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Show f Just History 1 . By Albert F. Philips Sixty years ago today an of th decisive battle of tha Civil war waa fought at Gettysburg, m which 2.000 men in tba Union army overwhelm over-whelm be4 th Confederate fore under General t, which numbered 71.000 men. The battle was a great victory for tba North. Tba Hn of battle. Insofar aa th force of th Union, under command of Genera! Mead had been surveyed by Leon-Ida Leon-Ida Mitchell, who afterward was a -resident of Utah and who waa well known as a mining engineer. On th day tha battle opened. General Gen-eral Meade said to Mitchell, his chief surveyor: "Mitchell, th bat-tie bat-tie will not be fought upon your , line; General Im ha determined where it will be fought." Mitchell, after th war. entered th British service, wa Bent to Kgypt and In a tribal war he wa caputred by th force under th then King John of Abyssinia, carried back Into tha Interior In-terior to Aeaowan and held aa a hoatage for more than a year be- -fore exchange, the only Instance '. where an American ettlaen waa held captive by a Christian king. He died at the soldiers' boms in Los Angeles several year ago-After ago-After tha battle. Meade failed to follow up the victory which hla army achieved and Lincoln, In com- ' piiance with requeat of consreea, removed him and appointed General Grant commander-in-chief. A national cemetery containing IT acres Is located on Cemetery hill on the Gettyaburg field. Particular action on the field fs marked by monuments of which there are 600. The cemetery was dedicated by Llneoln on November It, ISM. at which President Lincoln delivered hiajmmortal speech, which Is regarded re-garded aa the classic of the world. In the cemetery are J grave, 110 of them unknown dead. On the b-ow ot the bill stands a battle monument surmounted by a atatue of liberty with foaaal flgurea ot War, Peace, Hletory and Plenty. |