The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-01-19

LIEUTENANT GENERAL JAMES LoNGSTREET.
end Sumner asked Mcclellan TO suspend
the fighting. The slaughter on both sides
had been unparalleled on any American
battlefield. What remained OF Long
streets battalions stood at bay in front OF
tho citadel. the key to the field covering
the avenue OF retreat, and when night
caIne on without a renewal OF the Union
attack Leo expressed his thanks to his
lieutenant with the fervor Of Napoleon
When praising his marshals.
Again at Fredericksburg LongStreet
held the citadel. Marye's Heights, where
he repulsed Summers grand division at
the stone wall. Chancellorsville was
fought by Leo without his Old Warhorse
or his valiant corps. Otherwise that bat
tie might have ended the war, and Long
street would never have been called upon
to make the hopeless assaults at Gettys-
burg, tasks he protested against, yet would
not shrink from. The work cut out for
him there was Of the nature always as
signed TO Jackson during his life. Per
haps be would have done better than
Longstreee but there Is no data Co affirm
that conjecture. Jackson never came on
with flying colorS when pitted against his
peers, At Gettysburg Longsereec was
called upon TO settle accounts with Han
cock and Sickles and Sykes, together with
the men OF the Third and Second and
Fifth corps, who had given him no end of
trouble whenever he had met them, from
williamsburg on. And Gettysburg was
another AntietaIn or fredericksburg, with
the tables turned. The boys in blue held
the citadel. standing on their own soil to
fight for their homes and freSldeS>
The Sd OF July, 1868, was the saddest
day Of my life, " said Longstreet, recalling
the hour when Pickett men came reeltng
back down the slope from the Bloody An
gle What Lee thought OF his conduct
there may be inferred from the readiness
with which In the presence OF the defeated
men he accepted the responsibility. 1t
was all my fault" he exclaimed.
Once more after the Gettysburg failure
Longstreet saved the Army OF Northern
Virgins. and his great work as . soldier
was done. That was IN the Wilderness
when the left had been repulsed. the csn-
ter broken, and the right on the Plank
road was no moro than q skeleton line
outnumbered and overrun by Hancock S
five splendid divisions &c was crisis
LongStreee must save the cause by forced
night march OF 80 miles from his cAnp Of
the day before. Would be comet Could
he GOMEZ Yes, and at double quick. his
veterans shoulderins their way through
the mob Of wounded, stragRlers and non
OOLuOoAAubSp e4A1OASA G1C ONO1BIo49 o<4N
thickes TO meet the foe in death grapple.
The blow told. The sledss hammer wa
| at work. For once the imperturhahlE
| Longstreet was beside htmss2f, SaAasd
| with triumph or bone on By the tnxJ d
| the battle valor ILks JankRnn. bs ven
| tured too Ear, and returning In the din
| light OF the thickss was shot down By hii
! own men When he had recovered sum
GENTLY TO take the held. 10 waS no Longer
the day for battle, but for reereas and sur
render. And there was something NOR
than the timely advent OF Longstreet'I
corps amid the thunders Of combat q
| make the episode dramatic. It was tht
return OF his invincible lsgions from be
yond the Blue Ridge, where In the inter
| val at bloody ChickamauRA they had ais
I turned the tide By . decisive charge.
GEoBGE I KILSdER