Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-12-24
The Battle of the Century

Pennsylvania to Erect on Battlefield
Majestic Monument Bearing the
Names of its $4,000 Sons Who
Fought in the Greatest Engage
ment of the War of the Rebel
liOn-MOst Deadly Fighting Known
in all History.
enr. st. Clair A. Mullholland in Phila. Ledger.
Very many Cameron, Elk, Potter
and Clinton soldiers took part in the
battle of Gettysburg, mostly in the Bri-
gade so ably commanded by Gen. Roy
Stone, who visited Emporium several
years ago, upon the occasion of a
Soldiers Re-Union. 1t was at Gettys-
burg Hons. @. F. Barclay and Capt. J.
G. Johnson were captured and for
months incarcerated in southern
prison dens. No doubt our veterans
will enjoy reading the following from
the pen of Gen'l St. Clair A Mullhol.
land in Phira Ledger, Dec. 13, 1908;
In a valley of peace, calm, comfort
and content, overlooked by ranges of
high hills-blue, purple and exceeding
ly lovely-lies the old town of Gettys-
burg and the 25 square miles of terri
tory over which the armies of the
North and South struggled and fought
during those three days of July, 1863.
No more beautiful country than this
can be found in the State of Pennsyl.
vania. No matter what part of the
field one visits, scenes of lovliness
open in yistas on every side. The
tongue of wood of McPherson's farm,
where Reynolds fell, is fine bit of
American forest and Willoughby
Run, which meanders close by, and
whose placid waters were crimsoned
by the blood of brave men, is a sweet
and charming stream where lilies grow
in shady places and the birds come in
springtime to build their nests along
its banks. Then from Cemetery Hill,
where the Union men made such gal
liant stand against the Louisiana III
gers" there is a splendid view as one
looks over the town and across the
fields to the Lutheran Seminary.
Culp's Hill, too, is full of sweet spots;
and through the dark forest, where the
six hours fighting took place on the
morning of the third day, one can find
much to admire, and many grand old
tree riddled by bullets and torn by shot
and shell-forcible reminders of the
awful morning of July 3.
And what more picturesque than the
wild and rugged scenery Of the "Dev-
ips DEM? Or where can one go to
look for a grander or more sublime
scene than that from the summit of
Little Round Top" where Vincents
men made their gallant fight
Gettysburg is certainly a magnificent
spot, full of natural beauties and of
the many hattlefelds of the war none
more suitable could have been selected
upon which to erect the monuments
that are intended to commemorate the
heroism and valor of our troops. The
field is fast becoming the National
Mecca, and year after year the num-
Der Of visitors to the ground increases,
until tens of thousands of Americans
annually make a pilgrimage to the
holy ground and worship at the shrine
where so many noble men laid down
their lives in defence of the State and
cause.
THE NATIONAL MECCA.
England has her Westminster,
France her ST. Denis, Italy her Pan
theon and Germany has her Walle-
Halle. Every nation Of the old Cont.
nent has some place dedicated to the
noble and illustrious dead. This coun-
try has not, as yet, reached that ma,
ture age when one can visit some hal
lowed spot set apart for the last rest
ing place for the good and eminent
men. In the State of Pennsylvania
the ground of Gettysburg is, however
of much greater interest and much
dearer to American people than any o.
the celebrated sanctuaries of Europe
Glorious Gettysburg Where 1000 ot
the bravest and best of the soldier citi
zens sleep in honored graves on the
field their valor won, is the Nationa
sanctuary, the Pantheon, the West
minister of the Republic.
No kings, princes or potentates lie
there, but 400 gallant men, greater than
kings, more splendid in their deeds
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