The National tribune., 1902-05-15

The mouth OF the tunnel was TO the right Of
was sad to stand among the thousands of
graves and look down the silent lines.
In Fredericksburg We met Capt. Jack
Hayden, or Uncle Jack" as he is fami-
liarly called. He is the man who guided
Stonewall Jackson around Hooker at
Charlottesville when that General fell
upon and routed the Eleventh Corps. He
is now 81, and is full of "reminiscences Of
the war, genial and companiOnable.
Leaving Fredericksburg, we turned onr
faces toward Charlottesville, with
Tom" Hayden, of the Confederate army,
for a guide. We took what is now called
the Sedgwick road leading out to Salem
Church. We found the old edifice some
what repaired, but its rear walls show
the marks of hundreds of rife balls and
many rife pits are still to be seen behind
it. All along the road leading from Salem
Church to the Chancellor House are rife
pits. The country for the most part is
heavily timbered everywhere. In many
places what was cleared land during the
war has grown up in timber since. The
Chancellor House has been rebuilt, but
the end wall OF the old mansion remains,
and shells protrude from the bricking.
Old Wilderness Church has given place
to a new edifce, which, neatly painted,
stands in a grove of large trees, nearly all
of which bear battle scars. To the left
of the road a short distance from the
house stands a monument TO the Coils
Zouaves. a pretty stone with bronze fac
ing bearing the names of the gallant boys
who went down in the battle.
We drove on to the monument erected
to the memory of Stonewall Jackson. 1t
stands within a few feet of where he was
killed, and is n massive structure sur
rounded by high iron fence: but for all
this, relic hunters have defaced the stone.
All around the spot are heavy pine woods,
but one finds in them rife pits that seem
10 run in every direction. Down in the
Wilderness proper the trees and bushes
stand just as thick as when Grant and
Lee met in May, 1864. and Wilderness
Run moves Sluggishly through this wild
tangle OF brushwOOd and vines. 1t would
be difficult for any man who took part
in those bloody engagements to locate his
position, though it might be done with
a map to assist the old veterans mem
DRY.
Our next objective point was Spottsyl-
vania Court House. 1t is situated about
u miles from Fredericksburg. and when
the roads are muddy / should say :he
distance must be %. We found there
a typical Virginia COunty-seat. court
house. an old-style hotel and modern
poStoficr. / think the chicken we had for
dinner there was an old hen that escaped
Inc 1ahket lDiISefS uuIlnS Inc summer
of 81. We drove out to the spot where
Gen. Sedgwick fell, and where stands a
fine monument TO the memory of that gal
liant officer. The ground is somewhat
open there: but. plunging into the forest
and riding over some rough roads, we
reached the Bloody Angle, near where
stood the Laudrum House. One Of the
I.aHdrums still resides here. right where
the tree was cut down by mimic balls, a
part of the tree now being in the Govern
ment Museum at Washington. Traces Of
the rifle pits nj the Angle are still visi.
bile. in some places being high enough 10
shelter Il man. and the ground where
Hancock charged and captured the Con,
fedrrate Ger. Johnston and his division
is fairly covered with burStcd guu-capS
and other relics, among them Il number
OF human bones. Pines grow tall and
close all about the Angle. and one of the
little OPENINGS near is crowned by the
old NrCogl House. which was literally
shot 10 pieces during the battle Every.
where is that dense growth of pine and
bushes. and one could imagine that night
ly the ghosts of the heroic dead of boil
sides hold high carnival among the shades
of Spottsylvania.
Battle relies are quite plentiful nj
Spottsylvania. They can bc picked NJ
anywhere in the fields. ard if there is a
boy at q farmhouse. as there generally
Is, he will show you where bullets galore
can be found.
From Spottsylvania we journeyed to
Richmond. We found il a beautiful city
of 100000 inhabitants. 1t shows none OF
the ravages of war. That part of the
town which was destroyed during the