The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-02-06
MAINE VETERANS AT GETTYSBURG

There is much interest among the veterans
in the proposition to send those in Maine who
participated in that memorable battle to the
Gettysburg celebration on the battlefield next
July, and in a communication to the Bangor
News A. Stinson of North Searsport gives the
following sketch of the 10Th Maine
This regiment Was raised in Somerset, Ken
nebec, Knox, Lincoln and Waldo counties. Wal
do furnishing companies B f. d. and part of
C Col. Francis E Heath of Waterville com
manded the regiment in the battle. On the
morning of July 2nd the regiment marched
onto the field taking position on Cemetery
Ridge, directly in the oath of Daniel Sckesi
3rd corps and on the 3rd in the path of Pick
ett's charge. The 18th belonged to the LIST
brigade, End division, End corps, General Han
cock in command. The brigade in command
of General Harrow-the l9th-had 405 officers
and men on the morning of July End. Official
report gives the loss 215, in killed, wounded
and missing. About the middle of the after
of July End, the 3rd corps fell back, COM
ing directly for our position. The Johnnies
were close at their heels, wild with the
thoughts of an easy victory. Alter the 3ro
corps passed by and over our lines and the
Johnnes within 60 yards, the 10Th up and
into them.
The fire stopped Their for a moment, when
Colonel Heath shouted, Elk bayonets-
CHARGE They scampe1ed in every direction.
This ended the l9th's part the second day,
but it was Gestlned for another conflict the
morrow. Early on the morning of the 3rd,
four companies of the regiment were dsplac-
ed as brigade skis mishes, Capt. William H.
Fogler of Belfast in command. The men had
nothing to eat that morning. After laying ten
hours between the two armies, with nothing to
eat or drink in a scorching July sun, and near
the middle of the afternoon, Pickett's fifteen
thousand men, the flower Of the rebel army,
came in view. /, has been said by army officers
to be the grandest sight ever in modern
warfare The boys fell back and joined the
old End corps when it became hand to hand
conflict. until the Johnnies gave up and the
battle of Gettysburg was won. Who says the
boys would not like to visit the battlefield. az
ter so years have come and gone? Should not
the grand old State of Maine bear the ex-
penses, when so many of her noble boys lalc
down their lives on that sacred soil?
! will name few who still hive In grand OLD
Waldo county, that furnished some of the
bravest men in the Civil War; A. E. Nicker-
son, Swanvlle; E. w. and A. H. Ellis, Belfast;
Charles Campbell, Winterport; Moses LARA
bee, Nelson Curtis. Monroe; George Mer-
rill, H. 7. Scribner, James Scribner, James A.
Colson, A. Stinson, Searsport, N. ?. Libby,
Freedom; Jas. S. Moore, Frankfort; B. A.
Hatch, Morrill,; F. A. Patterson. Stockton;
P Cunningham Waldo; A. j. Billings. the first
surgeon of the regiment. | remember well at
man than beat in the breast of A. ]. Billings
of Freedom Col. Fogler was another; in COM
pany with him after the second days fight
saw him standing over a fallen comrade-
Capt. Smith of Co. l.. who had said it would be
his last fight-while the tears ran like rain.
know Maine will not be the last to honor
those alive who took part in the high water
mark of the Rebellion.
Nathaniel Bowden of Bluehll wrote the
News as follows:
l read in the News of recent date of the
survivors of the battle of Gettysburg. l wish
to add to the list W. . are now living in Maine,
the names of Sergeant Nathaniel Bowden,
Bluehill, Me-; Sergeant Joseph N. Hartman,
Orland, Me-: Sergeant William B. Grant, Or
land, Me; Prvates Lemuel R. Lurvy, Mt. De-
sert. Me-; William H. Ayers and Alonzo Annas,
Charlotte, Me.
All of the above enlisted in 1861 and were
discharged in 1865. and served in Co. D., First
Maine Cavalry. That regiment has the honor
of being in more engagements than any regi-
ment in the northern army.
would be glad to meet with "the boys of
'6l" in July, at Gettysburg.