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The Colorado statesman., 1913-07-05

which has gone into history as one
of the most heroic assaults of all
time. 1t was forlorn hope but 1t was
grasped and the men of George Ed
ward Pickett, Confederate soldier.
went loyalty and with full hearts to
their death across a shrapnel and rifle
swept field.
When the third days fighting open
ed it began with an artillery duel
hundreds of guns belching forth shot
and death from the batteries of both
contending forces. 1t is said that this
was the greatest duel engaged in by
field pieces during the four years of
the war between the states.
The Union guns at one time ceased
firing, and it is said that the southern
commander thought they had been
silenced, and then it was that Long
streets men made an assault and
Pickett's men made their charge. The
former generals objective was Big
Round Top. but his forces were driv-
en- back Picket formed his division
in brigade columns and they moved
directly across the fields over fiat
ground. They had no cover and they
had no sooner come into effective
range than they were met by such a
storm of shot as never before swept
over field of battle.
They went on and on, and on clos
ing in their depleted ranks and NOV
ing steadily forward to their death.
Those Of Pickett's men who reached
The Colorado statesman., 1913-07-05
STORY OF FAMOUS
CIVIL WAR FIGHT
Battle of Gettysburg Which
Brought Credit to Both
Blue and Gray.
TURNING POINT OF CONFLICT
Total Losses on Both Sides In Three
Days Fighting Over 5o,ooo-sev-
eral Generals Killed and
Wounded.
ey EDWARD 3. CLARK.

