The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-11
SECOND PAPER.
GETTYSBURG 1903
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BY w. R. H HoueHToN.

@CGtA OtNs
 visit the field and I am sure that any of the survivors of that conflict will en- Joy d view of the heights which frown- ed on us in 1863.
 Felix Mclaughlin, our tax assessor, was wounded as Wilcox's brigade neared the enemys line He got to lime sink and protected from fire, watched our men fall they climbed the hills He told me to find the place and l found one among numerous sinks, but there Is no tablet or monument to tell where Wilcox's men fought and part of that division after breaking the federal line wheeled and fought with their backs to another part of the same division which had wheeled in the opposite direction. 1 have government maps in my office but they are not object lessons like tablets or monuments on the spot. If the govern ment does not allow confederate monu- ments where the commands fought, the field will always be one sided history. The broken lines of the federal monu- ments negatively tell that somebody fought there, but in a few years none will be left to tell who they were. It is passing strange that. the federal losses in the battle were some thousands greater than the confederate. When 1t is remeni bered that our line charged a mile in the open, under fire from artillery, and then had to climb hills rugged with bou1ders which formed excellent protec- tion to the defenders, and then inflicted more damage than they suffered it takes official reports to convince one that such could be the result.
 Devils Den.
 Near that wild gorge, Devils Den, part of Hoods division captured HOO prisoners and Company H of the Fifteenth Ala bama was detailed to guard them The Seventh Georgia was put on our flank to guard against the federal cavalry and Farnsworth charged over them and in our rear on July 8, with sabers flashing in the sun and with great shouting they came on, but one of our batteries charged them and the stragglers fired on them. From the Knoll over Devils Den we watched their destruction, but we had gathered and loaded the guns of the dead and wounded and prepared to fight front and rear. It is now told at Gettysburg that after being shot from his horse Farnsworth killed himself. On the field that day we heard that after being wounded he killed with his pistol one of our men who demanded his surrender, and another shot him. His commission as brigadier came next day
 In memory yet can see the 300 sabers flashing in the sunlight and hear the i shouts Of those blue-coated cavalrymen.
 
 wheat field. There is monument to Farnsworth but none to the battery which without supports rushed it's guns through the field against the charging cavalry and poured into them canister at close range On the ridge beyond is tablet, showing that Reilly's and Bach mans batteries were opposite and we heard that day that the battery which charged was from Augusta, Ga, com manded by German. [ saw 1t from distance, but do not know which bat tery did the work. Its glorious bravery merits tablet or a monument on the spot.
 Brave Action.
 The bravest thing I ever saw Bennings brigade do occurred on the evening of i the third, after Pickett and Fender were repulsed.
 1, We had orders to leave the hill over Devils Den one at time and form in the field at it's foot. Under terrinc fire from Little Round Top our men formed, al- though now and then man went down. They told off by numbers, faced right and marched off in perfect time and or- der As we passed over Plum Run kneeled to get a drink of water, and running to my place a head, one of the Fifteenth Georgia raised his musket to brain me for running. Our faces were so covered with powder that he did not recognized me. This will give an idea of the spirit of the men who charged those heights.
 When Pro. Sam l.. Robinson read that there were no monuments to tell where confederates fought, he wrote a poem, two stanzas of which are here given: Not monument found, on the dark,
 bloody ground.
 To tell of the laurels there won By the most gallant lads. in the steadiest
 squads
 That ever yet carried a gum Not monument thereon those heights
 in those wales,
 To tell to our sons true battlefield tales. When they climbed up those hills
 when they tempted the will
 Of the Gods in the struggle may be, Did the foe leave their post at the sight
 of a ghost?
 Was there nothing that caused them to
 flee?
 Will they say to the world that those
 brave men of theirs
 Surrendered their guns to an army of