Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-07-27
GETTYSsuRG INCIDENTS.
a Notable Group of Men Noticed Mt the
Recent Celebration.

a Notable Group of Men Noticed Mt the
Recent Celebration.
1t was early when General Longstreet,
after his eight-o'clock breakfast, heard
several horses clatter up to the door of
the Lutheran parsonage where he was
staying. An orderly led horse for the
whitc-haired Longstrect, who mounted
with the agility OF youngstcr. The
other riders were General Butterfield,
who was chief of Mead's staff; ex-Sen-
ator Warner Miller of New York, and
Lieutenant Slade OF the regular cavalry.
The party at once rode along Battle
avenue, which marks the front Of the
Union line of battle just twenty-five
years ago, as far as the 'Bloody
Angle" where the Philadelphia brigade
and Cowan's battery met the shock of
Pickett's desperate charge.
1t was strange chance, born OF the
shifting movements of years, to see
Long rect, LoJ's great Lieutenant. rid
ing along the Union position side by
side with his former foes, his horses
feet tramping the very ground that the
vain to win. 1t was just such a day, too,
when they tried to win it. The sun shone
as brightly then, and the fields all about
were checkered then as now, with the
green and gold of growing crops. Long
street rose in his saddle when the party
reached the Bloody Angle and gazed
long and earnestly over the wall that
intervenes between the Union line,
where he stood to-day, and Seminary
Ridge, where he stood twenty-five years
ago. He said, as il talking to himself:
ut was n gteat mistake, that charge OF
Pickett's, great mistake, but we could
not know that then" The Confederate
leader looked over the field for several
minutes longer, while no one spoke.
The party all rode on along the Union
| front and climbed the steep ascent OF
Little Round Top, where they gathered
on the summit at the point where
General Butterfeld's old command, the
Forty-fourth New York, of Yincent's
brigade, was engaged. Here they were
! Joined by Generals Sickles and Carr,
who had driven to Little Round Top
along the front OF Sickles' line on the
second day in the Peach Orchard and
the Wheat Field and then through tho
DEVILS Den.
This was indeed n group. There
we're facing each other Sickles and
Longstreet, whose troops had fought
almost head to head with each other in
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twenty-five years ago. Together they
gazed from the crest OF Round Top up
on the scene of that carnage. General
Sickles, who lost a leg on that day, sat
at the foot OF II tree, and Longstreet,
his former opponent, stood at his side.
General Hartranft stood near by. They
had not been there minute before
they were surrounded by one hundred
people, who came running from the
dedication OF monument near by.
"Boys, here's Longstreet, and he meets
us once more at Round Top" said Sick
les. The crowd gave three rousing
cheers that went surging through the
shimmering air over the plain below.
When the throng had scattered once
more General Longstreet said to those
Immediately about him; ''Looking from
this point of view our assault upon this
position looks no more difficult than 1t
did from our point then. We needed
time. We needed five more minutes in
our favor Ewell did not come, though,
He nad but mile to come to cooperate
with us, but he stopped
The party then returned along Battle
avenue to where General Hancock was
wounded, and here General ButterGeld