Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-08-30
Gettysburg Next.

The next great event in Ais State will
be the reunion of the veterans of Gettys-
burg, on the battle field, Wednesday and
Thursday, Sept. IL and 12
Col. Keller who is Gen. Hastings chief
assistant in making arrangements for it,
estimates that there will be ten thousand
applications for tickets. Upon receipt of
an application the record Of the applicant
is Immediately referred to and if he is en-
titled to an order for ticket it is sent to
him. These tickets must be signed by the
applicant, and will not be good for re-
turn passage unless the holder identifies
himself at Gettysburg and again signs it.
The Pennsylvania Commission mas done
splendid work on the battle field, and a Sc
ries of graceful monuments now mark the
regimental locations. Quite number of
new monuments are to be dedicated at the
coming reunion, and in the course of time
the twenty five miles oyer which the bat
tie ragged will be adorned with them.
4 writer who lately visited the field ad-
vises visitors not to be in too great a hurry
to. get over ito hire carriage with a
cabman who knows something Of the field
and take your time. Drive from Little
Round Top down the Valley of Death
(what gruesome nameD, and then look
at DEVILS Den, where the guile will point
were found, rebel sharpshooters killed by
shells from Cushing's battery ON Little
Round Top. And, by the way, just remark
that the guides do not use the term 'Reb-
ell. They all say Confederate, out of
respect, | presume, for the thousands of
ex-rebels who visit the field, and who
would be mortally offended at the term
"Rebel." Then visit the wheat field, and
the peach orchard, and the scene of Long
streets charge, and the place where Pick
ett's men were moved down by Pennsyl-
vanians on Pennsylvania soil. Go over
the first days fight and see where Rey-
nolds fell, and pluck daisy as souvenir
Then see where gallant Bruce Ricketts,
battery stood on Cemetery Hill and imag
inc the wild charge of the Louisiana Tigers
up the slope-vain and foolish charge, for
in it they were annihilated Saddest Of
all is the cemetery where lie the tn ousands
who fell BECAUSE of the weakness of foolish
men.
You'll 90 everywhere once you get there.
Better to tell you where to end your day
of sight seeing. Drive down to the Bloody
Angle, where every foot of ground is re-
plete with incident How different from
twenty-six years ago. 1t is rs peaceful as
a church yard The birds are singing in
the umbrella shaped clump of trees that
Pickett told his men to make their object
i've point on the famous charge; golden
rod grows on the spot where Hancock was
wounded; the pretty wild daisies cluster
near the spot where fell Armistead, mis-
| guided North Carolinian who SO reluctant
| ly gave his sword to the rebel cause, but.
having done so, fought gallantly; ox-eyed
| daisies grow along the old stone wall from
behind which flashed the fire that made
the enemy roll, then reel, then yield and
finally fly il utter defeat; the soft summer
breeze seems to come from the woods afal
where Pickett formed, and sweeps across
the plateau whereon at one time thousands
! lay dead and more writhed wounded and
begged for death as a relief from horrible
| torture all is peace and quietness. End
/ your day at Gettysburg here