coinmah"et
100 in-chief OF The Grand Army OF the hepuo
rs: uc and the subcommittee or that poo,
le MA an executive session. at the close o
r. which General Allen said that Genera
-. Goblin authorized him TO say that ai,e
~ fuilv inspecting the plans ana reaolus sh
49, renort OF the Fredericksburg commute
ar on the Sites and locations OF the gu
Rattle-felds. the undertaking mas hiS iul
ne and hearty approval. and that II the com
| r., "A