Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 8, 1881, Page 7

VIRGINIA BATTLE-FIELD. Marye's Heighta as Seen High- teen Years After Burnside's Desperate Results, Fifteen Thousand Federal Dead-« Reminders of the Bloody Battle Coresspondence Philadelphia Times. Frevericksuro, July 28.—And this is the place where that grisly thing at Marye's Heights was done —the field whereon one December day eighteen years ago the army of the Potomac m ed to the sacrifice; the scene of a battle cruel in its con- ception, Satanic in its delivery, and grim, ghastly, inexpressibly awful in its slaughter. What the participant saw then no one can adequately des- cribe, What is to be seen in the bright sun and soft air now appears to .+ a landscape of hazy hillsides and t is a thing of joy. [ v, the darky driver insisted that | the first place to take a look at, was| the Union headquarters over in Staf- | ford, and so emphatical did he become “aho’s yo' bo'n sah!” and *“wish T may | drap dead ef 'taint so, sah!” that I| agreed to go to Stafford before visit- | the key-point at Marye's, Stafford is across the Rappahannock from Freder- icksburg, which is in Spottsylvania, As we crossed tho long bridge 1 couldn’t help remarking that Nature gives Stafford a fair country, but some of the stories of Spottsylvanians of the Stafford people indicate that nature’s bounty has been jumped rather than appreciated. What with rich harvests of grain and many hill- side orchards the Stafford people aught to be satisfied; but they like to fish and while the finny game of the Rappahannock is to them a constant delight it is also a drawback to mate- rial progress According te tradition the Stafford man is humlity itself, be- fore the fishing season comes but when his net is full he in turn becomes very much that way himself, Meetng a citizen during the former period he will assume a lowly mien and if asked whence he hails he will answer: “I'm from Stafford, if you please, sir; won't you gimme a chaw er to- backker?” But meeting him with the same question during the fishing season he will advance boldly and condescend to say: “Im from Stafford, by G—d, sir! Have a chaw er tobackker? have two, #ir? take the whole d—--d plug, sir.” As the same tradition has it, mem- bers of the county aristocracy teel like successful fishermen all the year round. Colonel Brown, an old-time slaveholder and statesman, used to pass his winters in Richmond, being for a number ot years a member of the Virginia Legislature. When in- troduced as ¥Colonel Brown, of Staf- ford,” the Colonel would draw him- self u{z to his full height, fold his arms grandly and exclaim: “From Staftord and King George, too, by G—d, sir.” Then, walking with quick strides away from his in- torlocutors, the old Tory would add, in a fierce undertone: “Ithank thee King of kings, that the blue blood boils in the veins of Colonel Timothy Brown, of King George and Stai- ford.” ON BURNSIDE'S STAFFORD BILL, ‘While enjoying these anecdotes, which were "interrupted only by Cato's chirrups to his horse, we made slow ascent of a steep road, and came to Mulberry Hill, one of the Stafford Heights and Burnside's headquarters, Of the stately Phillips wmansion, which the commanding General occu- pied, there now romains only the kitchen part. The great plantation house that stood upon the crest of the hill is.gone trom its garden and its grove of locusts, which still over- shadow the crumbling, weed-covered foundation walls, Near the ruins is a plat of land, bordercd by apple, cherry and cut paper trees, and in this plat grow several old-fashioned fnrdun lants, “ragged Robert” as it ield its blue flower up to the sun, of- fering dismal contrast to the time when the Philips maidens, owners of o thousand acres, plucked its blossoms to wear a the throat. Wreck and ruin mark the place; and the land lies fallow from woods to woods, From this point, in a straight lino to Lee's headquarters, on the range along the western bank of the Rappahannock, it is more than a mile, and between hilltop and hilltop Burnside had the field unrolled us upon a map before him. The Stafford range runs north and south, with the river to the west below, and the Spottsylvania range, of which Marye's li“;ill is a part, lies somewhat lower, being distant from from the Rappahapnock from six hun- dred yards to two miles, In the nar- row strip of broken plain between the river and Marye's is busy Fredericks- burg, with its six thousand people, while a curve. in the line of hills to- wards the south leaves, lower