74 CHICKAMAUGA. 



ugly staring white slabs to publish their im- 

 memorable names to every passer-by. 



From the hill it was but a few steps to 

 the Snodgrass house, where a woman stood 

 in the yard with a young girl, and answered 

 all my inquiries with cheerful and easy po- 

 liteness. None of the Snodgrass family 

 now occupied the house, she said, though one 

 of the daughters still lived just outside the 

 reservation. The woman had heard her de- 

 scribe the terrible scenes on the days of the 

 battle. The operating-table stood under this 

 tree, and just there was a trench into which 

 the amputated limbs were thrown. Yonder 

 field, now grassy, was then planted with 

 corn; and when the Federal troops were 

 driven through it, they trod upon their own 

 wounded, who begged piteously for water 

 and assistance. A large tree in front of the 

 house was famous, the woman said ; and 

 certainly it was well hacked. A picture of 

 it had been in "The Century." General 

 Thomas was said to have rested under it ; 

 but an officer who had been there not long 

 before to set up a granite monument near 

 the gate told her that General Thomas 

 didn't rest under that tree, nor anywhere 