WW RASHINGTON-It is posi-
VAH BILE, some people would say
wW probable, that the Battle of
wv Gettysburg changed utterly
the course of American his
tory. 1t was great fight between
armies of Americans. for probably
fully ninety per cent. of the men who
fought on the two sides were born
natives to the American soil. The
bravery shown at Gettysburg was of
the order which Americans have
shown on every field and which re-
fleets credit upon the hardy and
heroic ancestry Of the men engaged.
no matter from what race they may
have sprung.
At Gettysburg there was nothing to
choose between the valor of the North
and the South. The South lost the
fight, but 1t lost it honorably and
with the prestige of its soldiery un-
dimmed. The charges made on that
field have gone down into history as
assaults made under conditions which
every man felt might mean death at
the end. The defenses made at Gettys-
burg were of the kind which 1t takes
Iron in the blood to make perfect. At
Gettysburg Northerners and South
erners replenished their store of re-
spect for their antagonists. The bat
tie marked the high tide of the war
between the states. After it the
South largely was on the defensive,
but it's defense was maintained with
fortitude and in the face of privations
which could not chill the blood of
men fighting for what they thought
was the right.
The Northern armies were persis-
tent in their attacks through the cam
paigns which after few months were
started aginst the objective point.
Richmond. Brave men here and brave
men there, and after the end came it
was the qualities which keep COM
pany with bravery which made the
soldiers of the North and South SO
ready to forget and to forgive and to
work again for the good of COM
mon country.
The great battle of Charlottesville
was fought not long before the oppos-
Ing Union and Confederate forces met
on the field of Gettysburg. Chancel-
lorsville was Confederate victory.
The Southern government believed
that the victory should be followed up
by an invasion of the North for, ac-
cording to its reasoning, If an import
ant engagement could be won upon
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their destination had short hand-to-
hand encounter with the northern sol
diers. 1t was soon over and Pickett's
charge, glorious for all time in his
tory, was failure in that which it
attempted to do, but was success as
helping to show the heroism of Amer
lean soldiers.
The losses at Gettysburg on both
sides were enormous. The Union
army lost Generals Zook, Farnsworth,
Weed and Reynolds, killed; while Gra-
ham, Barnes, Gibbon, Warren, Double
day, Barlow, Sickles, Butterfield and
Hancock were wounded. The >total
casualties killed wounded, captured
or missing on the Union side num-
bered nearly 1900 men. On the Con-
| federate side Generals Semmes, Pen
| der, Garnet, Armistead, and Barks-
| dale were killed, and Generals Kemp
er, Kimbal, Hood, Heth, Johnson and
Trimble were wounded. The entire
| Confederate loss is estimated to have
been nearly 10000 men.
The third days fight at Gettysburg
was a victory for northern arms, but
it was a hard won fight and the con-
| flict reflects luster today upon the
north and the south. Lee led his
army back southwark, later to con-
front Grant in the campaigns which
| finally ended at Appomattox.
Forces Engaged and Losses.
The forces engaged at the Battle of
Gettysburg were:
misunderstanding to official
accounts the Army of North Virginia,
on the 31st of May, numbered 74,469
The detachments which joined num-
bered 6,400. making S0,S6S. Deducting
the detachments left In Virginia
Jankins' brigade, Pickett's division,
1900; Corse's brigade, Pickett's divi-
sion, LOO; detachments from Second
corps and cavalry, 1900, in all 5000
leaves an aggregate of 1865.
Union-According to the reports OF
the S0th of June. and making allowance
for detachments that joined in the in
term in time to take part in the bat.
tie, the grand aggregate was 100000
officers and men.
The casualties were:
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the morning OF July 1. He dispatched
a courier to Meade saying that the
high ground above Gettysburg was
the proper place to meet the enemy.
Not long after this message was sent
to Meade General Reynolds who dis
patched it, was killed. He was on
horseback near patch of woods with
his force confronting a large detach-
ment of Confederate troops which was
coming toward them. These troops OF
the enemy were dispersed by the
Union batteries and Reynolds was
| watching the successful solid shot
and shrapnel onset when a bullet
struck him in the head killing him in
| stantly.
General Abner Doubleday succeeded
| Reynolds in command of the troops
at that point of the field. brigade
| of Confederates, a Mississippi organi-
zation, charged the Union forces,
broke their organization and succeed
ed lin making prisoners of large part
of New York regiment. Later these
men were recaptured and the Missis-
| sippi brigade was driven back, por-
tion of it surrendering. In the fight
on the first day at this point of the
field or near it, one Union regiment
the 151st Pennsylvania, lost in killed
and wounded 537 men out of total
of 446 in little more than a quarter
of an hours fight.
General Doubleday fell back to Sem
mary Ridge and extended his line.
The forces employed against him
here were greater than his own, and
after hard fighting Seminary Ridge
was given up. The first days battle
was in effect and in truth victory
for the Southern arms. On the night
of July 1 General Hancock arrived
and succeeded in rallying the Union
forces and putting new heart into the
men. General Meade on that night
ordered the entire army to Gettys-
burg.
Victory Not Followed Up.
For some reason or other perhaps
unknown to this day. what was virtu-
ally Confederate victory on the first
of July was not followed up by Gen
eral Lee early on the next morning.
General Meade therefore succeeded in
strengthening his lines and in pre-
pairing for the greater conflict. One
end of the Union line was some dis
tance east of Cemetery Hill on Rock
Creek, another end was at Round Top
something more than two miles be-
yond Cemetery Hill to the south. The
Confederate line confronting it was
somewhat longer.
1t is impossible in brief sketch of
this battle to give the names of the
brigade and the regimental comman-
ders and the names of the regiments
which were engaged on both sides in
this great battle. Meade, Hancock,
Howard, Slocum and Sickles with
their men were confronting Lee,
Longstreet, Hill, Ewell and the other
great commanders of the South with
their men. The line of battle with the
spaces in between the different com.
mands was nearly ten miles. 1t was
the Confederate generals intention to
attack at the extreme right and left
and at the center simultaneously. II
was to be General Longstreet's duty
to turn the left flank of the Union
army and to break it," Longstreet's
intended movement was discovered in
time to have it met valiantly The
battle of the second day really be
gan with Longstreet's advance. The
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Northern soil the chances of foreign
Intervention or at least foreign aid to
the Southern cause, would be forth
coming.
General Robert e. Lee late in the
spring of 1863, made his preparations
to conduct his campaign Northward
into the state of Pennsylvania. He
had under his command three corps,
General James Longstreet command
ing the First, General Richard s.
Ewell commanding the Second, and
General A. p. Hill commanding the
Third. In the Union army which aft
erward confronted Lee at Gettysburg.
there were seven corps, but the num-
Der of men In each was much less
than that in a Confederate corps, the
military composition of each being
different. The Union corps comman-
ders who under Meade were at Get
tysburg, were Generals John F. Rey-
nolds. w. s. Hancock, Daniel E.
Sickles, George Sykes. John Sedgwick,
o. o. Howard and H. w. Slocum.
Forces Almost Evenly Matched.
1t Eever has been determined be-
yo1& he point Of all dispute just how
|men were engaged on each side
De battle Of Gettysburg. 1t is
wn that the armies were very
Early equal in strength. the proba-
bilities heing that the Confederate
force was few thousand men strong
er than the Union force. difference
which was balanced perhaps by the
at the Union armies at Gettys-
buA ere fighting in defense Of their
The Colorado statesman., 1913-07-05
Distinctive.

