The National tribune., 1910-10-06

and along which it marched the next
morning to the relief of Buford. To
clinch his claim Comrade Tripp cir
cumstantially related how the corps
passed thru Gettysburg to get to the
front. No organization proper of the
First Corps ever entered Gettysburg
until the retreat late in the afternoon.
Comrade Bishop declares that ''if
Comrade Jepson isn't any nearer cor
rect in what he saw and part of which
he was than his statements make him,
should certainly conclude the case
| was against him." Every one of my
statements was the result of personal
observation, and in each instance is
| fortified by formal history, by the tes-
| timony of Generals and other partici-
pants of the first days operations. as
well as the War Records. 1T makes
| me SMILE" he continues, when he
| (Jepson) SAYS: The Second Brigade
| (Cutler's) was in the van.' Gen. Cutler
never commanded the Second Brigade,
and it was not in the van July 1, 1863"
This sounds very much like Touch
stones lie with circumstance.
| Every schoolboy knows. tho appar-
emily Comrade Bishop does not, the
history of that mornings march of the
First Corps. which in so brief a time
was to culminate in a Thermopylae of
devoted self-sacrifice, and which was
also to furnish its devoted Leonidas as
well as its hecatomb of Spartan heroes
| to withstand the Southern invaders in
order to give time for Meade to con-
centrate his scattered army. The we'll
| informed student also is aware that the
| opening fray occurred on the highlands
bordering Willoughby Run and across
| the ChamberSburg pike, nearly two
miles west of Gettysburg. and that the
commander of the left wing directed his
march straightway to his objective, the
: .t,g1 ,1..,..
burg road. Neither foot nor hoof
swerved therefrom till, when near the
Codori House and while the sounds and
smoke of Buford's battle were borne to
u.s. horseman was seen squirting furi-
ously down the road. Gen. Reynolds
OWNED that ii was a courier from Bu-
ford, and, halting the troops at once,
advanced to meet him. The conference
was brief, and then, with Il word to
| Gen. Wadsworth, followed by an Aid
or two and his faithful orderly, Charley
Vail, the General galloped out to the
Lutheran Seminary, where Buford was
Ianxiously awaiting his chief
| What's the matter, john was Rey-
nolds's greeting, for they were old
friends The devils to payi" rejoined
Buford; and, leading the way Ep into
the tower, the two Generals surveyed
the situation.
Tho Dauntiess Reynolds.
1t is impossible at this point to evade,
| tho it has but collateral bearing upon
| the present purpose, paying = word of
tribute and of regret TO the noble, chiv-
alrous and dauntlesS John Fulton Rey-
lnoIds, the consummatr soldier and TN
selfish patriot, who within an hour was
to give up his life for his country and
in the sublime effort to rid his native
State of Il hungry and INSCRIPTIONS
horde of vandal invaders. Stories were
rife of wholesale devastation and un-
regulated pillage that marked the un-
! checked advance of Lees myrmidons-
the confscation of personal and house
hold goods, of horses and other stock.
or If in some instances these Were Paid
for it was with the mockery of rebel
shinplasters worth 10 cents a bushel. if
that. And this was not all, for free
negros were snatched from their homes
and kidnapped into Virginia or more
distant Southern States and sold there
| as slaves In these times of over
istrained sentiment when Southern SEN