St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 29, 1913

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Ss : x et § Re: * PS Near 4 $33 - ts nt, cadiiemiihdh canoe eee: —peneet wee A Oe EE 8 Ue et NCE me Spee) HD ee hc i ced — pat ia ket Real SeES Bianca's, iV OL. 65. NO. 313. THE BATTLE OF CETTYSBUR — i Great Three Days’ Struggle in Which the Con federacy Reached Its High Tide of Glory and Then a Its Ebb to Disas -_ For the First Time, the Army of the Potomac Had a Compe- tent Leader in Gen. George Gordon Meade, and Gen. Lee’s Contempt for It, Founded on Frequent Vic- tories Over It, Was Rebuked by the Decimation of the. Flower of His Forces. By GEORGE W. HOSMER, M. D. (Of the New York World Editorial Staff, Whe Was With the Union Forces at Gettysburg, as a War Correspondent.) N this day fifty years ago a hostile army ot O 70,000 veteran soldiers, commanded by a great general, was in Pennsylvania—near to the capital of that State—50 miles northwest of Baltimore; and there was a sudden fear in mary great cities and consternation in all the country. All men knew that this invasion repre- sented the confiuence of the Confederate com- mander in hie power te conquer peace by win- ning in the North a sreat battle, the price of which would be the dissolution of the Union and the recognition of the independence of the Con- fedcracy. That was the meaning of his presence in Pennsylvania. Only the Army of the Potomac could come be- tween the country and that bad consequence. Between these two armies there was to be hard fighting, and it began in the forenoon of July 1 out on the pretty country roads to the rorthwest of the town of Gettysburg. Gen. Lee, assuming that he was nearly alone in Pennsyl- vania, and knowing that he was in a land full of fat cattle and good horses, had his forces much scattered for the most practical reasons; but when he heard that the Army of the Potomac was near he sent urgent orders to all his divi- sions to concentrate at Gettysburg—for some were to the east, some to the north and some to the west of that town. On that day the Army of the Potomac was moving to the northward—the First Corps in advance and near to Gettysburg, the cavalry in front. Gen. Buford of the First Cavalry Division had been sent forward “to find the enemy,” and he had done it. It was not very difficult. He found them coming down the roads from Cashtown, Mummasburg and several other places, and .there were plenty of them... He. was well supplied with cannon and the’ ‘nolse of his welcome was heard far and wide in all that part of Pennsylvania, and he stood in the way. In the simple words of the song’ of 1815: “Here was old Kentucky.” | On the same day in the bright and pleasant summer weather—not very hot—the Twelfth Corps, far to the south of Gettysburg, was mak- ing its easy way toward some uncertain destina- tion which could not be named, as there was no prophet in the party, but which proved to be the heights just south of Gettysburg; a piece of ground that was to be dedicated to history as one more of the notable spots where men have killed one another on a grand scale. Gen. Slocum was the commander. Other Generals were Alpheus Williams, Thomas H. Ruger, George 8. Greene, John W. Geary, afterward Governor of Pennsyl- vanta—all splendid fellows, and I was in that very good company. Marshal Foix was so sure of himself and his comrades on the way to Waterloo that they marched “without fear and without hope”’—with- out fear of the enemy, without hope as to the future of France. In this little company they were equally without fear, but not without hope —yet the hope was not so dazzling as to be- wilder any one. Hope had fooled them so many times that they were weary, and just now one more commander of the army had been sacrificed to the infernal gods, and they were to try a new man, and to do it with the assistance of the enemy. They had every sort of courage except the sort that can make men sanguine in_ such circumstances. So it was on nearly all the roads coming up from the south on that summer day. Everybody Spoke Well of Meade, bat Nobody Was Enthusiastic HEY talked much about the change of com- mandera. Nobody there cared much for Hooker. Some hated him. Two things against him seemed to rankle—the sudden col- lapee after Chancellorsville of a,campaign beau- tifully begun, and that oollapse produced only by the failure of a corps that was not thought to be the most precious part of the army. The other thought seemed to involve disgrace—that