Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-13
had NEVER Seen
SUCH CARNAGE|N BATTLE
For Hours in Mortal Agony Confed-
crates Face Terrific Fire
OF Northerners.
STORY is TOLD BY SURVIVOR
Col. Joseph Mayo, Who Was Many
Times Propoted for valor, Gives
Graphic Recital Of Horrors When
High Tide Was Reached.
ny COLONEL JosBpa MAYO.

High Tide Was Reached.
ny COLONEL JOSEPH MAYO.
The order OF march into the enemys
country was left inSfront; first Ewell's
Then Hills. and lastly Longstreets
and Kemper's BrigadeB of Pickett's d.
Vision brought UP the rear. The other
two brigades. those OF Corse and Jen-
kins, were absent on detached service
2ilong, the Potomac.
We reached chnmbersburg On the
evening OF June 81, and stayed there
until hastily summoned to the scene
pr hostilities on tho morning Of July q.
Having been employed in the meantime
n tearing up the railroad tracks and
denolishing the depot and other build
ngs. "A forced march Of twenty five
miles on Friday. July 2. brought us at
about 5 O'clock in the afternoon to the
stone bridge on tho Cashtown and
Gettysburg Turnpike. within cannon
shot OF tho battlefield. Here General
of his star, TO tell General Leo of our
arrival and readiness for action. The
answer came to find q camp and await
further orders.
Before dawn the following morning
we moved to our place in the line; cur
The enemy's view. Soon after we got
IN iposition-some 200 yards in the rear
Of the batteries on Seminary Ridge
General Lee passed In front OF us.
coming from the right apd little
while afterwards cvery man in the
ranks was made to know what was
the work which had been cut out for
us. II remember perfectly we'll Cen
erai Kempers earnest Injunction to
me to be sure that the Third Virginia
was told why the commanding general
bad assigned our division to the post
pr honor on that day. He was u Yir-
ginian-so were they.
Then the arms were stacked and the
men allowed to rest at will. but one
khing was especially noticeable. from
being unusually merry and hilarious
they on sudden had become as still
hnd thoughtful Nc QuakerH at n love
Feast
NEWS BRINGS ABOUT
AWFUL SERIOUSNESS
Walking up the line 70 where Col
pnel Patton was standing In front Sof
the Seventh. / said to him: The news
has brought about an awful serious
ness with our fellows Taz." Yea
he replied. and well they may be
serious II they know what is in store
for them. have been up there where
IDearing Is, and looked across at the
yankees" Then he told me a good
toke he had on our dashing. handsome
hnd debonair chief OF artillery. He
bad ridden out on the skirmish line
70 get close observation OF the
enemys position, when courier gal
oped up with message, from General
Lee Naturally. he supposed MARS"
Robert wished to ask him 9Wliat he had
seen OF those people thafwas worth
Repeating. but he was woefully mis-
taken. This was ell the general had
20 say: Major bearing. LIDO: not ap-
prove of young otftcers needlessiy ex-
posing themselyssssyaar; place Is with
81 While wa oxlrs - Ss,s,,,
ME TO move SppiJfs at artillery
ete battalion 6t eighteEn pieces com
nanded by MaJprSJalnas Dearing. This
was done. and tf,ea dnhI ebarations
as th 1ef tss saNaaSs he.
was at fault when he saidFin his letter
TO Judge DavidsE. Johnson, dated Feb
Euary 4. 1886. Giat he and General Gar
fnett were the only officers OF Picketts
division who went into that battle
mounted He himself gave Colonel
Lewis 3. Williams, of the First, per-
mission to keep his horse. as he was
too unwell to walk. and after the gen
eral was shot down saw two of his
stan. Captain William o. Fry and Or
derly Walker, still on horseback.)
Meantime. the blazing sun has
reached and passed the meridian, and
the long. painful interval Of suspense
Is swallowed up in the excruciating
1reality. Where the Third and greater
part Of the Seventh lay there was a
Repression In the ridge. exposing them
to the full fury. OF the tempest OF shot
and she'll, which soon came raining
down upon them a faint conception
of it's indescribable horrors may be
gathered from few incidents, of
which retain to this day shudder-
ling recollection.
Eat the sound OF the signal guns r
went to the centre of the regiment in
front OF the flag and sat down upon
pile or blankets resembling a coil Of
rope. but the intolerable heat of the
sun quickly drove me hack to shelter
OF the apple tree under which men and
officers of both regiments were crowd
ed together thick as behring's in a
barrel, where l managed to squeeze In
between Colonies Patton and Callcote
The first shot or two flew harmlessly
over our heads. but soon they began
TO get the range. and then came-well
what General Gibbon, on the other
side. called "pandemonium."
First there was an explosion in the
top OF our. friendly tree. sending a
Shower Of limbs upon US. In n second
there was another, followed by a pierc-
ipS shrek which caused Patton t.
matter. Two killed outright and three
frightfully wounded. he said on his
Return.
Immediately afterward like cry
1came from another apple tree close by
III tuc Oh lle lnlTQ COMPANY II
had suffered terribly; Lieutenant A. p.
Gainess leg was shattered below the
knee. or the Arthur brothers. second
land third lieutenants. one was Killed
land the other badly wounded. Orderly
Sergeant Murray mortally wounded,
and Of the prWates, one killed and
three wounded. Then for more than an
hour 1t went on; nearly every minute
the cry of mortal agony was heard
above tho roar and rumble of the guns.
MEN STAND ,DRAvELY
IN RAIN OF DEATH
i, In his modest book. -Four Years a
Soldier" one who was left for dead
under that first named. apple tree, de-
scrlbes 1t in these feeling words: ''Turn
you where you would, there were to Be
seen at almost every moment of time,
guns, swords. haversacks. human flesh
and bones flying and dangling In the
air or bouncing above the earth. which
was now trembling beneath rs as If
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