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GUIJTDAY JXE7E 1013. the- yoiut te THE FEIDEEAL; LEFT BATTERY HOW OKIE I the second day at Gettysburg. Bigeiow' Massachusetts battery, ordered to held Its poeltlou at lb xtrra ltt cf the Union Cat uata vry naa dead, la It Ut gasp. Blgelow is wounded en of hi Uu-tenants dead; about th TrotI farmhous II man snJ horses dead and delfts, wfcll Confederate aaUs and bullets shriek through th air, shattering and matnviflg In Ibdr path. From everywhere th Confederate ar pressing In, bound to sunder Mead', left from oie I eat of his army.

One of th tr.oet heroic eud desperate stands ever made against overwhelming odds la about is be beaten pieces. Suddenly there Is a yell. Ilea in bloe burst from the nearby wood. Six suns are unllmbered In no time and trained on the Confederate. Ther Is a cloud and loer.

Canister, double charge of It, tomes amaaning Into Longstreet's ranks, plowing bole la them, piling them on tha ground, ending them scurrying to cover. man who brought up those six guns meets Blgelow outside tha farm-bouse. They exchange a few words, Blgelow, weak and Is ear-. Hed to the rear." The man who saved him. stringing out bis guns a bit to the left of the farmhouse, waits for another attack of the enemy.

It cornea Soon ho. too. Is making a stand aa desperate as Blgelow, holding a key position single-handed as did hi Massachusetts comrade, warding off the utter rout of Meade's army with guns rammed full to the rnuxxle. hot to bursting, banking the killed and wounded In heaps before them. Then another wild cheer and again reinforcement In blue com surging forward, and the Confederates are driven back one mora.

Fighting. Barkadalc. The man who savwd Blgelow and afterward made that great stand with bis battery told all about It on day last week to a Tines reporter. He Is CoL Edwin B. Dow of New Tork City.

At Gettysburg he was Ca.pt. Dow. commanding the Sixth Maine Battery. To-day he starts for Gettysburg, to visit once again the ground where he fought so desperately and well, to live over hours with tha few Gettysburg veterans. Blue and Gray, who are still alive, and-best of all to meet Blgelow again.

For John Blgel6w la still alive. They two, the Massachusetts artilleryman and the man from Maine, sturdy and upstanding still In spite of his sev-; enty-odd years, may perhaps stand at the Trostle house again next Wednesday, fifty years after they stood there for the first, time, and look out one more toward the woods whence th blood-mad rebels came charging forward. A magnificent maat oaya CoL Dow of bis friend Blgelow. The words', apply to lm as well, for stands six feet tall' and looks capable of beating off another Longstreet If. one Should present himself In 1013.

CoL Dow sat at a window' overlooking Broadway wben.e told about -Gettysburg, and It didn't take Broad-way long to disappear and take all New Tork and the last fifty years along with It. Said the Gettysburg veteran: -My battery the Sixth Maine was a part of the reserve artillery. were ordered to move toward Gettys- burg on July 1. 1SG3. with Hancock's corpa When we reached the field the first day's battle was over.

Reynolds was dead. Howard had fallen back to Cemetery Hill and fortified It. That night we went Into camp' on th Taneytown Road, directly behind Little Round Top. "In the morning our line was By John Reed Scott. I HE veterans of th Army of th I Potomac and of th Army of Northern Virginia who return for the fiftieth anniversary of th battle will find little change in the town since they saw It In July.

1863 that Is. assuming that they saw It at all during those three fierce days of 'strife and death. It haa Increased In 'sis and decreased excitability. It has long -refused to become aroused over anything Incident to the battle It has been living with the incidents too long. Tt has been having reunions, celebration, controversies, processions, dedication, speeches, big and little and 'without number, for forty years.

Privates. Lieutenants, Captains, Majors, Generals. Governors, all look Uike to It has been sur- felted. Nothing less than a President of the United States or a fire can cause it to become agitated with the odis In favor of the fir. Hut for aQ its equanimity in matters -relating to the battle, Gettysburg, is mot hospitable' to the stranger, most courteous, most thoughtfully kind.

With a population of four thousand, the town, unaided, entertains at on time two and three times tta popula- Hon and think nothing of it. Could York, or Philadelphia, or Chl- cago, or Baltimore, or aay city In th land do th same? I trow not. The celebration of this July, how-ver. is completely beyond It capacity and Its power. The town realises It; yet it will endeavor to provide food all.

and, with the aid of private owellioga cf many of its citizens, lodging fur at least twenty thousand visitors. may tall, but no on can vr truthfully aay that It did not strain nwanfully to the task. The battlefield. tweaty-flv square r-iiU extent, over which 1S0.C00 uieo fuusht bc5 and forth during rthiwe r.ot July lUty yetiis ago. the Issue hung trembling la I HOW Col.

