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Evening journal., 1903-01-26
PIan 70 HandIe Inereased rraffie.

Plans for handling the increased
amount Of traffic and for doing away
with the large amount OF complaints
were discussed at a meeting Of Penn
sylvania railroad main line superin-
tendents which was held In the office
OF superintendent OF Transportation
rrum, In Broad Street Station. Phila-
delphia, on Saturday.
Evening journal., 1903-01-26
Liner Collide With RarLl.

Dover, England, Jan. 2G.-The Prince
Liner British Prince collided off Dun
CESS today, with the Glasgow bark
Waterloo. The bark was beached TO
prevent her from foundering. and the
British Prince was towed 10 port. badly
damaged. The crews of both vessels
escaped with slight injuries.
Evening journal., 1903-01-26
More Coal for Poor Reeo;v.d.

Three carloads of coal were received
today by the city. making a total OF
four now on hand for distribution
among the poor in Wilmington. The
fuel will be distributed len one-Quar-
ter lots to persons holding orders is
sued by city councilmen. JAS there
are about twenty-four tons OF fuel i'm a
car, this will insure coal for ninetysix
needy people.
Evening journal., 1903-01-26
Farmers Selling Wood.

Taking advantage Of the scarcity OF
coal. farmers living o. rural New Cas-
tie counay are reaping a harvest from
the selling Of wood for fuel The way
fences have disappeared IN some To-
caliues is surprising. Portable saw
mills are seen I'm several sections and
are doing a land Office business.
Evening journal., 1903-01-26
PaII.sesrsr. for Officer FLOYD.

Tha following pallbearers have been
selected from the police force to act at
the funeral of their brother officer. Will
liam Floyd, who died at the Delaware
Hospital on Thursday night: Sereonnt
Lyons, Patrolmen Todd, Hancock,
Wintrup, Ford and Brown. The First
Infantry Band will furnish appropriate
selections.
Evening journal., 1903-01-26

Selling out mems furnishings,
heavy fieeced-lined undershirts. SIC,
were Soc; mems wooden hose. lie.
were 19c.; children's heavy ribbed
vests, 10c.; mems collars. Sc, were
121zc., at Grsenbaum's, 3O4 Market St.
Evening journal., 1903-01-26
Letters Of Administration.

Register of Wills Bach this morning
granted letters of administrator on
the estate OF George X. Lloyd to VIII
liam r. Brinton. -
Evening journal., 1903-01-26

Delmarvia Telephone Co. gives a
fve-minute service to long distance
points.
Evening journal., 1903-01-26

Delmarvia Telephone Co. connects
with hundreds of long distance points.
Evening journal., 1903-01-26

The Evening Journals News
Is the Brightest and Cleanest
of Any Local Paper.
Evening journal., 1903-01-26

