The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-23
THE WHISTLE FOR
 LITTLE ROUND TOP

i3e steps of the top where the New York monument now stands. Lieut-col buiger had been shot down and his reg tmeDf had retreatad I saw that our purpose to capture Round Top could not bn accomplished and I ordered a netrsat- I do not know the casualties in the a7th. but equal probably to one third its strength. The 18th lost thirty eight men killed. eeeenty-six wounded and eighty-four taken prisoners, who did net hear the orGer to retreat. Col. Butger fas badly wounded - shot through one lung. He was left on the field He was then over sixty years of age He did not have much disciplinary power. which tends largely to make q good allround officer but of courage which is the most essential element. he had an abundance. He was sitting af the root of a tree with the blocd gush- ing from his wound when a captain from the 44th New York came on him and demanded hts sword. The old col- 0nei replied What ts your rank sir. I aan a captain said he. The old man re. piled T am a LeutenRas Colonel and decline to surrender nsy swerA exceof to an officer of equal rank Tae .eap- did not surrender his sword The old Colonel flashed his little blue eyes In the yankee captains face most defiant. y. and said ngn s,s you you rrandsr may na,a 1ny my
 
 sword to an officer below my rank
 The captain 10th to kill a woundsd
 man and amused at fhe old coloneIs the circunstances went and brought his Colonel Rice of New York to whom the sword was gracefully surrendereo. Five companles from the brigade sent out as slxfrmtshers from the Emmets- burg road before the Rssvance began had gone astray around to the east or Great Round Top and were not in the battie Had they bees win me aha ,1nder my command with tne troops ] had I woHId have taken little Roqna | Tor and with that in his possession Lee would have won at Gettysburg.
 Upon small things great ones ots tst aspend. victor Hugo truly said that I a great battle between armies neatiy equal in numbers was like a wrestle 1 between giants, a stump root or tnft of grass may seem to brace the one Tor fFip the other. Upon such small things the fate of nations depend Colonel Chamberlain handled his regi- ment well at Gettysburg. His men l fought with desperate determination and the government very properly pro- noted him. He soon was made ma | for general. The late General Gordon | in hIs book compliments General Cham berlain for making his division present arms to him at the surrender at App pomattox. Some time after the close of the war General Chamberlain was elected Governor of Maine. He now
 William c. Oates. Col Hovey in Philadelphia News.
 The war council of Federal Generals the night before the second days bat tie of Gettysburg became necessarily d frantic pretension of scanning the unknown. Outside, on the lengthening ridges and between the abrupt htllsides of that intricate battle field, lay the eneampments of the two hostile ar mics, ominous and solemn. There were few camp fires. At times could be heard the voice of sentry challeng- ling, or the drawn out chatter of horse men on the stone pavement of the cenl- etery.
 | The night passed, and daybreak found the cautious General Meade still listen ling to the reports of his division com manders, to their stories of misfortune. and plans for strengthening the line of battle. The unprotected North lay at This back; in his front General whose resourcefulness was unfathomable and who ranked as a military genius. To lpicture in his minds eye the battle ground that was now obscured and ldim. and to foresee what would be the thing wanted there, at the given point at the given moment, on the morrow.
 was the well nigh Insuperable task ot ithe Northern General.
 1 The unexpected was certain to befall lboth officers and men, and they must Ibe ready to perform miracles if need be An instance of this kind was the Inght of the goth Maine on Little Round Top, in memory of which the Colonel lof the regiment, Joshua L.. Chamber llain, for his great tenacity and his
 dnrlgn heroism, received the Medal ol
 Honor.
 Little Round Top had escaped the
 vigilance of the Federal commanders This was the smaller of two rough hills, strewn with bouIders and bare
 slippery rock. rising sharply from wooded swamp. behind which stretched the Confederate battle line At tna