The News from Frederick, Maryland • Page 1

THE VOL. VIH--Ho. 155. NEWS. MONDATETEKmO.

GEITrSBIlG. Ill ProHeit I isits thi HstMfe Ptaisjluili Tin. loU(i of Battle ma it attar Twenty of iforTBtNtwj. The visitor to the Gettysburg bat- tie-field of to-day would be sorely tempted to cast his vote for the view. of the immortal Hasoe.who declared that there is no such tntog reality: that all we see, ieel, hear and believe is made op of ideas and imprearioaa Who woold have tHieved 1843 thut the quiet, sober, matter-of-fact capital of Autms county was to be the scene of the greatest conflict ol the century, rivalling Leipsic in ration and Borodino in carnage? Who would have believed, when Abraham Lincoln in November of 1863 ottered that brief but ever memorable address, which was at ODCJ elegy a Consecration, a precept a prayer-who would have believed that, littfe more than twenty years later, the spot should be visited in state by a ocretic president, not in a spirit ol Tain glory or triumph over the fallen heroes tbe Rational Cemetery, bat in a spirit of confraternity, of a recognition of Lincoln's noble declaration after AppomaUox that "Dme" must now he played turn with the Star- Spangled recognition, to sum up the situation ia a few words, that there exists no longer a North and a South, a Blue anti a Gray, but a united American people? Twenty years have wiped cut the bitter memory of the most bitter strife tbe the world ever witnessed.

History Can scarce furnish a parallel to it When Marshal Soult visited England after the overthrow of tbe great Napoleon, old soldiers who had many times fought against him, and leveled their muskets at his person, rushed forward to shake him by the hand. But this was an international issue, not a ctvil war. GEITYSBrrBG A3 IT IS. The scars of war linger about the Pennsylvania town; they were too grave and too deep to be eradicated ia iu twenty years. But Waterloo and the Brandy wine, the one fought 70 sad the other 114 years ago to the full as many actual battle scan to show as Gettvabnrtr.

ne road intended to give communication withChambenburg may be traced for a abort diataaee near the Seminary weet town. From the soath obteiswd by from Em- mitaborg tea mile, dirt nt. The tL ir 0 Cemetery HiILhalf a mile from Gettysburg Hill a mile to the right, Little Round Top two mile, to the south. Round Top half a mile further down, aad Seminary Ridge on the weet. The Gettysburg and Hamburg Railroad run.

across round fiercely contested on the 2nd aad 3rd of Julv 1863. by that part of W. army oa Seminary Ridge aad Meade ma Line placed parallel to the Taneytown Road from Cemetery Hill to Round Top. The Codori Honse ie exactly in the track of Pick- third day: it was set on fire during the struggle, bat has been once entirely rebuilt, and is now handsome and conspicuous structure and a useful landmark in locating the other points on this portion of tbe battlefield. On the Eastern side of Cemetery Hill the line of Union en trenchmente may be easily traced nearly due east to Gulp's Hill, the point disputed between Ewell and the right wing of Meade's army under Slocum and Wadsworth.

It may give some idea of the extent of ground covered by the battle field when it ie stated that the area ia not less than 25 miles, and that it is quite a five TY111A i tre and fatally divided Meade'. --m addition to which the whole of the Union and military material were pai ked in rear of it. ground around this clamp VM soaked in blood, every in of it. on afternoon of July 3rd, for it i. estimated that in the field between the Codori and the not fewer then 7.000 men laid down their ia two abort hours.

from ten to fftjr feat. They are garlaaded with and dower. ui theeommer eraeoa, but oa th- ex- posedportions the traces of the leaden Jail that beat oa their face, during that terrtNU straggle are Mill plainly IWed i. the Ueat roeka the Ceafederate sharpshooters effected a ghartiy of the oAoan oa Little Round splendid Tiev unfolded to Rigbt in front, looking ward. dark wooded Wo- in.ryRid«.

Below, I he road w.nd. tji tb Orchard and the Emuutsburg Further to tbe right Codori How the Gettysburg and Har- mbtirn Railroad line the plain. ternima'iDg a little to the runt aad rear of the eminence. PRICK TWO CePTTB I Top a halt ie under Haaeavfc oa ate iav --fiv mile circuit Round Top. from Gulps Hill to BIRDS-EYE VIEW FROM LITTLE BOUND TOP.

