The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-07-04
PICKETT'S MEN DASH
ON "YANKS" AS IN '6S
Fatpful Charge on "BlOOd!
Angle" Is Recnacted at
gettysburg.
STOPPED BY EMBRACE
Union Veterans Receive Old
Foes With Outstretchcd
Arms and Cheers.

GETTY sBuRu, Pa. July s. Somewhere
far back on Seminary Ridge from the
woods where 1.ongstreet nodded n COM
mand fifty years ago to Pickett and
sadly turned away where Pickett wrote
to his wife "If old Pete's nod means
death, then good-by little one, and God
bless you" bugle shrilled insistently
this afternoon. In the haze men In
gray appeared on the ridge. dim and
az ghosts. The stars
and bars showed against the sky To
the men In blue gathered at the
Bloody Angle came clearly and trt-
the rebel yell.
TIE veterans of Meadcs army. the
handful left alive OF the brigade that
beat back Pickett's charge. cheered
gloriously. They summoned up the old
battle cry Of the Union. Their heart
strings frightened. There was a fiutter
In their throats.
"Th~re's Picketrs Men Again"
a Federal color bearer shouted Boys,
there's Pickett's men. God bless them.
they are charging up again" The few
survivors Of the men in blue who fought
at the Bloody Angle watched with 1O.-
900 soldiers and visitors the halting
progr.ss of their old enemies.
Pickett's men advanced slowly They
were old and weary. The sun beat hot
upon them. Memories clutched at their
feet. In a quarter OF an hour. perhaps,
they had covered half mile Of the
ground that they had taken at the
double quick in the romantic and for
lorn venture Of SO.
For all Of the way along their line
Of march crowds of Union soldiers
parted before them. saluted the Con-
federate flag and raised hurrahs that
did the heart good. At their head was
band that played Dixie" as Dixie"
isn't played in lesser moments. stag
gering under the weight of a Confed-
crate nag was the lean and brown faced
Virginian who had borne its weight
a. lightly that other July 3. And then
came. supporting each other. the very
old leaning upon the stalwarts of 10.
the men Of Tfckett's division who had
come alive out Of the battle.
Charge QuelIs Chatter
As they came nearer 10 the foot of
the green slope that leads to the Bloody
Angle. the angle formed by a stone
fence and which is much the same to-
day as IL was half a century ago. there
was not a shout or "A sound used from
the Union ranks. The noisy visitors
We're hushed for once. Everybody was
thinking of what must have taken place
when PiCkett's men first climbed the
slope.
All at once n command rang ont from
the old man who was leading the peace
ful attack. Thr Cunfrderatcs snatChcd
off their hats and swung them around
, their heads. strained their old throats
with the piercing rebel yell and came
on at the double quick. Some stumbled
and fell Others too tired To advance
another step dropped in the grass. But
they won to the stone fence. to the
Bloody Angle itself To the spot where
Arm!stead fell.
Embrace Whrr" They Fought.
The veterans Of Meade caught at their
outstretchcd hands. the flag uf 'hs
second corps of the Union army. Ham
cocks corps, was raised by the side OF
the Confederate BATH" Nag. Two hum
dred of the Philadelphia brigade gath
cred around Pickett's men, patting them
on the back embracing them. They
were not ashamed to show their emo
ton They were not ashamed II people
saw the tears rolling down their cheeks.
The attackers broke ranks and min
gled with the defenders. Little groups
formed along the stone fence. Men who
had stabbed at each other fifty years
ago stood hand in hand recalling vividly
tho arht at the Rloody Angle. Thero
was an eacer desire to talk.
81, wo,id do nv heart pood 70 Lea
una o,,vo "a 600 mis-" said Ma ior Ho,.
IN nd =, tho Twentv-ciph,b Virginia
"Na;or" soid tho I-p,op veteran N
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do you suppose ne would 'hihk II ne
was mere "o"
Old Foes shake Hands.
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