Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-08-24
A VISIT TO THE GETTYSBURG
BATTLEFIELD.
Continued from, last aUeek.

COHttHutu JFOH Vuot WCch'
Securing a good team and proficient
guide we took the Emmittsburg pike
running between the lines of the two
armies as located the second and
third days. A halt was called oppo-
site a Inc field of corn, comprisi ng |
about two acres, that was enriched by |
the blood of two hundred and fifty |
Confederates slain in Picket's charge |
the evening of the third day. One of
the party secured trophies the re which
no doubt occupy niche in his cabinet
of curios. ''The loop" the next
point reached (Gettysburg had one),
the extreme left of the Federal line
occupied by the Third Corps, Gen.
Sickles' command, the morning of
the second day, that no doubt has
tened the commencement of hostili-
ties where hundreds of lives we're
sacrificed in the effort to hold it.
In the rear only short distance is
the famous wheat field and DEVILS
Den, where are immense granite
boulders that sheltered Federal and
Confederate as they fought like
demons, often from opposite sides of
the SAME rock, and still plain to be
seen are marks of hundreds of leaden
bullets. Near by looms historic
Little Round Top, dubbed "the key
to the battlefield" when the contest
was fierce for its possession. Many
lives We're sacrificed, including seve-
raj field officers, until the Federals
secured the prize, holding il to the
end. a photographer holding do
minion here is encountered and on
the promise of a parole the party
pose for a picture. The course lay
along Cemetery Ridge, the Federal
position, every foot of ground now
covered was trodden by boys in blue
taking part in the great battle.
Mounds of earth and piles of stones
still rem air intact that were hastily
made and used for defense. The
/. small block house that was the
B. headquarters of Gen. Meade, now
;. owned by the Government, is located
3, in the midst of the battle-swept zone
8 evidences of which are seen where
9 bullets riddled its walls, two shells
!, passing through it and over the table
}. surrounded by the general and hi
8 staff. Old Glory floats over it and
Is keeper is now in charge. Tn
o National Cemetery, comprising abou
3. twenty acres, semi circu lar in shape
n is located on a slight elevation, an
ID Is beautiful with numerous trees an
n we'll kept shrubbery. Over fou
r. thousand Federal dead are burie
ID within it, representing sons fror
8. eighteen states. The graves of on
e, thousand are marked "Unknown.
8, These grounds were dedicated
Id November, 1853, and on the spc
as where President Lincoln made b
h famous speech stands the Nations
he Monument, gem of artistic beaut
ly sixty feet in height, crowned wit
the statue OF Liberty, while at tt
an base are four allegorical statues rel
r reseuting War, History, Peace, an
A. Plenty, and on its sides are inscribe
be portions of that address which mao
ed the name of the author immorts
nd Over the entire field many pieces
raj cannon are mounted and so arrang,
its that they seem to face and mena
lid one at every turn, also tons of sh
u and shell heaped in huge piles, gri
I'm reminders OF the great conflict. T.
ng grounds are stu dded with numbers
so monuments erected in honor of cor
nd mands or individuals, representa-
Iad different states that had troops 9
D." gagged, aud the inscriptions on the
so would dll a volume. They vary
at style, size, and costliness, but co
ere form in one wsy, with few exception
ing are of bronze or granite; on the see
| a of the third days battle. Their nu
I'm, bers impress one as approa ching
md vast city of the dead. One of
ion most prominent and attractive
Vermont's tribute to the valor of
to second brigade, tall shaft, symm
vas rical in proportion and finish, 81
ing mounted with statue of its peerl
} in commander, Gen. Geo. J. STAMINA