The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-11-28
Read Better than Pension /" on page 5.
REvIsITING GETTYSBURG.
Veteran of the Second Corps Goes Over the Bat
ilegroHnd.

Veteran OF the Second Corps Goes Over the Bat
ileground.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In reading
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE i have never seen
any contributions from the old Third Br.
gade Second Division. Second Corps, composed
of the LIST Del, 18th n. j., l0Sth ~ Y aud 18th
Conn. We entered Tie service just soon enough
10 engage in the battle of Antiefam, and fol-
lowed the Potomac Army until the close of the
war.
A short time ago / revisited Gettysburg for
the first time. 26 years after the battle, and as
passed along Cemetery Hill aud read the i'm
scriptlons on the monuments of the above
named regiments il brought back to my mind
the old scenes never TO be forgotten. IL GER
Jainly seemed like sacred ground to me-
could see the stone markers where the Bliss
house aud barn stood where a portion of the
gallant 18th \. J. charged down and captured
more than their own number of prisoners, and
where, later on in the fight, my own regiment
also went and burned both buildings. We lay
behind the stone wall, so prominent in history
during that terrible artillery fire. which never
before after IN the civil war was equaIed.
Then, as looked over to the woods TO the west
/ could see just low those three lines of battle
led by Pickett looked as they came straight on
across the plain fields ali the time those missiles
Of death blowing through their ranks They
touched elbows aud marched to their doom.
The terrible struggle as they reached our lines
Is beyond my power of description.
passed down the line toward Round Top
and up on the summit where one can see across
the Valley OF Death rightly namcdl into the
Wheatfeid, where the 9th Conn. lost about half
Of their numbers engaged. j then descended the
rocky slope aud went to Devils Den" where
the bullct-mArks are plainly visible on the
rocks, and farther on came TO the Peach Or
cbard mentioned so much in history.
From there we went back 10 the Emmits-
burg road, passed the Codori buildings, which
Pickett's Division passed. half one side and
half the other, rs they made their charge We
then went up through the town aud out on the
fields beyond. where the gallant Reynolds fell
lighting the rebel army with his single eorps
We visited East Cemetery Hill, which the
Louisiana Tigers charged and gained, only 10
be driven back by Carr0ll's Brigade, o! our own
division. From there we went Oh 70 Cuip's
Hill, where the Goth Conn fought; drank
water from Spauglcr's Spring, where 20 years
before the soldiers Of the blue aud gray side
by side in the silent hours of midnight filed
their canteens, not knowing one another but
only waiting for the irst gray dawn OF morn
ing to commence the work of death We
passed by Gen. Meade's headquarters, locking
just as il did when lac occupied il during the
battle. We also visited the National Cemetery
saw that beautiful monument with the closing
words Of the dedicatory address from the lips
Of the martyrcd Lincoln.
No soldier who fought in that battle can af-
ford TO lose the opportunity Of going over those
fields again. ] would like 10 hear from some
Of the old brigadc.-JosEPH Bishop, First Ser
geant, 20. y, l4th Conn.,, New Haven. Conn.