Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-07-02
STORY FAMOUS
CIVIL WAR. ]. FIGHT
Battle Of Gettysburg Which
Brought Credit to Both
Blue and Gray.
TURNING POINT Of CONFLICT
Total. Losses on Both Sides In Three
Days Fighting Over so, ooossv-
eral Generals Killed and
y 33tssssi ~: fsS 81 Wounded.
By EDWARD 3. CLARK.


BILE, some people would say
probable that the Battle Of
E8Fs Gettysburg changed utterly
sSS q the course OF American his
tory, It was a great fight between
L armies Of Americans, for probably
fully ninety per cent. Of the men who
fought on the two sides swere born
natives to the American soil The
4 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. ii II #. ~
i Isl 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 honorably and
with the prestige OF Its soldiery UNI
4 dimmed. The charges made on that
4 field have; gone down into history as
/ assaults made under conditions which
every man felt might mean death at
E the end. The defenses made at Gettys-
i burg were Of the kind which it takes
iron In the blood to make perfect. At
3 Gettysburg Northerners and Il 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 1t the
4 South largely was on the defensive.
Z but its defense was maintained with
fortitude and In the face OF privations
which could not chill the blood Of
men fighting for what they thought
s was the right. .s3 81
The Northern armies were persis-
tent in their attacks through the cam
paigns which after a few months were
started aginst the objective point
Richmond Brave men here and brave
men there. and after the end came it
was the qualities which keep COM
3pany with bravery which made the
4 soldiers Of the North and South SO
ready to forget and to forgive and to
work again for the good OF q, COM
mon country. Il. 4 \
The great battle of Charlottesville
was fought not long before the oppos-
ing Union and ,Confed erate forces met
on the field OF Gettysburg. Chancel-,
4 louisville was q Confederate victory.
The Southern government believed
Il that the victory should be followed up
/ by an invasion sof the North for. &C
cording to It's reasoning, II 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
4 coming. Il sS. ssy.
General Robert e. Lee late In the
spring Of 1863, made his preparations
to conduct his campaign Northward
Y into the state Of PENNSYLVANIA. He
4 had under his command three corps:
General James Longstreet command
ing the First, General Richard 8.
Ewell 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
Il military composition of each being
different. The Union corps comman-
i ders who under Meade were at Get
3 tysburg. we're Generals John F. Rey-.
4 nolds, w. 8. Hancock. Daniel E.
4 Sickles, George Sykes. John sedgwick.
I 90. Howard and H. w. Slocum.
Forces Almost Evenly Matched.
1t never has been determined be-
yond the point Of all dispute just how
many men were engaged on each side
in the battle, OF Gettysburg. It Ia
known that the armies we're very;
4 nearly equal in strength, the proba-
bilities being that the Confederate
4 force was a few thousand men strong
i er than the Union force; q difference
I. I: which was balanced perhaps by the
4 fact that the Union armies at Gettys-