Stone- wall Jackson had made a flank march half way around our army and never a finger lifted to stop him till he reached the end of his march. But there was a sentiment in favor of Hooker when any one thought of Halleck. How would you like to command an army while tied to the apron strings of your querellous grandmother, whe understands that she has been born to find fault if fault can be imagined on any occasion. ‘There was much wonder whether the telegraph connecting the military part of the war with Ad- ministrative functionaries was not necessarily a detriment to the army. For Meade everybody had a good word and no- bedy an enthusiastic word. Yet that modest sol- dier was to win the greatest open battle of the war against the enemy's greatest commander. But nobody made him ridiculous, as they ha! made McClellan, by calling him a Little Napoleon. And presently as we went on we came to a place where the air vibrated In response to the voice of perpetual artillery, and I left the com- pany and went forward te see what was up. So T came to Gettysburg and met that queer pro- cession that one always meets on the safe side of a populous place when there is a battle on the other side—-the frightened people — men, women and children, seeking safety and carrying that queer junk and broken ends of utility onc er fellows out on the country ford Wis. Heth’s and Pender's army were there. They had Chambersburg region and were ford was making it difficult. ‘keeping the dominating "vil nie fi uh ost ‘ io 1) it y iy ~ Ml ii me and artillery was doing it like a gallant Reynolds came up in a hurry with the First Corps, and then there was a battle. Reynolds of infantry, the First and the Eleventh. The Eleventh was behind and he did what he could the enemy’s brigades. He had on his hands at first only Heth’s division. Then came in Pen- corps, which had been to the north and east. Reynolds held the enemy until the Eleventh cCme in on his right. And now came a calamity. Reynolds was shot in the head and killed in- This was at 11 o’clock. Howard Becomes Commander OWARD with the Eleventh Corps, coming through Gettysburg, had halted his corps and surveyed the field, not knowing what had happened. But he studied the ground and he had as was on the cards the region in which the First Corps was fighting would be ultimately untenable Gettysbure—the Cemetery Ridge. Descending, he formed on that ground the Second Division with three batteries. He was then informed of the loss of Reynolds. This made him Commanier Cemetery Ridge, but sent to the assistance of the First Corps, now commanded by Doubleday, the commanded by Gen. Schurz. The Third Division was Barlow’s... Alimthis. put our battle out of Gen. Schurz’s command was formed with its left toward Doubleiay on the Mummasburg road, Creek, and when Ewell put in all his force he sent a brigade between Doubleday and Schurs, he caught Schurz’s line on the flank, and the case looked helpless for us. Barlow went down. Many line was in very bad shape, Schurz sent peremptory orders for Von Steitn- Steinwehr, who was a professional soldier, could see from his standpoint more than could be seen vance would only sacrifice one more division in a hopeless fight, and perhaps sacrifice the position tle. He went to Howard, who was:nearby, and asked what he should do. I happened to be there the case. He was ordered to stay where he was. If another order had been given Gordon’s divi- half an hour and the First Corps would have béen isolated and destroyed that day. splendid fellows of the First Corps and the cav- alry skilfully handled by Doubleday, Wadsworth noon to Cemetery Ridge, and there a strong de- fensive line was formed with Von Steinwehr in left; batteries in position and the cavalry out on the plain to the left. ee, . the Position on Cemetery Ridge ANCOCK came on the ground about 6 o’clook, and had sent him forward to command on the field. Howard, who was his senior, did not too big to permit a question of etiquette to in- terfere with duty and they agreed on all that I had witnessed the circumstance in which Howard had fixed the fact that we should hold finally fought it and on which he had fixed his headquarters during the hours in which he com- the exuberant Hance k about three hours later deliver an ‘enthusit jc opinion on the same of a declaration that he position “had no flanks” And certainly at the first view it did look that them, but they were flanks that were very dis- couraging for him and very good for us, and