Edwin H. Dow Tells How His Six Guns Saved Bielow Massachusetts Men, Stood Off the Furious Charges of Barksdale and Later Helped Repulse Pickett formed from Cemetery Hm to Little Round Top. My battery, bald In reserve, was In th rear of the Third Corpa line. 8oon Longstreet began massing -his troops to attack th Round Tops, tb capture of which would put him In a position to enfilade out line and compel us to retreat. Whan the sharpshooters reported Longstreet' movement to Gen.

Sickles, Sickle moved th Third Corps out to th Emmitsburg Road to intercept Longstreefa advance. A most terrific battle began then there. It commenced about noon and lasted until 8 at Bight. I bad my glasses out. and kept busy watching th fighting.

was reinforced by. War- INTERESTING PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN TWENTY-FIVE tt. v. -t 7 it In Front Row from Left to Right, Gen. Chamberlain, Gen.

ButterfieU, and Gov. Hartranft of Pennsylvania Is Between the Next ren. and when th lighting was at Its height Warren went up Round Top, discovered that It was unoccu- pled, recognised the danger, and at once ordered bis corpa (the' Fifth) to the summit. They arrived Just in time to drive back Longstreet's men, who were climbing the other side of the mountain. I could see th fight on Little Round Top.

through toy glasses. "Then Longstreet, finding himself outmanoeuvred in his attempt to get possession of the Round Tops, concentrated his forces to cut off the, men defending them from the rest of the Federal Army. Through the gap In our lines, which had been, opened VETERANS AND OTHERS Provision Has Been Celebration the balance, and the God of Blood Death ruled, ha become a National Military park. Nowhere in the world Is there Its equal. For over thirty year It baa been preserved, first by the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association a corporation of.

the States having troop in th Army of the Potomac and later by th General Government. The position of every regiment haa been marked, until there are now over seven hundred monuments, erected by the various States or by the United States, coating from five hundred to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars apiece. Along the various battle lines thirty-two miles of wide avenues have been built under direction of the Government Commission. composed of Lieut. CoL John P.

Nicholson. Major Charlea IL Richardson, and Major Gen. L. L. Lomax.

Practically the entire field, haa passed Into the control of this commission during the last fifteen years, and it has gradually brought It back, at great cost and enormous labor, to Its wartime condition. 1 To-day the veteran standing on any of the huge observatories erected on commanding: locations can look down upon the wide sweep of country Just aa he saw It fifty years ago av for the absence of the two armies. The gleaming memorials of granite and bronse have replaced th line of Blue and Gray. It 'Is to this restored field. an4 to such a hospitable and.

to effect. an unchanged town the town Itself Is In tho very midst of the battlefield that the. veterans are coming back, l-lifty year ago, young- and lusty, they tame to fight the crucial battle of the uar; to-day. feebl aad aged, they by th ad vane of th Third Corps, Barksdale's and' Wof ford's brigades advanced to pierce our left centra. It was a terrible moment.

Geo. Graham, who commanded a brigade of th Third Corps, was wounded and taken prisoner, the position of Gen. Humphreys was turned, tha whole Third Corp was beaten back, stunned and demoralised. The chief of th Third Corps artlllefy was wounded and bis batteries, out of ammunition, were hurled back under tb fir of th rebel guns which bad snatched a position on higher ground. "it was the crltds of th battle.

BlgeloWs Maasachusetta Battery bad been ordered by Major McGilvery. who had assumed command of all th artillery on th Hne. to keep Barka- dale back until he could form a second line of batteries to oppose the rebel advance. McGllvery bad been holding' the Sixth Maine Battery mine in reserve. Now at half past 6 In the evening we were ordered Into the fight to cover BlgeloWs guns.

We galloped forward, got into position doe to the Trostle farmhouse, and went at the rebels. In front of us was the Twenty-first Mississippi. They put up a stiff fight; but we got the best of them: and drove them from the -guns. 1 1 "The Mississippi men were right In -the farmhouse when wo got up to It, and they poured bullets Into us frbm But lotal of 1 00,001) Visitors expected May Cause Some Hardship. come to celebrate a reunited the rancors of war long buried.

