Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-25
RELICS OF THE WAR.
Interesting and Historical Battle.
 fields Near Jamestown Exposition.

fields Near Jamestown Exposition.
 Norfolk, Va. Feb 25.-On account of the Jamestown exposition, many veterans of the great war will tread the soil of old Virginia again this summer, after lapse of forty odd | years. They will come with little less fire in their eyes, little more halt in their footsteps and little more gray in their locks, neverthe- | less they will come with memories as bright and minds as keen as when they followed the fortunes of battle with Grant and Sheridan or Lee and Jackson. They will walk over the battlef1elds of Deven Pines or Fair Oaks, Cold Harbor or the Wilder ness, and stop occasionally to gather | up a gray leaden bullet, mimic ball or rusty grape shot. They may, by little search, discover the point of bayonet protruding from the soil, or 1t may be only buckle from soldiers belt with "U. s. A." or e.. 8. A." emblazoned with the brassy green of bye-gone years.
 In some places the scenes of that great conflict are fast becoming ob- liberated by the storms of the sea- sons as they pass. and by the blow of the unsentimental farmer, yet a thousand years will not be sufficient to entirely destroy the great earth works which the vast armies of the sixties threw up, sometimes in sin gle night. At Sewell's Point, where the Samestown Exposition opens April 26. there are huge piles of earth and Notifications ruins, erect ed by the confederate forces for the defense of Norfolk, and in making the streets and boulevards of the ex- position many relics such as pieces of cannon, cannon balls, rusty mus kets and the like have been un- earthed.
 At Old Jamestown, where the crumbling church tower stands as the
 sole remnant of the first English set
 clement in America, the earthworks
 of near 300 years ago may be seen
 where they were thrown up as de- fense against the Indians, builded a little higher by Lord Cornwallis in Revolutionary days, and added to
 yet more by Mcclellan in the days of
 '62. At Williamsburg, few miles , distant from Jamestown, are some Of
 the best preserved earthworks of
 them all. Here much of the original
 Fort Magruder stands, a high circu- lar embankment with it's accompany
 ing deep moat. In tangle of black : berry bushes on this embankment there was recently discovered a hear
 of nine pound loaded mortar shells , which had lain there undisturbed fol 1 nearly forty-five years. Every house
 hold of the community has its price , less collection of battlefield relics |, turned up by the blow or uncovered
 by the frosts of winter and the rains i, of summer. Here may be seen some
 of the best preserved rife pits throwr up during the war. The railroad from Williamsburg to Newport News cuts through one of these huge earth works about a mile out of Williams
 burg.
 At Yorktown there may be seer traces of the famous redoubts throwI
 up by Cornwallis and in which he pu f too much confidence. Newer and mor' 0 extensive earthworks appear ther'
 also, mementoes of the Peninsula e campaign of the civil war. At Peters t burg a thousand men might yet fin'
 shelter in the Crater" the Ballak n lava of the civil war, where so man Q brave lives were sacrificed. Al
 about Richmond, the confererate cap ital. are signs of the city's defens : in the days which tried the souls 0
 men. Embankments, trenches. re
 doubts, rife pits and Qualifications s every kind dot the landscape, espe 5 cially to the east and north of tn
 city. Similar earthworks abound a n over Virginia from Manassas to AT e pomattox. and 1t will not be dif1cu
 for the old veterans of the blue an It the gray to get their bearings as the '. traverse the scenes of their battles ( :. long ago.