The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-06-14

Set veteran seeiug the ffag raise his
hat aud said: II have faced tha,
il,s many u time in some very hot
engagements, and | am glad nt the
opportunity to bon1r it." This was
greeted with c';eec by the OLD vets,
any of wnom would have fought then
for that Yankee veteran st The drop
Dfa rat.
We found that we would have some
hours to wait for the uaveiling of Ga !,
monumeut IA the S,u,h G .roIiua
special would be lltsle is'e, 81 the
time WAS very pr i'a5'y occupied by
the visitors Walking over the grounds
and inspecting the many handsome
monumehts erec!ed by she y ,rth to
their dead hecoes, and the several
6 .nfeierdte monuments which have al
ready been erected by the : ,uthsrn
> ates. TIE S)Ith C,roiina pouu-
neut vas veiisd with the c,nfeicrate
c,lors. This battle ground is one OF
the mAst Interesting places IL has ever
boen our pleasure to visit. A We
walked over the grounds the b story
Ut one OF the most bloody battles of
modern times untosded i's-lf, in the
m,numents and iron table whicr
marked tie points of CO.. aict, the 20.
siLioa of the lines, the alvauce AMI
the retreats. the slow bu5 ever onward
march of the conteterates, who APP
proAchei the heights occupied by the
enemy, who s'ubh)rn!y rssieted, theu
retreate / from point to point, ouIy to
% pressed farther d farther back
ward, as tue determined advance wa,
m4ie by the contsdorates wh, m)uut
cd the hill from three sides right iu
the face of the rurs; gal!iug fire ftom
artillery and infantry. There are
uonntei cannrns occupying the sits
they occupied during the battle. Oae
cannot help tue Tseling that he is
treadInE upon sacred ground when
ne remembers that Oh this battle
ground thare were thirty tv. tbouaa,h
men Is OO0 III one side and 17O00
IN tho other killed, and their Diooa
poured upon the ground upon whic!:
we we're treadiug.
We met Mr.. II \ Simpson,. an
I'D confederate veteran, who took
part Id the famous battle, aud be gave
rs ve1y interesting acc.'unt Of the
attack and the terrible battle, kc is a
granhson of Eimund Simpson, a soi.-
dier of the Revolution, a record of
vho,e pension may possibly be f,nnd
in the clerks oltica at Union. II, i.
related to the N)rman family %
Uulon, and sent his regards to the
n,ya III says he visited the campe
at Chicanauga during the RENDEZVOUS
of the : ,anish' \ ncrican tro 'ps and
told several fanny anecdotes of that
period. Among the soldiers there
were lot OF studeuts from a college
iu Boston Ole of them, very
bright aad intelligent student of law,
in conversation with this student
after he had been located at. Caica-.
mauga for some time he asked Nlr
5 mpsoo why it was that .le : nth had
not erected handsome monuments to
their dead like the Moth ha,l. NJ.
Sinpson replied that our country had
been left in AL i'm poverished condition
and had not been able as yet to do go,
but he hoped the work would begin
in the near future. The young man
replied that he had made study Of
this famcus battle ground since he had
been here aud he had been taught
lesson very diff ,rent from that he bah
learned in his histories ut college. II
was asked what that lesson was He
replied that while the North had
erected magnificent monuments to the
memory OF their dead heroes, all over
the grounds. and only iron tablets
marked the vaIorous deeds of the C>n
tederatos, the VIII )le revealed in q very
forcible manner only one glory When
asked what WIS the story revealed 4,
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