The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1863-07-17
THE BATTLES OF GETTYS.
BURG!
Full and Interesting Particulars,

Correspondence OF the n. Y. Herald.
UgADoHs ARMY OF THE PoroM.c.
July 80 A. NJ.
With our infantry in line of battle. rest
ing ON their arms, we can now calmly
look down upon the bloody field before us,
and trace by the heaps of dead the path
Of the charging columns which for four
hours yesterday afternoon dashed impe.u-
ously against ou, position. Our artillery
is laundering on the flsnks; but the enc
my is strangely silent. Down upon the
meadows we hear the sharp crack OF rifles.
and the MIME bullets occasionally whistle
nnpleasantly near our heads; but the
change since last evening is so great that
one feels impressed with the comparative
silence. The battle did not commence
yesterday until nearly 5 o'clock. The at
tack WAS expected, however, in the morn
ing, and the most strenuous exerlions we're
made to get onr forces all up at the front
The 1st and 1lth Corps, having suffered
heavily IN the engagement Of the previous
day. had fallen back behind the ridge this
side OF Gettysturg, and as onr fresh troops
came up they took their position at once
along the heights commanding tue town
OUR POSITION
was admirably adapted for defen:-ive cper-
atons, and we fel! conhdeo. that If All or
troops got up before Lee attacked US sue
cess was certain. Gettysburg lies in a val,
ley, bounded on the east side by Round
Top Mountain and Long Ridge, and on
the west by South Mountain ana Wo'f
Hill. The 81 Corps formed upon the cres,
OF Long Ridge, its right resting on the
Cemetery, and its left stretching away to-
wards l:ound Top, before which the 8 /
Corps was stationed, in the woods at its
base. The 5:h, Oh, and l2sh Corps NOV
ed off to the right, and were PARTIAL, he'd
IN reserve, to be thrown upon any point
whee :her services might be most need
ed. Artillery was planted in every avail
able position; the wagon traus were NOV
e.! off to the rear, ambuIances parked close
at hand, under cover Of The woods, and
batteries of reserve artillery stationed in
the ho'o~s. ready for service on any por-
ton of the field. Communication was ca
tablisheI by General Meade with Balti,
more bv means of relays of swift, messen-
gers. Signal officers were posted at DIFF
ierent points to notify the Commanding
General Of any sudden movemen, on the
part Of the enemy, and AT II o'clock noon
we were all ready.
TIE Spgrr,CIR
from the Cemetery was magnificent beyond
conception. Here upon ,his little bluff,
in and around The city of the dead. forty
six cannon stood, their muzzIes pointing
tllreateningly towards the hills berond
the town, and far TO the left, and down
along :he ridge, and in the waving grass,
stretched the firm lines of infantry, their
arms cleaned like river IN the Summer
sun. How quiet, and yet how sad, every
thing was. Here, among the monumen, S
and flowers above tie dead, lay our wound
Ell and dying and behind the iron railincs
Of the burial places AL the engines Of war
wal ed for the conflict. In one Of tn. in
closures a marble slab marked the resting
place Of an Orderly Sergeant killed ~
Fair Oaks. Alas. how little did his mo- h
er think, when she laid him there 10 rest
by his peaceful home. tha. his comrades
would ever 90 battle above him, and c:rn
son with their blood the myrtle on hi
grave. Now and then a soldier would
wilt down among tbs beadsiones pierced
BY the rifleman's bullet, and occasionally &
she'll flew screaming overhead, to frighter
the groups collected in the rear: bu. be
sidss this all was quiet Gettysburg, Ike
doomed city, lay beneath us. silent as The
grave Not voice came up from its de-
serted streets but the swallows and tht
pigeon. swept above the house-tops, ant