The morning call., 1891-01-11
GEN. G. K. WARREN'S
FAME REVERED.
A Statue Erected in His Honor in Pros
peGt Park, Brooklyn.
His Courage, Attachments and Military Ca
pacity Not Appreciated-"L Little Phirs"
Hasty Action at Five Forks.

| Net long ago at a meeting of G. K. War
| rem Post Of the Grand Army of the Republic
In Brooklyn, suggestion was made that a
| statue OF General Warren be erected in Pros
| pect Park. 1t was adopted instantly Then
| followed au appeal for funds. The amount
asked for and much more came in at once
| Inc accepted design appears in a late num-
! Der OF Frank Leslie'S. 1t is very striking;
| representing the General standing upon Lit
tie Round Top at Gettysburg. The pedestal
is TO consist OF powders actually taken from
there. The growth of the Grant Monument
Fund has been proyokingly slow. Why did
money come IN so promptly and literally in
| this Instance?
| OF course it is to be considered that the
amount asked for was vastly less, but there
| is another explanation not without interest
General Gouveneur K embie Warren was
! the namesake of wealthy and distinguished
old-time New Yorker, an Intimate friend of
| Washington Irving. Warren himself was
one of the -Four Hundred" but not in the
modern dilettante fashionable sense of the
| term. lie was man of courage and capac-
| lty of almost feminine senStiyeness and
dellcacy; proud, high-strung, intensely loyal
and patriotic, but at the same time of very
nervous temperament. General Grant said
of him that he had only one fault, but that
was serious. When an order was sent 10
him he was so anxious for the cause that
he would stop and consider its adyisabilty
instead OF carrying it out as soon as re-
ceived
HE SEEMED TO FORGET"
Continued Grant, that the same mind
which was guiding him was directing the
other corps commanders at the same time"
Therein, no doubt, lay the source of all his
woes. General Warren was, at the time OF
the battle of Gettysburg, Chief TOpOgraph-
zeal Engineer of the Army OF the Potomac.
On the second day of that battle, at pre-
cisely o'clock in the afternoon. Long
streets corps, under cover of tremendous
artillery fire, advanced to attack and turn
the Federal left. To observe this move
ment Warren climbed the high rocky ridge
known as Little Round Top. AT a glance
he saw that the very spot on which he stood
was the key to the Federal position. He
| also saw that LOngstreet was extending his
| lines on his right flank for the very purpose
| OF overlapping and taking this position in
| reverse Except for the presence of half a
| dozen officers of the Signal Service" who
were iurling their flags and preparing to
again, boys, aud keep them waving while
run for help" said Warren.
! The Sixth Corps was coming on to the
field along the Baltimore pike" not far
away; de borrowed battery and brigade
| from them and they all started on the keen
| Jump up The steep slope OF Little Round
! Top. They reached the summit at last
Not moment too soon! Hoods Texas
regiments were already half way up the
| other side. Then came a tremendous StIug-
| gle, lasting nearly two hours. The Union
| buys were fighting among the bow ders.
| lie rocks served as breaStWOrkS. Perhaps
to this fact the Union victory was due, for
the Texans were terrible fighters. The
! Cunfederates reireated with great loss. Lit
tie Round Top was saved, thanks to Gen
| eral q. *. Warren. The design Of
THE PROPOSED MONUMENT
is therefore most fitting and appropriate.
Now for the rest of the story: When Grant
| reOrganized the Army of the Potomac in 1864
he gave the Second Corps to Hancock, the
sixth to Sedgwick, the Fifth to Warren.
| Then followed, as every one knows, the
crossing OF the Rapidan, the battle of the
| Wilderness, the march to Spottsylvania and
! the bloody repuise at Cold Harbor No
| doubt General Lee thought that Grants
march on Richmond was stopped right
there. For the first time since Hooker
crossed the Rappahannock at Chancellors-
| vile lie was fooled. 1t was the skillful dis
position of Warren's corps, which masked
| Grants next move and made il possible for
| Hancock, under cover of that movement
almost capture Petersburg before Lee knew
! what was up. So far aiPs well with War
| rem. 1t was later in some OF the movements
around Richmond, that Grant thought he
was too slow in obeying orders. When,
| therefore, Sheridan went out to fight the bat
| tie Of Five Forks Grant said to him: IF
| Warren fails You relieve him at once"
| Sheridan On the battlefield was always i'm
| petuOuS and irascible, ana the words used
| by that great soldier on such occasions eau
not be found, even in the New Century
| Dictionary"
! At Five Forks he thought that the Fifth
! Corps was somewhat tardy in coming up,
and, instantly, in a rough way, relieved
| Warren from command AID sent him TO the
rear in disgrace. Now Little Phil " of
| course meant no injustice; perhaps there
was none, in fact. Opinions of military
! men differ about that, and battlefield is
not parlor.
But it seems hard that so gallant an
officer, who had served long and WELL
| should, just at the very last moment of the
war, have been suspended and disgraced.
His own boys OF the Fifth Corps must have
| thought so, for at the grand review in
Washington on their way home, as they
| marched down Pennsylvania avenue they
caught sight of Warren, who was on the
| grand-staDd. Says contemporary news
paper account, the cheering was wild,
| continuous and deafening" Warren felt
| greatly aggrieved over his removal from
command, brooded over the matter, and
died, it is said, of a broken heart. There
was court-martial about it. Warren
always insisted that it was packed against
( him." The story is not without its pathos,
and tends to excite sympathy whether he
| was treated unjustly or not. Hence, no
| doubt, the immediate and liberal response
| when the monument scheme was preached a
! few weeks ago. FREDERICK W, ToMPKINs.