The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-07-19
sEcr1oNAL1sM DEAD.

SECTIONALISM DEAD.
Governor Gordon OF Georgia on the signi-
f1oance of the Gettysburg Reunion.
WASHINGTON, July 5.-Governor Cor
don of Georgia is in the city on his return
from the celebration at Gettysburg. a
tall and typical Southerner, erect and
spare, with thin hair and beard light
brown and gray, aquiline nose, bearing
in one cheek the pit of Union musket
ball, the last of harvest of FIVE gathered
at Antietam, General, Senator and Gov
ernor, he impresses the observer as one
who has given and taken hard knocks IN
in life's battle, bearing stoically il! tor
tune and prosperity with equanimlty.
The latter condition holds him now.
"This anniversary at Gettysburg" said
he to your correspondent, "made lasting
impression on me. I doubt if history can
afford a parallel survivors of a great
war meeting on one of its greatest and
most decisive battle fields with an ardor
of good feeling and affection even fully
as Intense as the animosity which they
met in battle twenty-five years ago. This
warmth of feeling had not the least pre-.
|tence lit was of the most genuine and
|Sapparent nature. It was observable
E "There we're probably over thirty
thousand veterans on the gronnd. Of
course most of them we're Union yete.
rans-the Confederates are generally too
Door to come so far-but the spirit was
there lust as intense as if every survivor
in the South was on the spot.
81 saw an old one.legged Louisiana
Tiger in charge of q dozen Union vete-
rams, who were actually carrying him
around and giving him a glorious time,
eating, drinking, telling stories and pre-.
senting him to their friends. One man
rushed up to me crying: I want to
shake you by the hand, for you were
ssrtinly the wust I ever ft.' -
IT met for the second time since the
was General Barlow, who was In How.
ards Eleventh corps, which my command
doubled up in the first days fight, thus
giving us the advantage for the time
being. He was severely wounded in that
fight. I came across him lying in a
clover field in the hot sun, and had him
taken down to q brook, where,I gave him
drink from my flask, land ut his request
tore up come letters in his pocket. l
left him, as Isupposeds sdying... >.
Fifteen years later; when in the Sen
ate, I met q General Barlow at dinner
at Clarkson. Potter's house and asked
him if he was relative of the General
Barlow who was killed at Gettysburg.
s'Yes,, said he, Il am the man himself
nThe other day he came up and shout.
ed, Let me get at the man who killed mel
When Lee was marching North, | with
brigade which was almost division, was
way in advance ofthe main army, and as
I rode over Cemetery Hill ] noticed the
beauty of the country. i penetrated as
far as York with few light skirmishes
with Governor Curtin's ninety day men,
and should have reached Lancaster when
I was recalled to take part in the fight al
s Gettysburg.
..I remarked to my staff then that
whoever controlled the heights would
win the fight. After we had won the
first days fighting ! repeatedly urged
that We should be- allowed TO push on and
take the heights eyanlas late as 2 o'clock
in the morning, but I was overruled. /
said that it would cost US 10000 men to
take them the next day. 1t costs us
nearsr20,000. l could hear the Union
forces saEing position all night long,
Using PICK and shovel, getting their
artillery into position and throwing up
breastworks. Icould hear the words OF
command.
"But," said the Governor apologetical.
ly, athe army had arrived mostly in the
night, and had not been able, as. l had,
to view the ground and know the coun.
try.
"It's all over now, though, and the Sec
tions are again cemented. hadn't got
sfairly,intomy:frst sentencsthe otherday
when the whole crowd shouted as # they
i aMouid raise sthesky. 81 meet you to-day,
Isaid, with far less trepidation -.
But they didn't let me get.any further for
several minutes.
"Goyernor Curtin made 2good hit. I
was not at the battle of Gettysburg, said
he. .Iwas back infthe rear persuading
others to go and do the 6ghting.'
"It was only after | had arrived at
Gettysburg concluded Governor Gordon.
tfthat 1 arrived at a full understanding of
the vast meaning and importance of that
:fraternal gathering Sectionalism is dead,
and the men who killed it on the battle.
field were stamping on its grave"