The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-07-12
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
VISITING FAMOUS BATTLEFTELDS.
What the Prince Said of Wonderful Look
out-Some Grand and Impressive
Views that Make Lasting
Impressions, etc.
RRAnsHAw- Mn Hume 23d. 19O

BRADSHAW, Nd. June 23d, 1902.
Messrs. Editors - PeUen0ns a nos na0utOns. Night
having closed the view from Lookout, of which
the nations late guest. Prince Henry, said This
is magnificent there is nothing in all Europe
that is finer; have never seen such battle,
field" we descended by the incline" Several
of our party announced on their safe arrival at
the bottom their determination never again to
trust themselves to such nerve stra1ning con-
yeyance; others enjoyed the novelty and sensa-
ton. and daylight continuing would have sought
another trip.
Our evening. was spent quietly in quarters.
save for brief space, when former member
of the Ist Maryland Confederate Cavalry called
and courteously invited our inspection OF ~ b.
Forrest Camp Hall, where pleasant halt nour
was spent. A fine model of the Alabama, ;, dear
to Confederate naval memories, hllng large
space in its annals occupies one end OF the large
room. Other walls were adorned with portraits
of leading generals of the South, and between
each on huge brackets were sections or large
trees from the battlefelds near by. each exhl6-
iting some queer freak of shot or shell protru-
ding or imbedded.
By daylight the next morning we were speed
ing on trolley down Chattanooga Valley, passing
through Rossville Gap and were way down
South in Georgia and soon at the Dorders OF tne
starting point, called Chickamauga Park, which,
however, to me seems .misnomer. PARK, IN
usual acceptance, is land set aside for rest ana
recreation of congested populations and on
which the artistic fancies of landscapeists are
exhausted. the whole closely associated with
keep off the grass" The act creating this So
called "park" recites "for the purpose of pre-,
serving and suitably marking for historical and
professional military study the fields OF some OF
the most remarkable mannuvres and most bril-
liant fighting in the war of the rebellion"
In developing the above idea tract miles 3;
and W., miles N. and B., comprising some b0UU
acres, has been enclosed and every effort made
to have it as it was September 18th to 2lst, 1868.
Old roads are kept intact but improved, 10 some
stone and metal legends, and hunqreds OF pieces
ParTots sd az J ho st
mounted on iron carriages and wheels, menace
| one from all directions. Everywhere are state
| monuments on positions occupied by their
troops, notable among them $4,000 one by
| Georgia and one by Kentucky, erected on the
! Maryland Antietam idea to soldiers OF the state
serving in both foe ar@aes
reniac O. "a nfTIu, those decaying. One walk,
rfde, drive everywhere through woods and fields
There are no restrictions, save to the destroying
hand and injury to game. The abundance of the
latter would cheer the heart and delight the eye
of our sportive and sportsman, Game Warden
Through the courtesy of Mr.. E. E. Belts. civil
engineer in charge, teams met us at the entrance
and we were driven at once to Snodgrass Hill,
where, mounting its 70-foot iron tower near the
headquarters of Gen. Thomas, 1.-THE Rock of
Chickamauga," were edited and entertained by
a lecture on the battle, rendered lucid by the
view which reached to every point of the field.
The scene of the ebb and flow of the battles
tide; the attack and counter; the charge and
route and all the various phases of the mighty
struggle lay spread out before us and was vivid
ly brought out. Here in front and around this
hill Thomas took his stand in three sided for
nation; there McCook was driven, Crittenden
broken and Sheridan forced back to circle from
right to left and join again in the contest; here
Granger came in timely support and there Gar
field rode through whitening fire. To hear and
see was great experience and well worth the
attention of anyone with leisure and inclination
to see one of the show places of America, the
largest, greatest, grandest of any of the charac
ter in the world, both in extent, natural scenery,
historical and military interest.
From Snodgrass Hill, the objective point of
Bragg, we were driven to- inspect the various
monuments and incidentally visited the camp of
the 18th Cavalry, Clusters old regiment, which it
is understood is preparing for the Philippines;
also several regular batteries on similar Grand
They we're all fine body of men, well calculated
to maintain the supremacy of our arms in dis
tant lands or anywhere. The monuments num-
Der by the hundreds. Ohio alone having so, and
are as various in character and form as their
number, all have more or less artistic merit and
marking the stage of sculpture of the different
states. At the Shell Mound, on the spot of Gen.
Lytle's death. coincidence met us in the pub
LEGATION by the Baltimore Sun, a copy received
Egypt dying" To comprehend the immensely
of the Civil War; to balance the leaders, measure
them man to man, there is no place offers an
equal field. The commission left profoundly i'm
pressed and, to repeat, they had been highly en-
tertained and edited.
In the evening we crossed the river and visited
the scene OF Sherman's concealed camps and
comprehended the strategy that eliminated in
his thanking tactics. AS the position of the Sd
Maryland Infantry Union was outside any gov
eminent reservation, its record and tablet will
be at Grants headquarters on Orchard Knob
Our duty performed night found US on our re-
turn trip over the Cumberland mountains and
we reached Maryland via Somerset, KY, Cincin-
natti and Grafton, W: Va; With the exception
Covington, on the Ohio river, and Southern Ohio
nowhere was the agricultural outlook as bright
as at home. and here we think we have excep-
tionally poor crops BEN. +. TAYLOR.