The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-07-13

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before taeT ocata eAaTx~ ors* tAo@3
rocks and Tozta The Federal soa4szrs
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NbeK ] s.exd - he fous of t4sti&
Round Top bill. Just s~yoaa tie -
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nantm OF LozEatruefs brave soldiers
charged o. and Eg that bill and I'D
pat The n.xt the % tie Fedora
troops 10 roate saa wozlA s<eas hare
bseE u eorz 8ar1 Of thai .mEneace.
@hteh wAA necessary 80 oar saceess
Ia that battle. 10 seemed 4nssossabss
20 believe that men could - made
with such dauntlczs courage and sueA
nerve OF steel 20 have passed through
sach hell Of FIRE and such = literal
slaughter Zen. az today IL Is called.
even 10 capture that coveted hill. bat
each soldier knew a. weII a. Genera
lee knew that IL wns absolutely nee
essary 10 com maud that hill and place
upon IL Confederate batteries IN order
10 FIRE into the flank OF the cuemy to
stop the deadly slaughter - .lur mea
facing the enemy In the open field
This explains their unparalleled
bravery
They won the coveted prize, though
at fearful loss. and General Long
street would have soon commanded
that hill with Confederate batteries
had not just as the victory was wou
d regiment OF fresh Federal troops
who had not yet fired a gun. rushed
| in and overpowered the wounded and
| fatigued remnant Of the victories
Confederate soldiers. Here again We
see the great advantages that General
Meade had. who. seeing his Federal
troops defeated al Little Round Top.
| without moments delay, ordered
| fresh troops TO rush down and over
whelm the remaining handful of cur
! victorious heroes. There were no
Confederate soldiers near enough 70
come TO the support of the victors.
so the great prize which had been
won at such a fearful sacrifice was
lost never TO be regained.
! If this hill could have been held
! long enough to have been manned
with Confederate batteries, they
| could then, from this commanding
position, have poured shot and shell
! into every position occupied by Gen
| eral Meade's army, from this hill
across Cemetery Ridge TO the Culp
| hill. With our batteries at this point
| playing into the flank of General
| Meade's whole army, his soldiers,
| though firmly entrenched behind
| stone walls and breastworks, would
have been forced to flee, or at least
| would have been so demoralized that
Lees army could have advanced
i against them over the open plain and
| captured every soldier and battery
that had temerity enough to remain.
In short, if the victory won at Devil
Den and at Little Round Top hill
could have been followed up and held
! General Lee would have won the bat
/ tie Of Gettysburg before the third
| days fight began.
Later, I stood at the Bloody Angle
where Pickett made his famous
IIdl SO at TIC vi IHt
three days struggle. What is knows
as the Bloody Angle was not the
main line Of the Federal army II
was an advance position where there
was a stone wall behind which there
were stationed Union soldiers and be
hind them a Union battery in order
} to do all of the terrible execution
possible in moving down Confeder-
! ate soldiers as they came across the
| open field.
1t was not expected that these sol
diers and this battery so stationed
would be able to resist the Confed
, crate charge, but that they would re
tire after having done ali the dam
age possible, and leave the main line
; to face the brunt of the Confederate
advance. Pickett and his Virginia
troops advanced to the right of thi:
Angle, while Pettigrew, leading the
: remnant Of his North Carolina brig
t ade, advanced to the left. Wher
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