The Portland daily press., 1899-09-14
TUB LOYAL LEGION.
Interesting Meeting of
the Commandery.
"reminiscences Of The Battle Of
Gettysburg.
Capt. R. G Carriers En-
PERTAINING Paper.
A View of the Greatest Conflict
of III d I'm 7 mes.

The Maine Commandery OF the Loyal
Legion OF the United States held meet
ing yesterday at Riverton. The atten-
dance was not quite MS large Rs usual, but
the exercises were Of unusual interest
Previous to the banquet which was
served In the hall of the Casino business
ting was held at which Lieut.. I'D
win Augustus Duncan CT Rochester, ".
h., was elected to tirst-cinss membership.
Lieut. Duncan enlisted as private April
81, 1861, and served in Co. X, 18th Maine
Folunt err infantry as private, corporal
and sergeant. and was commissioned q
second Lieutenant January 10. 1865,
breyeted first Iieutenant April .. 1855. and
Was commissioned first lieutenant of Co.
g, May 4, 1865, but WINS not mustered.
he s3rved with bis regiment in the army
of the Potomac
Capt. John f. Shaw of Bath read a
tribute to the memory Of Capt. Joseph
Warren Hawthorne, who ssrveu as acting
ensign U. 5. N, during the Civil war
and was drowned off the coast of Flori-
day, April 2i, 1899.
Among those present at this meeting
were: Capt. John bennett, Capt. J. A.
Iienriques, Lieut.. Charles W. Roberts,
Cart George W. Verrill. Major VIM ii.
Green, MIR. kdwafd Wyer, Mr.. ID. NJ.
Bangs, MIR Louis NJ. Patterson, Capt
:. h. Marshall, James E. Hewey, Esq.
Alfred, Hon. E. b. Mallet. Jr., Freeport;
Col $. Ii. Allen, Togus; Col. Augustus
& 4uF ltrt HIM A
Capt. John y. Shaw, Bath; Capt. Ii. A.
Philbrook, Meriden, Conn.,; Paymaster
W. ii. Anderson, Capt. Edward NJ. Rand,
DIR. Alfred Mitchell, Brunswick; MIR.
Bion Lane, Major Holman S. Melcher,
Capt. r.. G. Carter, U. S. A.; Major Sid
ney W. 9haxter. Gen. Selden Conner, Au-
gusta; Major Henry 5. Burrage, Lieut.
Col. Charles Emery, Washington, d. G. !;
Mir Thomas ]. Burrage, Lieut.. Charles
. Hunt, Gen. Uhas. p. Mattocks, Capt.
Charles w. Ford, Major Charles Haired
Boyd, Major Ira Berry, Capt. e. III.
Robinson. Phillips; Capt. Thomas p.
Beals, Major b. Nj. Reilon, Capt J. NJ
Thompson, Capt. Charles G. Graham,
Cumberland Mills; Capt. Hebron May
Kew, WestbrooK; Capt. WV. Whitmarsh,
Norway; Capt. A. L. Turner.
Capt. Il. g. Carter, U. S. A., late of
the Fourth Cavalry, who was formerly
an officer in the 22d Massachusetts, volun-
teers, read a paper on "Reminiscences of
the Campaign and Battle of Gettysburg, ="
an abstract Of which follows:
No more glorious sun ever shone than
that which ushered in the morning Of
July 3, 1873, and revealed to our eyes that
beautiful valley, with its wealth of yellow
grain, the meadows tinted with butter
cups, and the wood covered slopes of the
battlefield of aOettysburg. The blue
Ridge Mountains in the far distance, lent
q charming background to the picture.
More than thirty years have not banished
the remembrance of such scene from
our memory.
Hour after hour went by; the Third
Corps had now become engaged the guns
still belched and doomed; the shells
crashed here and there; the fragments
snrieked, buZzed, whirred and grated
these sounds now grown so familiar to
our ears-who Sc peculiar howl a soldier
alone knows; musketry rolled and
ratified incessantly. and yet our notion
less line was lost to the world without,
and to thoughts of fear and anxiety
within.
1t was purely n defensive battle Gen.
dentaily ohose1. the direct result of Gen.
Bufora's rapid movement on June 29th
and S)th, and his prompt action on the
morning of July LIST.
What was the key point? We shall see; ;
and also IL would be well to consider
whether the claim, which has been
pressed since the battle. has been we'll es-
tablished. that a point on the line of
dghUing of July 3D., was really the "High
water mark of rebellion
1t was about o'clock when the sum-
mons came for the Fifth Corps to move
out TO the support of the Third, now
hard pressed. We were rudeiy awakened
from our deep sluniher, and transitory
journey TO dreRmland, by a sharp tsfalI
I'M" every man sprang to his feet. We
knew full we'll the ominous sound of that
call. and hardly recovered from the stu
por, which such sound sleep produces, a
moment later, the long. blue column was
moving almost mechanically into battle.
AS our division (Griffin's, now com
manded by Barne's), swept down the
gradual slope of over u mile. passing t.
the north OF Little Round Top and across
the lane that leads over to the Eminitts-
burg Pike-throush what Ia now known