The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25
FREDERICKSBURG
BAT TLEF.IELD ARK
More Patt!es Fought Here Than Any
Similar Ares.
AND MORE TROOPS ENGAGED.
Mon From livery State. North and
South. We're Here Arrayed in OPP.
position to the Number OF
at Least SOC, 900.


cial.-The House Committee on Military
Affairs has made a favorable report on
the bill to establish the Fredericksburg
and Adjacent National Battefields NC
mortal Park. in the State of Virginia
The bill is for the purpose OF preseFV-
ing and suitably marking for historica!
and military study the famous battle-neids
IN Spotsylrania county, Va. known as
Fredericksburg, Salem Church, Chancel-
louisville, the Wilderness, and Spotsylva-
MIA Courthouse, all of them within q
radius of eight miles, and on which nm
tied territory the late distinguished Cen
eral, John C. Newton, after careful IN
vcsiSation declared that more great
battles were fought, more men engaged
and more execution done than on any
other spot of similar area in the world.
The report recitcs that the bill pro-
poses to set apart G,00o acres. In this
area were fought the great battles OF
Fredericksburg. Charlottesville. the
Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Courthouse.
embracing also Maryc's Heights, HaMii-
toms Crossing, Laurel Grove, the Bloody
Angle, Todd's Tavern. and. the Pc and
Nye Rivers.
Troops from every State North and
South were here arrayed in opposition TO
the number of at least 100000. and the
ing on both sides aggregated 129.s3 In
the National Cemetery on Maryes
Heights there lie 1850 Union soldiers.
and frequent additions are made from
the eXhumations of the battie1ields.
The general officers who were killed on
these fields on the Union side were
Major-Generals John Sedgwick, Hiram
G. Berry, and Am!el w. Whipple; Brevet
Major-Generals James S. Wadsworth and
Alexander Hays; acknowledgements Geo.
d. Bayard, Conrad i. Jackson, Edmund
Kirby, James c. Rice, and Thomas J.
Stevenson, and on the Confederate side
Northumberland Thomas ]. Jackson.
Brigader-Generals Thomas r. r. Robb.
Junius. Daniel. Abncr Perrin, Maxey
Gregg, Z. T. Paxton. J. Al. Jones. Leroy
A. Stafford, and Micah Jennings
The report further says there are other
attractions In this section. Fredericks-
burg was the home of the mother Of
Washington, and there she was buried.
Almost within sight of FredericksburS's
steeples were born Washington. Monroe.
Jegerson. Madison. the Lees of both of
the Revolution and of the late war, and
Zachary Taylor.
In Virginia the great war began and
ended, and not an acre of this soil, con-
secrated by the loss of more men than
war, has yet been dedicated as a national
park.
The proposed project has received the
approval OF the Secretary of War. of the
State Of Virginia. of the Grand Army of
the Republic, of the Society of the Army
Of the Potomac, and of the United Con-
federate Veterans
On February u, 1895. the Legislature of
Virginia, on the petition of over two
hundred veterans of the North and South,
incorporated the Fredericksburg and
Adjacent National Battletields Memorial
Park Association of Virginia
LOST PIN FOUND.
fraternity pin belonging 10 General
Fred Funston. which the latter lost by the
cHpsizlns of a boat in Alaska on an e5S-
plorinE expedition, was found by negro
OF this city while workinen We're tearing
up an old ice rink in Convention Hall last
summer. The name struck Captain
Charles w. Filler, Of the Pension Office,
who Immediately wrote 10 Funston at
San francisco, but received no reply. A
few days ago, however, letter dated
last October from General Funston,
reached Captain Filler. 1t had been re-
turned 10 Mrs Funston from the dead
letter office, and Mrs. Funston had re-
directed il. In it the Kansas hero ac-
i1nowledSed The ownership of the college
pin, which in some mysterious way had
been lost in Alaskan waters and reap
peared in Washington. Captain Filler in
stituted a search for the negro, found
tSrn and by the payment of a reward of
So received the pin. which he forwarded
10 its owner.
Concerning the famous clause in the
treaty with the Sultan of Sulu respecting
the religious customs of the Moros,
which constitutes Article Ill, the fol-
lowing Is the official report of the confer
ence between General Bates and His
lIighness through the latter's, secretary.
The article is as follows:
The rights and dignities of HE'S High
ness, the Sultan, and his datos shall be
fully respected: the Moros shall not be
.nterferred with on account of their re-
ligion, all their religious customs shall
be respected, and no one shall be perse-
cuted on account Of his religion.
Sultan: With reference TO Article III.
..I'he rights and dignities of His Excel
lency," etc. That article is all right, but
they wanted still to have put in that
the American government would not in
tcrfcre in any customs of the religion"
General: That does not mean the
Jurancntados. does it?
Secretary: die says that certainly was
not In tho customs of their religion. be-
cause the Juramentados would be only
admitted into their religious ceremonies
after they were converted.
General: They will mt be interfered
with on account of their religion or re-
ligious custcnls."Ask him if that would
be satisfactory
Secretary: All religious customs shall
be respected
General: All right. We VIII put in
a agreement 1.-THE rights and disnities of
alis Excellency the Sultan. and his
datos shall be respected The Moros Shall
not be interfered with on account of
their relis-ioI,s, and all their religious
customs shall be respected" Will that
be satisfactory
Secretary: He says that will be all
right
General. Well. want him to distinctly
understand now that if any official or
priest is Implicated in any way with
one of these mcn-Juramentados- we
can prove it. we will punish priest or
official just as much as they who did 1T
/ want him to understand fully what it
means. do not intend TO be trapped
into Anything.
Secretary: He says that the .Iuranen-s
tasos do not come under the a.ohamme-
dan religion. and II you like you can have
tho article put in about Juramcntados.
General: We'll. IL they say they are
no part of their religion that Is all right