The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-03

flcketL9 nozzle men bad 10 relTaCe
heir Steps across the "Nalley CT
Death, distance OF nearly a mile,
subject 70 the flank ard rear Ere or
cannon and muske,ry. which cut them
to pieces ard eatailed a teavy Loss
in dead and wounded sDi manY
prisoners unsvoidably captured by
The -enemT. Over this Pickett is said
% have wept like child, because Of
It's failure and The loss or so many
uoble men.
The spot where this haad to hand
fight occurred is called the Bloody
Angle" because Of the great blood
shed By both sides, hotly contestine
every inch of ground. Here stands
q costly monumeot of General Cush
ion Union who fell urging bis men
10 hold their own, and by bis side fell
our brave Gene al Armstead urging
lis men TO follow him and fight to
the end, ard 10 his memory stands
the only Confederate monument |
saw. Sad TO behold and reflect upon.
Towering high n the air Is q sharp
shooter, also monument showing
the bravery o. one drawn back ss il
lighting with the butts Of muskets.
All very natural, picturing before
every spectator the sad scene Just as
it occurred. The next most noted
spot, aud place Of hardest lighting is
"Culp's" hill, where / am told are
more signs of hard fighting than any
where on the battlefield. Here stand
many stumps of trees cut down by
cannon balls; also many that were
barked and badly SCARED hy musket
balls, still growing though made
black twenty-elght years ago. Bat
owing to the late hour we reluctantly
gave up visiting this notable spot,
where MANY costly monuments
stand thick and high to the praise OF
both armies. Passing on BY various
Union monuments we made our wav
back to Getty sburg and took supper
With Union soldier, the back OF
| whose house is perforated with min
ME balls and across the street we
saw a cannon bsll deeply imbeded
IN the wall of 2 large brick house,
still telling Of the horrors Of war.
At half past six o'clock, p. NJ, we
again boarded the cars for Baltimore,
leaving behind Us the greatest battle.
field Of the whole war, still showing
the saddest scenes aud causing the
saddest reflections of any Struggle
now on record. To this memorial bic
town of Getty shurs people from al
sections constantly 60 TO view Is
sig hts. Here they keep several
battlefield liveries to transport
yi-itors 10 and from the Geld Of blood
and with each vehicle they furnish
a guide, who invariably preached yot
almost a war sermon at every impor
ant spot. Here the people have
never stopped talking war, Though
twenty eight years age, when boy
only nineteen years old, these scenes
occurred, though they seem fresh
and call to mind many thrilling
scenes almost forgotten, and | an
glad to have revisited this battlefield
and renew some "reminiscences fade(
by the lapse Of tims. Any one cal
see that the plan of Lees invasion
and attack was well conceived, an
everybody knows that it came pre-
ci0us near euccess.
Neyer did a General purs1e
wiser course dor show greater gener
al-ship than Lee in+he management
of this battle, (nnless that Of Napo
leon toward Moscow is excepted,
and it was only the vantage ground
and superior number Of the enem,
that broke the back Of the campaieD
Every historical reader knows tn