Such' as have not buried them would much better not come they will be sadly out of place; and, to their comrades, then absence will be a great relief and not a disappointment. The fiftieth celebration Is no place for Irreconcilable of either the North or the South. The Government baa made provision to care for 40,000 veterans in one great camp, where they will be the honored guests of the occasion, and food and lodging will be provided Once more they win live in tenta as In their soldier days, but with no hardships, no labor, no drills, no" guarding. Three hundred thousand dollars have been appropriated, one-half by Congress and one-half by Pennsylvania, for expenses of camp and entertainment' All this money Is to be expended under direction of the War Department. The camp Is pitched Just south of the town, between the Eraml ttsb urg Road and West Confederate Avenue, and extending south aa far aa the point where the former intersects the Round Top Branch of the Reading Railway.

It required two months to erect and equip it. Its area Is 27S acres. The number of tenta is WIS, arranged In street. Every streot Is named and very tent numbered. Five hundred electric lights in tb streets and fifty Interior lights will make the camp as biilllant a th Great White Way.

jT Four huge wells have been sunk that will supply 000.000 gallons of water daily; in addition ther 1 a tank reserve. To feed the veterans there are 1XXX) cooks aad dishwashers. One hundred everywhere, but swept them out of tb plaea. Near the hoose was Blgelow, wounded, and one of his Lieutenant. dead, in the midst of a whole lot cf their men.

and eighty-six pf.th bat-' tery horses heaped all around! What a fight Blgelow had put up his first one, tool But there was no time to waste. We got Blgelow back to the rear, and then I was ordered to move by the flank and plant my battery across a road by which th enemy were advancing once more. It waa a tough move, as the Confederate were keeping up a terrific fir all the time, but I managed to get my men Into position without losing any of them. Major McG livery had succeeded in Gen. Longstrcet, Gen.

Sickles, and Gen. Carr. Senator Warner Miller Is Between th First Tiro Generals Two. In th Crowd Back of Them Are Some of Pickett's Men With Veterans of the Union Army. placing in position around my battery twenty-one pieces of artillery, all of which, except the Sixth Maine, had been In th fight all th afternoon.

In a few minute Barksdale'a men cam charging at us, we opened fire, and th shot went smashing Into his column and drove them back to r- organise. But we, too. were In a bad way. Some of th guns that bad been run into position to support my battery were out of ammunition and had to leave the field, and on whole battery, the Fifth United States. (Watson's.) which bad been fighting out in our front, waa abandoned where it stood.

All that was left of th line of artll- WILL BE Will Attend the and thirty baker will bake daily pounds of bread In fourteen field oven. It is expected that 180,000 pound of white and sweet potatoes and tomatoes, 200,000 pounds of meat, 36,000 pounds of sugar, and 7.000 pounds of table salt will be used. I The tents are protected by 150 jnilcj of ditches twenty miles more than the distance from Washington tt Philadelphia. Eight men wtll be assigned to each tent, which Is provided with eight cots, two lanterns, two washbasins and a water bucket. Th camp has a total of 42,544, cots, lanterns.

10.630 wash-basins, and 5.313 water buckets. Running water is piped to every atreet Intersection, with 32 fountains of Ice-water hi addition. A bcspital corps of 110 men In command of a Surgeon-Major and 9 Captains and Assistant Surgeons will be in charge of th camp hospital. Caring for Other Visitors. These figure apply solely, to the veterans camp.

In addition the State of Pennsylvania has appropriated the further sum "of $265,000 to bring the old soldiers from wherever they happen to be, and for the expenses Incident to the health and comfort of the 50,000 visitors, not veteran, who wtll throng the town. One Item alone of this 1 for an emergency hospital of SO tents, 175 beds. 19 doctors and 18 nurses. with a fully equipped operating tent aad two hospital cars to transfer serious cases daily to hospitals In nearby cities. Two dispensaries with six he? each will be established, on near the railroad stations and one near the tent where the exercise win occur, aad six emergency stations will administer first aid promptly, with auto lory formed by McOilvery to stop the Confederate advance toward th Taneytown road was my Sixth Maine, with Its six guns, and two guns from Phillips's Massachusetts Battery.

With these we prepared to stem the tide which we knew was Well. Sir. those eight guns drove back three distinct charges, and' what charges they were? "How near did 'the Confederates get? We could see the whites of their eyes. Sir, as they came plunging at us, with their bayonets lowered. But those eight guns were double-shotted with canister, ISO bullets to each gun, and how th shot did tear Into those rebel lines as they cam at us.

