New-York tribune., 1867-06-21
PRICE FOUR CENTS.

Liitlr Ronnd Ton. am told. was sold for 500 and
near tive spot where Reynolds fell there is sprinn of
some mineral consequence where 10 Is proposed td
erect great hotel fabulous anpiaisements ri ihJ
land having been made. let these Oyer-anSlouS pee
pc l9oS 10 the heH OF Na'eIlooi WI VIII q 'ag I@on @
OF All the great cities oi northern ana weston gA1
rope, where The residents arc to-day 0nN PlN'S Hni
relic-yendors and their property OF hardly move
Yate than If BOnapanc had mover been NaiqHishtN
there The Gettysburg Cemetery ~ a tastrlui lrtfa
Of landscape art. entered by an appropriate gate or
bronze, but It's designers have failed 10 grasp s OBJ
iects IN Their plan, and lt IS park rather thtD a
m0nnment, les5 apropos tMnh ihan the pa2hthHA
Vlllage cemetery beside it The aricnt bsiof as 20
the sceno ffequenty here: ROthermel 10 lake is
sketches for she battle picture ordered bv me nraif
Batchelder To place each command in the pOSii0 90
took with mathematical accuracy, and military ouiss
and theorists without number some 90 simplify lho
action some to confuse There are a few village peit
s0Daces who have walked hundred tunes over all
the ground and some OF these profess 10 D. hle to
fix the graves of almost every soldier tbat ioi o9
either side. Bodies IN quantity have been eaIfi"tt
away TO far places 10 Texas Maine To the fflbr9
ana you can see every week 'nine Wl99T =, Ii'ti' '
IN sable, picking her way o'o the helds ana biist
hopeful that she is near the zones Of hef bel'"er
The grand old landscape lies as on tho week "f tne
thunderstorm. with all It's scars and Iampalts lntt
and every Getty3urper has score of Tcniniscenrea
to tell but the enthusiast of them all is the PrcshyT
terian CLERGYMAN whose church lies Il tic cut OF lid
village This is Mr. John r. Warner whose aI,zioBs-,
To look ut the conflict ryalcd thar OF -oof4
respondent and IN Il he had all his sermons bnrHe1
up by tbe Rebels. There Is a tree that be8.s his
name the field of the first days hight up which hd
climbed till the shells came crashing through iiS
branches and on tho second day, Ike Lady G~iiNaS
spy he bored himself an augel hole IA honse ioR
and watched the stOlIning Of Cemetery liilL For q
vivid deneaion OF this battle he IS the most excel
lent companion that know, and have Eoalned over
all the SITES with him from carly moibhg iHi ibo
stiffness of night.
MORNING-sE,uNARY RIDGE.
To the wCst of Gettysburg less than mile. upon
wooded ridge no higher thon You VIII meet upon any
country road i'm an EndnlatBg or hY ton, stands
a brick. cupaOed edice, which you VIII know ~
glance 70 be e school Of some description. lnfIc IS
Il dwelling DIG
which you will guess 10 be the homes OF The poit-
sOrs, and these three structures look bfoasHe 10 me
town from their background Of 0ak-grove. over NJ
slope Of vegetable garden toOt-pal and stile 'fsG
lead down to a white turnpike This white turnpike
when it has climbed over the ridge westward ~ seew
TO scale number OF parallel ridges hai ine apaii
and at last disappear mp the side ol The git96
South Mountain that rolls IN huge blue ioids srI'"'s
the horizon, seven miles away IL you WIZ pass me
stle as yOu out from the village aud take ls ogL-
path up the Seminary grove, yOu mag meet ab3h ne
building kindly teacher by the nailo OF jacobs ha
was in fair health when the great evCnt bappenet
that We are to recount together, but nc pas hlS1
been sadly stricken and can but walk istie way ed
and fro. He Will show you the ncWly-ilie 'afl"s
in the seminary walls the stumpS OF s0ulc biokeN
trees the bark OF other trees that Is vary anu peri
fouted from bullGt-wOunds. aud when he leis YOU
that some twenty young gentlemen 'uS Nhhm %
quietly pursuing their theological Stuaics now y
when the nearness Of battle disturbed them lous
wears ago he will let yOu ascend 10 the cnp"la ~
look at the landscape be assembled u WIN Hent
Howard, and pointed to that soldier tnS pol1 3u11d
OF the Cemetery Ridge. ms iesDie l".,pei .,, ..
