The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-08-23
What is Lacking at Gettysburg.

The battlefield at Gettysburg promises to be for
al time the most famous OF our country II not OF all
from the aa d PfSe eet
the more Its events are studied from the standpoint
o. military science, the more Interesting 1t becomes
one nationality. now reunited permanently and for
ever there ID every reason to hope, adds to ts his
torGai interest. Ihat Gettysburg was the greatest
and In results, is not debated. Ii marked tho
Northern advance Of the COnfederates and was the
wealth. The Southern armies met their decisive and
blSodiest repnlse when they became tho invaders Of
1t was happy thought that promptly led to the
location OF national soldiers cemetery there, and
the spot Ia consecrated not only by the graves OF
three fatefn days. hut by the memorable GRAFTON of
Mr. Lincoln, delivered at the laying OF the corner
sLone OF me monument. and which baspassed into
contributions. Besides the Battle Monument AMI
the splendid statue Of Gen. Reynolds, the most Illus.
10 being marked at every station by memorials of
the men who fought aud OF the deeds they wrought
there. Tne battlefield association, formed to per-
minds. has done wonderful work In securing and
protecting and making accessible the ground which
where Is so conveniently reached and 40 eaally ira
versed az is Pennsylyanla's great battlefield even
But It Ia not to be viewed with composure ana
complacency by citizen OF Pennsylvania VINO has
Just pride IN the record OF her soldiery, that the
bntci Diotc VI nihnhuChubttth IhT every
other Commonwealth In erecting at Gctysbnrg the
lmperishable memorials OF where her regiments had
their stations In the awful carnage OF that decisive
battle TO the casual visitor passing over the lel
now II might seem that the men Of the old Bay State
had mainly fought and won the day. This Is not be-
cause they have claimed more than their share but
because they have fully asserted their own; aud
thelr numerous tasteful and enduring monuments OF
granite 10 mark their part In the battle do less
credit TO those who erected them than TO iliosc
whose yal0r they commemorate. PENNSYLVANIA
which holds this Held within iis own limits, whose
great captains and whose rank and nle bore The
most conspicuous place ~ the battle, and whose soil
was spared sp0ailon by the Issue Of II, should be
prompt to erect at every station lasting memorial
OF each OF her regiments which took part. An their
ranks are thinning year by year, before the veteran
survivors AL pass away they should see that their
tablet IL set up at Gettysburg.
CHIEF OF all u II the duty OF patriotic Pennsylya-
nans 10 consider without longer delay tho fitness ad
Justice OF proper monument at Gettysburg to the
hero OF that battle the commander OF the victorious
armies Pennsylyanlas great solder-Gen. Ge0Igc
q. Meade.
Here, on the field OF his highest achievement, aud
on the soil OF his native State, there shOnsd be
erected TO the honor OF his sodlery qualities and TO
his spotless fame such memorial as poverty Will
look upon AZ rejecting not only his own Worth, bni
re lust estimate OF hs own grateful and spprecla-
tive genteratlOn.