down rllin two miles wide and five mi ong. It wasa drear picture for Burn- side, beca ont the opposite range was the foe, 8o steadfastly plgeed that plentiful remnants of parapet and rifle-pit remain to-day, but now the smiling valley is checkered with alter- nate field and grove, FREDERICKSBURG'S SCARS, Returning we come again to ‘the bridge and the shore-marks that were left when the SBumner pontoon was thrown across the river. Captain Bcott, the toll-man, tells us,as wo pass over into l"rodutiok-hur'g, that he saw the mad efforts of the Yankees in put- ting the pontoon down, Keen-eyed rebel sharpshooters were in the stone houses, yet to be seen on the Freder- icksburg shore, and they picked off the engineers with the indifferent coolness of a sportsman cracking glass balls, *‘One feller,” said the Captain—who talks as though his listener were a %!umr of & mile away-—-"‘one of the anks, an officer, I 'low, got mad and rode his horse out on the pontoon One of our fellers put some lead "twixt his eyes and for pity's sake be shot the horse and Imtf:‘ o{ them float- od down stream, dead.” At the Fred- ericksburg end of the pontoon are the ruins of two or three houses, but the walis of the houses that were destroy- ed during the battle are no uncommon #ight. The business streets and the streots of handsome residences show few signs of the cannonade, yet one is led to notice patch after patch in the 1 Doric oddity. something queer about the old town [ I counted nineteen patches in one | square and the ruins of about a dozen small brick buildings remain as they | were after the tempest of shot, shell [and fire had passed. MARYE'S HEIGHTS AND HOUSE, While the Rappahannock, with its | tew reminders of the struggle, serves | a8 a limit and a border to one side of a wall to the other side, I went out the street that runs into the Orange plank road and a drive of three min- utes from the bridge brought me kvlump ngainst the heights. The ",lnryu Hill is to the left and to the ‘rluht stretches a saw-like range of eminences, The Marye mansion, once the homestead of Governor Marye, and now owned by John Lane, is a | hill, Tts red walls are supplemented | towards the roof by belts of white | weather-boarding, and this with its | four white porch_ pillars, makes it a There is an air of pros- perity about the house and about the whole, making it appear to be the well-kept suburban residence of wealthy citizen. The Iawn which con veof cedars, looks toward the town and slopos at a steep anglo to a stone wall by the roadside, at the foot of the hill. This is the stone wall of history. Its bits of rock are as stern in their brown solidity as when they wore unquarried parts of Mother Earth, Walking along the wall, up to the eyes of a small man, T was first startled and then amused to see the sign, tains a *e * ,)ainted in capital letters midway the rowning mass of rocks. No shooting! It was a conceit to tickle Santa him- self and to make Falstaff pun for a week. Some mad wag, I thought, had thus grimly satirized history, and very likely my belief would have been 80 regarded if Cato’s r‘uick explana- tion that “‘no shooting”’ wasa warning for sportsmen to kecp off the premises had not altogether spoiled the idea. The wall on. tfio other side of the road is partly gone—put to good use, as I presently saw—but at least half of it now hems in a small orchard, THE FAMOUS STONE WALL, Itis hard to believe that sucha peaceful spot asthis ever was over- swept by the storm ot which veterans stammer to tell and wherewithal no writer may hope properly to deal. The hill-top frowns with rebel artil- ler{‘, scores of heavy fu.u in double, treble and quadruple lines terrace tho slope, and roadway and trench behind the stone walls bristle with bayonets Sumner and French and Hooker and Hancock see that no such wall of strength ever fell to the lot of man to take and the many brigades now mass- ed securely in the shelter of the town feel the force of it—all save Burnside —and, pity though it is, behind Burn- side is the whip-lash of a great people who, in the rage of ignorance, howl for victory. From the shelter of the low-lying houses there to the east comes bravely out a thick line of men in blue, They are in fine form, so admirable, indeed, that the enemy envies them, They come on in spite of the vleam and crash and deadly rain of shot in their pathway. Individual heroes even got to where they can see the white of the foemen's eye, but it is too much for mortal man and French is brushed away. Now Han- cock bursts from