"Show me some tiaras. please. 1
want one for my wife"
"Yes, sir. About what price?"
"Well, at such price that l can
say: DO you see that woman with the
tiara? She is my wife. e."-Pearsons 8
Weekly.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-07-05
Puzzled MissourIan.

Will some one explain why some
people who are invariably late at
church need no bell to call them to the
moving-picture show on time?
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-11-15
No Chance for McFarIand-Ritchie
Go-LeWis Is Winner.

OO-GS"iS - HNIIlIICIs
Again Milwaukee fight promoters
are talking of a fight between Light
weight Champion Willie Richie and
Packey Mcfarland ..
This is Just an indication of how
foolish some people can be. This bat
tie has been boosted before, and each
time negotiations came to naught
because the pugs were too wide apart
on the question of weight.
There is absolutely no chance of
getting these two stars into the same
ring in a beIligerent mood. McFar-
land cannot make 1876 pounds ring
side and be strong enough to stand a
hard battle. That is the weight Rit-
chic insists on
This last proposed fight won't even
cause any newspaper talk. It's too
improbable.
Mike Gibbons of ST. Paul made
Marty Rowan quit in the second
round in New York. Rowan's' sec
onds tossed a towel into the ring to
save him from a knockout.
Stranger Lewis Topped Karl
Schulz to the mat twice in five min
utes and 20 seconds at the Globe the
alter last night He then took on an
unknown named Arson, the exhi-
bition lasting ten minutes.
Joe Mandot and Patsy DrouiIIard
have been matched for ten rounds
at Windsor, Ont, Dec. 10. This is
Mandot's first fight since he'was lick
ed by Rivers. Drouillard is a tough
boy, but Mandot should whip him.
Eddie CIabby was forced to quit in
the fourth round of a fight with Kid
Kansas at Buffalo because of rup-
tured igaments in his shoulder. The
fight was warm until the Hammond
man was incapacitated. Clabby suf-
fered similar injury in recent battle.
Benny Chavez has been matched
to box Is rounds with Jimmy Fox in
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-11-15

Help! Zim As Manager and F. Jones
As President of FederaIs.
The silly season is on us in all it's
fury. .. -...-
All doubts have been expelled by a
pair of expert dreams which occurred
in the last forty-eight hours, one
nightmare naming Heinie thinner
man, Cub third baseman, asmanager
of the Chicago Federal League team,
and the second selecting Fielder
Jones as president of the new and
hustling organization.
Coupled with the first pipe was
the news that Tom Leach and Frank
Schultz would go along with Zim.
Uproarious laughter, in addition to
which, unbounded mirth.
The two dFeamers are albright
persons. They are gentlemanly young
men, and the scarcity of news forces
them to such desperate measures.
Zim will be right here on the great
West Side( heers) in the spring of
1914 Either Leach or Schultz may
be traded to make room for a young
outfelder, but both were better than
any rockies Mr.. Murphy showed US
last season., si
In any event, Leach and Schultz
will not go to. the Chicago Feds. Tom
my conceals large amount of gray
matter under, his neat white cap, and
if he goes to the Feds at all, will be-
come manager. He is. the type the
new circuit is hunting to lead its
teams. Our bet on Schultz is that he
will be playing one, of the garden
positions next summer.
But to select Fielder Jones as
president of the Feds is a cruel and
unfair thrust, delivered by a young
man who has heretofore lived a
blameless life, except when he writes
poetry.
Jones at present is head of the
Northwestern TaaOrun and iS Clio
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-12-06
Choicest Part Of Happenings.

