The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-07-02

Il Eas fiffy years Oh July since
he Battle oi Gettysburg began. ahd
be auniFersary Is celebrated d tie
ulg American Magazlns witA an e1.
F~~clezry Illustrated story o. the
As by Edgar Allen FORBES. TIE
baille iaetea three DAYS S0a, IS every
body wil recall, Gen. Plskest made
ls famous charge toward the end of
be third day This charge concluded
De battle and Indirectly determined
he outcome of the var. The following
xsract from she article. which e here
Hiih reprinted through the courtesy of
he American Magazine. gives a drz.
natic picture 0f Plcketts charge. and
y me final erenis leading ~ 70 the
kreat catastrophe that overlook the
tonfederacy. AZ this point ID tie mar
laslve Pickett Is Just leaving Long
'treet 70 20 into battle
There VAS one touch d humanity
3 he parting between Pickett ana
l.onkstreet that has just come 10 Light
affsr nliy years Il humanlzes The
hero q that daring charge 70 know
hai be xas much In love As Pickett
armed 70 30, be placed 10 LongstTeet's
lands letter addressed 10 a brown.
ged Virginia girl who yei lives And
his vas the postscript which be had
srliten IN the brief interval between
be cannonaae and the charge:
Nov, darling I 90; but remem.
Per always that ! love you With all my
Eesrt and sou with every fiber Of ms
bsing: that nov and forever am
oury yours. my beloved tits almost
Ihree O'Clock My soul reaches out to
Eours-my prayers
Nor ere smoke of guns liffs IKE a
kreat curtain. and discloses 70 the eyes
ihe whoie Army 81 TIE Potomac the
.uhiimisi spectacle Of the Civil war
eAnd how piliuily cruel It sas. The
Iong gray line had to cover almost q
eHe u opeu ground before It could
se its guns bat # vas within The
Eange Of the repienished Union batter
p from the start
THE Union guHHers began on it With
Iolid shot IS the silent line draws
bearer, they change to bursting shell
lnd shfapnel The yirglnians fall Ike
lheaves before the sickle, but the
snks silently close About midway
be line Is halted and dressed under
Ire. Then il moves slowly forward
the face Of a storm Of canister that
iteraiiy mows great sections to the
round But the shattered brgades
lFeserye their alignment obl'que to
ae LEFT, and sweep against tae stone
sail from which nos como the cruel
oIleys of the infantry.
The high water mark oi the charge
Fss reached by Armisteads brigade
+ ylrsla.ars w.tA his cap upon he.
pint q hla sword 10 guide his men.
iks Tie Helmet of Navarro, he press
d TAI beyond The fence, rushed the
'atlefies aa9 fell dying beside the
nna that be had taken. So desperate
as the lighting here thai twenty Con-
saefata flags we're captured within a
pacc not a hnndYed yards square.
Piekesss division lost zgsg men
tiled ana wounded. of whom Ilsi
efe from Armlstead's brigade alone.
be death whlch spared not bis three
Eisadefa passed over the eonspleu.
III leader with hia long black hair,
81 the voice that had sent the men
rfoss the field of blood now gave the
4zamand 10 sali hack. And Just al
st hour faf away 70 the southward !
rant and rembeFton we're standing
sHlheF under tree. arranging the
tails 81 the surrender Of Vieksburg
0i NJ The descriptions Of Pickett's
Eesi ehafEe that 0f lhe greatest b.