Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-22
EweIl.

The distance from the First to the Third
is ten miles from the Third to the Second
is tea miles; and from She Second to the
Sixth terminating the Sixth thirty miles
from the First On Sunday Ewell begins
TO fall back. On that day Longstreet and
Hill are pretty we'll advanced from Cham
bersburg out toward Gettysburg. Lee ID
waiting for his opportunity, as cat waits
| for a mouse. You see the movement at p
glance-the entire Union army sweeping
north in a line, like rank OF mowers in
hay field Eweli moving rapidly south
along the Cumberland Valley-on its east
ern edge, to Gettysburg, Longstreet and
Hill moving east.
Lee is foiled in his anticipations of splin-
te-ing the end of the column and driving
his blows its entire length. Suddenly the
Union army begins to shut itself together
like telescope Instead of being a length
ened column it becomes a mass a Gettys-
burg. The LIST and 18th reach the town
on Wednesday morning, July 1st, the Sd
and 18th arrive IN the afternoon, the I'd
and 9Th Thursday morning, and the 9th
Thursday afternoon.
THE GROUND.
| lave said that Rock creek runs south
about mile east of the town. As you
approach the town from the southeast on
the Littletown road, or the Baltimore pike
as it Is called, You have a gradual ascent
nearly a mile from Rock creek before
gaining the top OF the ridge-not an even
| inclined plane, but undulating ground
| being broken, heayed up on either hand
| into rocky hills and knobs, nearly all
| Cleared-here and there an oak and chest
nut grove, scattered houses, small gardens,
| apple orchards, stone walls in abundance
| the ground divided into small patches tc
| get rid of the rocks. As you approach
| the top of the ridge your face set TO the
| northwest, you notice hill a half mile to
| your right, quite sharp and steep, and
| wooded. Remember it, because it is an
| important point; on it, as we shall see,
rests our right wing.
| Looking straight ahead you notice on
/ the very top of the ridge house. 1t is
| not a dwelling house, but the gateway OF
| the Gettysburg cemetery. This is the
| strongest and highest point of Meade's
| position. The 11th corps is there, and
| Howard has his batteries standing over
| the Wondering forms OF the dead who have
been borne hither in times of peace by
mourning friends. Roses, cypress and
dalses are in bloom, seeming the morning
hiI uuL iLc uOOiS VI uOESSS, luz
OF ammunition trains, and the roar oil
cannon resound through the streets of the
| silent city.
You look half mile distant in the north
east and see the wooded hill before men
toned. Turning northwest. right in front
OF you on the western slope is the town.
| 1t Is not more than forty or fifty rods to
! the buildings. On the north side of the
s RQlfYnlara Mia hat thu hpilGipo,a
the wooded hill are newly mown fields
! In these fields are batteries with breast
| works thrown up by Howard on Wednes-
day night-hghI affairs, not intending to
resist cannon shot, but 10 protect the can
Monies from sharp shooters. You see his
] lines OF infantry behind stone walls. The
cannonlers are lying beside their pieces
sleeping perhaps, but st sny rate keeping
close, tor, occasionally, a bullet comes
this way.
Away off beyond the town northwest,
Is hill wood crowned, sloping gradually
to the south, dotted with the white can
vas of wagon trains. There the road from
/ Carlisle comes in. Down at its base is
/ the Lutheran Theological Seminary, ),
/ large brick building, half hid by the tall
/ forest trees that surround it. Between
| the seminary and the town are smooth
| meadows, with here and there an oak or
walnut standing alone in the landscape.
There. south OF the seminary, is the fine
residence of DR.. SGhmucker, well known
| in the Theological world as an able writer
and thinker. The distance from the GEN.
etery TO the seminary is mile and half.
Looking nearer, ct our own line, You
| see, IS you turn your face from the north
west 10 the south, that this ridge tends a
! little 10 the southeast. Adjoining the
cemetery is an oak grove on the eastern
/ slope and an apple orchard on the western
side. Then you come 10 cleared fields
Coming up from the south. Is the Teney-
town road. On it is 9 mean little house,
on the south side OF the road, the Ameri-
can flag flying in front of it. There are
! horses hitcbed to the fences and nibbling
| the grass IN the fields. Officers with stars
/ on their shoulders are examining maps,
Writing aud sending off csvalrymen. 1t
| Is Gen Aeade's headquarters. 1t is on
| the oattleneld. When the rebel batteries
open It viii be warm place.
The ridge, as l have said. along here. ia
smooth, but mile south of the cemetery
it suddenly rises to a hiilock, rocky.
knobby, with boulders, and covered with
wood. 1t is Round Top Hill. The trees