The people who are lonely in this
world are those who are always look
ing for something to come to them;
they hope for pleasant adventures;
they exact much from their friends
and from their family, and they are
never satisfied. But the happy men
and women are those who never
think to demand for themselves -
who give and give and give again,
and find Joy whenever they find
opportunity to give Joy. The human
heart is so constituted that it Is only
filled by the richness which flows
into it. Does your friend neglect you:
Has her apparent enjoyment In your
society cooled BY imperceptable de-
grees? For every shade Of GOODNESS
offer more Of your warm affection,
and you will find no longer discon-
tent, but an ever-increasing salts
faction. Trying to warm our hearts
by the affection which others bring
US is like trying to warm a house
by the affection which. others bring
outer walls: the. house must be
warmed from within; 1t must radiate
heat, not ab9orbs II II you would have
. friend, Zone; * you would keep
! friend. eontinla tp Hove: for Just
so long 6 syon :. @ YOU hold tho
:chniceIt pSyt sot AGppaness.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-12-06

state and was celebrated Dec. 9th.
4 With the church in the West this
feast was celebrated Dec. 8. The
feast became firmly established in
England and Ireland before the Nor.
man conquest.
In Normandy the feast was cele-
brated with great splendor and dur.
ing the middle ages was commonly
called the feast of the Norman Ma
ton. In the United States, indeed in
the Western Continent, the first de-
cree relating to the doctrine of the
Immaculate Conception and it's oh.
servance dates from 1860 when
Immaculate Conception was made the
patron of Spanish possessions, and
later the Council of Baltimore elected
Mary in her Immaculate Conception,
the patron of United States. This
important feast of the church and the
traditions connected with it has in
beauty of sentiment and doctrine ap-
pealed to the faithful who in SO many
ways desire to honor the Mother of
God:
The annual Feast will be celebrated
on Monday next and the Anniversary
Of this feast will mark the close of
the Jubilee.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-12-06

sweetness Of sweat. the dignity OF
manhood. the honor Of womanhood,
the sanctity Of marriage. the sacred.
ness Of home, the patriotism that
means love and labor for the land and
Its safety-these are all old wives
tales, to be laughed at by our mod.
ern prophet.
Everywhere. .,',
All down the line from. school house
to state house the same indifference
to the old moralities obtains, and we
think We can escape the inevitable
harvst. We believe we are the Sam,
son Of the nations and forget that the
morally blind Samson will pull the
temple down about our ears in time
and force US to think amid the ruins.
Perhaps We have been too prosper.
GUS; for when we are fat and foolish
we forget God and the Law; and per-
haps the adversely that will come to
us sooner or later will cure US. Bet.
ter America sane, sound and poor
than America rich and rotten. It is
about time We woke up and put our
house in order and returned to the
days when character and conduct
guided us and before we went to the
cutters for our ideals and to the
stews and slums for our saints and
savionrs.
If this be pessimism make the most
of 1t.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-12-06
OF ell schools. public Or private.

OF all schools. public Or private.
res, disagreement, controversy,
lancorous objection must be avoided
at too dear q cost.
inc cost to the Catholic parents
for avoiding such has meant the cost
Oh their own school and teaching
equipment. Their own teachers and
the support Of public schools and
school. teachers in addition. Yet
there Is no complaint. They consider
II money weyy spent. Just now the
private schools Of whatever denomin.
alton is doing double duty in incul.
eating the worship of God and respect
for religion and at the SAME time
protecting those under their charge
from the obscenity Of sex hygiene
teaching which, in the instance Of
chicago, the postmaster general rules
were not fit for mailing. This
latter question has not arisen locally,
but 1t shows the inadvisability Of
trying to substitute scientific morals
for religious training or abstract
worship for religion.
1t is not against the reading of the
Bible as such, nor is it against the
attempt to introduce religious wor.
ship in the public schools that criti.
cism will be directed.It will be direct
ed against an infringement of private
sentiment in this matter, and the
Jealous regard for religious belief.
Anyone who can devise means
to give the children the benefit of a
religious atmosphre in the school
room will deserve we'll of the public.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-12-06
St. Thomas has Place on Marquette
- Schedule.

st. Thomas has Place on Marquette
- Schedule.
Milwaukee, Wis, Nov. 3O.-Mar.
quette university proposes to retain
st.. Thomas on the schedule next
year, despite. this years defeat, and
next, year the st. Paul aggregation is
likely to have rough time, for the
first year under conference rules
worked havoc with the Marquette
organization. Next year, however,
the freshmen in training this year,
will be: available for playing and
Marquette is already figuring on a
heavier schedule than that of 1913.
The Marquette team will only lose
four men this year; Captain Water,
Woodwork, Kelly and Prescott.
There will be no change in coaches,
Lee Foley being retained. Several
schedule changes will be made, and
st. Thomas is likely to again be the
Thanksgiving attraction, If the st.
Paul eleven will consent to come
here. ..D5
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-12-06
SENT GOODBYE IN BOTTLE.
Last Message Of Catholic Sailor to
Family 10 Found.

