The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-03

| resting nature in It's developments.
| Slab MT stunrt's Position.
| At this portion of the field stands
| a large granite slab into which a
| bronze tablet is let, notifying visitors
! the position was held by Major-Gen-
| eral j. Il. 3. Stuart and four brtgades
I OF his cavalry July 8, 1853. Here
| Hampton. Fitz Lee and Ghamblis. with
| Breathed's and Grfin's Batteries, and
| little to the right Jenlsins's Bril-
| gade, positions are indicated by iron
| markers.
! Returning toward other portions of
| the field, part of the first days bat
! tleground was traversed when Heth,
advancing from the west on the Cham
| bersburg Pike, fred the first shell at
Baford's Cavalry; where Reynolds,
with the First Corps, with Buford,
withstood a. P. Hiil's attacks; where
at noon two divisions Of Towards
Eleventh Corps came to the help OF
Reynolds and Buford.
Howard had directed steinwhehr to
rortify Cemetery Hill in case he was
forced bat Here in tails first days
battle the ederal army lost its best
corps commanders, Major General John
Il. Reynolds, Killed. Then this trooper
and his guide traversed the left and
centre of the second days battle
ground. Up Culps Hill. then held by
Slocum's Twelfth and the remnant of
ReY'olds's First and Towards
Elevsrsh Corps, we climbed: thence
toward the Federal right-centre. where
Hancock's Second connected with the
First eleventh and Twelfth Corps. and
extending along 10 the left-centre to-
ward Little Round Top, where Sickles's
| Third Corps held the bridge near the
Emm!ttsburg Pike.
Opposing this line Eweil confronted
formidable Cups Hill. on through the
streets of Gettysburg TO Seminary
Ridge. A. p. Hill extending south
along the ridge and Longstreet at
the base of Little Round Top. AT 3 P.
NJ. Longstreet, on the second day, as
saulted Sickless line in the Peach
Orchard, Loop, the Wheat Field and
the Devils Den. Ewell attacked
Cemetery Hill and fought his way to
the crest. capturing guns and break
ing the Fedsral line. After a prolonged
hand-to-nand struggle, Federal re-
Inducements compelled Hays and
Hoke to yield the crest. Up Culp's HIS
rugged side Ed Johnson's division
moved and forced the Federal line
from its intrenchments.
After dinner the tour OF the field
was resumed, and the Federal posi-
lions of the third days battle along
Cemetery Hill. Little Round Top. Loop.
the Devils Den and Deaths Valley
We're inspected. Then the line on
Seminary Hill. where Alexanders
guns pitched shot, shell and shrapnel
upon Cemetery Hill. and from which
the Confederate line debouched In the
bloody assault that fatal afternoon.
A resume of the great battle is not
intended here; no martial scene has
more often been exploited than the
story of Gettysburg Here at the
Bloody Angle on Cemetery Hill high
tide at Gettysburg was reached. AT
this Bloody Angle Armistead broke
the Federal defense and stained with
his life's blood the spot beside Cush-
ing's guns. Here, indeed. the high tide
of the Confederacy was reached, and
thence after the fortunes of the Con-
federacy began to wane.
Great Park on Field.
Twenty-three thousand acres OF
land. over which these three days of
contest ragged. have been acquired BY
the United states as battlefield park.
and the retention OF all natural as
we'll as artificial objects in place at
the time of the great battle make the
Gettysburg Battlefield Park one OF the
greatest object lessons this continent
holds. A constant stream of visitors
wane. Gettysburg. like the Capitol at
Washington. Is the daily Mecca OF
sightseeing parties.
To an old trooper there came the |
recollection OF those three days OF that
great national tragedy. where $4,000
Confederates attempted the Impossible: |
where 800 cannon hurled death and
wounds upon thousands. One has but
to climb the rocks and seams Of Culp's
A. IT. 49,
tremendous strength to its defenders.
then pass on to Cemetery Hill. with its
stone wall of defense and broad open
sweep of cleared and unobstructed ,
stretches OF cultivated land; thence on
to Little Round Top and the Devils
Den. defended by huge houlders OF
rock and wonder at the audacity that
prompted the assaults on these we'll
nigh impregnable positions
Johnson's Wonderful Feat
Yet Edward Johnson climbed
wall up the side OF Culps Hill. and
at one time, my guide told me, was
within $50 yards OF the Federal supply |
trains and reserve artillery. Pickett
likewise broke the enemy's strong de-
tense at the Bloody Angle on Gene
terry Hill, and Law for brief season |
held the crest OF Little Round Top.
Supports falling, the prizes slipped
through Confederate fingers After
fortyseven years the magnitude Of
the desperate enterprise appeals to
an old actor in that bloody drama with
pathetic sadness. In the first days
battle success perched upon the starry
cross but the fruit OF this success
was not reaped, and Meade's army was
permitted to mass upon ground nature
had rendered well-nigh impregnable.
The second days battle results were
about a stand-off, and the third day
the crucial contest-failed
In the analysis of Gettysburg the
most important factor in the shaping
results is that little, but important.,f
If In his "Reminiscences" General
Gordon says SO conscious was he lot
the Importance of forcing the lighting
after Howard's Eleventh Corps had
been smashed he,refused to obey three
separate orders to stop the pursuit,
and only when the fourth aapaa, tn-l