Weather-Today, Cloudy.
Tomorrow, fair, rising tenn
perature, fresh winds.
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Semmes, fall and die, but their places
ARE quickly assumed by the next in COM
mand The Union forces OF Vincent and
Weed, with Hazletts artillery have
reached the summit, but all three arc
killed. The apex Of Little Round Top is
the point of deadliest struggle The day
ends, and thus ends the battle AS the
last rays of the setting sun fall upon
the summit, they are reflected from the
batteries and bayonets of the Union
soldiers still upon it, with the bleeding
Confederates struggling to possess it. The
embattled hosts sleep upon their arms
The stars look down at night upon a har-
rowing scene of pale faces all over the
field. and of sufferers in the hospitals
Behind the lines-an army of dead and
wounded numbering over twenty thou
sand.
THE THIRD DAY.
The third days struggle was the bloody
postscript to the battle of the first and
second There was a pause. Night had
interviewed. 1t was only a pause for
breath. OF sleep there was little for the
soldiers, perhaps none for the throbbing
brains of the great chieftains. Victory
to Lee meant Southern independence
Victory to Meade meant an inseparable
Union The life of the Confederacy: the
unity of the Republic-th are the
stakes of July the third. Meade decided
to defend. Lee resolved to assault. The
decisive blow at Meade's left centre was
planned for the early morning. The morn
ing came and the morning passed. The
Union right, impatient at the Confederate
delay, opens fire on Lees left The chal-
lenge is answered by Confederate
charge under Edward Johnson. The Union
trenches are carried. Rugers Union
lines sweep down from the heights on
Johnson's left and recover these trenches
High noon is reached, but the assault on
the left centre is still undelivered. With
every moment Of delay, Lees chances are
diminishing with geometrieal progression
At last the healgy signal guns break the
fatal silence and summon the gray lines
of infantry to the charge. PicIxett's Vir-
ginians are leading. The tired veterans
of Heth and Wilcox and Pettigrew move
with them. Down the long slope and
up the next the majestic column sweeps
With Napoleonic skill, Meade's artillerists
turn the converging, CALLING fire of all
adjacent batteries upon the advancing
Confederates. The heavy Southern guns
hurl their solid shot and shell above the
Southern lines and into the Union ranks
on the summit. The air trembles and
the hills culver. Onward. still onward,
the Southern legions press. Through a
tempest OF indescribable fury, they rush
toward the crest held by the compact
Union lines. The Confederate leaders,
Garnett, Trimble, and Kemper fall in the
storm-the first dead, the others down
and disabled On the Union side, Han
cock and Gibbon are borne bleeding to
the rear. Still onward press the men
in gray, their ranks growing thinner,
their lines shorter as the living press to-
ward the centre to fill the great gaps left
by the dead. Nearly every mounted Of
ficer goes down. Riderless horses are fly
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Graphic and Historic Contrast Between Lee at Gettysburg
and Napoleon at the Battle OF Waterloo.

