The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-07

/ evening LOOK position near here.
July 3-ln Longstreet's assault this
brigade occupied the right centre OF the
division and the course of the charge
brought it III front of the high stone walt
north Of the Angle and eighty yards farth-
CT east. 1t advanced very nearly to that
wall. A few reached 1t, but were captur-
ed. The skeleton regiments returned, led
CCntederates and Federals alike, whose
Zones We're gathered upon the battlefield.
At the head OF each grave Is d little >quare
stone with a number on it,. That Is all.
Around -hls square, on IRON tablets, in
by lieutenants, and the brigade by a 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. 800; wounded, 915 missing. about
800; total, 1,4C5."
This was Pettigrew's brigade of North
Carolinians, and included the Goth.
49, MONUMENTS on THE GELD.
There are said to be 4S7 monuments on
the field. l didn t count them. They
cost from $1,000 to $4,000, the most i'm
losing being the five-column in the nation
al cemetery, IN memory OF the New York
dead, and The regular battle monument,
1t the dedication OF which Lincoln made
the speech that placed him among the
masters of fine English. You can almost
see him standing there beside the marble
shaft, declaring that this government OF
the people, for the people and by the PEG
pie 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 o~rations are
delivered and special services held.
IN this cemetery, besides the 1886
Union soldiers who lie IN long rows with
concrete grave-stones in long continuous
rows, there are buried 979 unknown dead,
black letters on a white background. are
the verses Of The Bivouac of the Dead
The mufhed drums sad roll has beat
The soldiers last tattoo
ON flames eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards, with solemn round,
The bivouac 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 ere 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
istead tablet, is one Southern monument,
til, memorial on Culp's Hill to the Mary
land soldiers.
The monuments are 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 a figure of a
young, half-uriformed volunteer, standing
on Il rock, facing the Confederate line.
This Is a 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 i 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 Parrot 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 Confcderates once held.
On Little Round Top is a monument
to Vincent, and a large stone castle erect
ed to the 44th New York, filled with
bronze memorial tablets and has ~reliefs.
Here is also the monument to Col. Pat
rick O'Rourke, commander Of the noted
/ .IriSh Rapimant - thp 1d0fb NpW 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
Ms own initiative, occupied this position
and saved the day for the Fedcrals. 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 tina ledge, is to me far the most al
tistic and impressive monument on the
whole field. The location is fine, the
pose is digaified, and the whole work
"satisfying."
Some of the monuments have drums,
stacks of arms, cannon. crossed mueketS,
tents, shamrocks, knapsacks. canteens and
almost every implement OF war. There
ere bas rciiefs of charges, artlllerymen,
sharp-shooters. The Tammany monu-
rnent is an Indian wlgwam IN bronze, with
all his weapons around the tall and stall
wart Indian brave. TIL 9th Massachu-
sets has erected the stump of Il big tree,
which to the irreverent layman might
suggest that his 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
j. that to the First Minnesota Volunteers,
which did great fighting, beng probaply
c~xcelled on the Federal SIDE only by inc
Iron Brigade" A great broWnstone
boulder marks the goth Pennsylvania.
DIVING STONE FOE THEM.
The goth Massachusetts,, though, has the
o,.oareet ono of all. The men OF this re-
giment. most of them, came from the
-,re town. When they We're boys they
Rad gone swimming together and all
were in the habit of diving on 'he sahhe
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