Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1922-09-21

battle against each other; for this wa!
the home of James Gettys, the frs
settler on the site of the future towr
of Gettysburg.
The storm gradually passed away
and the next morning the sky was
clear and the travellers would have
pursued their journey, but Mr.. Gettys
advised them to wait day or two, fol
he said the road might be impossible
in some places, and the streams they
would have to ford would be very
much swollen by the heavy rain.
"You fellows" he said to Johann
and the Indians, take your guns and
go on a hunt today. Well take care
of your women meanwhile"
The Indian hunters agreed to go but
the Sachem said that he would remain
with the captives, and Johann and
Dannie should also stay with them.
They passed the morning about the
house, Johann and Dannie taking their
guns and getting several squirrels in
the forest nearby.
Later in the day Mr.. Gettys said he
would show them some remarkable
rocks not very far away, and they
started, going along the edge of his
clearing and into the forest beyond Mr..
Gettys and the Sachem leading and
Dannie and Marie following the rest,
sweet vision of innocence and love
advancing over ground that was to
tremble in the far future to the tramp
of charging regiments and the rumble
of rushing batteries; to be strewn with
the wounded and lifeless bodies of
thousands, and finally to be covered
with long lines of tablets, marking the
graves of those who fell in the dire
conflict.
At last they came to the hills that
were to figure so prominently in the
sanguinary combat, and then to the
rocks.
"Come around this way" said Mr..
Gettys, "and we'll get right in among
them"
Following his lead they found them
selves in a narrow and winding de-
file, bordered and shut in by immense
crags and boulders, very much like
the den of some wild animal, or the
entrance to some place of subterra
mean horrors.
1--WE call it the 'Wolf's Den,'" said
their guide. Tracked big wolf to
it one time, and had hard work to get
him out"
1t was to be renamed later the "Dev
lis Den."
ooh Dannie," said Marie, "there
might be a wolf hiding in here now!"
"Good place for man hide" remark
ed the Sachem. "Shoot all right"
Climbing up the adjacent rocks the
Indian stood erect on the bluff now
crowned by the bronze statue of Cen
eral Warren, and looked over the ex-
panse below, partly covered with for
est and brushwood, his tall form and
commanding aspect seeming to claim
lordship over it, and his keen eye row.
ing from point to point, and apparent
ly noting the possibilities of the land
scape as he exclaimed to the others
who had followed him, Great place
for fight! Pale-face not fight Injun
now but maybe fight other pale-face
sometime"
Returning to the house towards E.
vening, after taking drink from the
spring whose waters, still flowing,
gave a cooling draught to many a
wounded soldier of both armies dur
ing the progress of the great battle
now known as Spangler's Spring, they
found that the hunters had brought in
some game, which they shared with
their kind host, and all spent a pleas
ant evening in his log cabin.
The next morning they made an
carly start and the horses being fresh
after their days rest, they made good
progress. Some of the streams they
had to cross were still high, but they
found fords which did not give them
much trouble. AS they advanced,
German settlers began to predominate
instead of the Scotch-Irish farther
back and Johann was glad to exchange
greetings with them in his native
language.
"We soon come near my friends" he
told Dannie, "but / visit them not till
l 60 back"
Journeying on through York county,
which had been separated from Lam
caster county only ten years before,
and had been chiefly occupied by the
Susquehanna or Delaware Indians pre-
vious to it's settlement by English,
Irish and Germans, the last named
soon outnumbering the others, they
crossed the Codorus creek and came to
Yorktown, which had been laid out
about eighteen years before.
Marie knew not that her birthplace
was only few miles distant, as her
parents had resided in the Conewago
district before their removal to Mary
land, and she was born there.
Although York was only small
town it seemed large to Marie and
-Dannie, who had never seen so many
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