and not iaapthr mark of the hundred the monument to Brigade with aa that the Webb held 485 men killed aad Winding off at gle from the A Where Reynolds Was Shot. aa ueKjsuurjr. True tbe Battlefield Memorial Association have been engaged in a work of conservation; true, the regimental monument 8 set up year by year are perpetuating the lact that a The battle of the first day, in which General Reynolds fell, took place chiefly in the low ground to the weet of the Seminary and around the site of the Gettysburg Springs Hotel, a mile and a-half from the town. The hotel stands between two patches of -it 1 I HOI PKACH Passing down the Emmitsborgroad about a mile further we come to the celebrated Peach Orchard, but there are no peach trees there now. or rather the ongmal trees were swept away by artillery fire, and a few sap lino recently planted aloce mark the sito The orchard stands GO the most elevated portion of tbe Emmitsburg Koadand its possession was contested between Sickles and Longstreet from four p.

till dark on the evening of the second day. Having gained this point, Longstreet was enabled to secure an enfilading fire on Cemetery on the following day. The visitor to the field here leaves the Emmitsbarg fioad by a narrow i a -I ro dmturn abruptly tc the left. Eound Top and Little Round lop are immediately ia front, the one to the right the other to the left step of this short mile is foli of interes'ing associations the ft or a hundred yards doirn fhero.d.a recoid points to the fact that the ground Top. One spot, forming a sort of oat ural cromlech, is shown where a sharp shooter wrought deadly work, wtll-auard ahell entered aad.

explo ding, cave the marksman hie quietus The rnarki of the impact and eiplo of the shell are plainly aid occur here. But side by side with the field of Waterloo there is no comparison. The Chateau of Hou- goumont with its mined pitted everywhere, the relict of what was La H. ye Samte, grimly and instantly suggest the scene of a terrible conflict. At Gettysburg the storm of shot and shell upended its force on the rocks, the trees and the brave fellows who s'ood beneath them.

Where buildings were injured or destroyed, they have in almost every case been repaired or rebuilt. An unexploded conical shell, sticking out of the wall of an attorney's house; and a patch of fresh brickwork in the basement and cupola of the Town Hall are about the only remaining evidences of the work of destruction: General Meade's headquarters in Mrs. Leister's House, on the Taneytown Road were pretty well riddled with shot during the bombardment of the third day, but only the back kitchen now remains to show what the original structure was like, the rest of the noose has been rebuilt. The Battlefield Hotel between the Town and the Cemetery was occupied as tbe outpost of Union sharpshooters and the Confederate batteries paid their respects to it; a few shot boles through walls and stairways are shown to inquiring viators in evidence of the net. But if the artificial and ble evidences of strife, in tbe shape of dismounted cannon, monuments, were removed, the most observant visitor might pass through tbe town and suburbs of Gettysburg without any suspicion that a terrific battle, in which nearly 10,000 men were killed and at leaet 40,000 wounded, a battle lasting three days and accompanied by a bombardment unprecedented in history, had occurred on tbe spot only twenty years ago.

POI2TTS OF INTEREST. woods. From tbe east the 1st North Carolina regiment of Hill's advance opened fire ou Buford's cavalry and began the battle. Eight hundred yards nearer to Gettysburg, on tbe I right baud side of the road leading to the hoter is the aecond woods about five acres in extent. On tbe northern outskirts of this woods, facing the open country, is shown the spot where Reynolds was struck by a ball fired from a stone barn still standing, about three hundred to the northwest.

The tree has been' much chipped and mutilated by relic hunters, and tbe record board has been almost carried away piecemeal. hilfTi. Following the line of the bat heroic low. the line of bj the Firet Culp's Hill, was stationed. Down ia ley, right ander the is shown pang let's point where tually gained a foothold within tnionrntrenobmeata.

Bete too i Maryland Uaioa and Confederate, met ia deadly oooftfet. Among those who feacht oa among in President J. M. Hood, of thT Maryland Railroad The on Oolp's Hill still bear 'fetimooT to the severity of the five. noors struggle hetweaa Btaaaai aad Ewell on the morning of the third while are onoafaatlf Dtoked oot by the vfcrtor.

i Close to terminus the and historic lucubrations of the visitor are violated by a huge refreshment and dancing platform, in which thooghtlee. pleasure-seekers make merry and pop lemonade Such ia life I In the immediate foreground is the monument to the fallen brave of the 72nd Pennsylvania, who held this point during the second and third days of the engagement It is only neceasary to glance from this elevated point at the configure land about tbe Peach, Orchard to why tbe molt of the second day's fighting was BO dican trons to the Union troops in this part of tbe'field. When the unlucky ESS Mmumml of the I24tk New York. tial cortege we come to Cemetery Hil, to which Howard's and Wadsworth'a troops (the llth and 1st corps) retreated after their rout on first day. The cemetery, with its beautiful rostrum, graves and monuments, has been so often described that repetition A 1 mi General 2oot's Menument.

