OECHARD KNOB. 95 



A tablet on one of the cannons which 

 stand upright on the highest knoll informs 

 visitors that the cemetery was " established " 

 in 1863. The number of burials is given as 

 12,876, of which nearly five thousand are of 

 bodies unidentified. A great proportion of 

 the stones bear nothing but a number. On 

 others is a name, or part of a name, with 

 the name of the State underneath. One I 

 noticed that was inscribed : 



JOHN 



N. Y. 



An attendant of whom I inquired if any 

 New England men were here, answered that 

 there were a few members of the Thirty- 

 third Massachusetts. I hope the New Eng- 

 landers resident in Chattanooga do not for- 

 get them on Memorial Day. 



Twice in the year, at least, the place has 

 many Northern visitors. They arrive on 

 wings, mostly by night, and such of them as 

 came under my eye acted as if they appreci- 

 ated the quiet of the inclosure, a quiet which 

 their own presence made but the more ap- 

 preciable. Scattered over the lawns were 

 silent groups of white-throated sparrows, 