condition of the defeated army was still
worse. If, however, any successful COM
mander was ever justified in disTegarding
this truism of Bonapartes, General
Meade was that commander; for a consid-
lerable portion Of Lees army, probably
one-third of it, was still in excellent fight
ling trim, and nearly every man in it
would have responded with alacrity to
Lees call to form defensive line and
deliver battle
1t was my pleasure to know General
Meade well after the war, when he was
the Department Commander or Military
Governor of Georgia. An incident at a
banquet in the city of Atlanta illustrates
his high personal and soldicry character
Iistics. The first toast of the evening was
to General Meade as the honored guest.
When this toast had been drunk, my
health was proposed. Thcreupon, objec
ton was made upon the ground that it
was "too soon after the war to be drink
ing the health Of man who had been
fighting for four years in the Rebel
army" 1t is scarcely necessary to say
that this remark came from one who did
no fighting in either army. He belonged
to that curious class of soldiers who were
as valiant in peace as they were docile
in war; whose defiance of danger became
dazzling after the danger was all over.
General Meade belonged to the other
class Of soldiers, who fought as long as
fighting was in order. and was ready for
peace when there was no longer any foe
i'll the field. This chivaIric chieftain of
the Union forces at Gettysburg was far
more indignant at this speech of the
bombproof warrior than l was myself
The moment this objection to drinking
my health was suggested, General Meade
sprang to his feet, and with compli-
ment to myself which | shall not be ex-
pcctcd to repeat, and a rebuke to the
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The battered Confederate line staggers,
reels. and is bent back before the furious
blast. The alert Federals leap from the
trenches and over the walls and rush
through this thin and wavering line. In
stantlv. from the opposite direction, with
deafening wells. come the Confederates IN
and the brave Federals
are messed back to the walls. The Con-
federate banners sweep through the rlo-
died peach orchard; while further to the
Union left on the CORY wheat tleld the
impacted forces are locked IN deadly en-
brace. Across this field in alternate waves
rolls the battles tide, now from the one
side, now from the other. until the ruth
less Harvester piles his heaps OF slain
thicker than the grain shocks gathered
by the husbandman's scythe. Hard by IS
Devils Den. Around it and over it, the
deadly din of battle roars. The rattle of
rifles, the crash of Shells the shouts OF
the living and groans of the dying, con-
vert that dark woodland into q narrowing
Pandemonium Further to the Union lett
Hood, with his stalwart Texans, IS climb
ing the Round Tops. For a moment he
hats to shelter them behind the great
boulders. A brief pause for rest, and to
his command, Forward they mount the
huge rocks redeemed with blood-and
Hoods own blood is soon added He falls
wounded; but his interpid troops
under Law press forward. The fiery brI-
gades Of McLaws move to his aid. The
fiereest struggle is now for the possession
of Little Round Top. Standing ON its
rugged summit like a lone sentinel Is
seen an erect but slender form clad in the
uniform OF Union officer 1t is War
rem Meade's chief of engineers. With
practlsed eye, he sees at glance that
quickly seized, that rock-ribbed hill would
prove Gibraltar amidst the whiling
currents of the battle, resisting its heavi-
est shocks. STAFF and couricrs are SUM
moned, who swiftly bear his message to
the Union leaders. Veterans from Han
cocks and Sykes respond at a double
quick Around its base. along its sides,
and away toward the Union right, with
the forces of Sicl1les and Hancock, the
gray veterans of Longstrcet are in hercu-
lean wrestle Barksdale's Mississippians
seize a Union battery and rush on. The
Union lines under HUMPHREYS break
through Confederate gap and sweep
around Barksdale's left Wright's Geor-
gians and Perry's Floridians are hurled
against HUMPHREYS and break him in turn.
Amidst the smoke and fury, Sickles with
Lhigh-bone shivercd, sickens and falls from
his saddle into the arms OF his soldiers.
Sixty per cent. Of HaneocAs veterans go
loHn with his gallant Brigadiers Willard,
Zook Cross and Brooke. The impetuous
Confederate leaders, Barksdale and
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strokes of Union pickets and shovels on
the hills to the rumble OF artillery
wheels and the tramp of fresh troops as
they were hurried forward by Union COM
manders and placed in position There
was, therefore, no difficulty in divlning
the scene that would break on our view
with the coming dawn. l did not hesitate
Ito say to both Ewcll and Early that a
line of heavy earthworks, with heavy
guns and ranks of infantry behind them
would frown upon us at daylight. | eX-
pressed the opinion that, even at that
hour, two o'clock, by a concentrated and
vigorous night assault we could carry
those heights, and that if we waited till
morning it would cost us 10000 men to
take them. There was a disposition to
yield to my suggestions, but other coun
sells finally prevailed. Those works were
never carried but the cost of the assault
upon them, the appalling carnage result
ing from the effort to take them far ex-
ceeded that which ! had ventured to pre-
dict
Late in the afternoon of this first days
battle, when the firing had greatly de-
creased along most Of the lines, General
Ewell and were riding through the
streets of Gettysburg. He had lost, in a
previous battle, one of his legs, but prided
himself on the efficiency of the wooden
one which he used in its place. AS we
rode together, a body of Union soldiers,
posed behind some buildings and fences
on the outskirts of the town, suddenly
opened brisk fire. A number of Con-
federates were killed or wounded and /
heard the ominious thud of a mimic ball
rs it struck General Ewell at my side
quickly asked: care you hurt, sir?"
mo, no." he replied; I'm not hurt. But
suppose that bali had struck you: we
would have had the trouble of carrying
you off the field. sir. You see how much
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BATTIEFIELD

