The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-28
TO
THE GALLANT
GEN. GREENE
Unveiled at Gettysburg.
Many From This State
Fought Under dim.

buAB NCSACA1ags vs.
civil engineer of important railroad and
other forms of works in New Jersey, and
in his brigade, which bore the brunt Oh
the night attack of Major-Generai Jonn-
sons corps at Culp's Hill, July . loo",
were hundreds of New jersey men VINO nno
been associated with Greene in his con-
structional engineering operations p4"A
to the Civil War.
A Newarker of prominence in the
industrial and financial life OF inc
state. and whose record, never spoken u
by himself, is a glorious possession Oh II
annals of our State, was for three years
of his army life under Greene, ana WIN
two New JerNy engineers, now onlce.9
of the Pennsylvania Railroad SonpanS,
planned the earthworks which were by Tar
the best defenses built by the Union Army
at the great battle that marked the nlsn
tide of the Rebellion.
General Greene was a great gran"
nephew of General Nathaniel dreehe,
of Washington's army, and ne was
the father of the brave and clever
young naval officer, s. Dana Greene
who fought the Monitor after Cap
tain Worden was stricken blind by the
shot from the Merrimac that struck tne
eye pieces of the Monitors coming tower.
General Greene was the grandfather OF
De- ana 01CNA~t
resigned to become an officer of the Cen
eral Electric Company, and who was SO
highly regarded by the whole brotherhood
of electrical engineers in our state. An
other son of Major General George ..
Greene Is Major General a Vlntoh
Greene, u. s. A., who was under hre IN
every battle fought by General Skobeion.
in the Russian-Turkish War, and who, In
1898, commanded the forces that took Ma
Mia by land.
Although Major-General George ).
Greene was 63 years old when he fought at
Gettysburg, he was one Of the most alert
| commanders in the field, and for three
lays and nights he was on duty without
sleep. Most OF the papers that have
reported the dedication Of this brave
mans at Gettysburg have failed
| TO mention why the Confederates MADE
such a strong night attack upon him. A
number OF the reports telegraphed from
Gettysburg contain whimsically absurd
blunders, like that in one paper WHICH
states that Meade being hard pressed ~
Sickles-ye Gods, fancy old Dan |Sickies
cursing that reportorial blunder-took d
brigade away from Cups Hill, and LETT
Greene with a small force to Withstand
Johnson.
The point at issue which Greene saw was
that ue was WIN OhN PiA9OEN
a whole corps Of the enemy. 1t was the
evening of the second days battle. The
first day had gone against the Union army.
The second days battle was curiodsly
mixed in It's results; but, on the whole, the
Union had received the worst OF the ray
At nightfall the position of the Union
army was a posture of defense. The next
days hope was that the Confederates would
make a series of attacks that could be
made valueless by heavy artillery nre.
Meade had in General Hunt, commander
of the whole body of artillery, an of1leer
of the highest reputation for ability ana
energy. Under the army regulations, as
Hunt construed them, he had the right 10
issue orders to the battery commanders
in all the corps 10 follow his orders as 10
when and how to fire.
Hunt began his plans FOR the battle oil
July 3 by putting the bulk of his aHmuni-
ton on Culp's Hill and In charge Of Greene.
He said to that commander: George, II
the enemy obtains this reserve ammunition
we shall be defeated in tomorrow's battle.
1t is known that the Confederate spies
within the Union lines made 1t known TO
Lee tina the artillery ammunition had
been parked with Greene. and at n1ghtfal
General johnson set forth to take the hill.
But Greene, having what was perhaps the
only command in the field which was made
IN mostly of railroad workers and workers
in excavations in New York and New Jer-
sew. was able to make his position as
strong as a fortress, and thereby his men
fought well protected, and the Confeder-
ates. though far stronger than Greene
were unable to take the defenses in any
way. not even when they led forth for
lorn hopes to try to take the hill after the
manner employed by Wellington at Bada-
los. Nine assaults were made, only TO
fail. and as the first CLINT of dawn APP
peared Greene and his men We're seen 10
be in full control, while the corpses OF the
enemy's dead were thick about the base OF
the defenses.
So were saved the immense stores OF am
munition which soon after daybreak were
distributed to the long lines of Union guns
that were to blast the hopes Of the Con-
federacy attempting to crush the Union
army in the heart of the second State IN
the Union. When at / o'clock on July 3 the
| signal gun of Lee doomed to mark the ad-
vance OF Pickett's grand, but useless,
charge into the valley of death, Hunt gave
the signal for the opening upon them of
246 guns. All the guns of the Union army
! responded, except those of Hancock's COM
mand. That brave officer had decided that
he would override Hunts order to the ar
tilery-he was the only general who did
so. General Warren, who lost his life OH
thdN AuSs dcNiutu u III IldHtOCh .
command to override Hunts orders. but
long before Pickett's charge began he
sent word to Hunt that every cannon in
his command would be heard when the
battle began. Hunt says, In his memoir.
that one-half the killed and wounded in
the last days onset of the enemy at Get
tysburg were to the credit of the Union ar
tillery, and that If Hancock had not over
ridden his orders to the artillery In that
corps, few Confederates would have been
able to muster .for the retreat back to
the Confederaey.
Had Greene lost the night fights at
Culp's Hill, says Hunt, "the result Of that
battle might have brought about a great
victory to Lee, and led to the recognition
of the Confederacy by Great Britain and
France, as it was the wishes of the En-
ropean friends of the Confederacy that Lee
might fight and win battles In 2 great
Northern State, that sent the great war
rior OF the South, against his own iudg-
ment, on that northward Campaign which
brought his advanced posts to within eight
miles of the capital of Pennsylvania.
THE engineers were glorious at Gettvs-
burg. From first to last 1t was engineers
who were matchless in kill on the field.
and think Of that, grand engineer, Major
General Herman Haupt, long time of Jer-
sey City and for years a director of tba
Pennsylvania Railroad, lin charge of ali
the military railroads He II u,os o,to -.