New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-01

Marsh Greek, WITHIN easy StTlkInS us
lance of Gettysburg The Eleventh Corps
was ten or twelve miles further back
Both were simply moving under gen
eral marching orders. and the enemy
was hardly expected yet for a day or
| two.
At an early hour in the forenoon the
First Corps was filing down around
Cemetery Hill I'm solid column. and en-
| tering the streets Of Gettysburg. In
the town our skirmishers had met
pickets or scouts from the enemy ana
! had driven them pell-mell back. Inc
news fired the column and Generai
REYNOLDS. with little or no reconnoiS
sance. marched impetuously forward
Unfortunate haste of a hero. gone no"
to the hero's reward.
II was fifteen minutes past Ten
o'clock. The fire Of the rebel sKir
mishers ratified along the 'front.'
hut shaking II off as they hau
the dew from their nights bivouac the
men pushed hotly on. Meantime Cen
eral Reynolds, on receiving his nrs'
notice an hour ago from Buford's cav
airy. that the rebels were in the Vicln-
ity OF Gettysburg had promptly sent
! word back TO General Howard anu
asked him. as a prudential measure u
hiring m the Eleventh Corps as rap
idIv as possible. The Eleventh had
been coming up on the Emmets-
burg road. Finding IT crowded win
| the train of the First they had
started of on a hyway leading INTO
the Taneytown road, some distance
ahead. and were still on this by
way. eleven miles from Gettysburg
when Rcynolds's messenger reached
them. The fine fellows, with singing
memories OF not wholly merited dis
grace at Charlottesville, started brisk
/ Is forward, and little after one O'Clock
their advance brigade was fling
I through the town 10 the music OF the
/ fire above.
/ General Reynolds's corps consists OF
| three ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Double
! days and Robinson's. Wadsworth's
composed of Meredith's and Cutters
brigades both mainly Western troops)
had the advance. with Cutler on the
right and Meredith on the left Ar
irving at the Theological Seminary
above the town, the near presence of
the enemy became manifest, and they
placed a battery in position TO feel
him out and gradually move forward.
An engagement OF more or less mag
nitude was evidently imminent. Gen.
eral Reynolds rode forward to select
position for a line OF battle. Unfortu-
nate-sadly unfortunate again-alikc
for him, with all a gallant soldiers pos
sibilities ahead Of him. and for the
country, that so sorely needed his well
tried services. He fell, almost instant
", pierced by ball from n sharp
shooters rifle, and was borne dying or
dead, to the rear. General Doubleday
was next I'm command.
The enemy were seen ready. There
was no time to wait for orders from
the new corps commander; instantly
right and left. Cutler and Meredith
| wheeled into line OF battle on the dou-
BILE quick. Well tried troops, those; no
fear of their flinching: veterans of 4
score Of battles-in the war some OF
them from the very start; with the first
at Phiippi, Laurel Hill. Carrick's Ford,
Cheat Mountain and all the Western
Virginia campaign; trusted OF Shields
at Winchester, Lander at Romney and
Bloomery Gap; through the campaign
of the Shenandoah Valley, and with
the army of the Potomac in every
march To the red slaughter. sowing that
still had brought no harvest Of victory.
Merediths old Iron Brigade" was the
10Th Indiana, cath Michigan, 9Th and
eth Observation-Disclosures all. and well
mated with the brave New Workers
whom Wadsworth also led.
Cutler, having the advance opened
the attack Meredith was at 1t a few
minutes later. Short, sharp fighting:
the enemy handsomely repulsed; three
hundred rebel prisoners taken. General
Archer himself reported 1T their head
such was the suspicious opening. No
wonder the First determined to hold its
ground.
Yet they were i'll prepared for the
contest that was coming. Their guns
had sounded the tocsin for the Elev-
enth, but so they had. tco. for Ewell
already marching down from York to
rejoin Lee. They were fighting two
divisions Of 4. p. HIS now-numeri-
cally stronger than their dwindled
three. Their batteries we're not up in