The Waste of War

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Sep 8, 1863

THE WASTE OF WAR.—Since the national army has been located opposite Fredericksburg, it has occupied about thirty-two square miles, of which twenty-four were covered with dense woods of oak and cedar when our troops were first stationed there. So enormous, however, has been the amount of fuel that they have required, that where this extensive forest once stood, there is now but one vast field covered with stumps.