The National tribune., 1910-10-06
THE DEATH OF GEN. REYNOLDS.

settled the destiny of Lee and his in
vasion of the North by selecting the
| battle-ground here. and there is still: liv-
| ing in Philadelphia member of the
Generals military family, Lieut.. Jos.
G. RoSengarten, who was present when
one of Gen. Howard's staff came for
orders and heard Gen. Reynolds in
| struct him to tell Howard to leave one
| of his divisions as reserve on Gene
| terry Hill and hurry the rest of the
| Eleventh Corps to the assistance of the
First.
No one who knows Lieut.. Rosengar-
| ten would ever question his word for
an instant. 1t is true, however, that
Gen. Howard claimed that he put
| Steinwehr's Division on Cemetery Hill
on his own initiative, and anyone can
believe it that puts unbounded faith in
| HIM. e., as a General of great con-
| ceptive, strategic genius. At any rate,
he received a medal and the thanks of
Congress for his achievement.
Fifteen. perhaps 20, minutes passed
after Gen. Reynolds's. departure to the
Seminary when one of his Aids came
| flying across the COdori fields. Gen.
WadswOrth met him at the rail fence,
there receiving his excited message,
which was in substance this: Gen.
Reynolds desires you to turn your lead
| ing brigade into this field, following
/ The wood (McPherson's) yonder. Hall $
| Battery will strike across to relieve
| Calefs guns, which are overmatched
and have suffered severely. The Cen
eral will meet the column and himself
place the troops and guns. He wishes
you, General, to hasten forward your
| other brigade"
Gen. Cutler Directed the Pioneers.
Meanwhile Gen. Cutler had called
! his men to attention, and was directing
the pioneers to level the fence for the
! passage of Halls I'd Me. Battery and
| for his Second Brigade-yes, Comrade
Bishop, the Second Brigade of Wads-
worth's Division in the van ana COM
manded by Gen. Lysander Cutler-your
| brutum fulmen to the contrary notwith-
standing. Not only were Cutters men
in the van, but they got in the first in
| fantry fire on the Union side that
opened the battle of Gettysburg Lest
this be doubted by the champion of
the imaginative b. II. Trip. the fol-
| lowing note is quoted from the Comte
de Paris's work on the civil war, Vol 5,
page 552:
| Gen. Cutler, writing. November,
1863, to the Governor of Pennsylvania,
| accordS the honor of the opening fire
| to the 56th Pa, and requests that the
| fact be recorded in the archives of the
State"
BY a rather curious chance Comrade
| Bishop gets an upset to his claims of
superior intelligence in the letter of
Capt. Chas. E. Stubs, of Halls I'd Me.
Battery, which appears in the same
column of The National Tribune of
June 2, with the formers astonishing
TRADE. Says Capt Stubbs: July 1 the
old First Corps took the lead, with the
Second Brigade, First Division, leading
the corps
An abstract of the roster of the First
Corps, July l, 1863, taken from the
| Official War Records: First Division,
Brig Gen. Jas. S. Wadsworth.
Second Brigade. Brighten. Lysander
Cutler, commanding" Cut
Ier's Brigade is at the head of the Fed
eral column. Reynolds leads it in per-
son on the Cashtown road. advising
! Doubleday to place Merediths brigade,
which is following the First (Cutler's)
on the left" The Comte de Paris. Vol.
| 3, page 552.
| Gen. Abner Doubleday, who COM
manded the First Corps on this day;