On th third charge, which was th most desperate of all. they cam YEARS AGO ON LITTLE ROUND TOP rlght up to us, snd ve certainly did give them th canister right In thulr face a "I saw one of their Majors cum Jumping out of th rank Into th front of their lines and snatch tho colors from a color bearer. Com on, be yelled, 'com on there and get those guns! We blew him Into a thousand pieces. He wasn't 200 yards away when we killed him. I got his sword, by the way.

We stood off Barksdale from half past 6 until 8 that night. He must have sent 2,000 or 3,000 men against us, and I didn't have over seventy-five men In action, besides the few of Phillips's battery, but we managed CARED FOR ambulances to convey patients to th main hospltala The battalion of State constabulary will do police duty In the town. i The town, having the 40,000 veterans taken off its hands and provided for by the camp, face tb deluge of the 60.000 visitor or of as many as can get to th battlefield. The transportation problem Is far more serious than the subsistence problem. How two railroads with an aggregate capacity, under forced operation, of not to exceed.

12,000 passengers In one day, are to land 100,000 In this town in two, three or even four days, 1 bothering the brains, of three able railroad managers whcC It happens, are also on the Pennsylvania State Commission Capt. John P. Green. Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Capt. George F.

Baer, President of the Reading Railroad, and CoL James M. Schoomacher. Vice President of th New York Central. It is the quartering and ubltenco problem that directly confront Gtt-tysburg. Tho who com by motor may spend tb nights In Ilarriaburg, Tork.

Carlisle, Chambersburg. Frederick, and every other town and hamlet within a radius of thlrty-flvs as for thos who com by train, th town may be able to feed all within ber gate, but she cannot provide sleeping quarters, for more than 20.000. What are the remaining thousands to do? At first glance, this estimate of veterans aad 50,000 visitors to a town of 4.000 people may seem pre- posteroua. It la not. Tho officer of the Quartermaster General' Department, who never run to who are calm, methodical, dealing witlt cold figures always, hav prepared for that m.

to hold our position. "If Barkadal had got by us would hav let Longstrcet through th Taneytown Road, and to en heaven knows what would have happened. Th Third Corps bad been broken up; th only thing that was holding the Confederates back was that artillery Una formed by McOilvery- It ever man deserved credit it is he! "What saved ra was that I had a whole lot of canister. While thos rebel were charging us we were sending 3.000 bullets a minute' Into them. Though everything was going to smash around us.

my battery, somehow, kept in good We lot only fourteen men! My horse was ahot under, Just as I went Into action part of Its head was blown away and my orderly's horse was killed tight beside me. Barksdale, the rebel commander who led the was killed In front of our line. Finally. Just as things were looking doubtful. Gen.

Williams of the Twelfth Corps, who had com down from Culp'a Hill, and Wlllard's brigade of th SeoonJ Corps cam to pur support. There was a furious fight. In which Willard was allied, but bis men drove th Confederate Into their lines, ending th battle for th night. That night filled our ammunition chests, fed our horses, and went AT GETTYSBURG number of veterans. Th average American, who always wants to got In a crowd and see.

Just because there' Is a crowd and excitement, aad push and fight, can be depended on to be aa usual, and to flock- here In at least equal numbers. If be doe not It will be the first time he has lost the opportunity. This Is the old soldiers' show they paid the price of admission fifty years ago but they are likely to be vastly hindered In their enjoyment by those who are actuated by mere curiosity. Gettysburg had a population of about 2.500 In 1803 its growth since baa extended It. but not materially altered it.

The same buildings that were here when the men of the First and Eleventh Corps fought tb men of Ewell through th town are. In th main, here to-day eome with slightly altered architecture, but otherwis th same. And what of the loaders In the battle of fifty years ago Meade. Lee. Reynolds.

Longstreet, Slocum, Ewell, Hancock. HIIL Sedgwick. Pickett, Howard. Heth, Sykea, Early, Doubleday, Rode. Pleasanton, Stuart.

Hunt. Alexander. Butterfield. Marshall. Gibbon.

Pettl-grew, Humphreys. Pender, Buford, Johnston. Merritt. Fltzhugh Lee. Xll-patrlck.

Chambles. Warren. McLaws. Blrney, Anderson, Wright, Hood, Webb, Armistead. CaJweH.

Barksdale. Barlow, Stannard. Garnetf, Wadsworth, Wilcox. Mcintosh, Jenkins. Custer and Hampton? Dead! All Of the ranking officers of toth armies but three survive; Major Gen.

John It- Brooke. United State Army, retired, who. a a Brigadier, commanded a brlgad tf th Second on th battle Un as part of U. Gllvery brigade of sis batUrW When Leo opened our lines wit his terrlflo cannonad of the thtre day Can. Hunt ordered us to bold esr fir.

