The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-07-19
WHERE JACKSON FOUGHT.
"A Correspondent Visits the Scenes Of the
Immortal ssStonewalls s. Death.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.

With the army engineers who came
from Washington to inspect ard report
upon the great group Of battlehelds
were men who had fought over this
ground. acre by acre under Burnside,
Hooker and Grant III the successive
starts for Richmond. There were
others in the party who had been with
Lee and jackson and Longstreet.
What they maryeled at most was that
thirty-odd years after they faced each
other ON The bloodiest fields Of the
war they came to find the same build
ings, the same proportions of farm
3 and forest, the same roads and stone
walls. Perhaps nowhere else in all
Of the States which furnished fighting
ground could there be found so little
change as here. It is almost as if the
Almighty had said to the shrines OF
Americas greatest sacrifices, ePeace!
Be Stillrs' and thereafter the progress
I: sive hand of man had been stayed for
a third Of a century
The engineers and their party rode
out Of Fredericksburg by what was
the peach orchard over which Burn
sides lines Of battle advanced to the
impossible attack upon Marye's
Heights in December Of 1862. They
passed along the sunken road and in
front Of the stone wall at the foot Of
the he;sinss, where dead men lay SO
thick Ii at December morning of 1862
that, as a local historian said, it was
possible to walk for quarter of a
mile stepping from corpse to corpse.
From this awe-inspiring spot the party
took the old Orange plank road and
went dne west over a gently undulating
country with wheat in. the shock, the
corn knee high and the grass ready for
the mower. Some Of the farms have
passed TO the possession of others
slaa sasss - D.. @ oasas - tha
ss.sua' s:,s. aso ~ g sa,as Ia 40 - tbav
s..s,.es ..aAa 80
-
Fonr ,n;l.s on. IN The nlank road is
ss9ss.leu ebnr.b n,a;n lbr;ck structure
.st,nd;nu at =. convenient crossroads.
with a little graveyard behind and no
houses Immediately near-a place of
worship in the woods typical of the
old Virginia custom Sedgwick. with
his corns came ont the plank road on
the 5th. Of May 1863. He had cross
eds the river near fredericksburg and
had stormed Marre's HEIGHTS success
B fnlIv becalise his longer lines were
ablestos wrap themselves around the
fianksof the smaller force Lee had
left there 30 check this movement.
1Sedpw;ck uaa on the wav bv forced
mar, marcl, e reach Hooker at Chancellors-
vile Having won the second Fred
ericksbnrr where Burnside had failed
so s;;rnally The nrevious December. he
/ n;rsoceeded ont the nlank road hut
When ,,a reached Salem church a lit
tlesless than half Of the wav to Chan.
cellorsyille. he came upon McLaw's
Division nosted t. ston him And
then followed a day Of fighting which
has gone ;ntn b;story as the battle Of
S.Jem cbnrcb and which is only
5d,,v,a,esa h., tho mnch heavier losses
~ tha hor;rr ae,ds The walls
of.tha hi obnreb are Scared and
o,erforoted NTH tho cannon and uus-
let b.Ils Fronl Hume a Washing
IN merob.nt uho mos n the 6obt;nr
Frede,;olshnrn toll. how the
vonndea wera hronoht into Salem
cbnrcb All night long 70 be treated BY
the surgeons. The operating tables
were near the altar. A window near
was omen. and as the shattered limbs
were taken off thev were tossed out