The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-07-04

On AH BILE, some people would say
MMS probable that the Battle OF
u w Gettysburg changed utterly
the course of American his
tory. II was great fight between
armies Of Americans, for probably
fully ninety per cent. of the men who
fought en- the two sides We're born
natives 10 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 it lost it houorably 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 II the
South largely was on the defensive
but It's defense was maintained with
fortitude and In the face of priyations
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 .Eete. ana after the end came il
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 cpp0s
Ing Union and Confederate forces met
on the field of Gettysburg. Chancel-
louisville was a 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
Northern soil the chances of foreign
Intervention or at least foreign aid to
the Southern cause. would be forth
coming
General Robert f. Lee late in the
spring Of 1868. 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.
Ewel 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
mlllf"fN co IMPOSITION OF eacn DelnB
difr,lt The Union corps comman-
ders who under Meade were at Get
tysburg. we're Generals John F. Rey,
nolds. w S. Hancock Daniel r.
Sickles, George Sykes John Sedgwick.
o O. Howard and II. w Slocum
Forces Almost Evenly Matched.
1t never has been determined be-
yond The point Of all dispute just how
many men we're engaged on each side
in thu battle Of Gettysburg It is
known that the armies were very
nearly equal in strength, the proba-
bitlies te,ue that the Confederate
force was d few thousand men strong
or than the Union force. difference
which vas balanced perhaps b. the
tact that JTe-Eaion armies at Getrys-