Menominee, Mich.-"Goodbye, dear
ones, might see you in heaven. Pray
for me-" was the farewell message
sent by U. S. Marshal Chris. keenan,,
custodian Of the barge Plymouth that
went down in Lake Michigan with all
hands. The note was in a. bottle
picked up on the beach near Pentwa-
ter, and follows: II
Dear Wife and Children:
I'VE were left up here in Lake
Michigan by McKinnon. Captain
James. H. Martin, tug. at anchor. He
went away and never said goodbye
or anything to us. Lost one man yes
terday. We have been out in storm
forty hours. Goodbye dear ones, l
might see. you in heaven: Pray. for
me. (signed "Chris K"
P. ST felt SO bad had another
man write for me. Goodbye for ev.
en-" ,,,l. ! q. u
The funeral of Chris. Keenan, held
Friday from st. johns Church. was
one Of the largest In this city ;s
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-12-06
LOCAL cARsoN,TEs.

!. This week Minneapolis was treated
, to. the thrilling information that Ulster
recruits were being obtained in Min.
neapolis, and that among the Ulster
sympathizers there were many who
would enroll in the ranks of Carson's
army.
I We have anxiously been awaiting
I the appearance of the recruits and
! their spectacular drill with dummy
guns, but no one seems to be able to
locate the scene of operation. It turns
out however that the sympathizers do
not want their identity known. That
they are debating over the question
Fof who will pay their fare-all of
which indicates lack of enthusiasm.
= We are kind enough to say lack of
/ enthusiasm, but it really means lack
tof the essential qualities necessary to
make good recruits. But why hide the
identity? The spectacular showing of
Carson and his Obstetrics would be
far less interesting in Belfast than
the appearance of one of these Car
.sonites on Hennepin avenue, if his
identity were known.
(, Think of Carson's army of 100000
men, dwindling down to few recruits
in Minneapolis, ashamed or afraid to
, own up to their connection with the
men Of Ulster. who recite their de.
tvotion to the King and defy the gov
eminent in the same breath. sgr
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-12-06
THE JEWS AND THE BIBLE.

THE JEWS AND THE BIBLE.
The Jewish Ledger has taken up the
matter of Bible reading in the public
schools of Shreveport, Louisiana, and
makes this comment:
1T has always been a source of
wonderment to US why the strenuous
advocates Of the introduction of the
Bible into the public schools-in al
most every instance they are Protes.
tant clergymen-can so far forget
their duty to the state and nation as
to-. subordinate it to the advantages
they expect to gain for their churches.
They oppose in the strongest terms
the efforts of the Catholics to have
the children of Catholic parents at
tend parochial schools of that Church
and desire that the public schools
should be utilized by the people ire.
spective of creed and at the same
time they make every effort to take
away from the public schools their
character of freedom from sectarian.
ism SO that they may be utilized by
children of every creed without doing
violence to their feelings"
The American 1sraelite of Cincinnati
commenting on the situation. adds:
The Ledger speaks advisedly. but
does not touch the crux of the mat
ter. The clergymen and their follow
ers know that the reading of a few
verses from the Bible in the public
schools can have absolutely no moral
or religious effect. Their object in
insisting on Bible reading is that
they regard it as an Acknowledgement
OF the supremacy in the land, not
only of Christianity, but of Protestant
Christianity. And then there is of
course always the satisfaction of an.
noying the Roman Catholics, Jews
and Freethinkers. 1t was these gen.
tlemen who made the Catholic paro.
chtal4 school possible in the United
States. - y IS -, ~, - 3
The question of producing a relie.
1ous atmosphere in our schools is one
OF the pressing educational problems
OF our time. The growing disrespect
Tor religion in all forms among Ger.
tain classes is in the main responsible
1or the irreverance and irreligious
conditions which crop out SO strongly
time and again.
The motto of the Holy Father, IRE.
store all things in Christ" is the need
of the day.