Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-08-06
Result of Target Shooting Q
Last Friday Afternoon.
More About Gettysburg.
Editor The Advertiser:-It ma,

SKINNED milk in this letter, but
that will be good fo- the nerves.
After this letter the curtain will
fall, and l will let the little city
quietly sleep midst the everlasting
hills that once shook with the roar
of conflict between two great ar
mics. The third day of the great
est reunion the world has ever
known, sixty thousand old soldiers,
brave and true in a fraternal grasp,
in embrace, in God bless you! the
picture of the greatest artist, the
pen of the greatest writer, the
tongue of the most gifted orator,
would be as powerless to describe
it as it would be to paint the rain
bow or add fragrance to the flower.
The fraternal feeling was 80 great
that the soldiers cared Tor but little
oratory or parade. Two things
were apparent: the North came
down to mingle with the South and
to hear this universal expression:
Look at their camps, their splen-
did uniforms, their military bear
ing, their love for the American
hag.'' The two armies had love
feast that was real and grand. We
are citizens of the greatest country
on earth, united as never before in
the history of the republic. The
South is better, the North is better,
the nation is stronger.
] stood on Cemetery Ridge and
saw the survivors of Piekett's: old
com -I~s,e-eh--ere--the sErue E.ll:;.:
ley of death, where they once left
so many of their comrades just fifty
years ago that day. The fated
hour was 8 p. m. The same start
ing point, the same objective point,
"a clump of trees where they
broke through the lines only to per-
isb or surrender, where it is said
captain of battery commanded
his men to give them grape and
c.nnister without fuse. Spartans
of America, steel clashing steel, and
1t last the victor tires at the gore
where victory was so nearly won,
and says grape and canister with
out fuse. On the 4th of July Presi-
dent Wilson spoke to an immense
throng, just fifteen minutes. He
has voice to charm, face to in
spire, a smile to appease. He is a
great president of a great people.
Think of a government feeding
10000 old veterans on chicken, ice
cream and various other tempting
good things.
l went over the field where Gen
eral Reynolds was killed, and then
to the battle lines from Cemetery
Ridge to Spanglel's Spring. This
was on the Confederates' left where
the wounded and famishing of both
armies crawled together and drank
water, thence along Culp's Hill
where whole trees were shot down
with cannon and musket balls.
There is hardly a tree between the
battle lines that is not SCARED and
knotty from being shot. The stat
ue of John Burns, a citizen of
Gettysburg, stands on the field. He
gathered his rifle and asked permis-
sion to fight in the ranks, and was
killed, which showed the spirit of
the American citizen.
The Bloody Angle, the objective !
point of Pickett's charge, Little
Round Top, Big Round Top, the
DEVILS Den, the Peach Orchard, {
the Valley of Death, where the
markers indicating the position of 8
the Confederate forces, make the |
field of wonderful Importance. The i
statue of Miss Jennie Wade stands q
IA the front yard of her home. She q
was killed by Confederate soldier q
while working up dough. She was g
n a small brick house, the front I
loor was closed, and the federals c
we're i'll the cellar shooting at the f
Jonfederates 255 yards off in the Is
open. The sharpshooters were a
hooting at the house, ball passed n
through two large doors. striking b
he lady below the hips coming out t
It the throat. l notice paper
If West Virginia that made it C
cad, Miss Jennie Wade was killed
oy Confederate, saying nothing +
lbout lot of federals in the cellar ! i
hootihg through portfolio, aud b
he other fellow in the open. f
J. Russell Wright. "