Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-28

enemy a paraiyzng blow. Had he en-
deavored TO do so he would undoubtedly
have been subjected 10 the danger OF
having his army cut in two. His plan
OF breaking the enemy's centre by q
simultaneous charge of Pickett in front
and Stuart in the rear would doubtless
have been successful. but for the fact
| that Stuart had become engaged with
| a superior force of cavalry under Gregg
and Custer and had been driven back,
enabling the enemy to concentrate his
fire on Pickett. Pcketts charge is a
matter of history to which 1t is needless
for me to revert, except TO say that l
have never yet seen an account Of It
that did not contain many errors. | saw
large picture for sale in Gettysburg
representing Picketts charge and Armi-
stead lying dead by the side of
his horse within the stone wall. Armi-
stead was the only one of our generals
who went into the charge on foot. and
Hunton, being incapacitated from walk
ing, being the only colonel who went in
mounted. Kemper got within one hun
dred yards or less OF the stone wall
before he was shot from his horse,
which was farther than any other horse
got in the charge. Being a member OF
the board appointed to appraise the
horses in our division, the board, con-
sisting Of General Chen major Dear
ing, Captain Raymond Fairfax, and my
self, l knew all the private horses in
the division from General Garnett's
superb thoroughbred. Red Rye, 10 the
dun that was killed by the same ball
that wounded his rider, Hunton. L will
here say that the miraculous preser-
walton Of Pickett his stan, and their
horses is unparalleled in history, If we
nf ~
docks defeat. have often wondered
how l could have had minie-ball TO
plough its way from a few inches above
my knee to my hip, where ii was eX-
tracted fully eighteen inches from where
it entered. When 1 saw the position,
however. in which the man who shot
me was lying behind the stone wall
three feet in height l readily compre-
hended that the ball struck me as /
raised my leg in stepping forward.
went TO the house behind which l was
carried, and which was some $50 yards
in front of the stone wall. The adju-
tant Of my regiment, Captain B. Hutchi-
son, and Lieutenant /. S. Jones, Gene
raj Garnett's aide, carried me back fully
a mile TO the wood in front of which
we had formed and lay down while the
artillery duel was going on, and where
buried the old deck Of cards that 1 was
unwilling should be found on my body.
had great affection for that old deck,
from the fact that General Garrett.
Colonel Hunton, my brothers, and self
had played many a game Of whist with
1t by the campfire in several States.
One game 1 particularly remember in
North Carolina, in which 1 held all four
honors and took every trick, 10 Gene
raj Garnett's great amazement. / went
enquired of the proprietor II he had ever
gotten a pack Of cards from the battle
field. He replied that he had one
brought TO him in a state of pulp by
boy, TO whom he had given 5 cents for
them. and that he had taken them to
the Chicago Exposition and sold them TO
man for $40. j asked him If there was
a paper around them, mine having been
wrapped in a song entitled He Had
One Arm Here" He said that there
was a paper around them, but not a
word could be deciphered on it. "Sic
transit gloria mundi."
When 1 was taken back by the afore-
mentioned officers to the wood we
found General Lee forming a line Of the
slightly wounded men, and here it was
that ] heard the utterance of that out
gush OF sympathy intended by that mag
unanimous man to soothe the heart
broken men who were going to the rear:
Never mind, my men, 1t was not your
fault, but mine" / suppose this was
to me S much as to any other,
yet / did not for a moment construe il
in the sense that some would wish
namely, into an admission Of a blunder
/ was glad to find that after the lapse
Of SO many years i had so accurate
of the Typography Of the
The only change was In the
erection Of 400 monuments to the north
ern troops land one TO the First Mary
land Regiment in rear of Cups HID. |
These monuments, some Of which are
very handsome and costly are in great |
from the natural boulder OF
from Boston Common to
the splendid shaft costing $4,000 in the
National Cemetery overlooking the graves
OF 1878 men. There were a number of
Pennsylvanians who had Joined the |
Cause and who were killed at
Henry Rober, of my regi- |
ment, was in Picketts charge, and fell, |
pierced by eight balls. Two brothers |
from Pennsylvania-Uriah and Andrew
Observation-Disclosures when 1 raised my
company in 1861 and both were killed |
one at Seven Pines aud the other got |
back to Prince William and died from |
his wounds. The greatest feat Of the |
war. in my opinion, was that performed |
by General Lee in withdrawing his army |