The Richmond Battlefields

The battle-fteL.ls around Richmond are quiet meadows now, reclaimed by nature, with few signs of the days oí "blood and iron." At Cold Hnrbor, Fair Oats, Seven Pines, and Malvern Hill, ono sees little to remind him of the terrible scènes enacted there tweive and fifteen yearsago. In thewoods and on lull-sides and river bluffs in the Península, where no attempt hns been made to cultívate the land, sloping earthworks are still to be seen, hut elsewhere the intrenehinents have been leveled. Below Petersburg there are few traces even of such formidable fortiñsations as Steadrnan, Heil and Damnafion. The Cráter and the fields around it are owned by Mr. Griffiths, who was borc close by. and was in Petersburg when the mine was íired. He has built a house near the Cráter, and now has his father's farm under excellent eultivation. The Cráter itself has been left almost untouched, and a thick nnderbrush of peach trees and sprouts has sprung up from the pits thrown away by the soldiers during the siege. Tlie ravinc where the dead lay in great hcaps on that terrible morning has been brought under the plow year after yeav, until now only a slight depression in the field can be pointed out. The vieitor has to pay 25 cents for a glimpse of the Cráter anti the interior of a shed stooked with battle relies.