Show MEADE AND gettysburg pennsylvania renn sylvania has just unveiled tat UCB on the battlefield of 0 gettysburg to lens gens hancock and mcade of the latter the tha mall and express says say gen goo 13 to lo whom the S otate late or of lies lias jut just Kl an equestrian i halco on tile tho battlefield of gettysburg wait not he be genius of the war nar but lie I 1 e vins vias a soldier ot of onit eminent nent ability singularly free front from ill tho 6 petty city fr spirit oc 0 I 1 envy and Jes jealousy louy 11 which it let v wrought a ugh so a much uch ong injury u during the war a r ln S and n as a capable a ot of faithful h ZI obedience it aa I 1 ho was of at cle L nt ono ial ship tile the rue fact 1 eliat I 1 lie I da commanded he army a of athe the potomac Io tomac lii ill the decisive battle of the iho war tho the turning point t of the rebellion rett ellion alit Ul always insul coln for him tin eminent oral nent elphe in american Amet ican Ith tory and lit in tin tile ealom est m of r tho the american popl his 1116 were highly respected ctet by geu grant with will ulion lie ho cordially to co d whon when tho the latter blomo l gheral if tho the national forcha fore had had moro more if eades both in the higher and lower ranks of command tho the record of tho the army of tho the ilomay would riot not have been up of to gettysburg tys burg ono one of almost uninterrupted 1 disaster prom from the far off standpoint ot of a civilian wo we indorse sill all of oc the above except the closing words word it Is true ti that lat gen mcade was a brave earnest patriotic soldier it Is true ito ha was first in com coin baand at gettysburg but it is likewise true that the great creat glory of 0 gettysburg belonged to tho the corps division and brigade commanders first such men le ino ti as reynolds howard doubleday sykes barlow gibbon warren and sickles CB and last cut but first hancock and to the sturdy men in the ranks it was the tha instinct of 0 reynolds that set get the battle in motion where it was fought tou glit ile he WAS quickly killed suid and then howard fought splendidly that losing light against mighty odds odda all tho ilia afternoon until the dust dusk when hancock cattle came up the army of tile the Polo inae nae at tile tho time was a pei feet ly drilled military machine it did not matter what rostion ot of it was struck the enemy was lot one r response oby for or it after setting the battle of lu in rarity there were no displays oc at contus goi lua it nas ada still alin ply a question of e and stub born pluck until ricketts c baige was wan hui hot led back and it was clear LI car that the utmost exertion of the enemy had not only hut but that the enemy itself waa mas shattered as it never had been before it was ahert that Hancoc COck lt orely wounded as 03 lie he west was sent tile he inea inca sago abc to to say eay lit in effect bilat in his judgment the army lusht I 1 to a tako take the arren sivo anti move all along the lite possibly sibly it was wan not good generalship possibly mcadam prudence was waa I 1 the thins thing needed right then but certain it la Is that it was waa a perfect olal sold lOrlY ry in n that moved lanc ck to nond mond that with A hocur intuition I 1 ho be saw paw that thai om gen loos urrey was exhausted huu sited he believed hla his ammunition wax was likewise almost rone gone and that thai with the rot a lew few miles in its rear if 1 lite ui tired army ot of meado mcado would press the attack leo would lie bo forced to surrender wo we suspect that had grant or sheridan hcan con in Ide ados tho suggestion of 0 hancock would h have been carried d out but that does doca not in tho the east ait tako take from meade the perfectly earned arned reputation of a brave accomplished patriotic officer and man mail it wax wa tile awful light of the war con that it had continued through Kli thrpo ellirt o days and the exhaustion 0 f tho the eo soldiers Boll lers must have been exec cleat but then the lh fatiga gutt was waa quite us as great on the side and we suspect that grant or sheridan or sherman She would havo have couil counted ted on that thai fact act and that thai gen con leo iles would not have gotten colten his hl whole command acroca the roto inac safely after that defeat ir if a more as ag STes sive man than gen meade code ha been in coll command imand against him |