The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-07-16
WAR STORIES.
Gardens Battery Heroes..-R -Recollections Of
Gettysburg, July , and 3, 1868.

chronicle; inscriptions on field tablets
do not record; cycloramas fail to ex
hibit, and even the traditions will soon
be lost il not rescucd from oblivion by
surviving participants or spectators;
and yet any attempted delineation by
a mere pen sketch of most of these
must needs be but adumbration Of the
reality.
Captain ioui, Gourdin Young in
his admirable address to the camp of
Georgia Veterans in Savannah, April,
1900. pleaded for the preservation of
our memoirs of the Southern Confed-
eracy and suggested that each veteran
put on record what he saw and what
happened in his own experience and
Mr.. j. +. Norment in his interesting
letter October 3, Of the same year,
calls attention FROM the field Of Get
sysburg to the "one-sided story" told
there and pleads that the Southern
States build their own monuments.
The writer has been repeatedly re-
quested to rec ord the services render
ed by Gardens Battery, S. {. ",
and particularly those of one solitary
gun on the Sd of July, 'G3, aud con-
Meeting Incidents Herewith, and
which. though, like all other exploits
OF that fateful day, achieved little
save to illustrate the esprit dc corps
and peculiar atilatus which possessed
Lee $ veterans at that time.
The following extracts from the cor
-l".ndence mentioned is sclf-cxplan-
atory. Quoting from letter of Capt.
Hugh r. Garden o Mr.. Lloyd Coils,
1876 Broadway, New York, son of Gen.
9. Fl. T. Collis. Iate July IS, 'Ol
1.-The photographs this morning are
genuine surprise. did not know
that an effort had been made to locate
batteries on the field Of Gettysburg.
On second day, aftnr engag-
ing Big and Little Round Top, CROSS
ed the valley in front, (shown in pho
tograph), prior to the charge Of caval-
~ under Brig. Gen. Farnsworth.
Finding the Devils Den impossible
1 returned to this position. \
That night carried away, under Gen.
Laws orders, from the slope Of Little
Round Top, in the wheat field, four
rifled cannon captured that afternoon
in the whirlpool of the battle by
Hood division.
II have always understood that
these were the only cannon captured
and taken by the Confederates from
that battlefield. The last day Of the
battle was my best and worst day, and
there seems to be no reference to it.
On that last dies irae', the day of
Pickett's charge, I was sent about
mile to the left Of my 6rst position
near the turnpike, Immediately on the
righ: Of the Washington ARTILLERY, and
engaged Big Round Top during the
first part of the great artillery duel.
While thus engaged the chief of Gen.
Longstreet's staff, who was on the
pike observing the effect of the artil-
3, lery FIRE, ordered me to cease firing on
Round Top and TO move by section to
the left Of the peach orchard and ad-
vance in echelon across the plain. I
obeyed the order, but only one section
of my battery. under Lieutenant Ne
Queen, made the advance, for when it
moved obliquely to the left and went
into position at point down q gentle
descent, Gas | can never forget,) about
200 yards to the left Of the peach or
chard, and about 300 yards at least in
front OF our line Of artillery, the at
tention Of the opposing artillery was
drawn toits fire, aud within ten min
utes every horse and man was killed
or wounded. l took volunteers and
freah horses in to remove my men and
gun. After two attempts we succeed
ed, under the same concentrated terri
no fire, made more terrible by the ex-
plosion of caisons and the fire over
head of .lr friends in the rear. There
for the Grst and only time during the
entire war felt compelled to cncour-
age my men by personal example. 1t
was in that carnival Of hell also that
while two of us were trying to carry a
wounded man across the open field
heard wounded Federal officer say
II have laid here since yesterday.
am D. K. E." l could only unsling
and give my oanteep and say "I
would help you, but cannot get my
own men out Of this fire." I never
saw him again, but he must have been
saved, for at sunset our army was not
In pOssesaiOn of the field Some Of