that. It was dekumnsting to find the opinion of our on this subject. Ewell came and looked us over and wisely let us alone. He, in’ the afternoon, ready to seise the ground then held only by Von Steinwehr, and his heart was broken when he a ghastly mockery to him when some hours later Lee, having seen the ground, ordered him to “ad- that time it was impracticable. Finally our position was developed from that ground, the Second Corps as it came up forming on the left of the serve behind the Third, toward Round Top, and with the Twelfth Corps on Culp’s Hill, our ex- enemy was to find “ringed with fire" Alto- gether we occupied an extemporised Gibraltar, gentleman. had the command of our left wing with two corps with the First, and used very badly several of der’s division, and then began to come in Ewell’s Corps was near and he sent orders for it to stantly by one of the enemy’s sharpshooters. of Federal Forces in Field H there and gone to the top of a high house the coup @’oeil. He saw that for such a battle and saw the advantage of the ground behind of his corps, commanded by Gen. von Steinwebhr, on the Field and he made his headquarters on First and Third Divisions of the Eleventh Corps, joint. but not connecting, and his right near Rock and as Gordon came in on Ewell’s extreme left men were killed and wounded, and the whole wehr to reinforce him with his division, but Von on the field, and could see that for him to ad- he held—the key of the whole scheme of the bat- when he came. It was not necessary to argue sion of the enemy would have had that height in Schurz's men became mere fugitives, but the and Buford fought their way through the after- the center’and the First Corps on the right and Hancock Approves the Choice of for Meade had heard all that had happened receive him with open arms, but they were both should be done. for the impending battle the ground on which we manded the army, and it was pleasant to hear peint. His judgment assumed the practical form way. Yet it had flanks, and the enemy found the magnificent — may have intended to say two generals confirmed by the enemy’s anxiety had had Gordon's, Hay’s and Dole’s brigades was stopped by Lee’s peremptory order. It was vanee and oocupy the heights if practicable.” At nucleus, and the line trailed away te the left, First, the Third on the Second, the Fifth-mn re- treme right, itself “a looming bastion,” which the and the wpen field before our left front, giving a vast field of fire to all our batteries, was ite ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY ‘MORNING, . JUNE 29, 1913. —— Gettysburg has been chosen for the publication by Charles Scribner’s Sons of “The Life and Letters of Gen. George Gor- don Meade,” the hero of that great battle. The work is in two massive and beautifully- printed volumes, prepared largely by the General's son, Capt, George Meade, and fin- ished by the‘latter's son, George Gordon Meade. As a biography, it is intensely interesting, for Meade was a great soldier, who served his country brilliantly for a long period. But that part of the present work that will appeal most tensely to the reader today is made up of his letters to his wife, immediately before and immediately after the battle of Gettys- burg. June 29, the day following his appointment to command, he wrote: Tells of His Appointment. 66 |" has pleased Almighty God to place me 4 Fiftieth anniversary of the battle of in the trying’ position that for some time past we have been talking about. Yesterday morning, at 3 a. m., | was aroused from my sleep by an officer from Washingtou entering my tent and, after waking me, saying he had come to give me trouble. At first, I thought it was either to relieve or arrest me, and promptly replied to him that my con- science was clear, void of offense towards any man; I was prepared for his bad news. He then handed me a communication to read; which I found was an order relleving Hooker from the cOmmand and assigning me to it. As, dearest, you know how reluctant we both have been to see me placed in this position and as it appears God's will for some good purpose—at any rate, as a soldier, I had noth- ‘ing to do but accept and exert my utmost abilities to command success. * * “4 Grand Battle,” He Writes. WoO days later, the armies locked in bat- 2% tle embrace and struggled for three great days. On July 6, Meade wrote, to his wife: “Tt was a grand battle, and is tn my judg- ment a most decided victory, though I did not annihilate or bag the Confederate