Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-09
GETTYSBURG FIELD.
The Marking of Lees Limos a Necessary
Work Now.

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Nearly oil of tho generals and officers OF
distinction and most of the rank and file
of the Army of the Potomac have returned
10 their homes. The only men OF promi-
hence left are the members of the commits
sion appointed by Congress TO mark the
lines Of Lees army. under an appropriation
az 825 600. These are Congressman Will
liam ii. Forney. of Alabama, VINO was
wounded in the fight; Colonel John b.
Batchelder, the battlefield historian, ana
Colonel John p Nicholson. the historian
of the First Corps. General forney says
the commission has just started In to
work and expects TO remain here month
longer.
Now that the Union lines are so tho
roughly and clearly defined, the necessity
of having out those of the Confederates
becomes all the moro imperative. Had
yots of the 5000 or 10000 veterans who
were here Sunday beon taken it is
almost certain that 90 per cent. would
have voted that Congress should make a
generous appropriation for the purpose.
The scheme has received the hearty IN
dor,ement of General Slocum. General
Sicklss. General Greene. and General But
tsrfield. The visitor who now goes to tho
field sees but one side OF the fight. And
until the Confederate lines are marked
the Injustice will continue.
GENERAL ARMIsTsAD,
History dwells with mournful cadence
unon the numerous bullet-wounds re-
ceiyed by General Lewis A. Armistead, the
only Confederate General of Plcketts Le-
roic division who crossed the stone wall
the afternoon of the "a. According to
some of the tales Armistead must have
presented the appearance OF q hu-
man collender. As q matter OF fact,
Surgeon Heidrick. of the One Hun
was in charge of the Eleventh Corps, to
which Armistead was conveyed, has drawn
up d statement, in which he asserts that
he personally examined General ARMS
tead's wounds and that he found only
two -one in the left arm and the other In
the right leg. Not ons OF the wounds was
necessarily fatal. According TO his testi-
mony Armistead died of shock. Instead
of crying, Tell Hancock have wronged
him aud my country" Armlstead ex-
claimed. "Where IN Hancock! 1 want to
sac Hancock
THE PURSUIT OF LET.
One important point of the battle that
has never appeared in print was made
known Yesterday for the first time: That
the order for the entire Army OF the 20
tomac TO pursue and attack General Lee
after Pickett was repulsed was drawn, but
General Meade refused to sign 1t. The
order was drafted IN the. regular
order-book. which Is now filed away
which il was written has been torn out
and all trace removed. General Butter
field. chief of staff, drew the order him.
self. And so confident was General $40
cum that the advantage would be taken
and pursuit ordered al once that. oy MS
order, three days rations were issued 10
all the troops in the right wing OF the
army. consisting of the First. Eleventh.
and Twelfth corps. From bis cot IN the
bullet-wound in the groin. Hancock sent
repeated urgent messages to Meade to or
der an advance of the entire army.
HAMPToN's LEGION.
Tn thu course of the day. while making
n tonr of the 6eld. Governor Flower made
a discoyery. Three miles to the east was
nointed ont Rummel's farm. where two
tall shafts marked the field of the brilliant
cavalry bQbt where Gregg end Stewart
erosssd ssbres and the latter's attempt
10 work around to our rear and capture
our trains was blocked,
- should very much ike TO see thas
neld.n said Colonel William l.. DAVIS. one
of Governor Flowers aides and nephew
of Jefferson Davis.
"Whv SOP was asked.
"Because had hand in that cavalry
fight in Hampton's Legion"
ll-year-old boy DAVIS had cut loose
from the restraints OF life at Georgetown
College and Joined the Confederate eaval-
nv when it reached Rockville. Md, during
Stuarts raid IN June. 1868. On June soth,
Hampton's legion had its frst brush on
pennsylrania soil. at Hanover, with the
Fifth New Z orb Cavalry, Colonel Davis here
rsceiying his baptism of IRE. The coinci.
dencs was that thirty years later he should
wear the uniform Of the State against the
troops OF which be hrse his art shot.
Ont 81 sixteea members OF his STAG Cover
NOR Flower can muster three who were IN
this cam paign-- General Mcdrath, Colonel
sloane. who was wounded IN the northern
army, aud Colonel Davis