It was nighty god that did, for ooa Pickett's division appeared over tb ridge In front and cam charging straight at un. My battery was on th left and Pickett was aiming straight at th centra, but my guns and the thirty nf the other flva batteries aroun us sent a ball of sbot Into his num. and I tail you the gaps we made wure simply terrible. But they closed up tlmlr line, and closed them up and them up till they got to within a far hundred yarda of our pvUlon ni then, with on hundred guns pout-. log lead Into them, thy closed for tb last tiro and ruahed us it a( double quick.

My guns and those Cur ceased firing when thy got ti close to our centre. I- tell you it looked bad when thos Confederal went at our men over there to tb right. But glorious Hancock with tb Second Corps, and beat them, as you know. After Pickett's Generals. Garrett and Armlstead, had been killed, and Kara.

Hr and Pettlgrew wounded, thos of th Confederates that were left tried to get back to Lee's Unea Only a few succeeded, though, because our artillery continued to mow them down, and 8tannard's Vermont brigade made a countercharge, surround. Ing a whol lot of them and making them surrender. A Terrible Slrbt. The next day, the Fourth of July, when the battle was over, I rode across the field from where our lines had stood on Cemetery Hill to where L'e headquarters hau been. The whol valley between was dotted with bodies, and.

as th sun was hot, they had swelled up snd were terrible to look at. "AfUr Gettysburg my battery reported to Gen. Howard st Hagerstown and was ordered to Willlamsport' to hslp drtv tb nemy across th river. But when got there they war out of reach of our guns. After that we went Into Winter quarters, "In th Spring of 1804.

out of twnty-slx batteries in th reserve artillery which wer inspected by Gen. Hancock, min was selected to report to him and was assigned to the Becord Corpa Later I waa brer-eted Major by -Congress for gallant and meritorious conduct at Gettysburg. fought th whole ensuing campaign with that corps. When wer In front of Petersburg my battery fought off a superior fore of the er-emy, after the Infantry had bn repulsed. This Is the only taotanre I krw of via our army wher a battnry remained fighting on the picket after th Infantry had retired.

i "In front of Petersburg idal stricken with malarial fever and, worn out from marching all night and fighting all day, I was sent bom on thirty days' leave of absence. But my fever turned Into typhoid and I wn forced to remain st horn 100 dy. By th army regulations, any officer staying away on sick leave over ninety days was mustered out. so. when returned to my battery.

found that I had been discharged for disability. I went back to Washington, and ther Gen. Hancock, who always ahowed th greatest kindness, offered th Colonelcy of th Flrt Veteran Regiment of th United States. But my health would not allow me to accept. "If I had I should probably hav continued to aerv In lh army.

But I'm not too old to go back to Oettys this year, and It will good to see John Blgelow and my oM comrades again." Corp: Major Gen. Daniel E. SIcKS the commander of th Third Corpa who brought on th appalling oonfiot ofth second day and around whom a controversy has raged for fifty years, and Major Gen. D. MeM.

Oreg. who fought th cavalry fight. 'and battered Lee's last hope when drove back th brave Stuart. The camp I In charge of officer of th Quartermaster General' Department, U. S.

Major J. H. Nermoyle, Major W. R. Gov.

Capt. W. a Mo-Caky. snd Capt. If.

F. Dalton. It la guarded by Companle K. and Fifth United State Infantry, under Major Laawelgne. It wIH open with the evening meal of June 29 and break up on July The exercises will occur on July 1-4.

and will be held in a tent S00 by 7OT feet, with a seating capacity of people. It stands south of the Intersection of the railroad and the Em-ralttsburg Road, Jujt west of the litter and tb Cotiorl Houne. There will a Veterans Day. unJ-r the direction, of the Comianders-in' Chi-f of the Grand Army of the Republic and of(the United Confi-rate Veterans; a Military Day, in chart of the Chief of the Staff of the United States Army; a Civic Day, when tD Governor of Pennsylvania will the oration, and a IT July 4 when the Cbkif Justice of th United Stales will preside and. It Is hoped, the President of the United State will be present and in ait aa address.

A Drolonrnd rain on any of th jays from Julyl to 4 win renJer of small avail th month of preparation and th hundred of thousands of dollars already spent. It will Un roui! mud! and yet mors mud! If, however, th sun smiles from clear kl. there will probably be a ce)bratlnn such aa the world has never seen. It waa clear for the battle will 't be clear for th celebration fifty fterf.