Army. This morning they retired in great haste in- to the mountains, leaving their dead unburied and their wounded on the field. They awaited one day, expecting that, flushed with success, I would attack them, when they would play their old game of shooting us from behind breastworks—a game we played this time to their entire satisfaction. “The men behaved splendidly: I really think they are becoming soldiers. They endured long marches, short rations, and stood one of the most terrific cannonadings I ever witnes- sed. e e ° “The army is in the highest spirits, and, of course, I am a great man.” July 8, he sent this letter to her: ‘“T see that the papers are making a great deal too much fuss about me. I claim no extraordin- ary merit for this last battle, and would pre- fer waiting a little while to see what my |} career is to be before making any preten- sions. : “I did and shall continue to do my duty to the best of my abilities, but, knowing as [ do that battles are often decided by accidents and that no man ef sense will say in advance what their result will be, I wish to be careful in not bragging before the right time © * ® ‘From the time I took command till today, now over ten days, I have not changed my clothes, have not had a regular night’s rest, and many nights not a wink of sleep, and for several days did not even wash my face and hands, no regular food, and all the time in a great state of mental anxiety. Indeed, I think I have lived as much in this time as in the last thirty years. * * ®* In a letter under date of July 10 there is the first intimation of Meade’s sensftiveness to the criticism which had begun to develop in Washington for his failure to follow up his Gettysburg victory with the pursuit and anni- hilitation of Lee’s army. He wrote: Criticisms Begin to Sting. ‘éé ED has never crossed and does not in- ¥ tend to cross the river, and I expect in a few days, if not sooner, again to hazard the fortune of war. I know so well that this is a fortune and that accidents, etc, turn the tide of victory that, until the ques- tion is settled, I cannot but be very anxious. If it should not please Géd again to give suc- cess to our efforts, ‘then I could be more tran- quil. ‘“T also see that my success at Gettysburg has deluded the people and the Government with the idea that I must always be victorious, that Lee is demoralized and disorganized, etza., and other delusions which will not only be dissipated by any reverse that I should meet with, but would react in proportion against me. I have already had a very decided cor- respondence with Gen, Halleck upon this point, he pushing me on, and I informing him I was advancing as fast as I could. The firm stand I took had the result to induce Gen, Halleck to tell me to act according to my judgment.” Four days later he wrote complaining bit- terly of the criticisms directed at him, and explaining the reason for the plan he hada followed: Expected Lee to Fight. ¢ FOUND Lee in a very strong position, tn- ‘trenched. I hesitated to attack him without some examination of the mode of approaching him. I called my corps com- manders together and they voted against at- tacking him. This morning, when I advanced to feel his position and seek for a weak point, I found he had retired in the night and was nearly across the river. I immediately started in pursuit and my cavalry captured two theu- sand prisoners, two guns, several flags and killed Gen. Pettigrew. “On reporting these facts te Gen. Halleck he informed me the President was very much dissatisfied at the escape of Lee. I immed- ‘i a OFFICIAL’ TRAGEDY OF GETTYSBURG’S: HERO AS REVEALED IN HIS LETTERS TO HIS WIFE lately telegraphed I had done my duty to the best of my ability and that the expressed dis- satisfaction of the President I considered un- deserved censure, and asked to be immediate- ly relieved. In reply he said it was not in- tended to censure ma but only to spur me on to an active pursuit, and that it was not deemed sufficient cause for relieving me. This is exactly what I @6xpected; unless I did un- practicable things fault would be found with me. I have ignored the senseless adulation of the public and press and I am now just as indifferent to the censure bestowed without just cause.” And again, on July 16: “My army (men and animals) is exhausted; it wants rest and reorganisation; it has been greatly reduced and weakened by recent oper- ations, and no reinforcements of any practical value have been sent. Yet, in the face of all these