The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-10-03
ON GETTYSBURG
BAYYLE FIELD.
Samuel Hackney Visits the
Spot where Once
ASCENE OF CARNAGE RElGNED.
BUT NOW NOT A BUGLE NOTE DIS.
TURBS
Its Ten Thousand Peaceful Sleepers.
Not Slab TO Mark the Spot Where
West Virgin las Sons Gave their Blood
for their Country
It's Ten Thousand Peaceful Sleepers.
Not a Slab to Mark the Spot WheI

4, N g. o.,
GETTYSBURG, IA, sept. al nave
spent some time driving over the battle
field of Gettysburg. and | will note some
nron;rort noints aho,t ,ho ,1aoo 7,
pio'n,','H' po'"'' "Doo' wy paw, =
would De VAN on my part 10 undertake
to describe the entire field, Hon. Ed
ward Everett devotes more than forty
nooos % a dosor;n,;o, - Iii s..rod 49,,
'"sN, w. " s',s 9fo'
ana that only pegins TO tell oil It's histo
ry. ut is so sublime that no artist car
paint it, no tongue can describe it, nc
pencil can delineate it, and no orator car
embellish it-only in part"
There are now nearly four hundred
monuments erected on this battle field
marking the place or spot where each reg
iment fought and where many of its
men fell. Near the Devils Den" where
some of the severest fighting was done,
there is rock thirty or forty feet in cir
conference and about six feet high, on
the top of which is crack or crevice,
about three feet long, out OF which pure
water is constantly flowing, good for
drinking. AT suitable height there is
a trough, cut in the rock, out of which
horses may drink. On Little Round
Top" near the rock already described,
is large rock on which Gen. Warren
stood with telescope in hand. A statue,
in bronze, about eight feet high, has
been erected upon this rock.
The National Cemetery grounds EN-
brace seventeen acres. Within this GEM
etery stands "The Gettysbrrg Battle
Monument'-sixty feet high, twenty
five feet square at the base. 1t is crown
Il ..+.t Ill IL
of Liberty. Upon the four corners are
equal numbers OF allegorical statues rep
resenting respectively, "War" "IIisto-
ry'' "Peace" and ''Plenty."
The National Monument stands on the
10Th of Nov 1868, made his famous
speech, when these grounds were dedi-
Gated. A portion of this speech is in.
scribed ON the face of the monument as
follows: at is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining
before us-that for these honored dead,
for which they here gave the last full
measure of devotion-that we here high
ly resolve that the dead shall not have
died in vain, that the nation shall, I'M
der God, have new birth of freedom,
anu tndt Lne government OI Jne people,
by the people, and for the people shall
not perish from the Earth"
The battle field OF Gettysburg covers
an area of twenty-five square miles. And
this does not include the cavalry battle
field, three miles east of Cemetery
HILL"
There was used in this battle, five hun
dred and sixty-nine tons of deadly mis-
siles. There lay dead on the field, at
one time, ten thousand soldiers and five
thousand horses and mules. And many
thousands more lay moaning and groan-
ing all over the field and dying every
minute.
The State of New York has eighty-six
monuments erected ON this field. | went
in search OF monument that marked
the spot where brave West Virginians