GENERAL VIEW OF GETTYSBURG b.
better fixed for a fight am than you
are. 1t don't hurt a bit to be shot in a
wooden leg
Ewell was one of the most eccentric
characters, and taking him all in all, one
OF the most interesting that / have ever
known. 1t is said that in his early man
hood he had been disappointed in love
affair, and had never fully recovered from
its effects The lair young woman to
whom he had given his affections had
married another man, but Ewell, like the
truest of knights, carried her image in
his heart through long years. When he
was promoted to the rank of brigadier or
ma or- general he evidenced the con-
stancy of his affections by placing upon
his staff the son of the woman whom he
had loved in his youth The meddlesome
Fates, who seem to revel in the romances
of lovers, had declared that Ewell should
be shot in battle and become the object
of solicitude and tender nursing by this
lady, who had been for many years a
widow-Mrs. Brown. Her gentle minis
tration lsoothed his weary weeks of suf
fering and they were at last married and
with it came the realization of Ewell's
long -deferred hope. 1t was most interest
ing to note the change that came over
the spirit of this formerly irascible old
bachelor. He no longer sympathized with
General Early, who like himself, was
known to be more intolerant of soldiers
wives than the crusty French Marshal
who pronounced them the most incon-
lvenient sort of baggage for a soldier to
own Ewell had become a husband, and
was sincerely devoted to Mrs. Even He
never seemed to realize, however that
| her marriage to him had changed her
name, for he proudly presented her to his
friends as My wife, Mrs. Brown, sir"
Whatever differences of opinion may
now or hereafter exist as to the results
| which might have followed a defeat Of the
| Union arms at Gettysburg. there is univer-
sal concurrence in the judgment that this
LATHE was the turning-point in the Souths
fortunes. The point where Pickett's Vir-
einans, under Kemper, Garrett, and
Armistead. in their immortal charge,
swept over the rock wall, has been APP
proprIately designated by the Govern
ment as THE high-water mark of the Re
bellion." To the < Union commander.
General George Gordon Meade, history
will accord the honor of having handled
his army at Gettysburg with unquestion-
ed ability. The record and results of the
battle entite him to high place among
Union leaders. To him and to his able
subordinates and heroic men is due the
credit of having successfully met and re-
PEELED the army of Northern Virginia in
the meridian of its hope and confidence
and power. This much seems secure To
him, whether his failure to vigorously fol-
low General Lee and force him to another
battle is justified or condemned by the
military critics of the future. General
Meade's army halted, it is true, after
Having achieved a victory. The victory
however, was not of so decisive charac
ter as to demoralize Lees forces The
great Bonaparte said that bad as might
be the condition of victorious army afte,
battle, it was invariably true that the
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in retreat Those at distance were still
resisting, but giving ground, and it was
only necessary for me TO press forward in
order to insure the same results which
invariably follow such flank movements.
In less than one-half hour my troops
would have swept up and over those hills,
the possession of which was of such mo-
mentous consequence. 1t is not surpris-
ing, with a full realization of the conse-
quences of halt, that l should have re
fused at first to obey the order. Not UNI
Til the third or fourth order of the most
peremptory character reached me, did ]
obey. / think | should have risl1ed the
consequences of disobedience even then,
but for the fact that the order TO halt
was accompanied with the explanation
that General Lee. who was several miles
away, did not wish to give battle at Get
tvsburg. 1t is stated on good authority
that General Lee said, sometime before
his death, that If Jackson had been there,
he would. have won in this battle great
and possibly decisive victory i cannot
vouch for the truth of this statement as
did not hear it, but no soldier in a
great crisis ever wished more ardently for
hour of Jackson, when | was ordered to
halt. Had he been there, his quick eye
would have caught at glance the entire
and instead of hating me, he
would have urged me forward and have
pressed the advantage to the utmost
simply notifying General Lee that the
battle was on, and he had decided to oc-
cupy the heights. Had General Lee him
self been present this would undoubtedly
have been done. Absent. as he necessa-
lrily was, and intending to meet General
Meade at another point and in defensive
battle, he would still, when the facts were
made known, have applauded the most ag
gressive movements though in conflict
with his general plan. From the situation
plainly to be seen on the first afternoon
and from facts that afterward came to
hight as to the position of the different
corps of General Meade's army, it seems
certain that if the Confederates had simply
moved forward, following up the advant
ages gained, and striking the separated
Union commands in succession, the victory
would have been Lees instead of Meade's
