The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-08
SECTIONALISM DEAD.
Gov. Gordon of Georgia on the SiRnif1
.CanCe of the GettysburR Reunion.

sCanCe OF the gettysburg Reunion.
From the Ne,o York Herald,
WASHINGTON, July 5-Gov. Gordon 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 grey,
aquiline nose, bearing in one cheek the pit of
a union musket 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 lifes battle, bearing stoically ill fortune
and prosperity with equanimity-the latter
condition holds him now.
This anniversary Mt Gettysburg" said
he to your correspondent, "haS made a last
ing impression on E4e. | doubt if history
can afford a parallel-the survivors of a
great war meeting on one of its greatest
and most decisive battlefelds with an ardor
of good feeling and affection even fully as
intense as the animosity with which they
met in battle twenty-five years ago. This
warmth of feeling had not the least pre-
tence; it was Of the most genuine and ap-
parent nature. 1t was observable every
where
There were probably over 10000 veter-
ans on the ground. OF course most of
them were union veterans, the cOnfederates
are generally too Door to come so far, but
the spirit was there Just rs intense as if
every survivor in the south was on the spot
81 saw an old one legged Louisiana Tiger
in charge of dozen union veterans, who
were actually carrying him around and
giving him a glorious time, eating, drink
ing, telling stories and presenting him to
their friends. One man rushed up to me
crying: L want to shake you by the hand
for you were sartinly the wust ever fit
MEMORABLE MEETINGS
81 met for the second time since the war
Gen. Barlow, who was in Towards elev-
enth corps, which my command doubled
up in the first days fight, thus giving us
the advantage for the time being He was
severely wounded i'll that fight | came
across him lying in a clover field in the hot
sun, and had him taken down 10 n 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 senate,
| met Gen. Barlow at n dinner at Clark
son Potter's house, and asked him if he was
a relative of the Gen. Barlow who was
killed at Gettysburg. Yes said he, L am
the man himself
1.-The other day he came up and shouted,
Let me get at the man who killed m1r'
When Lee was marching north l, with a
brigade which was almost a division,
was way in advance of the main army, and
as | rode over Cemetery hill | noticed the
beauty of the country. penetrated as far
as York with few light skirmisheS with
Gov. CurtinS ninety day men, and should
have reached Lancaster when was recalled
to take part in the fight at Gettysburg.
HOW THE NORTH WON
81 remarked to my staff then that who
| ever controlled the nights would win the
| fight After we had won the first DAVIS
| fighting repeatedly urged that we should
be allowed TO push on and take the nights
| even ms late as = O'Clock in the morning,
| but was overruled. | sad that il would
| cost us 10000 mon tn take them the next
| day. 1t cost us nearer 10000 | could hear
the union forces taking position all night
long, using pick aud shovel, getting their
| artillery into position and throwing up
! brcastworis | could hear the words OF
| command.
But" said the governor alphabetically
the army had arrived mostly in the night
and had not been able rs | had, to view
| the ground and know the country
Its all over now though, and the sec
| tions arc again ccmeutcd | hadn't got
fairly into my first sentence the other day
when the whole crowd shouted as if they
would raise tho sky. Il meet you to-day
| said, with far less trepidaton-.' But
they didn't lot me get any further for sew
eral minutes.
Gov. CIrtin made a good hit 4 was
not at the battle of Gettysburg said he, Il
was back in the rear persuading Others to
60 and do the fghting'
ut was only after / had arrived Mt Get
| tySburg,' concluded Gov. Gordon, that |
arrived Mt a full understanding of the vast
meaning and importance of that fraternal
gathering. Sect onalism is dead. and
the men who hi ed it on the battlefield
were stamping ON its grave"