facts, well known to them, I am urged, pushed and spurred to attempting to pursue and destroy an army nearly equal to my own, falling back upon its resources and reinforce- ments and increasing its morale daily. This has been the history of all my predecessors, and I clearly saw that in time their fate would be mine. This was the reason Y was disinclined to take the command, and ft is for this reason I would gladly give it up.” The President’s Disappointment. Fike boo this letter there appears in - = cate cai —oO tll tl i i i i a the book a letter from President Lin- coln to Gen. Howard, who had inter- vened with the President in Meade’s behalf after the President had expressed dissatisfac- tion at the failure to crush Lee’s army. The President wrote: “My Dear Gen, Howard: Your letter of the the 10th is received, I was deeply mortified by the escape of Lee across the Potomaa, be- cause the substantial destruction of his army would have ended the war, and because I believed such destruction was perfectly easy —believed that Gen. Meade and his noble army had expended‘all the skill and toil and blood up to the ripe harvest, and then let the crop go to waste. \ “Perhaps my mortification was heightened because I had always believed—making my belief a hobby possibly—that the main rebel army going north of the Potomac could never return if well attended to, and because I was so greatly flattered in this belief by the operations at Gettysburg. A few days hav- ing passed I am now profoundly grateful for what was done, without erfticism for what was not done. Gen. Meade has my confidence as a brave and skilful officer and a true man.” Nevertheless, the President never forgave Meade, and, though he nominated him to a Major Generalship, Meade fought throughout the remainder of the war in the belief that he had been made the objective ef unjust con- demnation. It is the belief of his biograph- ers that the blame that he suffered for the failure to bag Lee’s army and the repeated evidences of the disfavor in which his super- iors held him shortened his life. a a a a ee a a a —_, I ltt titi atl ——— a tees Orders in camp that night were “No fires and no lights,” and they were not obeyed ‘very striot- ly. All the open parts on the ridge south of the cemetery were traversed in various directions by stone walls, stone walls of the usual height and very solidly built. In the angles of these stone walls fellows made fires discreetly. That is, they chose angles in which the walls running either way were between the fires and the enemy, for the enemy's line of fire was over all that space from three directions—from the east, the north and the west—and they kept up & random firing all night. Perhaps they saw some flickering of these fires. But the temptation to make fires was very great, for in a piece of fried bacon and a cup of coffee made at such time there is such a comfort that no man who dines at Delmonico’s has imagination enough to understand. And, be- sides, everybody knew that the Provost Marshal was far away in the rear. Finally there was a feeling that we were pretty well tucked in, and nearly everybody went to sleep, for everybody was tired to death. But some fellows with a pas- sion for making entrenchments were making them all night. But there were thousands of gal- lant fellows lying out on the open region for whom ft was an awful night; splendid boys “looking proudly to heaven from the deathbed of fame.” Lee, in Ewell’s Company, Makes His Plans for Second Day N the morning of July 3 at daylight Gen. Lee and Gen. Ewell rode together around our extreme right and studied the ground there, and Gen Lee's plan for the second day was prebably gone over on that ride for it eontem-, plated as one part of it an attack by Hwell a that place. The other part was the battle in- tended on our left. These were two parts of one conception, for Lee saw that when Meade’s left was assailed, as he intended to assail it, Meade would be compelled to reinforce !t from the divi- sions on his right. Ewell was to have the ad- vantage of the opportunity this would give him. If the attack on the left should be made before Meade bad moved any part of hie force from the right Bwellt attack would _ prevent bts moving f mae , < Realage : re pg i ae ee Pie Desa cases sake Me ~ Ts RANE OBE <a ee a SE ns CEE I AS oles Soe 4 ; SR eee ay, Ses ae bal 2 a, eal heady GETS CREE IS Se SO EE AO EE IRR be 5 ol IE RE TLS ED) Got apa Gi them, and this would help Longstreet. If when Pwell should make