The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-06-17

cult for poor little timid me to keep in
step with legislators, their sisters and
cousins and aunts, also female lobbyists.
So that when we arrived in town took
stroll through the grounds and buildings
of Pennsylvania College," a Lutheran
institution, and was much pleased with
what saw and learned. / then went up
through the town and was yelled at by
man who kept little stand to 'step in
and view the battlefield relics" Further
on 1 met three little tots Of girls who plead
for me to purchase a bullet or piece of
shell. Soon / was finding myself in the
National cemetery where large monu-
ment stands on the spot where Lincoln
was dedicated. There are over $500 SOL
dlers buried here. From there l crossed
the pike to Cemetery Ridge, where Rick
etts' battery was engaged, and assembled
the tower, which gives splendid view of
the twenty-five square miles on which the
battle was fought
As far as the eve can reach, broken
only by Culp's Hill aud Round
Top, we have a view of the most
suitable grounds that could have
been selected upon which 100000 men
could meet in deadly conflict In this
shallow basin, ten by fifteen miles, the
pride Of the southern and northern armies
met and tested their strength for national
supremacy. The magnificent Lee was de-
feated by the more magnificent Meade.
And today we stand united nation, one
and inseparable.
Too many places of interest for one day.
But go where you will In any direction
from the town and you see monuments.
Over three hundred all over the twenty
five square miles of battlefield. In fact,
there are monuments to your right and
monuments to your left, in front and
along the line. To see them requires
about half dozen long hack drives. &C
companied by a guide. All these facili-
ties are on hand, and when the trains
come IN the sleepy old town wakes up and
every one OF the old timers are ready to
accept your cash for service, tough grub,
souvenirs, relics and any thing you carry
away. 1t takes nearly as much courage
to enter the town now as it did in July,
1868. They equal the Turks with their
eternal cry, "Baksheesh."
1t was supposed the town was ruined
just after the battle. Bur not so it has
enabled the citizens to live off their
"reminiscences, recollections, bullets and
relics. Visitors leave thousands OF dollars
there annually, but the town does not
grow. It's a relic. It's back number.
The only evidence of growth saw was in
the new and elegant buildings of the
college.
/ have high sense OF the ridiculous de-
veloped in me, and as an old woman, in a
sunbonnet OF the pattern worn "befo' the
wah," who was driving an antique speci-
men of horse, hitched to a jiggerty old
spring wagon, thought perhaps it was d
relic too. In lighter vein l though of
buying the whole town as relic of the
prehistoric ages and sending it to the fair
in Chicago to be exhibited alongside of
grandpa's hat. But l remembered had
purchased some relics, souvenirs, paid for
a dinner, and had my picture taken.
Will it pay to go there and see this
battlefield now covered with monuments?
BY all means so. 1t is as good pay as the
Yellowstone, Egypt, Alps, London, Paris
or the Rhine. See America first, then you
will appreciate other and inferior couu-
tries. But StIdUiter, hope to come again.
RIXY.