/ should state here that Genera
Meade's army at that hour was stretched
tout dlOuB the Ilue vi HIS uidIC4 lOI
Thirty miles General Lees was mucl
more concentrated. General Hancock
statement of the sitution is true and per
ltinent: 1.-THE rear of our troops wer,
lhurrying through the town pursued by
lConfederates. There had been an attemp
to reform some of the Eleventh Corps al
they passed over Cemetery Hill, but i
mad not been very successful" And We
I was halted.
Il My thoughts were so narrowed AM
my heart so burdened by the fatal mis-
take of the afternoon that ! was unabl
Ito sleep at night. Mounting my horse a
two O'Clock in the morning, | rode witt
one or two staff officers to the red barr
lin which General Ewell and General Earl,
,lthen had their headquarters, Much 0
lmy time after nightfall had been spent o.
1.-THE front picket line. listening to the bus
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objector, he held high his glass and said
with significant emphasis: II propose ia
drink, and drink now, to my former foe
but now my friend, General Gordon, Of
Georgia.
1t will not be expected that any con
siderable space be devoted to the I'M
lseemly controversy over those brilliant
but disastrous Confederate charges which
lost the day at Gettysburg. / could
scarcely throw upon the subject any add
tional light nor bring to its elucidatlon
ANY material testimony not already adj
duced by those who have written on the
one side or the other A sense of JUS
tice, however, to say nothing of loyalty to
Lees memory, impels me to submit one
observation; and / confidently affirm
that nearly every soldier who fought un-
der him will sympathize with that sug-
gestion. 1t is this: that nothing that oc-
Cured at Gettysburg, nor anything that
mas been written since of that battle, has
lessened the conviction that. had Lees
orders been PROMPTLY and cordially exc
cufed. Meade's centre on the third day
would have been penetrated and the
Union army overwhelmingly defeated.
Lees hold upon the confidence of his
army was absolute The repulse at Get
tysburg did not shake it. | recall no in
stance in history where defeated army
retained in its retreating commander a
faith so complete and gave to him subse-
quent support so enthusiastic and uni
versal
General Longstreet is undoubtedly
among the great American soldiers who
attained distinction in our Civil War: and
to myself. and, | am sure, to a large ma
jority of the Southern people, it is a
source of profound regret, that he and his
/ friends should have been brought into
such Improbable and lll-tempered contro-
yersy with the friends OF his immortal
chieftain.
/ A third of century has passed since,
with Lees stricken but still puissant
Iarmy. | turned my back upon the field
of Gettysburg, on which nearly 10000
Americans went down dead or wounded
lat the hands Of fellow Americans. The
commanders in chief and nearly all the
great actors upon it are dead. OF the
heroes who fought there and survived the
conf6ct large portion have since joined
The ranks Of those who fell. A new gen
Grafton has taken their places since the
battles roar was hushed, but its thunders
are still reverberating through my mem.
ory. No tongue, nor pen, can adequately
portray its vacillating fortunes at each
dreadful moment. As ! write of 1T now,
. mvr;ad thrilling incidents and rapidly
cbanginp scenes. now appalling and now
linsn;ring rush over my memory. / hear
again the words Of Barlow: Tell my
wife that freely gave my life for my
country Yonder, resting on his elbow
see the gallant young Avery in his
bloody gray uniform among his brave
North CaroIinians, writing as he dies
TEL father that fell with my face to
the foe !, On fine opposite hills, Lee and
Meade, surrounded by staff and courier.
land with glasses in hand, are surveying
the intervening space. over it the flying
shells are plunging, shrleklng, bursting
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of
J. Gordon Commander of the
1 It's the
delightful
the marched
is and should
in
a.e+.4S *@e.sg.s
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startling announcements. Nothing short
of an actual resurrection from the dead
could have amazed either of us more.
Thenceforward, until his untimely death
in 1896, the friendship between us which
was born amidst the thunders OF Gettys-
burg was greatly cherished by both.
No battle of our Civil War-no battle
os any war--more forcibly illustrates the
truth that officers at distance from the
field cannot, with any wisdom, attempt
to control the movements of troops nc
lively engaged. On the first day neither
General Early nor General Ewell could
possibly have been fully cognizant of the
situation at the time l was ordered to halt
The whole of that portion of the Union
Army in my front was in inextricablc con-
fusion and in flight. They were necessarily
in flight. for my troops were upon the
flank and rapidly sweeping down the lines
The firing upon my men had almost
ceased. Large bodies OF the Union troops
were throwing down their arms and sur
because in disorganized and
confused masses they were wholly power
less either to check the movement or re-
turn the fire. AS far down the lines as my
eye could reach the Union troops were