his attack Meade had already stripped his right to defend the left, then it would be easy for Ewell to capture and hold the strong. positions on our right—Culp’s Hill and the east- ern face of the Cemetery Ridge. It was a well tmagined plan, but left out of consideration two important factdrs. One was the impossibility of precise co-operation on the part of Lee’s own army; the other was the re- sistano) involved in the fighting quality of the Armr of the Potomac. But for these two things it. would have been a beautiful scheme. Did Gen. Lee count these as parts of the game? Prob- ably not; certainly not the second part, for all Lee's strategy and tactics together show that he regarded with contempt the army that was to beat him. Gen. Lee never learned that in all his previous collisions with this army he had had the benefit of the incapacity with which the army was han- dled. He imagined that all his successes were the fruits of his own genius and the superior prowess of his army, and could not conceive that while. he had whipped several -unsatisfactory commanders he had never whipped the Army of the Potomac. He had smashed it always; what was easier than to smash ft orice more? He was. to see! In that forenoon one little incident just missed becoming of historical importance. In the town of Gettysburg there was an old church with a tall belfry, and as the enemy held that part of the town they had sharpshooters up in that safe place. Perhaps, indeed, the very man who had killed Reynolds was there, with an eye to other generals—one of the fellows who always want big game Cemetery Hill or Ridge was so high that the top of it was very nearly on a level with that belfry, and everybody going from one end of our line to the other came an went that way. It was the grand thoroughfare, and many men who happened to have no press- ing duty lounged about there. To a man in that belfry everybody on Cemetery Ridge was in plain view. It was just as if you should look out of your window and see a man on the house top ever yonder: and as to distance, it was only «6 fair rifle iret “ Fae 5) a each of whom were several officers and orderlies. They were so placed that one had his right sire toward the man in the belfry, the other his left side, and their faces were about three feet apart, and they talked in low tonea. One of these was Gen. Meade, the commander of the army; the other Gen. John Newton, commanter of the First Corps. passed the sharp “sip” of a rifle bullet. They heard it, but they theught it was a chance shot, and went on with their conference. in line with Newton, had seen the shot fired and saw the man who fired it, and the bullet zipped also not far from his face. in the belfry would fire again. Therefore he rode forward and told the Generals how it was, and pointed out the man in the belfry—and they continued thelr conference There was no place on that field where you could | be sure you might not be hit, but it was not worth while to take foolish chances and perhaps change the command of the army once again. marching and counter-marching of the enemy all | Gay had ended in the concentration of a very | heavy force on our left, a heavy force that was | suppesed to be hidden from our sight, but a great part of which was in plain view from Lit- there was known to be tempting to the enemy. Bickies, and the right of that corps should oonnected with the left of the Second Corps, next In line; while the left of the should have reached ; How a Confederate Sharpshooter Missed Bringing Down Big Game the Ridge for several minutes two well mounted officers of the Union+Army, behind Tae noon there met and conferred on And then between these two faces there A AON tN easy But this scribe, about three yards away and He knew that the man = il tt ti ll i ll at another place. | By the afternoon it became apparent that the | — EEE What was not so well seen, and Our left on or near the famous Peach Orchard wae held by the Third Corps, commanded by Gen. have Third as But the line ee a a | F » id Pin. faker eek “A as Ue ee RED TS eee, SO ae eee Me en wing, DR RenG R! APEESR AN aOn s 2 bed Pee ae Sh Sh ithe es an: Sea ak oe alll ial ete ine edie tet ied cei lel ee ae ae fee ee eo ae Oe en te a aaa } } ; ) } } . } ; ; ; = aan naan Re 0-5 - : se Pe PRICE FIVE CENTS. ae ally Described by a Surviving War Correspondent Who Was With Federal Forc — | Pickett’s Charge a Brilliant a Inspiring Spectacle — ver From the Federal Linesp y the Writer Shows How t+ terly Hopeless It Was