The National tribune., 1902-10-09

tanned from their submits should not be
missed by any sight-seer who has the good
fortune to visit Gettysburg.
Standing upon the tower at the point
where the Mummasburg road crosses the
Seminary Ridge, l locked southwark far
down Reynolds avenue to its point of ter
mination on the Hagerstown road, and
westward over Buford avenue and Rey-
nolds Grove to Willoughby run and be-
yond. Eastward, Howard avenue crosses
the valley from the Mummasburg road to
Rock Creek, and southeastward lies Get
tysburg in beauty and in peace.
The lines held by the First Corps on
July |, 1868; and especially where
fought with my brigade from Willoughby
Run through Reynolds Grove back to Sem
mary Ridge, where we repu'sed Heth's
last charge, 81 years before, were full of
glorious though sad recollections of the
olden time. Along those grand ridges,
within that shady grove, beside those
sparkling waters and on those grassy
wounds and suffered death that other
Summer day which almost seems but yes
terday.
Standing upon the tower on Confederate
avenue, down near the Emmitsburg road.
l look westward and behold the wooded
slopes Of the ridge and the rocky valley
below; while to the eastward the wide,
diversified Landscape stretches away to the
foot of the Round Tops, heavy with the
verdure Of Spring and sweet with the o1or
Of flowers. There battle ragged in sub
lime fury, the old Wheatfeld-reaped with
the harvest of death on the I'd of
July, iS6S-waves with a growth renewed
that shall not be trodden under the feet
Of men; nor shall the fruit of the young
Peach Orchard, standing where the old
one stood 81 years before in Sickles's Sa-
tlty0A hnn nf Low
be gathered in b,ood.
Standing rpon the tower on the crest
of Culp's Hill see the fair city under my
feet, as it were, to the northwest. North
ward are woodland, field, orchard, garden
and meadow; eastward is the broken gorge
and the wild valley of Rock Creek; south
ward are innumerable picturesque hills.
glens, rivulets and glades. To the west
we look down upon Cemetery Hill, with
its imposing statues and towering monu-
ments, and the Starry Flag of Freedom
waving above them. Grand and inspiring
is the scene, for only the memories of war
remain.
Standing upon the tower on South Gem
etery Hill, the center of the Union line of
battle on July 3, 1863, northward is the
Cemetery and the city; eastward stands
Culp's Hill, in all his rugged glory; south
ward stretches Hancock avenue, far past
the Bloody Angle and the umbrella copse.
away to the rock-faced key of the Left
and its towering mate in the distance:
southwestward the Emmitsburg road and
Sickles avenue, with the Salient, Peach
Orchard and the Wheatfeld, with their
many monuments, spreads out before me
like huge map unrolled. Due west is
Seminary Ridge. From that point across
those fowery fields came Pickett and his
G,OOO braves enveloped in the clouds of
war and buffeted by the cyclones of
death. But the storm has passed forever.
Standing upon the tower on the apex of
the king of the rock-ribbed hills of Get
tys6urg, am lifted up as on a pinnacle
OF heavenly light and gladness, from
which look down upon everything that
is earthly. What glory is Round Toni
Inc pines and the rock-oaks clothe him in
garments of green from his base to his
summit, and the pilgrim above on his tow
er looks down Ger the sides of a mountain
OF feathery branches. Northward are the
old battlefields and the hills and the city:
southward the groves and the orchards and
meadows, but with them and among them
OF war no memory fingers. Here all is
beauty and peace. The old soldier for
gets the past with its strife and turmoil.
iorgets the present, with its cares and it's
burdens, while within this holy temple in
ar ne commuhes in spirit with the Great
Master. Who shall describe Round Ton.
VI paint Inc scene from his tower?
THE UMBRELLA GROVE AND FIRST
MINNESOTA.
About $50 yards south of the steel tow.
er on South Cemetery Hill stands the lit
tie umbrella shaped grove that guided
Pickett In his mad charge on Hancock's
lines. The grove stands on the west side
OF Hancock avenue, and consists OF 40
trees-3O rock-oaks, nine red-oaks and one
hickory: They stand on q rocky knoll in
q thick cluster, which causes their
o., branches to spread out in all directions
like an umbrella. The clump is inclosed
by an iron picket fence in a circle go
yards In circumference.
Seven hundred and fifty yards sonth of
this grove, on Hancock avenue, stands the
monument Of the 1st MINI. OF all the
regiments that participated in the battle
OF Gettysburg on either side this regiment