Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-01-21
Mr..W..j5. Rochelle Writes In.
teresing Letter. ~

reuninn at Chattanooga last Ma, /.
We got TO Chattanooga bout nim
o'olock ON Monday morning and il
he evening went out to the camp,
| { went to the South Ca, olina head
,uartera to see if l could find an
me I knex, but failed. II ard from
saveraI old friends in Edgeirld
Tuesday morning friend that was
wing in Tennessee and mysei
went out to the Chickamauga bat
tleheld and spent most of the day
nut only saw small part of it, Il
| would have taken two or three day.
'n,have gene over all of 1T. The.
have marked everywhere shown,
the different positions of each side.
q wing names of the command By
y. hom STACKED and if repuIsed civ.
ipx. position of next formation
There are cannon in position nov
| Just 90 they were during the fight
Some places you find a battery OF,
the yankee lines and hundred
yards from there you will find on
of our batteries showing the posi-
ton of our battery after we had
driven them from their position,
but man that was not in the fight
could not tell anything about it
Some places the lines would run
north and south and next fomation
would be at right angles. | would
write more that / saw on the batlle
field but I want to give descrip-
tion of my trip up Lookout noun
tain. eduesday morning We went
out to Lookout to go up the incline,
but there was such a crowd we con-
cluded we would climb the noun
tain. We found plenty Of company
on the way both men and ladies,
but very few old vets. 1t took about
an hour 30 make the ascent. We
found the positions of the pickets
on both sides marked. On the night
before they tarned our left flank IN
one place. They were not over for y
or fifty yards apart. We saw the po-
si,ion of our gun on the point.
Next to the river after looking
around until about two o'clock We
started down and got to the Nash
yille. and Chattanooga depot in
time to take the train to Normandy.
l stayed there until the morning
Of June 9rd and went to Nashville
and down to Franklin which is 8
very pretty place now. / started 10
look for the p, sition we took in the
breast works. The town has spread
out beyond where the breast works
were, bat the old Carter house aud
smokehouse look just IS they d'd
she morning after the fight. The old
SuHet marks on the brick are there
yet and in the dwelling on one
side there o few holes but on the
other side the holes are thick. After
leaving the house we went out to
tho edge of town and at g. saw mill
1 was inquiring if any one could
tell me where the blackberry tree
stood on the rifle pits where we
started to make the charge, but no
one could give me any iuformatio
The gentleman / was talking "
alter he found out I was in the
tight gave me five or sI1 bulle
that had been picked up on the field.
From there We went out to the
cemetery where all the Confeder-
ates are buried. There are 81 graves
in the South Carolina division. The
.heads!ones are numbered and mi.
tias on the first five belonged to
the 10th regiment, Numbers 6,
lieutenant J. D. Padgett, c.. |
Gath S. G. v; 7, J. A. Rochelle,
". l.; 8, Daniel Walker, CO. l.;
9, P. Nj. Thurmond, 20. l.; 10, K.
DeVore, no company; IL, James
Taylor, Co. c.; IL, sergeant w.
Shuler, Co. c.; 81, L. Taylor, Co.
f.; %, P. H. Priest, Co. E.; 30,
j. l.. Bird, Co. H.; 80, G. Carries,
Go. E s; SO, J. A. Jones, CO. B.. !;
Lac, lieutenant Col. Jesse Jones.
This is the list of the killed in
the Gath that had the graves mark
led. There were several graves mark
cd unknown / have list Of ali
names in the 18th, 18th, 10Th and
IaU,h regiments. In the evening
tuhere was q large gathering at the
toemetery to decorate them and every
, grave had bouquet or wreath of
flowers on it. l want some of our
old company to- meet me at Jack,
sonville, Fla, next April if we are
spared that long. l wish some of
them would write TO me. Enclosed
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