The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-10-17

Halleek: "Forty-third Mpssach
volunteer infantrS aaoraotalised, dis
satisfied and good for nothing. Col
onel seems to have no oonfdenue in
them. Shall 1 send them homer"
This from Gen. Smith to Maj. Gen.
Couch, on July 3: "De not think it
possible to march at IL. Some troops
furnished me have deserted. Ammu-
milton has not como and do not know
.kat my ordnance officer knows enough
to bring It."
During all this time calls for assist
ance had rcinforccments comiog from
New York, Philadelphia, Altoona,
Camden and Harrisburg, and Secretary
Stanton had ordered all available
forces to leave Baltimore for this same
purpose. A dispatch from w. p.
Smith, railroad officer, is also here re-
corded. This dispatch astatcd that all
ef I:s ineu had been enrolled and ask
ed that they be exempted in order that
his road nigh. continue business. On
the 9th of July Col. Mcintosh report
ed to Secretary Stanton that "Lee 8
force was reported to be $4,000, but
don't know how many"
Four hundred aud twenty six monu-
ments are here in all, telling the story
Of the glory of this terrific struggle,
and of these only :wo are in memory
of che brave soldiers Of our Southland.
One Of these is far away, alone, on
Culp's Hill, and is in memory cf Col.
Herbert, of the I'd Maryland regiment.
The other is the stone at Bloody An
gle, in memory Of Gen. Armistead,
who, with his hat held high on his
sword, fell at the head of his front
column, almost touching the enemy's
line.
It makes no difference what the res-
sons. are. for this apparent neglect,
however good they may be, stronger
reasons plead for memorials here to
those brave men who made = struggle
unsurpassed in the history of the
bravest fighters of the world. Even
the memorials erected by the other
side speak for those who have no
memorials save in the Eearts of their
countrymen. "Double canister at ten
yards"-this is deathless tribute to
the grey knights who made such a
thing possible and :who even faced it
without defeat,
We have pla ed no stones to mark
the limits of the charges made by our
heroes, but the stone showing where
Union leaders fell, and fell thick, too,
records imperishabiy for US what we
have failed to do. And Pickett's
charge placed him and his men where
the grandest fame of the Gettysburg
fight will forever rest, and we leave
them "alone in their glory"-rot one
stone raised-not one word carved
Pickett and his heroes can so rest and
abide forever secure in their own eter-
nal glory, but how about those whose
duty it is to transmit this history
from generation unto generation?
This country is crowded with visitors
who annually come in increasing num-
bers. These hear the story of the
fight and see the monuments all In
memory of Union soldiers and tb sir
deeds Of yalor. Not one word do they
hear Of that other great side, except
sIch as may relate 20 the explanation
Of son,e hs:s5seme monument to o
Union officer or some oronze memorial
Of their heroism.
With the world. as e is with those
who know no better, it is generally the
finish Of The race that counts. That
an inferior force assaulted forces large
~ superior in numbers, in position al
most impregnable, and that this iufe-
rior force held the vantage gained for
two days, this seems to be almost for
COTTON by. some. That even in these
circumstances they inflicted losses, on
a : 5 ~ =
intrinched forces, almost as great as
what they themselves received; this,
too, is something that happened near
~ forty years ago. That after three
days. fighting in July sun, where
bullets and blood were much more
plentiful than water, they at last re-
tired, because they had not me.
enough to hold positions when they
were taken; ;;even this seems to be drift
ing into o forgotten past. This should
never be.
The stone wall over which Pickett
and his men dauntlessly charged still
stands where it then stood. IL nothing
better can be done, let every stone in
this long wall, over which they leapt
to eternal fame, be purchased and