The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-04
.P|CKETT'S MEN N
SECOND CHARGE At
GETTYSBURG WIN
Aged Veteran Survivors Get
Over Wall and the "Enemy"
Capitulates
BLOODY ANGLE is
g SCENE OF PEACE
ears Flow Down the Cheeks
of Men Unashamed of Their
Emotions AS Two Flags
Float Together

/ GETTYSBURG, PA, July Some.
where far back on Seminary Ridge
from the woods where Longstreet fifty
years ago nodded a command to Pick.
EFT ana sadly turned away. where
Pickett wrote to his wife. If Oh
Pete's nod means death, then goodbye
little one. and God bless you." a bugls
shrilled insistently this afternoon. In
the haze men in gray, dim and indis-
tinguishable as ghosts, appeared on
the ridge. The stars and bars showed
against the sky and the men in blue
gathered at the Bloody Angle.
I Came clearly and triumpahntly the
rebel yell. The veterans of Meade'a
army. the handful left alive OF the
( brigade that beat hack Pickett's
charge. cheered gioriously They
summoned up the old battle cry Of
the Union and hurled 1t back toward
Seminary Ridge. Their heartstrings
frightened and there was fi-itter in
their throats A federal color bearer
shouted boys, there's Pickett men.
God bless them. They are charging
up again"
! Over HaIlowed Ground.
The few survivors of the men in
blue who fought at the Bloody Angie
watched with 10000 soldiers and visit
tors the hating progress of their old
enemies. Pickett's men advanced
slowly They were old and weary.
The sun beat hot upon them. Memo-
ries clutched at the.r feet. In a quar-
ter of an hour perhaps they had COW
cred half a mile O, the ground THAI
they had taken at the double quick
in the romantic and forlorn venture
of '63 For all of the way along
their line of march crowds of Union
soldiers parted before them, saiuted
the Confederate flag and raised hur-
he hat RI a
head was a band that played Dixie
as Dixie" isn't played in lesser mo-
4 merfts. Staggering under the weight
of a Confederate flag was the lean
and brown faced Virginian. who had
borne its weight so lightly that other
July Sd. And then came supporting
each other the very Old leaning upon
the stalwarts of seventy. the men OF
Picketts division who had come alive
out of the battle.
AS they came nearer to the foot OF
the green slope that leads to tho
Bloody Angle---the angle formed by
a stone fence and which Is much tho
same today as it was half century
Eago--there was not shout or a sound
raised from the Union ranks. Every
I body there was thinking what must
have taken place when Pickett's men
first climbed the slope.
Command Rings Out.
from the old man who was leading tho
peaceful attack, The Confederartes
snatched off their hats and swung
them around their heads, strained
their old Threats with the piercing
Rebel yell and came on at the dou-
BILE quick Some stumb led and fell.
Others, too tired to advance another
step, dropped in the grass But they
won to the stone fence, to the bloody
angle itself. to the spot where ARM
istead fell.
The veterans of Meade caught at
their outstretched hands and the flag
of the second corps OF the Union
army. Hancock's corps. was raised by
the side of the Confederate battle flag.
Two hundred of the Philadelphia
brigade gathered around Picketts
men, patting them on the back. en1-
bracing them. They were not ashamed
to show their emotion. They were not
ashamed If people saw the tears rolf
ing down their cheeks. The attacks
ers then broke ranks and mingled
with the defenders Men who had
stabbed at each other fifty years ago.
stood hand in hand recalling wildly
the scene of the Bloody Angle.
TT would do my heart good II Leo
were alive to see this" said Major
Holland. of the Twenty-efghth vir-s
ginia.
/
whom he was talking, "all that Get-s
tysburg needs today Is Abe Lincoln.
What do you suppose he would think
If he were here now?"
Where Armistead Fell.
The idea of a second charge BY
l Picketts division originated with Col-s
i onel J. NJ. Schoonmaker, head OF the
Pennsylvania commission. He dis;
cusscd .ne notion with the Gonfcd-
4 CT atcs and found them eager for =
peaceful attack.
Many of the Confederates sought
4 FOR the spot Where General r. Az
Armistead who led a brigade for
Pickett, was shot to death as he was
shouting to his men to give the cold
steel to Cushing's gunners. They
found the spot twenty yards from
where they met the Pennsylvania brt-
gade today.
i D. r.. Easley Of the Fourteenth
Il vi rsiffii -tFied--to-tell- the story M.
Armistead's death, but his voice
broke. He couldn't believe, he said.
that Armistead had been killed. HOi
knelt over him, ready to fire. hut
three federals jabbed him with bayO-s
nets and called on him to surrender.
The spectacle Of the meeting ~
the Confederates and Union men Wa
witnessed by Major General Daniel n
! Sickles The aged general came IN
i the field in an open automobile Acas
icompanying him was Mrs Helen 0fs
1 Longstreet, the widow OF GNM&f&43
4 Sickles antagonist on the second
OF the battle. While the vGM Mks
were exchanging reminiscense&
collected around General SickleM
tomobile and shook hands with ht
Not less than 10000 men met ~ ~ Y
tent to near the governors praise t1<&5
vaior OF their State troops Early&
the afternoon a committee 0f c.