The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-05

to General Lee, and after a slight pause added that it would be improper at that
 time to make any further comment or
 that line. Those who heard him were
 impressed with the idea that he. too
 put the blame on General Longstreet
 but that it would be out of place to say
 so before a Georgia audience.
 Controller General Wright was in the
 army that started on its invasion of
 Pennhsylvania, but he was not at Get l tysburg, having been captured just af-
 ter crossing the Maryland line. His
 father, General Ranse Wright, was at
 the fight. Comptroler- General Wright
 and Governor Candler both reiterated
 the fact that the failure of that fight was charged to Longstreet because of | his failure to reach there in time and
 before the Union forces had received re- i Inducements. The contention has al-
 ways been that had Longstreet arrived on the first day the opposing forces to Lee could never have rallied.
 Comptroller- General Wright thinks that would have ended the war then and there. A great many people think also that had the southern army cap
 tured Washington after either the first
 or second battle of Manassas, that, too,
 would have ended the war It is like
 playing game of chess or rubber at
 Whist-it is so much easier to see the
 pad move or wrong lead after the game.
 A south Carolina veteran who was at Gettysburg adds a contribution to the discussion and tells of hearing in per son General Lee upbraid General Long, street for his tardiness in reaching the scene of action,
 Writing to the Newberry News and Herald, this South Carolinian says:
 T loved General Longstreet He was a splendid fighter and his corps was as good as any in the army. But General Longstreet lost the fight of Gettysburg by his tardiness that morning. He marched us out into an open field and waited for our brigade to come up, The boys were in the best of spirits. Many jokes were cracked. General Wright of Georgia wore his hair very long. A member of Company D, Third South Carolina regiment, told General Wright to come out from under that hair. He knew he was under there; he could see his legs sticking out. This made Gene- ral Wright furious. He never found his man, but We got the laugh.
 Finally we made our way toward the field. A short distance from where we formed line of battle we passed Gene rals Lee and Longstreet in conversa- tion. I heard General Lee speak to General Longstreet of his tardiness, and General Longstreet told General Lee he would charge the Yankees off the hill. I knew we were in for tight rub. We marched to a stone fence at the edge of the open ground, formed a line of battle. sent out sllirmiehers and got back behind the stone fence, and for some time we were under hail of shot and shell,
 Lieutenant NJ, P Buzhardt of our was killed and Captain Gary and several men were wounded We finally crossed the fence, and at the en- emy we went. We were doing nicely when some Federals struck the right of the Seventh Carolina and they gave back, and finally we were forced back a short distance. l finally went back to the right and asked Colonel Nance to let me go back to where he had fought, | I thought I knew where one of our men 1 was who was wounded. 1 went down the wounded Yankees and gave | them water and came back to the reg | ment The next day we took position [ where we left off fighting the day be- 1 fore. But we did not fire a gun. After | Pickett's charge we went back to the [ stone fence from which we commenced { the fight, We were baflled, but not | oeaten-ready to obey any command of | our beloved general.
 After resting a day or two we made 1ur way back to Williamsport by easy stages. The Potomac was too full to ord, so we took position and waited 'or General Meade to attack us. FL lally the pontoon bridge was complete 1t Falling Waters, and we crossed back . 70 Virginia At Williamsport rations got scarce, and we were allowed to kill he hogs and cattle that came in our each. I had secured a sack of flour, md put It in the wagon before leaving Virginia. It turned up all right in Wil- and l had not only bread though for my mess, but was able to give all the boys some bread, We went pack toward Richmond, and about the ast days off August we took the cars or Georgia. Augusta (Ga) Chronicle.