Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-12-15
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the Master Artist has here bestowed
upon the hills and valleys Of the old
Keystone State. We can only say,
come and see.
Our pilgrimage is now through the
blood pools of the battle. From the
Round Tops, we could see the entire
field from end to end. Looking down
the boulder-strewn sides of those little
mountains, our souls grew sick as we
thought Of men struggling up the
steep in the face of MIME balls and
canister. DEVILS Den is absolutely
sickening, with it's death trap and
crevices. God must have veiled his
face on that terrible second day in
July. Satan surely had hid his blood
glutted revelry.
On the left flank of little Round Top
stands monument to General War
ren, who saved the Union army from
annihilation by discovering the sud-
den fanking movement Of Hood
Armed against Little Round Top,
which was as yet unoccupied by the
Federals, Warren took the only avail
able guns, and, without orders from
superior, galloped at their head to a
position on the crest of the hill, where,
fighting like demon, he held the
point until reinforcements hurled
Hood back, broken and defeated.
We cannot stop at Peach Orchard,
where Sickles was cut to pieces, or at
the Wheat Field, which in less than
ten minutes became a field Of blood
and death. We hasten by monuments
recording the achievements Of com
panies, divisions, regiments and in
dividuals until we stand upon the
knoll, from it's baptism Of blood fit
tingly christened as the turning point
of the war, High Water Mark Of the
Rebellion" There is one monument
at this place that held us. We read
every inscription. A huge stone pede-
stal surmounted by the figure of a
man charging bayonets stands in
honor of the Second Corps, Second
Division, First Brigade of the First
Minnesota Regiment Reverentially
/ uncovered my head, and, reading
the story, prayed the God Of Battles to
multiply their kind forever and ever.
Two hundred and sixty two men
think of it, ponder 1.-TWO hundred
and sixty-two men charging a whole
victory-hushed army yes and holding
it at bay, and driving it back Sickles,
defeated, had just poured his demoral-
lied ranks through their lines, and
close behind on the double-quick came
the bowling Confederates. Another
moment and the Union center would
be pierced. A crisis was at hand No
time for reinforcements Covered with
dust, his face drawn with fear, General
Hancock gallops up to the little com
pany of stalwarts from out the Great
West, and-God help them-orders
the charge. With courage sublime,
down the slope they go ''into the jaws
Of DEATH" Two hundred and sixty
two men charged an army, held an
army, and when at last reinforce
ments had driven the fighting demons
in grey back into their lair, 2l5 Of the
262 men from the First Minnesota
Regiment did not answer roll call.
They were resting in the valley. They
we're tired, and God gave them sleep.
Do you wonder that we wept? young
man, go vest" Go west; west to the
seed ground Of this kind
Yes, and here is Pickett's charge
Down the valley, comes death, and
only death. We turn away. Men-the
mangled forms of men: Men in
grey-brave men-men In blue-brave
men lie in heaps-sickening heaps.
Some died with visions of Southern
vine-clad mansions in a halo before
their glazing eyes; some murmured
softly the tender names Of loved ones
waiting among the hills Of old New
England. All were men, and they
were brothers. Sacrificed upon the
altar Of holy conviction TO the glutted
god Of War. Let the curtain fall up
on the mightiest tragedy Of the Re-
bellion. We stand upon a knoll where
God placed forever the seal Of doom
upon a cause.-the Lost Cause"
General Mead's headquarters were
visited, and then we brought our day s
trip to a fitting close by standing
where Lincoln the Good stood when
he voiced the feeling Of nation that
could not speak for sobbing and said
But in a larger sense we cannot dedi-
cate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot
hallow this ground. The brave men,
living aud dead, have conseerated it