Mrs. Lyon’s Diary.
March 15, 1863.—We went to church and heard Mr. McKenney, Chaplain of the 71st Ohio, the first preaching I have listened to in three months. After dinner we walked to the burying ground, where the heaviest of the last battle was fought. There were a number of bodies picked up right here. Two battles were fought over this ground. It had once been decorated beautifully. There are a number of slabs that are box-shaped, handsome monuments, nearly all broken by cannon balls and shells. It makes a desolate place of it. After the last battle they dug pits and put from twenty to forty bodies in each grave, without even a box to shelter them. There are a great many interesting places around here, made so by events that will enter history.
