The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-08-21

WAsHINGToN, July 5, 1888.-GovernoI
Gordon, of Georgia, is in the city on his
return from the celebration at Gettys-
burg. 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 a
Union musl<et ball, the last of a harvest
of FIVE gathered at Antietam, General,
Senator and Governor, he impresses the
observer as one who has given and taken
hard knocks in lies battle, bearing
stoically i'll fortunes and prosperity with
COMMUNICATIVE latter condition holds
him now.
''This anniversary at Gettysburg"
said he to your correspondent, 4" has
made a lasting impression on me.
doubt if history can afford a parallel
the survivors OF a great War meeting on
one of it's greatest and most decisive
Oattlefields with an ardOr of good feeling
and affection even fully as intense as the
luminosity with which they met in battle
twenty-five years ago. This warmth of
feeling had not the least pretence; it was
of the most genuine andapparent nature.
It was observable everywhere.
"There were probably over thirty
thousand veterans on the ground. OF
course most of them were Union veter-
ans, the ConfederAtes are generally too
poor to come so far, but the spirit was
there just as intense as if every survivor
in the South was on the spot.
81 saw an old one-legged louisiana
Tiger in charge of a dozen Union vet
Grams, who were actually carrying him
around giving him a glorious time, eat
ing, drinking, telling stories and present
ing him to their friends. One man
rushed up to me crying Il want to
shake you by the hand, for you were
sartinly the wust l ever fit
MEMORABLE MEETINGS.
''I met for the second time since the
war General Barlow, VINO was in How
ards Eleventh corps, which my COM
mand doubled up in the first days fight,
thus giving us the advantage for the
time being. He was severely wounded
in that fight. | came across him lying
in a clover field in the hot sun, and had
him taken down to brook, where gave
him drink from my flask, and at his
request tore up some letters in his pocket.
[ left him, as [ supposed, dying
Fifteen years later, when in the Sen
ate, met General Barlow at dinner
at Clarkson Potter's house and asked
him if he was a relative of the General
Barlow who was killed at Gettysburg.
Yes said he, L am the man HIMSELF
''The other day he came up and
shouted, Let me get at the man who
killed me! When Lee was marching
north I, with Il brigade that was almost
a division, was way in advance of the
main army, and as | rode over Gem
etery Hill [ noticed the beauty of the
country. l penetrated as far as York
with few light skirmishes with Gov
ernor Curtin's ninety day men, and
should have reached Lancaster when 1
was recalled to take part in the fight at
Gettysburg.
HOW THE NORTH WON.
81 remarked to my staff then that
whoever controlled the heights would
win the fight. After we had won the
first days fighting l repeatedly urged
that we should be allowed to push on
and take the heights even as late as 2
O'Clock in the morning, but | was over
ruled. [ said that it would cost us
10000 men to take them the next dav.
1t cost us nearer 10000. l could hear
the Union forces taking position all
night long, using pick and shovel, get
ting their artillery into position, and
throwing up breastworks. l could hear
the words of command.
''But," said the Governor apologetic-
ally, ''the army had arrived mostly in
the night and had not been able, as