The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-06-01

the partingS, the sad farewellS, |
when the marching orders came.
Many who went to the front, filled
with youthful hopes and ambitions,
fondly expecting to return with
honor and in safety to their loved
ones at home, now sleep beneath the
sods in the sunny southland, a sacri-
flee upon the altar of their country,
our country. Three hundred and
fifty-three of their names are enroll
ed upon the monument erected in
Central Park in Honesdale in CRATE
full memory of their sacrifice, by the
patriotic ladies of Wayne county.
To-day we are reaping the benefits
of their and your devotion and loyal
ty to our country. From Bull Run
to Appamattox, on every field of val
or, Wayne county had its representa-
tiyes, and every battlefield claimed
it's toll of human life. Upon the
field of Gettysburg, the great battle
upon Pennsylvania soil and the
turning point of the war, more Penn
sylvanians were engaged than at any
other battle of the war, and at which
! Pennsylvania and Wayne county
paid it's full share of the price of vic
tory. The fourth of July, 1863,
brought great rejoicing throughout
the North, but to many homes in
Pennsylvania and Wayne county it
was a day of sorrow The great vic
tory had demanded it's full toll of
/ human life. The blood of the pa
triotic had been poured out as freely
as water in the fierce charges and
stubborn defenses of those three
awful days of battle. The battle was
commenced by the 56th Regt., Pa,
| Vols, Cos A and c being from
| Wayne county. On the first day, the
battle ragged fiercest along the Cham
/ bersburg Pike, and at the McPher-
/ son woods The 151st Pa. Vol.
| charged the enemy at the west of the
woods and out of 446 men in the
| Regtiment 337 were lost in twen-
| ty minutes, a greater loss than that
| OF the whole United States army in
/ the Spanish war. At about the same
/ time the now famous Bucktail Bri-
gade, composed of the 143,149, and
! l50th Pennsylvania Volunteers were
! ordered to charge out the Pike and
recapture some guns. They were
! charging seventeen batteries of the
enemy. They did recapture the
guns and brought them back, but out
of less than | POO men, they left
on the field $50 of their number
! Most of these men had never been
in battle before. 1t was their first
and last battle. They fought like
veterans and died like heroes. 1t
was such fierce assaults as these that
enabled a force of 5000 men to hold
in check during the most of July LIST
10000 of Lees veterans and enabled
the Union army to occupy the
heights about Gettysburg. Lee had
lost his opportunity and had given
Meade the vantage ground. On the
second day Lee desperately charged
the Union positions at the Peach
Orchard, Little Round Top, Culp's
and Cemetery Hill. Each was the
scene of fearful carnage. Some of
you were on Little Round Top, just
ahead of Longstreet's men, and you
drove them back across the Wheat
field, or through the Valley OF
Death. Where the rising sun look
ed down upon a field of ripening
4 grain, the evening saw an awful har-
vest of death. Friend and foe to-
gether lay in one great field of the
dead and dying. Lee had failed in
every assault upon the Union line,
but the great warrior of the South
was not yet ready to retreat. Pick
EFT must still lead that wonderful
charge. one of the greatest in the
worlds history. AS Pickett's divis-
ion on the third day of July, march
ed out of Spangler's woods $4,000
strong in columns of brigades, three
brigades deep and with front q
mile long, with banners flying and
drums beating, marching as steadily
as If on dress parade. twere worth
ten years of peaceful life, one glance
at their array" Pickett's men die
, all that brave men could do, but they
could not accomplish the impossible
and the Chivalry of the South was
scattered like dew before the morn
ing sun. They were not driven bach
but they were destroyed, and Lee
, beaten and baffled, backward reel
ed, before a stubborn Meade and q
barren field"
But the war was not over yet, tn,
, sins of the fathers will not be wash
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