The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-05-17
Correspondence atlanta Journal.


Correspondence atlanta Journal.
GETTYSBURG, May 1.-Gettysburg wit.
messed Homeric gathering last Friday,
a meeting of heroes who fought their bat
ties over again, small assemblage and
vet one of the most notable and interest
ing since the tide of blood of July thirty
years ago. The scene Of thatfamous car
mage seemed to throb with new strife
when Longstreet, Howard, Malone and
Alexander, standidg side by side, point
ed out, with swelling forms and kindling
eyes, the various scenes whose struggles
they had directed.
The party came here in special train
which left Philadelphia at half-past ten
o'clock in the morning and which was
set apart for them and handsomely pro-
vided through the courtesy of Charles E..
Pugh, third vice-president of the Penn.
sylvania Railroad, and also director of
the Union League.
The trip was the outcome OF sugges-
ton of President ] John Russell Young, of
the league, that the Confederate and
Union heroes who were to meet at din.
ner on the occasion of the Grant ami
versary should, the next >daY, visit to.
gether the scene Of their famous combat
in the Susquehanna Valley. There were
invited to meet them the directors
of the League and very few others.
MEMBERS OF THE PARTY.
The party, which arrived here at 2:90
o'clock, comprised Lieutenant General
James Longstreet, the ranking striving
officer of the confederacy; General E.
Porter Alexander, the artillery leader of
the lost cause; General an ex-senator
William Malone, the fire eater from vir-
ginis; Major General o. O. Howard, of
the regular United States army, who, af-
ter the death of Reynolds, commanded
the union forces during the first days
fight at Gettysburg; his brother and
chief of staff, General @. O. Howard
Colonel Osmond Latrobe, Of Longstreet's
staff; General Lewis Merrill, John Rus
sell Young, Henry George and Colonel
John P. Nicholson, the historian of the
battlefield.
There were also present these other
Philadelphians, mainly Union Leaguers
Judge J. O. Ferguson, Major Samuel B.
Huey, Colonel R. Dale Benson, DR.. b.
Ernest Goodman, James Pollock, Major
E. A. Hancock, E. G. Markley, William
B. Gill, J. D. Pratt, James Rankin
Young, Samuel G. Wells and these New
Workers: Colonel John A.. Cockerill,
Hugh Hastings, Bradford Merrill, Ralph
Meeker and Horace White.
THEN AND NOVA CoNTRAsT.
The distinguished party ws's greeted by
a considerable gathering Of townafolk.
They we're placed in large four-in-hand
coaches, and the column moved up the
road over which Lee retreated, led by a
barouche containing Generals Long.
street, Alexander and Howard and Mr..
Young.
This was the irst time that Longstreet,
Alexander aud Malone had visited the
scene of their great disaster since that
memorable event, and they smiled grimly
as they commented upon the fact that the
last time they travsled over the Fairfield
road it was at faster gait and in the oppo-
site direction.
The route was along the line of the
union forces on the first days fight,
passing the series Of grand monuments
which form the finest outdoor.art gallery
in the world. When the bridge over
the famous railroad cut was reached the
party halted and dismounted, while Gap.
tain James T. Long, a famous profess
sional guide, prepared TO deliver his con.
ventional address from commanding po.
sition.
Everyone left the vehicles and gather
ed around the bsrouche in which were
now seated only General Howard, an
empty sleeve dangling by his sideand
his handsome faee aglow with excitement
and General I.oDgstreet, whose weight
Of seventy-four years forbade him in.
dulgipg too freely in the exercise ofleav.
ing his carriage.
His manly face in its fringe of white
frightened as he looked over the broad
scene which he had last looked upon
when 10000 men were battling for life
in a struggle, at the conclusion of which
45, 5000 men were killed, wounded or miss.
ing.
A HISTORIC GROUP.