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High Water Mark < Gettysburg By Col. D. The Gettysburg of fifty years ago I was called "Lee's Waterloo," which was erroneous, for some of the Southern chieftain's hard-est, fiercest and most successful battles were yet to come, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold * TN-A 1 T"> ? rkA nnfl HarDor, retersourg, eu;. dui uu who was on the "fatal field" of a fewdays ago, would doubt for a moment that it was the Waterloo of sectionalism, bitterness and distress between the North and the South. Old scores of hatred, engendered by the war, seemed to have been entirely wiped from Lhe slate and instead of "Yanks" and "Jofrnny Rebs" you heard on all sides, "Hail brother," "Ho comrade." The general government and the State of Pennsylvania contributed near a half million of dollars for the entertainment of the veterans, and fully that much was donated by the States, for the transportation of their individual troop, making the enormous total of one million dollars, for the peaceful meeting of tihe blue and the gray. Was the "game worth the candle?" Was the good effect equal to this prodigious expenditure of money? I for one, and I believe every one nresent, would say it was the best out lay possible, if we are to judge from good results in the future. We heard it talked on all sides, among the Federal soldiery, that the South's veterans should share equally with them, the nation's bounty, a part of the pensions, so lavishly bestowed upon those who were the blue. I can't say that I seek any pension from the government, but if it should be granted and I am still living I dare say I would be patriotic enough to take it. ' j ;_t__ ?.p Speaking on general principles ui the good cheer and love feast of tihfe recent reunion, I went to that meeting with fifty years of bitterness and hatred pent up in my soul, more than the majority of the Southern veterans, for in my line of duty I had opportunities to seo more of the wrongs done our women and country than most men, but I came away with ill feel; ing for none. Not that I lhave forgiv en the North for everything they did to us, for fifty years is too short a time to forget and forgive all the South endured. But since talking with any number of intelligent men from the North, and hearing their version of war I have 1 ecome greatly mollified, enough at least, to keep me from cutting any of their throats. As a man said to me, from the old "Iron Brigade" from Michigan, "You men entered the army for a principle, wre of the North, to get bread for our families; our mines, workshops and factories were all closed and we had to either enlist for the bounty offered, or starve. All that ohnirt thp Northern men tain, juu (u^ai uuvu? ... entering the army and fighting to save the union, is all stuff, gotten up by the niewspapers, while as a fact, we didn't care a d whether you were in or out of the Union, so long as we had bread for ourselves and families." Well, I "believe there is a lot of truth in this, but these sentiments were no reason why they should burn our houses. The South Carolina contingent was hours late and got into camp some time after night. Col. Fair had preceded us, looked over the ground, lent us much aid in piloting us to our quarters and looking after our comfort, for which every man from Newberry greatly appreciated. When we arose in the morning one vast sea of tents lay out before us and it was lot until we saw old Round Top, silent, sullen, defiant, that we could get our bearing. Gettysburg, the quaint old Dutch fown of 17,000 inhabitants, was two miles to the north. The camp,4 or rather the "field of Mars." was traversed by two great thoroughfar s, one in our rear, ran along a stone 'ence on Semitary Ridge, behind which "Tige'' Anderson's Division of Hill's corps and McLaws, of Longstreet, 4-V?/-v ftc-ponlf r*n fVi o OnH UI iiicu 1U1 LUC acoauii, uu Uio .uu. This is called "Confederate Avenue," thus called I suppose, in honor of their visiting brethren. The other pike, on which runs the trolley cars, goes to "Devil's Pen" at the foot of Round Top, from this city. This was formerly called the Gettysburg road, on which Sickles Tihird Corp of Federals lay when McLaws' Mississippians, Georgians and South Carolinians so unmercifully assailed and shattered on the afternoon of fifty years ago. The South Carolina veterans were "ented between the Louisiana and Texas, while across the street on vhich our quarters abutted, were Federals of every hue, from Maine to the "Dokotas. The camps were laid out on scientific principles by U. S. offiI j )f the Confederacy* of Today. A Hirlfprf * A* C.? | ___ ?j cers and everything p-rtaining to the i ease, comfort and thie health of the troop, was admirably attended to. Did we have plenty to eat? Yes and and s;?are. Beef, mutton, eggs, butter aid every conceivable delicacy. I Munroe Harris took a fright at a spread of dressed chickens, that I don't think he will forget during life. He led me to it. It was a table about five feet wide, more than two hundred feet long and piled as high as you could reach with the fattest chickens j I ever saw. I was leaving for home, but "Mun" said be would stay to eat cf those chickens "if It took all summer." The thousand acres of the Gettysburg battlefield is one vast field of monuments, and it would fill volumes ro give descriptions of them and their inscriptions. Infantry monum-ents, with bronzed statues of soldiers on top, some loading their guns, others as if firing, while some were at rest. Wherever there had been a battery stationed you found massive monu ments, some surrounded with condemned cannon and bronzed figures of cannoneers, surmounting the shafts. Every position occupied by troop, just before the deadly assault of four o'clock, ihas cast iron tablets, stating from what State and command these troops belonged. We were encamped somewhat to i* the left of wrhere Pickett's assaulting ] columns were formed and here we i came to the first monument or mark' er on that part of the field. It was a monstrous piece of solid granite, fully ten feet square and perhaps ten or twelve feet high, with the simple inscription, "Virginia to her sons." As you go down the pike just in rear of the memorable stone fence, you come upon the piarkers of Anderson's troop of Hills Corps who were on that day assigned to Longstreet, in lieu of Pickett. That general was then coming with all possible dispatch from Ohambersburg, twenty miles away. The first of these was Posey's, then came Wright's, Perry's and Wilcox's. On a circular cast iron plate of