Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1901-10-19

| r. Johnston of West Virginia, who was
then a beardless youth. with the ranl
| of sergeant major In the Seventh Vir
| ginia infantry. I took him over tt
| where General Sickles was sitting, In
| troduced them and left them to swaI
experiences, a performance In which
old soldiers delight.
1t seems to me that II Sir Edward
Greasy should come to life and were
to issue a new edition Of his famous
Decisive Battles Of the World" he
would change the number from Is to
16 and would set down Gettysburg as
the sixteenth. The fighting must have
been awful, for 1 never saw a man
who sGvasAn 7itzthat was not wounded
more,or lesssse~erely. Though Judge
Johnston dd,not lose leg, as'did Cen
eral Sickles. he was nearly as badly
shot.
Judge Johnston said: "To show the
horrible carnage produced by Pickett's
charge Watson. ensign of my regiment,
had color guard of eight sergeants
and corporals, and they were all killed
or wounded. Watson falling, Young
grabbed the flag and carried 1t to with
In ID or 20 feet Of the stone wall be-
hind which Hancock was fighting. He,
too, fell badly wounded, but holding
the flag aloft. While e,lying there wav-
ing his flag he saw a Union officer TAX
ing aim at his head and. throwing up
his arm, saved his head by catching
the bullet In his wrist; then a boy
named Talbert picked up the flag,
pressed up to the wall and was just
climbing over when a mimic ball plow-
ed furrow across the top Of his head.
and he fell outside the wall, while his
flag fell inside, and the Union soldier
who shot him picked up the flag and
carried 1t to the rear as a trophy Of
that bloody field.
"Of General Pickett's entire staff
only one, except Pickett and courier,
a boy named Walker, came out of that
fiery furnace uninjured. OF Pickett's
three brigade commanders Garnett was
killed instantly outside the stone wall,
Armstead fell mortally wounded inside
the wall and Kemper, desperately
wounded, outside the wall. He lived
to be governor of Virginia.
"The courier, Walker, who was only
IT, belonged to the Eleventh Virginia.
but was detailed for duty on Pickett's
staff Seeing the color bearer of his
old regiment fall, he galloped to where
he lay, dismounted, seized the flag and
saved 1T from capture.
after General Pickett's charge was
repulsed and what few of us were left
had struggled out of the fire, Pickett
was trying to rally the remnants Of his
command, saying: Get together. boys!
We must form again. General Lee
may need us elsewhere While he
was thus addressing the men a boy
about 16, named Belcher, rushed up
with a bullet riddled flag in his hand
and, flushed with excitement, asked.
General, shall we charge them againT
"a majority of the soldiers who fol-
lowed Pickett In that charge" conclud-
ed Judge Johnston, 'were beardless
boys, but they had hero's hearts"
General Harry Bingham.
Over on the Republican side of the
house is another Gettysburg hero
General Henry II. Bingham of Phila-
dephia, universally and affectionately
called General Harry Bingham. He
carries one bullet in his leg as a re-
mlnder of Pickett's charge and three
other bullets In the same leg as SOU
yenirs of Confederate craftsmanship
on other fields.
At the early age Of 80 General Bing-
ham succeeded to the title of father
of the house." which he inherited from
General Harmer, another Philadel-
phian, when the latter died last winter.
General Bingham is also celebrated for
being the best dressed man In the
house, for his Chesterfeldian manners
and for the fidelity with which he
stands up for the interests of the City
of Brotherly Love.
In Offering the usual resolution upon
the death Of General Harmer General
Bingham made the following astonish-
| ing statement II desire to group to-
gether the names of those four men,
bers whose record today belongs to the
whole country and for whose memory
the people of Philadelphia have espe-
cial affection-Judge w. ID. Kelly, who
was elected to Is congresses and who
served 20 years; Mr.. Charles ONeiil,
who was also elected to 10 congresses
and served 20 years; Mr.. Samuel j.
Randall, who was elected to IA con-
crosses and served 81 years, and our
colleague just deceased, Mr.. A. c. Har-
mer, who likewise was elected to IA
congresses and served q years-in all
112 years of service given by these
four distinguished dead, a record un-
paralleled in the history Of the coun-
try"
The remarkableness Of General Bing-
hams statement is increased when we