Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-27
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.
Third Days Fight Will Be Shown
 Tonight

Third Days Fight Will Be Shown
 Tonight
 A large and appreciatiye audience attended the first lecture on the battle or Gettysburg by L. w. Minnigh. in City hall last night, under the auspices CT NadhamS post. c. A. R. The vet erans and members of Abraham Lin coin camp. Sons of Veterans, attend ed in a body Companies A. and G marched to the hall headed by the Mat tatuck drum corps. Quite a goodlv number of ladies were present. If was great night for the veterans of the Civil war. as well as for widows and children of those who figured in the conflict. and there are quite q good many such people in Waterbury,
 Among the first to enter the hall was an elderly woman. who seemed to take q modest pride in stating to her con- panlons that her husband and two of her brothers were killed in the peach orchard at Gettysburg. and that the reproduction of the battle on canvas Ill Waterbury brought hack the whole matter to her mind, so that sue looked upon It as an occurrence of the pres ent time.
 The lecturer was introduced by o. W. Cornish. past department com mander. Nr Minnigh prefaced his dis course by stating that lin no battle since the world began has the mastery of the art of war been so complete as that displayed by both armies at Gettysburg. No battle ever fought was fought with greater results. IL was the greatest battle of the Civil war. General Lee lost ground in that battle that was never recovered Tie battlefield stretched over tl1irty-fve square miles and 175.0OO soldiers were engaged in it. of whom 10000 were stricken down on the 'blood-soaked ground"
 The speakers description of the first two days fighting at Gettysburg was eminently satisfactory and conveyed a better idea of the relative positions of both armies and the destruction to hu- man life and private property than could be obtained by a life Derusal Of the history of Gettysburg. with no guide but the cold type. It is one of those things which should be seen by every school child in the city and parents could not spend q couple of hours to better advantage than in company with their children listening to the story of Gettysburg by q man who figured in the struggle and knows every inch of the ground
 Mir Minnigh exhibited a large nrm- ber of views, among them being pie lures of Reynolds. Hancock. Sickles. Sykes. SedgWick. Meade Howard, Slo- cum. Pleasonton. Buford. Gregg. Kill patrick. Devin. Merritt Neill, Wright, Crawford. Brooke. Lee. Longstreet. Ewell. Hill Stuart and others The presence of Robert T.. Lees picture could not have evoked warmer ap- plause before an audience composed al most exclusively of believers in the lost cause.' Some very fine pictures | of monuments, charges, retreats and ! clashes were also thrown upon the 1 canvas.
 1 The third days fight at Gettysburg will be shown tonight, and the indi- cations point to even much larger audience than was present last night. | In his interesting guide book to Gettysburg. Mir Minniah says the num- 1 Der of soldiers engaged iii the battle | will ever be q subject of controversy. The fairest approximation possible is that of the COmte de Paris. which we use here as a fair statement The Army of the Potomac bore on it's re- turn, on July 1, 1868. 2.75O men who took no part in the battle. 1000 ar tillery. 1G.5O0 cavalry and S5.500 in- | fantry. a total of 1O5.I50 men and 352 pieces of artillery. but deducting the
 heavy artillery in reserve at WeStmin- ster, the guards on supply trains. the stragglers, etc. the effective force of
 Meads was from S2, ,o00 to S4.G0O men,
 with 327 guns. The ~Army of North
 ern Virginia, on May 31,. 1868, con- tained an effective force of SS, 734 off | cers and men, of whom the following j were under arms: General staff and infantry, 59 420 men: cavalry. 1G,292
 artillery. 4.75G: total of I446S men l with 2Q6 pieces of artillery. Deduct ling all the losses by various means il the brigades and regiments absent I stragglers. etc, and adding the con
 scripts and brigades, the Army of Northern Virginia arrived on the bat
 tlefield of Gettysburg with 5000 men | more than 1t had On May 31. 1Sj3-ol | in the neighborhood of SG,000 men. De ducting the mounted men from this | Lee brought into actual combat during
 the three days of July. from GS.000 to 69,OOO men and 250 guns, against
 Meade's S2.O00 or S40O0 men and 30t guns collected on the field. Meade had therefore from 1S000 to 19,00O mef 1 more than his adversary superiority
 of nearly one-fourth, which, unfortu nately for him, he was unable to turr to advantage.
 | tProhibs" Not Discouraged. | F Cyf~