theology was if not the suggesor the htst ndolstS
OF the site of the great action 0i OetiysDhS %" 1H
this narrow cupola whence We look down ~ was IS
solved that the Army OF the Potomac siohh ouphEe
the Rebel Army 0f Virginia upon the gfe.h 90 ""'H
land ridges
Stand here in the freshness OF this June moIDngs
and let Your eve wander over ire Nfs ana "0NnS
and fre,ueut spinal lines of hill that make Tho i+
scape between tine South Mountain and I've low,
fringed hOrEO of woods TO the North, t1e f3si aht
the SOUTH Pastoral yet bold. the rank, green wbeas
| and rye high on the hili-sides, piercing I've Non-
boida patches of OAK show epsnel1as oye u,as ','
clay road that point Uncnipgy to the nS"s @i wv
| tysburg almost &C your feet. naInlot Ol NJ u
| dozen strcets-the cOnverging radll Oi nehs hiRnr
T waYs-tipped with tower, spue,, ehp0Ia la
go1fs lying white. or red or gray IN tbelr bosses "n
linden trees and the outlying suburbs Nay qIsln4
and plentiful of farms and barns TO ~ ube nn'hnt1
wagons came over these roads OF Satnuay, w" glh
and hosemen sprucely appareed on eonrt-:,ys :" oY
! Sundays, and the stage numbered along ihIet bafs
! or more in the week, having passed the RonniaIU
! coming from the West where ChamDersbujP sl.elY-
as neatly in its beautiful valley Eleven roads con-
verge in this sequestered village and single line Ot
rail sweeps in from the East IL to three %
these roads only that the peopleGf Getty sbug
anxiousy in the latter part Of june 1856 that "a
the West, which passes tie mountain, ana iho Nv. ~
the South that point TO mmcttsburg and to BaittJ
more respectively Uponhe first Of these tho terri1
bic enemy flushed with hls victories ln Virginia WAC
expected 10 appear Upon the IWo iast-Danth lha
army of the Union was marching totbeh Iehei ing
mountain ridge that yon sec divided the lnNas9
from the preserVer. They were adkaoclng NOitht
ward in parallel columns, the one with the speed q
rapne the other with the energy of PATRIOTISM and
only that great blue spine rose between then. IpS
country seemed TO feel the shock Ol tleu feet fha
roads were Chequered with caravans "i women, hh&
children and household goods flying toward the Sns1
duehanna. In Gettysburg there were officers ~ uhl1
form harangueing the people TO arms. AZ lasl He,,4
was heard beyond the mountains the NUM- ibIn9!n
of cannon and the mountain spine ~ nlgnt was ilhI
n burning wall of camphTes over thls wall aJ u5yG
break the foremost invading cOlUnD burst. ia
cavalry galloped down the Chambefsbnlg h9ad mug
the town of Gettysburg; then came tie ysilmR lI4
fantry bareheadcd OF IN faded gear, naupilnt thsif
tattered battleiags, With the pirate lace % hhiyH
looking murder at their head ana WDlle yet the lh1
Vulnerable teams stretched TO tbe horloD the HioIeS
and OIpb0ardS OF the town were gulted' anu u'9
flame nj burDiug bridges marked ~ night thc ilDe Oh
the ruined railway. The night Succeeding lbsy h"p
passed to the East and the North ana tAc samss oE
Gettysburg were empty of horse on COW tho snee4
had vanished from the meadows; mere Was iieatI
foreboding poverty, even hunger III the SOBER nllS
village. The people were no longer WITHIN the ptoN
lection of their countrymen but IN the lines OF thS
enemy and his prOdigi0us numbers seemed 10 tneiR
eXaggerated thought the Yastest army 81 ehe WOl91
SO fell the last Saturday III june upon al lbe Iytl
scape that you see and Sunday morning the I0ad1
were deep with dust, the mills on every sue ~era
grinding corn and wheat for the INVADER
fine wives of the farmers were baking bItsi hhde1
commission for the foes OF then SOILS anu Dioheiss
and all the fences a-tire 70 roast the catte tSH
were Yesterday lowing in the barn-yslds.
HALL at the hour when the churches .bonid hafs
been trembling with the music oi DyinS ln'fo "'tS,
buges blown on te r4os % , rnd T' thc hoys m Sln
it was COwpland's cavalry sm0king WIN tnsu u
ride aud the peoples hearts rose mo lhelt hf
Iney were feA with what daintieS Geiysl nig h9he3
wives cOuld give and lean, wiii-Iooklhe h"f|'St
courier ca two coming inopp0rtuney 70 M toNn, IN
INTO their hands On Monday these hsd 9is'pi"ti.u{ ZAP
leaving the village to its fears again. ana tbt, h9h
The So1th Mountain was a-hre once moie WIN ha
V,1l On tuesday the last day of june The Reees TeIg
sropnd tLis seminary in long lines Of battle aud tbet
p,onnfod officers riding to the brink oi TIE town W9S
ss 90 look through their glasses to Cemetery ihll
half mile away, aud shake then heads WIN satlsf
faction 20 find it unoecupied. Now the nnss o, uN
t0 the South showed that the troopers OF The un"l
were coming up; and the advance OF the he,els Iss
tirng toward Chambersburg disappeared pehlhd ths
ridges and Law concealed in the hollow fields with 4
few horsenlen exposed for deeoy, hoping 70 sntIaN
our cayalrymen into chase, and murder them iIoiA