The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-05

brigade occupied the right centre OF the
s! division and the course of the charge
brought it in front of the high stone wall
north of the Angle and eighty yards farth-
er east. 1t advanced very nearly to that
wall A few reached it, but were captur-
ed. The skeleton regiments returned. led
Confederates and Federals alike whose
Zones were gathered upon the battlefield.
At the head of each grave is a little square
stone with a number on it. That is all.
Around this square, on iron tablets, in
by Hcutenants, and the brigade by ma
jor, the only field officer left.
| July AFTER night withdrew and be-
gan to march to Hagerstown.
present ON the first day, about 1000;
killed, 100; wounded. 915 missing, about
800; total, 1, 405."
This was Pettigrews brigade of North
Carolinians, and included the 10Th.
4s7 MONUMENTS ON THE FIELD.
There arc said to be 4S7 monuments on
the field | didn count them. They
cost from $1,000 to $4,000, the most inn
rcsing being the five-column in the nation
al cemetery, in memory of the New York
dead, and the regular battle monument.
at the dedication of which Lincoln made
the speech that placed him among the
masters of fine English. You can almost
sec him standing there beside the marble
shaft, declaring that this government of
the people, for the people and By the PEG
pic shall not perish from the earth"
The Rostrum is one of the most notable
features in this large cemetery. The
| floor is of growing sod and the roof is
of vines, growing SO thickly together that
| they make a sufficient roof. From this
pretty. green structure the orations are
delivered and special services held.
IN this cemetery, besides the 1856
Union soldiers who lie in long rows with
concrete grave stones In long continuous
rows. there are buried 979 unknown dead,
black letters on white background, are
the verses of THE Bivouac of the Dead:''
|
THE muffied drums sad roll has beat
The soldiers last tattoo"
ION Fames eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards. with solemn round,
The biyouac of the dead
The bodies of the Confederate dead who
fell here are said TO have been carried
South and buried in Hollywood Cemetery,
Richmond.
ONE CONFEDERATE MONUMENT.
The Union positions arc crowded with
statues and monuments. On the Confed
crate line there is not a single one. In
fact, on the whole field. besides the Arm
stead tablet. is one Southern monument,
glx memorial on Culp's Hill to the Mary
land soldiers
The monuments arc varied in design and
are placed generally on the spot where
the events they commemorate took place.
AS you drive out OF the town toward
Seminary Ridge, where you can see the
college cupalo from which Buford and Lee
surveyed the field, there is figure OF a
young. half-uElformed volunteer, standing
on a rock, facing the Confederate line.
This is memorial to the Gettysburg Col
lege students who volunteered and fought
in the battle. What was Seminary Ridge
is now called Confederate Avenue, and
is beautiful road. Tablets almost touch
each other, marking the position OF all
the forces of Lee. You drive for miles
along the lines of these iron tablets.
whose silver letters tell the Confederate
side of the story. Against the fences and
stone walls are Parrott guns and Napol-
eous standing just as they did that July
day before the order was given TO rake
Cemetery Ridge. This Confederate
Avenue" extends almost to Big Round
Top, which the Confederates once held.
On Little Round Top is a monument
to Vincent, and large stone castle erect
ed to Che 44th New York. filled with
bronze memorial tablets and has reiefs.
Here is also the monument to Col. Pat
rick ORourke, commander of the noted
Irish Regiment the 140th New York.
WARREN's IMPERIAL STATUE.
At the edge of an immense boulder, at
the summit of Little Round Top. is the
bronze statue of General Warren, the
chief engineer of the Union army, who on
his own initiative, occupied this position
and saved the day for the Federals. He
stands with his field glasses in his hand.
looking at the Emmetsburg Road, along
which he saw Hood advancing to seize the
position. This figure OF Warren, standing
on that ledge, is to me far the most ar
] tistic and impressive monument on the
whole field. The location is fine, the
pose is dignified, and the whole work
satisfying"
Some of the monuments have drums
stacks of arms, cannon, crossed Eluskets.
| tents, shamrocks, knapsacks. canteens and
almost every implement of war. There
are bas reliefs of charges artillerymen,
sharp-shooters. The Tammany monu-
rnent is an Indian wigwam in bronze, with
all his weapons around the tall and stall
wart Indian brave. TIL 37th Massachu-
sets has erected the stump of big tree.
which to the irrevercnt layman might
suggest that this was their refuge while
the battle was raging. Some OF the
columns are surmounted by piles OF can
non balls. One of the finest memorials
is that to the First Minnesota Volunteers,
which did great fighting, being probably
excelled on the Federal side only by the
Iron Brigade" A great brownstone
boulder marks the goth Pennsylvania.
DIVING STONE FOR THEM.
The goth Massachusetts, though has the
qEeerest one Of all. The men Of this re-
giment, most of them, came from the
lame town. When they were boys they
had gone swimming together. and all
were in the habit of diving off the same