The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1903-02-04
GETTYSBURG.
The Greatest Battle Ever
Fought in America

viii be the Topic Of a Lecture to be
Delivered by DR.. Douthat in Par
kersburg ON February Goth The
Lecturer Participated in the Great
Battle.
A lecture on tie Battle of Gettys-
burg. the greatest battle ever fought
on this Continent, will be delivered
by Captain r w. Douthat, in Par
kersburg, West Virginia, on the
evening of the 10Th OF February,
1903, at the Auditorium, for the
benefit of the Confederate monument
fund, now being raised BY the Par
kershurg Chapter, United Daugh
tiers of the Confederacy, to erect a
monument to the soldiers of the
South, at Parkersburg, w. Va.
Forty years have passed since
the rush and roar of the awful storm
and flood that swept the hills and
valleys of Gettysburg, and its echoes
have died away OF the broad bosom
of time. The storm and flood yet
lash the shores Of memory with a
tide that never sleeps.
"No such storm has ever blown
across the plains Of this fair land,
nor food SO swept with dissolution
wild, the homes Of any people. Ger
this great field the tide with little
ebb flowed far and wide for three
long days, and surges rolled high
up the bouidered TANKS of mountain
sides, and waves dashed cen around
the rocky heights, and whirlpools
made the lower grounds SETTLING
flood.
"When storm had ceased and
surges backward rolled, the CHASTITY
ruin wrought was seen in bruised
and mangled victims piled a long
the shores, and men whose hearts
were hard must shed tear and
women walled in awful grief heir
loved and lost on their dread field"
In the Battle of Gettysburg, Cap
tain r. w. Douthat was in com
mand of Co. ST" 11th Va. Infa try,
Kemper's Brigade, Pickett's Diyi-
sion, Longstreet's Corps, Lees army.
He was an active participant in
Pickett's charge ON the third day of
this battle and Of ten capital IS of
his regiment, he was the only one
who came out unhurt. There is M
sectional prejudice in the lecture Of
Dr. Douthat. 1t is grand review
for the old soldiers and their friends
on both sides.
1t is an instructive and thrilling
story for the young and a compll-
ment to Northern steadiness and an
Illus ration of Southern impetuousi-
ty
The Rev. b. Cabell Hening, Pas
tor of the First Baptist Church. of
Bristol, Tennessee, in referring to
the lecture of DR.. Douthat, says:
Il had the pleasure of hearing
Capt. Douthat deliver his lecture on
the Battle of Gettysburg, and l must
say, that, ii l were the President OF
any of our colleges or universities,
would haye the Captain deliver this
lecture before my students (D
Because he would give them more
light on that subject in one hour
than ! have been able to gain from
all other sources combined, and l
have been diligent in my efforts for
long time to get the Gettysburg
situation well in mind. (2) He is
thoroughly informed aud makes the
Information cl ar to all his hearers.
| (3) He is painstaking in his expla-
nations, and all can see in such
clear light the situation in those
memorable days that they will never
forget it,
The Rev. Ernest Robinson, pastor
of johnson Memorial NJ, f church,
South Huntington, West Va, saws:
at gives me pleasure to gay, that
having heard Capt. r W. Douthat
deliver his lecture on the Battle OF
Gettysburg, short time ago-that
do believe it to be the finest thing
| ever read or heard on that thrill
ling subject. 1t is surely great
treat to students OF history"
The old soldiers of both armies
say
ut seems like fighting the battle
oyer again; we see the battle line
and hear the roar of musketry and
artillery"
In fact no one has ever heard DR.
Douthat's lecture on the battle o.
Getty shurg but has pronounced it
true to history and superb intel
lectual effort. 1t will instruct an
delight an audience in Boston as
well as in New Orleans: it could be
delivered with the same propfie' Y
in church as in the hall Of thea
ire; it has no sectionalism, but is
trae to history. instructive 10 oil
and young alike.