his “shelter with a desperate rush—n dash that would seem to know nostop., Five thousand men are double-quicking across the field straight against the heights, Even Lee is nervous. Every rebel line is ablaze, but they come on and men fall within a dozen steps of the oal. The roadway between the walls 18 packed with a_yelling mass of hu- mamty, Friendly gun kills frind. It 1s throat to throat. But under the immense pressure and the eutting cross-fire back they go, falling and crawling as best they may. Two thousand of the five thousand fall in five minutes—many are dead, many dying, and many destined to pass a night worse than death itself, McLaws feels so full of the big issue that he shouts ‘‘Victory!” into Lee’s ear and Lue smiles as he never did before. Ty look at the piles of dead one thinks that the matter might end now, and yet Hooker driv wward in a charge that is 1epulsed with terrible slaugh- ter as the quick-falling darkness of December rests upon the field, As I'stand in tho federal cemetery here on Marye's Hill the afternoon sun slants across the graves of 15,000 men and brightens the place of slaugh- ter below, The field over which the unequaled charges were made was then an open suburb of the town—a ground where fairs were held; but it is now filled with small frame houses, pretty and pleasant in their gardens, wheneo the fragrance of flowers is blown, During the battle there were three or Lour houses near the foot of the hill, and now contain patched places, uncovered holes and bullet marks, At the northern end of one of these dwellings wmay be seen be- tween five hundred and a thousand bullet marks, which 1o amount of whitewashing will conceal. The occu- pant of this cottage told me that on the morning after the battle he saw two union soldiers within hand’s reach of the stone wall. They got nearer than any of their fellows and each had a cold grip upon his gun. Two hundred yards from the cemetery gate the guide points out a lot in which the essailing - thousands threw up a breastwork of dead bodies, fighting desperately behind it until hope was gone, AFLER THE BATTLE, BURIAL, One side of the contested hill is now the place of burial, The super- intendent walked around among the vaves with me and showed me his The cemetery, which serves for the battles in the Wilderness also, covers several acres and contains the bodies of 16,267 Union soldiers, of whom 12.770 are unknown, These glorious fellows at last passed the stone wall and carvied the heights, but there they must stop until dooms- day. The graves are in broad lots on a plateau, and moreover the side of the hill overlooking Fredericksburg is terraced, and even from the Rap- pahannock the lttle white blocks of granite may be seen. Dwarf cedars and various flowering plants thrive all around the vast graveyard, and the keepers stone lodge, which was built brick walls until he feels there is from a portion of the bloody wall, is in a thick cluster of shrubs, Near the town, the steep Marye Hills are as | fine brick house on the crest of the | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY AUGUS! grave and monument of Wash- ton's mother, whose house still stands in Fredericksburg, is the Con- federate cometery, 1t joins the town | cemetery, being in the same inclosure, A Confederate monument has b erected within the last year or so, visitors frc the north feel that a monument should be raised among the myriad dead on the neighboring | hill, | Jesides the ruined houses, the graves, the trenches and the stone walls, there are many well-preserved sarapets on the hills adjoining Mrrye's. The thickly-wooded spurs to the south contain positive marks of | their cecupation, but in the neighbor hood of )‘l.mnhun‘q Crossing, where | Franklin and Meade made such a bril what might have the farmers have blotted ry, out all evidences of war. Rounda- [ bout is the yellow stubble of a rich | harvest, while from the hills that Jackson held to the beautiful Rappa- | hannock the orchards arc fair with fruit, G. N Growing Western Iowa, Dabuque Telegraph The im of the past few sttling up the west, number of emi- grants, especially rmans and Nor- wogians, have settled in the northern ana western portions of Towa. That the western counties of this state are rapidly filliug up with these people, | is illustrated by the great demand for | lumber from thissection. Onewestern lumber dealer sent a telegram here yesterday saying he wanted lumber at any price, stating that the demand is 80 great that it cannot begin to be supplied. Fifty-nine