The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-10
N|NTH VIRGINIA
KEMP FER s J. } R. [:
It's Good Work On Famous. Get
tysburg's Bloody Field and
Elsewhere.
TOLD BY ITS LT.-CoL oN \ |.
Graphic Story Of Bravery, Death
and Carnage-Th Who
Suffered.
TOLD BY ITS .LT.-Co Q |. oNE |
Graphic Story Of Bravery, Dealt

Suffered.
I was ordered with my regiment. the
Eleventh Virginia Infantry, to take com
mand at Cham bersburE, Pa, late tune,
1868. At o'clock on the night Of July
list / was ordered to march on Gettysburg
Pike, and rejoin my division (Picket's),
some miles out. We arrived near Gettys-
burg on the evening Of tho I'd Of July,
about shutdown. There met my old
friend, General A. L. Long, who was
then General Lees military secretary.
who was making some disposition Of the
prisoners captured from General Rey-
nolds's command. General Long told me
that In his opinion all we had to do WIS
to follow them up the next day We
marched off to the right of the Gettysburg
Pike In Il woods, ANDY were ordered to
get our supper. About IL O'Clock that
night we were moved alb ut a mile.
IN POSITION FOR THE CHARGE. &
Soon after sun up we were moved up to
tho position from which we made tho
Z charge. Lieutenant Colonel 1Iirkwood
Otey had assumed command Of the I1evs
enth Virginia Infantry, commanding
right wing. The SIM was insufferably
hot, and there being behind my wing
of the regiment q large apple tree, I en-
joyed It's shade with Captain John G.,
Granbcry. General Pickett and General
Longstreet and others. General Lee, In
passing, stopped under this apple tree
and convcrsed with General Longstreot.
remember catching portions of the con
vcrsation: General Lougstrcet saying his
command would do what any body Of men
on earth dared do but no troops could dis
lodge the enemy from their strong posi-
ton. General Pickett said he thought his
division could drive them from his front.
THE SOLDIERS SURVEYING THE
lIELD,
My recollection is that General Lee on
pressing General Longstreet said, ASK
the men If they can u.slodgo them" Ono
or two companies from the Eleventh,
probably more, and. | presume, same
number from other regiments, were moved
up to the crest of the hill, and the men
were asked II they would drive the enemy
from his works. walked up with Capt
Thos. Horton when he moved his Com
pany up, l was anxious to hear what
the men would say. They would clasp
each other By tho hand and say, Boys.
many n one of us will bite the dust here
to-day but we will say to General Leo
" he wants them driven out We will do
It,"
THE CANNONADE.
Between II and ! o'clock the artillery
opened Il o'clock Is the hour generally
concurrcd in). never before or since
heard such u cannonade from our front
and right flank; shots shell, grape and
canister poured, and none will ever know
how many men we lost there not only
from shot and shell Of tho enemy but
from terrific heat OF tho SUMS rays.
CHAPLAIN (NOW BIsHOP) GRAM
BERRY.
Cur haplnin, the Rev. John G. Gram
berry. who has long been bishop Of
The NJ. T., Church, whenever he saw a
man badly wounded would go and kneel
by him and pray for and with him: !
1cver knew more divine specimen of
man; and as the charge was ordered
remember many mon were unable 10 sc
by reason Of the heat. ] would appeal
to them In the name of Virginia to sc
II possible That splendid soldier, Capt
John Holmes Smith. of Company &. uht
Lynchburg Home Guard became n little
worried with me, when ! was talking
with one of his men and urging him tc
go. If possible. Capt Smith said. "Co
Ilutter, when he says he is sick. he Is
sick"
IN THE CHARGE,
Early In the charge the Eleventh Reg
iment encountered a white weather.
boarded house. with a paling enclosing
small yard. The adjutant, Lieutenant
Valentine Harris, having told mo that
Colonel Otey said should manuerver my
wing around tho house, ! remarked that
II ought to be regimcntal movement,
nc the obstacle WAS too large for n Wint,
movement. However, gave the COM
mand, by right of company To the front.
Company's face was not large enough
for the obstacle, 80 had to order two
of my captains to march right and left
flank, respectively, so as to pass the
obstacle, After passing It ! WAS nd
yised by the adjutant of the woundlng
OF Colonel Otey, and that ! was In com
mand My time was absorbed In reform
ing the right wing from the mhnueycr
around the house. The Yankee fire was
now calling, called upon the adiutant
to bring Captain Jones TO command the
right wing He Informed me that Cap
tain Jones was wounded, ] called for
Captain u, q, Houston. He Was killed.
Then called for Captain Andrew lious-
ION. his brother, Of Company u He
was reported killed. TO add to my dis
comfort the pressure from our right was
10 heavy that 1t almost amounted TO Il
left oblInue. At this time Colonel Lewis
b. Williams. commanding the FIRST In
,antry. Immediately on my left, rode UP
10 me ard said, Colonel Hutier, can
rou do nothing with your men? They
are crowdng me out Of line
AS hard as my men were fighting this
made me mad, and said To him!
are you Will go and attend 20 that ultle