The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1922-05-24

i a0A CcpIcMUeE OulLeu States ma.
l. rines marched, skirmished, formed
lines of battle. took up and aban.
doned positions, executed strategic
movements, and made charges on the
historic fields Of the Wilderness and
Spottsylvania. The pop and whiz of
Springfield fire, the rip-rip Of machine
guns, the smash Of field pieces and
the crash of shell and bomb sounded
through the shadowy woods, close
tangles and across rolling, hilly fields
near the Chancellor house, Wilder
ness church, Wilderness tavern, Park
er's store, Dodd's tavern, Alsop's
farm, and Bloody Angle, and along the
Fredericksburg and Orange turnpike,
the Plank road, the Brock road, and
the banks Of the Rapidan, and the
smaller rivers, Ny and Pc. Here on
one Of the bloodiest and ghostliest
areas of the American Civil war the
marines held maneuvers. -Four days
were spent in the vicinity Of Wilder
ness run, and those days were devot-
ed to battle exercises and problems.
Where StonewalI jackson Fell.
Three miles west of the western
limit Of Fredericksburg is Salem
church. Five miles west of Salem
church is Charlottesville. One mile
west of Charlottesville is little
monument in the woods by the road
side which marks where Stonewall
Jackson received the wound from
which he died in plain little farm
house near Guinea station, IL miles
south Of Fredericksburg. One mile
west of the solemn little monument
In it's lonely site is Wilderness church.
About two miles northwest OF the
courthouse Is battle area once so
otrewn with dead and so Uttered with
wounded men that for so years it
has been called Bloody Angle, and that
name will never be effaced from the
tragic ground. Something more than
Z mile from Bloody, Angle, at the fork
Of two old roads that are full Of steep
and bumpy hills and closely bordered
by thick woods, is monument that
marks where General Sedgwick-
| Gen. Jehn Sedg~ick, United States
Volunteers, commanding the Sixth
/. Army corps-a corps commander un-
[! der Grant, was killed in action on
!: the morning Of May Q, 1854.
Is This description points out some Of
the landmarks, some Of the "high
I spots" as 1t were, Of a section Of that
|. country in which the battle Of Fred
|! ericksburg was fought In December,
/: 1852, In which the battles Of Chancel-
: lorsvllle and Salem Church were
fought in May. $685., and in which the
: battles Of the Wilderness and Spott-
sylvania Courthouse were fought in
!. May, 1064-a little patch Of country
that has been appropriately called
'the cockpit Of America" - =.
= Still the WILDERNESS.
If there are SUCH things as ghosts
there must be armies of them In this
tangle-land, for many, many thousands
Of young men who wore the blue and
many, many thousands Of other young
i, men who wore the gray were shot
and bayoneted to death in, this Wild
country. Much Of that country west
.of Charlottesville and northwest Of
epottsylvania Courthouse. which was
called the Wilderness before and dur.
ing the Civil war, Is still "the wilder.
ness" -, -"
4. The winter OF 1s83-e4 was one Of
great hardship and prtvation for the
Confederate Army of Northern Vir
xinia, as well as for other Confeder
ate armies. The winter Of 1884-85 was
q Valley Forge winter for the south
srn troops. Gen. E. NJ. Law;fC s. A.
writing of the Wilderness and Spott
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