If the reader will refer to tbe accompanying map be will gain a good idea of the topography of Gettysburg, apart irom the considerations of grim Vis-gedwar. Two lines of railroad give access to the town, one from the East, the Hanover Junction and Gettysburg road, the other from the Korth via Harrisbnrg, and known as the Ge and Harrinburg Road. An unfinished and abandoned rail- on the right of the Baltimore pike, just opposite the entrance of the cemetery. Close by is tbe new reservoir, built two years ago, and tbe observation tower, from which a fine view of the field is obtainable for the com of ten cents. The spot is the site of Rscketfs battery which was very nearly stormed by Early's men on the evening of tie second day.

The cannon and round shot still suggest the memories of the things that have been, within the observation of many men now living. EOAD. That portion of tbe Emmitsbnrg Road lying between the Peach Orchard and the junction with the Tanev- town Road was the scene of the most desperate fighting in a battle where all tbe fighting was of a desperate character. Looking dae east from the Codori House we can see the long line of Union entrenchments from Cemetery Hill to Round Top, not as Pickett's poor fellows saw them, belching fire and death, but silent and peaceful there was held by Birney division. On the right band side is the Wheat field, a rocky and- sterile area of twenty acres or thereabouts.

Close to tbe roadside, on the edge of the Wheat field and within it3 boundary '8 the monument to the memory of General Samnel Kosciusko Zook, commanding a brigade of the Second Corpe, who was killed while repelling Longstreet's attack on the afternoon of the second day. It is a plain unpretending monument, as befits a soldier, and its foundation ia the solid natural rock of Pennsylvania, the rock of tbe field on which tbe hero fell. A little to the right of the roadway, on an elevated portion of the Benis the monument to tbe memory of Colonel Ellie. of the 194th New York fOrange county) Begiment. second brigade, first division, Third Oorpe.

The inscription records that the regiment went in with 28 and 224 men. losing killed and wounded 7 officers and 85 men the Union lines along the EromiTp- bnrg road and road from the Oi chard to Round Top were exposed to an enfilading fire, und every retervr regiment harried np to the bed to bear tbe brunt of a similar The President left Washington toil mornbg at 8 a.jn. via tnaBalti and Potomac Railroad, arriving at Fulton Station at 9:00 a. m. At this point the train wai transferred to tha tracks of the Western Maryland and proceeded to Emory connection was made with the Una of the Hanover Junotion aad Gettysburg Railroad.

The President and members of the Cabinet with Ei-Gov The Umbrella, Clump from Hancock's Lines, Gen. Roeecraae aad others travelled in a Pullman hotel oar arriving at Gettysburg at noon. Prendent diaed on the eara. Ranking officers of both armies were in waiting to escort the President from tbe Town Hall to the bat- tlflfield whence taken up to the soene of the fink day's fehfc thence along Cematar? Bidev under the bine May Right in front is a conspicuous clump of trees wkich is easily seen from aii points vest of Geitrsbnrg. It a growth, of scnab.oaks and from its genera' resemblance to an umbreJU has Keen termed the Umbrella Clump.

This was the objective point of 'pickett'a caargeas directed by Lee, became, had Pickett broken through, it would that road to the Confederate down by Deril's Dea," Round Top, to Little Boond Top- then down to poaittoa of Crawford; to that Intro and mi fatarniag, will leave Gettysburg at 0 o'olock this evening, pawing Fulton about 8:15 clock, and-arrive at Washington about 9:15 o'clock. The "Loyal League," with a number of the ex- cnraioaiste, will remain over at Gettysburg until to-morrow. hotel car of League will remain over for their A deletion from Dekware, arrived GeUyaborg te-day. They have in charge task of narking with appropriate position, on the battlefield oooupiedby the First aad Second Demware both of Second will UM land occupied by Seoood ware, which yet by the Gettysburg Memorial fl sem iisiea. and wiU mark the spoto opon which the monument, will be orectod This evening there will camp fire at Town Hall, presided over by Governor Curtia, at which eoldiera of both armiea will make addr IWI.

Down in the Dcril's Den. Still descending the road the next "uuiu vjuu ueeuenujng toe road tne TMM.H,U Lave pierced the Lmoalineatitsceii. object is the Devil's Den a chaos of i abou two lower than 1 1 itinejgljbor. Having reached the crest UTTLI ROTJBD TOP. BonndTop ie almost inaccmible under ordinary circumstances from the Devil's Den, and it is no wonder to any visitor that even Hood's veteran Texans declined tbe attempt.

But between the tops there is a considerable depression and it is up this ascent that cariages and vehicles make their way to Little Bound Top, which i. about two hundred feet lower than fire so that it was destroved before it could render "The portion of the field shown the rightaand of the cat was desperately but unavailingly fought orer by Ayrea and Hnmphnes' in thiswav. Cemetery called hv gonth- authorities McPherson's He chM due north of Little Round Top, of which it ia a At a ipoint abont mile distant from the last halting on Little Eound Under the Add the BroWemrt with So. th the Ormy. of cl in duilc of oteratty meet.

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