car loads were shipped yesterday over the Tllinois Central, and about as many more went west to-day. One of our lum- ber dealers is forty cars behind orders, and is compelled to work his hands night and day to catch up again. The Illinois Central freight depot is crowded with merchandise destined for the same points as the lumber, and the railroad people are obliged to work two gangs of men night and day in order to keep the, freight house clear of goods. All this indi- cates that it will not be long in the future before the thinly-inhabited counties of our youug and prosperovs state will be filled with industrious and thrifty people. ! There is No Happier Man in Rochester than Mr. Wm. M. Arm- strong. With a countenance beaming with satistaction he remarked, re- cently, ‘“‘blessings upon the proprietor ot Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver cure. It saved me.” 1w 01l Repo: The July report of oil production in the Bradford Era shows the comple- tion of 341 new wells during the month, yielding a daily average of 5601 barrels. As compared with the new wells for June this shows a de- crease Of new production equal to 1582 barrels per day. The bulk of the increased production (4823 bar- rels) is in the Bradford district. 'T'he development of the Allegheny field — the extension of the McKean county ol field across the line into New York state—is progressing with char- acteristic energy. The Era suys: “During the past month twenty- three wells were comploted in the Allegheny field, Of this number fif- teen are classed among the producers. One or two, however, are of exceed- ingly light calibre. The dry holes serve to narrow the productive field to acertain degree, though within thecon- fines marked by the few dusty out- posts there is a large scope of territo- ry yet to be tested. A careful can- vass of this new and budding field at the close of the month shows an ag- gregate of ninety-nine rigs up .and building and wells drilling. Many of these are located in proximity to pro- ducers, and are considered safe ven- tures, if they may be considered ven- tures at all, while others are purely of an_experimental nature, some being miles outside the known boundaries. At present the towns of Alma and Wirt are furnishing the most of the Alleghany production,‘Bolivar at the same time coming in for a share of the honors,” The storing capacity for oil was increased during the month of July, at points in proximity to the source of supply and convenient for transportation, to the; extent of 827,000 barrels of iron tankage,— [Petroleum Philadelphia Record. Kidney Complaint Cured. B, Turner, Rochester, N, Y., writes: T have been for over a year subject to serious disorder of the kidneys, and often unable to attend to business; 1 procured your Buknook Broon Birrers, and was relioved before half a bottle was used, 1 in ontinue, as I feel confident that they nti cure me,” Price $1.00, trial size 10 c ang7-eodlw, Flax Seed. Des Moines Register. Many of our readers are interested in the probable price of seed. The impression is general, and we think correctly 80, that there is double the acreage in Towa of any previous year, But there are indications of a limited yield per acre. J. T. Thomas & Co,, of St. Louis, deal largely in flax soed, and they have careful correspondents in all parts of the northwest. They say in their circular of July 25tk that so far as flax seed has been thrashed in Jowa, Kansas, Missouri and Tllinois, the yield proves very dis- appointing. They say the yield is from four to seven and eight bushels per acr Last year it was from ten to sen. From these facts, and the fact that European crushers will this year compete in the New York market for our flax seed at $1.85 per bushel, should induce holders not to be in a hurry to contraet their erop at panic rricul, Though it is too early or Thomas & Co., of St. Louis, to make a correct estimate of the crop, yet it is best not to be too fast to con- tract for less than from 90 cents to §1 in Iowa. Bucklin's Aruniea Salve, The best salve inthe world for euts, bruises, sorcs, ulcers, salt rheum, fover sores, tetter, c‘n\pwd hands, chillblains, corns and all kinds of skin eruptions. This salve is guar- anteed to give perfect satisfaction in every case or money refunded, Price, 25¢ per box, For sale by Isi & Monason, Omak % Edward W, Simeral, ATTORNEY -AT- LAW, FEENEY & CONNOLLY, BOOTS, SHOES, SLIPPERSI Of crery grade and size at At Prices Heretofore Un- heard of. 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