about four feet in diameter, anchored to an iron post of a foot in diameter with the inscription, "He :e fought on July the 3rd, 1563, the trcop of Brigade, i composed the regiment," marks every positon. They were all alike, giving the simple fact, that such regiments fought there. Of McLa/ws' Division of which Kershaw's formed a part, are Barksdale's Mississippians, Wofinrd's Georgians, Kershaw's South I Carolinians and Simms' Georgians. To the right and front were Hood's four I hrip'flrtpe: Kershaw faced Ayers' regulars, the stubbornest and most determined troop in the Federal army, the brigade which saved the army from utter destruction on both fields of Manassas. These troops, as well as McCondless, who faced Simms, were posted in the wooded stretch of foothills of Round Top behind great boulders and piles of quarried rock. Barksnnd TITnffnr/1 Willoril STIfi uaic auu t* uuuiu iavtu ,, Robertson, in the lower part of the hisotric peacb orchard. Before the fight was half over Weed's, Birmay's, Nevin's and Rogers' Brigades came to the aid of their hard pressed brethren. So you see on this part of the field the Confederates were outc umbered three to one. Round Top and Little Round Top, just in our fr^nt, and the point at which all of Longstreet's forces were directing their efforts, were one blaze of cannon, which could reach and command every inch of our ground. Down near the foot of the ridge in the peach orchard Sickles had posted a battery of ten guns, with instructions to fire nothing but grape and cannister at the approaching infantry. Through this bail of shot we were forced to march against and forbidden to fire a gun. We walked over this battery with "hands down." but with a fearful loss, how ever, was forced to give it up, when night came on no horses to remove it. The loss among our own artillery horses was so great- it was difficult to move even our own pieces. The turnpike on wkich the Federal General Sickels had formed his columns, is a house near his left where his headquarters's flag floated fifty years ago. Now the old general, the only one of his rank on either side, sat reeciving the homage of friend and foes. Thousands of Confederate stopped to pay their compliments, but I, somehow, had no such inclination. While he was no doubt a g?.llant foe, I have no such exalted opinion of a man who had ruined the lives of two innocent women, lording it over my State for two years in a "coach and i four," rhen after having received and squandered near a half million dollars, the government has allowed him as pay, he withiu the present year begs the government for a pension T 1J T- 4.-U A + t r\ 1 wouiu muua lamti uuii mv nai. iu the equestrian statue of General Warren, mounted on the cliffs of little Round Top. The most casual student of the history of that battle well knows that this great engagement was the result of an accident and miscarriage of orders. Had uhe Federal cavalry general, Beaufort, received the orders to retire should his outpost be attacked, or had General Reynolds received the orders from Meade to fall back to Ennettsburg, should A. P. Hill move forward, no battle of the first day would have taken place. Had not General Warren, Meade's chief of ordnance, rode up on Round Top in the afternoon of the 2nd and put the army in position to meet the onrusn of Longstreet, nothing could have saved Meade from total destruction. After A. P. Hill ihad defeated the first and eleventh Corps, under Reynolds and Howard, the latter taking refuge on the bold and precipiton* cliffs of Culp's Hill, half mile southeast of the town, Meade naturally concluded the battle would be renewed to the north of the town. He was rushing his whole army along Rock creek, just in rear of Cemetery Hill, where he haci a light line formed. When Warren rode to the brow of Round Top, what he saw was enough to freeze his heart. Hood's division had already formed around the southern base of the mountain while McLaws' and Anderson's were preparing for | the assault and not a Federal soldier i in sight, save Weed's Brigade down in Devil's Den. Without-waiting orders from ihis chief, he ordered all troops marching toward Gettysburg to turn to the left. The infantry came at?a run and lined the slopes of the mountain behind boulders, stone fences, hedges and every conceivable nlace of vantage. The artillery came like mad and as the Confederates emerged from the groves in which tihey had formed, -little and great Round Tops were one sheet of Same. While General Warren was not killed .here, his appreciative countrymen have erected an equestrian statue of heroic size on the very rock from which he saw first the Confederates j forming. From here, after drinking a j cool drink from the marble lined spring at Devil's Den, I proceeded to the rear of the Federal lines, along Cemetery Ridge. Near Meade's headquarters is the "city of the dead," in which ten thousand of the Confederate and Federal dead lie sleeping. A headstone is to each marked "unknown." They do not lie promiscuously but each in a plot to itself, and well might we say "Under the sod, under the clay, Here lies the blue, there the gray." r . _ ? Along the ridge and tne valley 01 Rock Creek had stood Meade with the flower of the Federal army, 115,950 strong. Beyond lay Lee, with barely 70,000. Even with this disparagement between their forces one would ask why was Lee, with all his prestige, military training and transcendent genius of war, repulsed pitted as he was against a military mediocre* not long enough in command to have won the confidence and ardor of his troop? Look at the ground today and the answer is easy. It was a. physical impossibility to drive any troop from this natural fortification. From the ? ? -J. "CXill "D A aorupl D1UU, at uui.nui tu xvuuuu Top, runs several series of stone walls with cliffs in front, behind which troops lying down out of danger, making a double line of defense, perfectly shielded from the mass of bullets from the Confederates, the Southern army having to march to the assault, through an open and unbroken field of a mile ia length. The best of this world's military critics, who have visited this field, pronounce it the best natural battlefield for defense on the Western continent and the wonder is, not that Lee was repulsed but that any of his men survived. As I left the field I thought of our Kentucky poet, when he sang "On Fame's eternal camping ground, Tiheir silent tents are spread And Glory guards, with solumn round The bivouac of the dead." AIKEN COUNTY BOY DBOTTN'ED. TVm. 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