The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-13

with small but fertile farms, the waving
 corn, stacks of wheat clover and the
 burdened apple trees, some of them re- sembling in the distance giant rose bushes. Some twenty miles this side of Gettysburg are two summer resorts Beu-
 na Vista and Pen Mar and crowds or l pretty girls, all bare headed, thronged 1 the stations. Arriving at Gettysburg about 3:3O I took the trolley for Little
 Round Top arriving there about the same ] tirle we charged on July 2, 1863. l recog- nized the precipitous rocks over Devils Den and as soon as l came in sight and
 got off the car to walk the rest of the
 day. Again l stood on the spot where
 stood over forty years ago. Above us then, quite twenty feet, on the edge or
 the rock stood line of blue coated United
 States regulars firing straight down at
 our line which had become broken in passing over and around the huge bould-
 CTS which barred our way. Here fell the gallant Muse and Lieutenant Mays of my
 company, shot through the top of the head by the almost vertical fire. Muse
 fell to his left, striking my feet The
 government avenue passes directly over
 the spot where they fell. and Just beyond
 is an iron sign with the words Devils s Den'' on it.
 One tradition says that the hunters all ways lost their game in this confused
 mass of rock and another that the whis- | ting of the wind in the ravine caused l the superstitious early German settlers l to give the suggestive appellation to the l fearsome place. Under the cliff a spring | of not very good water has been exca-
 vated in the rock. easily found among l the rocks the cleft up which I climbed ] during the battle. Then had to throw my 1 rife forward and by aid of the rocks on either side pull up and repeat the oper- alton. Now, without a gun, and no enemy
 in front, found it difficult to go up the same rugged pathway, and again I had to cling to the rocks to get up. On this
 rugged spur are four cannon, representing
 the artillery in the battle and we took
 and carried away three guns-being the
 only captured artillery of that days fight
 carried off by our army.
 To the left the spur is more accessible
 but boulders from the size of a COW to an
 omnibus are scattered all over its south
 ern face, and again I wondered how the left of Bennings' brigate-some of Laws and the Texas could have driven away even a slxirmish line and taken those guns. All the Second Georgia could do was to employ the men on the preci- | pice over our heads. We remained on l this spur all July under fire from Little Round Top which three regiments of Laws and two of the Texas tried in vain | 10 take ana no wonder. l fired that day | many times at an officer in a white shirt I serving the cannon. Many of my com l rades also did and on that spot is a monu-
 ment to a general and a lieutenant of
 artillery.
 Top of the Mountain.
 climbed not without great exertion to | the top of the mountain. which is as | steep as Red mountain near Twentieth | street in Birmingham, quite as tall with | out-cropping lodges of stones and bould. CTS scattered all over it. Gen. Warren l saw the glint of Hoods bayonets as we | marched to form for the charge, and without orders carried a brigade to the l top just fifteen, some say ten, minutes l before the Alabamians reached the foot of the hill A skirmish line could have held the place, so inaccessible Is it. The line of battle of the union forces was
 about five miles long in the general shape
 of a huge fish hook. Culps is at the point of the hook and Little Round Top at the end where the line Is tied The village of
 Gettysburg Is below the bend of the hook
 and was In our lines which ran along
 High street which then formed the east