The Portland daily press., 1889-10-09


From the Nineteenth's monument tn
Maine party drive on a few yards to th
Bloody Angle, and after pausing then for
| general view of the field, pass on over Gene
terry Hill to the slope over toward Culp'
HILL On this slope stands fine monumen
with these inscriptions:
Stevens's Battery.
Fifth Maine First Corps.
July So 1868.
Also engaged July LIST North
| Of the Seminary
Ammunition expended, $40 rounds.
Losses:
Bull Run 2d-1 officer and 3 men killed. me,
| wounded, men missing
Chancellorsville-6 men killed, 8 officers and 1.
| Gettysburg-2 men killed, officers and mel
wounded, @ men missing
Opeduan-6 men wounded.
Ceoar Creek--2 men killed. 16 men wounded
In the assault upon East Cemetery Hill in tn,
evening OF July I'd, the enemy Hays and Hoke.
Battery which poured terrible fire of double
canister into their ranks Doubleday
On another face of the Monument is list
OF the battles participated in.
works that Captain Stevens threw up on the
night OF July 1st. 1868, and in them are
placed cannon. The great work of this hat.
terry was fully described by Major Stevens
and Lieutenant Whittier.
THE account of the Fifth Battery is OF
great interest, and will be published in a
future edition of this paper.-Ed.l
Seventh Maine.
One of the most appropriate monuments
on the field is out on the Baltimore Pike,
across Rock Creek. Here the Seventh
Maine was stationed. under Colonel Selden
Common. Its monument was designed by
General Common. and is one of the most taste
full on the field. 1t consists of large Amer
lean shield lying upon rock. On the shield
IS the Greek cross Of the Sixth Corps, and on
the cross TIE name OF the regiment and the
organizations TO which it belonged.
An account Of the Seventh's positions in
the battle will be published later,
The Tenth Maine Battalion was headquar-
tiers guard during the battle, and an appro-
PIRATE monument has been erected on its po-
sition southwest of the Baltimore Pike.
A gallant little band of % men from
Maine composed company in Berdan's
sharpshooters. 1t was engaged on the morn
ing of the second day in company with the
Third Maine in the woods in front of the
peach orchard. Two were killed and six
wounded of this little band, and the State
has given them monument appropriately
inscribed.
All day the Maine veterans and their
friends drove over the great field; and.
though they travelled thirty or forty miles
In all, they did not see all the Maine monu-
ments, even. The fighting at Gettysburg ex-
tended over an area of about twenty-five
square miles.
The Union army under Meade had $1,000
men with 800 guns.
The Confederate army under Lee had TO-
600 men with $50 guns.
The Union army lost 1000 killed, 12.543
wounded, 6.645 missing. Total loss, 23,lS6
OF this number, Maine lost 143 killed. 59S
wounded. 100 missing. Total loss, 1,O31.
The Union dead sleep in the beautiful
cemetery on the hill, arrayed by States and
distinguished by enduring inscriptions. The
Confederate dead sleep where no man
knows. The cultivated fields over which
Pickett charged are said to be filled with
the bones of the flower of the youth of Virgil
mia, but no monument does. or can, preserve
their names or mark their resting places.
The tongues of a hundred orators could not
speak SO impressively of the Lost Cause. as
do the grassy fields and ploughed lands.
whose vegetation, more vigorous for the dust
at their roots, and dourishing in the spring
to fade in the autumn, is the only memorial
of the dead.