The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-08-15

you were met by old federal soldiers
and upon seeing your "Cross of Hon
or" you had to stop and talk with
them. Close to $4,000 soldiers were
killed and wounded in this battle,
more than the combined losses in the
American Revolution and Mexican
war.
Almost all writer's on Gettysburg
have something to say about who was
to blame on our side. l have always
held to this that Longstreet was the
cause of Lees failure on the third day
by rot coming to time on the second
day. If you believe Fitz. Lee, Pendle-
ton, Early, Wilcox or Gen. Long, then
LoDgstreet was ordered to open the
battle very early in the day. This he
did not do until about the middle Of
the afternoon and then as Hoods bat
tallions of gray are moving down
upon Little Round Top, Gen. Warren
grasps the situation and rushes troops
on the summit in sufficient numbers
to hold it. How easy it is to take it in
our possession any time in the fore
noon and with it in our possession
all the strongholds of Mead's lines
would have been destroyed and he
would have been forced to have wag-
ed the fight somewhere else, where
positions would have been more favor
able to our side Any one standing
upon Round Top can see this for
himself
Wa1ren's statue is standing on a
large boulder on top Of little Round
Top, visible for long distance. Many
monuments are yet to be erected on
the field Arrangements are being
made to erect an equestrian statue of
Gen. Lee just across the road on
Ceme'ery Ridge in front of where
stands that of Gen. Meade
Well, the war was finally ended. We
did not win. I am glad we didn't.
we are now reunited country, strong
in every respect that goes to make up
a mighty nation, with no superior one
the face of the earth, slavery abolish
ed. Without the war, that would have
been done any W ay; it was tottering
on its last legs when the war came.
Was Lees army whipped at Gettys-
burg? I do not believe now, neither
did then, that the army was a whip
ped army, but more Of a drawn bat
tie. The first day they were driven
back through the town of Gettysburg
with two corporals literally torn to
pieces, to a position on Cemetery
Ridge. On the second, Sickles with
his command, takes position way
out in front of where Meade had told
him. Greedy says Sickles was spoil
ing for a fight and didn't believe
j.! Meade was. Sickles was driven back
by McLaws and Hoods division with
heavy losses to the enemy. SO in the
first and second both sides agree that
we got the best of it, and on the third,
that by the prestige of the days fight
ing, Lee thought he could break the
centre and rout the whole army and
the assault was made by Pickett's d.
vision and a few other brigades, about
one-eight or ninth of his forces, and
failed to accomplish the desired re-
suit. Having pretty we'll exhausted
his heavy ammunition he thought it
prudent to withdraw. The balance OF
the army was in splendid condition.
The army remains there another day,
no assault was made upon them, they
surely did not consider then that our
army was badly defeated. Our army
quietly withdrew without baggage
and ammunition back to and near the
river and find it too swollen to cross,
and there formed our line Of battle,
threw down the gauntlet and awaited
their coming for several days. They
never came I read recently an arti-
Gle from one close to Gen. Meade, in
which he says there was about that
time a council of war held. The corps
commanders with but one exception
insisted on following up and renewing
the battle while the river was high.
Meade would not consent to give the