Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-23
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TUEsDAyFvEN1Na, NOV % 1897.
GEITYsRuRG VISITED.


and lay down while the artillery dnel
was going on, and where l buried .ne
old deck of cards that l was unWlilins
should be found on my body. !! had q
GREAT affection for that old deck, from
the fact that Gen. Garnett, Col. Hun.
ton. nv brothers and self had played
many game of whist with it by the
camp fire in several States. One game
7 particularly remember in North Car.
olina in which held all four honors
and took every trick, TO Gen. Garnette
great amazement. l went to muse um
of battlefield relics and inquired OF the
proprietor if he had ever gotten q PACK
of cards from the battle field. He re
nlied that he had one brought to him
10 state of pulp by boy, to whom ne
had given five cents for them, and that
he had taken them to the Chicago ex-
position aud sold them to man for STU.
asked him if there was paper around
them, mine having been wrapped IN
song entitled "He Had Que Arm
Here" He said that there was pa,
Der around them, but not word could
be desciphered on it. "Sic transit
gloria mundi."
When was taken hack by the afore-
mentioned officers TO the WOOD we
found Gen. Lee forming line OF the
slightly wounded men, and here it was
that heard the utterance OF that out
cush of sympathy intended by that
magranimous man to soothe the heart
broken men who were going to the
rear: 'Never mind, my men, 1t was
not your fault, but mine" l suppose
this was addressed to me as much a.
to any other, yet l did not for mo
ment construe it 10 the sense that some
wonld wish; namely, into an admission
of a 6lunder. l was glad to find that
after the lapse of so many years l mad
so accurate q remembrance OF the
typography of the country. The only
change was in the erection OF 4O9
monuments to the northern troops (and
one to the First Maryland Regiment IL
rear of Culp's HilD. These monu-
ments, some of which are very hand.
some and costly. are in great variety,
from the natural boulder of pudding
stone from Boston Common to the
splendid shaft costing sos 900 in the
National Cemetery overlooking the
graves of 1919 men. There were
number of Pennsylvanians who lad
Joined the southern cause and who
were killed at Gettysburg. Henry
Rober, OF my regiment, was in Pickett's
charge, aud fell, pierced by eight balls.
Two brothers from Pennsylvaia, Uriah
and Andrew Fletcher, volunteered
when / raised my company in 81 and
both were killed, one at Seven Pines
and the other got back to Prince vii
liam and died from his wounds. The
greatest feat of the war, in my opinion,
was that performed by Gen. Lee in
withdrawing his army from the enc.
my's front to the south side of The fo-
tomac with slighter loss than that in
hicted on an enemy intrepched in al
most impregnable positions, his less
being 20,440, and that of the enemy
2299O. This could never have been
accomplished but for the paraly zing
effect produced on the enemy by Pick,
ett's charge.
EDMUND BERKELEY.
P. Seen. Lee brought Oft all of bis
wounded who could be moved. was
brought of in one.horse dayton With
Hunton, and all the food we had until
we crossed the Potomac was few
cherries and three partridge eggs each,
that our old fifer. Pap Mellin found in
8 nest and boiled in his tin cup.
E.B.
Prince William county, Va, Nov. is.