and That {t Could Not Hav a complished Anything te If It Had Reached Ront Top’s Summit in Force,~ a tlon and its flanks were out im the air. enemy saw this case, one corps of our practically isolated, and that corps held rie - premely important post. If it could be" | from its position Lee saw the easy doubling up our Hne on the left and way . along the slope from Round : Cemetery on the north end of the Ridge, & this he planned the fight at the Peach Ore At 3 o'clock the Confederate 1. out on our left, every battery in that part « field concentrating its fire on our line, ne greater part of it on the hill where the F oor . Orchard was, and upon the line on sity , ah of that position. It was an effective | the Peach Orchard was full of our fr in and near it and beyond it toward the Field our batteries respended to the At & o’clock Hood's 4ivision, the en treme right, advanced against the rer right of the Third Corps line, His orders were to attack our line in his front—that fa,” , it Ae that ran at right angles with the _— road from the Peach Orchard to the ald. and turn its left. As he went ahead hb our line was far stronger than it thought, and he perceived that if he ¢ position of the line at the Wheat would have on his rear whatever force on Round Top. He sent some scouts to look at our force there and found we had ® that he could occupy Round Top save a orders. He sent word to Longstreet to. this, and the answer was te act apres j orders. At this time Hood was wounded and | field and was succeeded by Gen. | we, w went ahead. But he changed his direct by intention. or by the pressure of oe and reached Round Top and went: tle Round Top. He now Bron 4 uncovered; that MacLaws with anot who should have been there, was, patctn He rede to find him, discovered tha he moved and had had no orders to pial M now received orders and went ened, Me opposite the Peach Orchard, and hie i ‘mediately forced all that terriffo fig followed for the Peach Orchard, the behind it and all the ground up. to the Round Top. Both Sides Suffer Terrible — Losses in Round Top F. EANTIME Gen. Warren at the signal 6m — Mi tion on Little Round Top had cor . operation of the right of the Hood § sion; had seén that it could occupy and perceiving how disastrous that would us had acted promptly to prevent it. near, for when the heavy firing had begua seeing what was on foot and knowing our ness at that place, had rushed forward supports; therefore there was in that region all the Fifth Corps, all the Sixth a part of the Second Corps and all the Corps save one division. Warren | brigades of the Fifth Corps—Vincent’s and —and put’ them in on the flank of He o sion, which was doubled up and driven down th hill, But for over an hour more the fightt | Te £0 fierce all along from the foot of Little Roun@® 4 oD to the Emmetsburg road, and gl! the foree had sent forward was in it, and the Third of course, for Anderson's division of Hille going in on the left of MacLaws extended thé a tack beyond the right of the Third ep te th line of the Becond. On all that front th a titanic battle for three hours. As night came on the enemy fell back, but ¢ not retire He had conquered the posit the Peach Orchard and counted that as & tory. In fact his conquering that position rected our line—made it just as it would” been if Meade’s orders had been carried the orders intended that that should be of our line. Our losses were very heavy; of the enemy apparently far greater. He vision lost there 2000 men. Small inciient® * sometimes give a measure of losses. reports that one company of the Second @ Carolina went into the battle with forty’ and at night only four were left to bur others. ay as Finally as everything was over on our Ieft came Ewell's men on the right. This ry 8 o'clock. Was this a want of co-c the part of Lee’s army? In part, was. But there was another reason for lay. Ewell's men, keeping a sharp lookot seen how one command after another rs sent away from our right to reinforce our fi They had seen the division of Aipheus marched away, then Ruger's division and Geary’s that was there; all from Culp’s - and had seen other cemmands marched y | Cemetery Ridge. They played to let that ro 7 and may have theught that at last the march in and occupy undefended it nearly came to that. At 8 o'clock they came itn force. etery Ridge were sent the five ments of Hayes’ brigade and four North Gi lina regiments of Hoke'’s brigade. They ° the thin line fn front, but were much tom, ibe er - ‘ iil ’ iat LE ATE