Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-07-03 | Page 6 | Present Day Scenes on the Historic Battle Field at Gettysburg and Colonel Andrew Cowan, Who Led Troops to Victory

PRESENT DAY SCENES ON THE HISTORIC BATTLE FIELD AT GETTYSBURG AND COLONEL ANDREW COWAN, WHO LED TROOPS TO VICTORY. ,. "J 1) - vfiiX-i 3 ft . 'Q 0 ft 2 r. n - 5 tf-Vw v 1 1 rUBL?bnwirt.i"irr tlM monnmtBt to th. Ftrrt N.w Tort b.ttrj of th. SUtb corp which tand. on tho' battleflddof Gtt,burf on the .pot where, on Jul 8. 1863. the b.tUry netPlcketfe (UtUIob of Lontreefe corp. at the crest of 1U majnlH- I J.ent ch.rce. the "high tide of the Coofederecy." the crteU of the clTll war. .,. . . V At tbr f.moo. dump of treee wa. rrpnlsrd the flower of Ua'iarnr. which the Confederate leader had hurled at ye federal centre and which rolled back shattered after prodigies of aJor. The First Hew York battery, which bad such a reat partat Oettyburg, was commanded by Colonel Andrew Cowan, to-daynn honored cltlien of Loutsrllle, Ky. ... h-. h. la thl. rroup of acenea on the Gettyabgrf battle field No. I shows the memorial to the rlrat New York Battery erected by the State on the -not where the battery met Plcketfa rreat charge. Colonel Cowan, who commanded the battery. 1 pointing; oat the dlrec ..r tkw front which Tkketf. dlrlsloo adr.nced. At bU right Profeawr John A. IIlu.ee. of I'enn.ylranla College. In front la Mr. William Marnall Bulltt, of Loulsrllle. Ky, son of a Confederate '- .. ,,.h. ,. , i- ,h. ,h. Near the wire fence In front and to the left of Cowan'. Battery Monnment In No. 2 Is the memorial to the Twentieth Massachusetts regiment, and at the left is the monnment erected by Congress In honor of all the regular army organisatlona taking part In the thr dan battle The ahaft surmounted by a bronae flgnre of Liberty lathe Pennsylvania State Monnment. l , w t , , , . t. - r-.i cr.,.. n b-i- Photograph No. i taken on the battlelleld In October last la of the commllon appointed by Congrea. and State Governor, to arrange for the fiftieth anniversary of the battle. Oeoeral Sickle I. seated In wntre of the group General Horatio C King ci Brooklyn. .oi. at the right of General Blcklee. next to him being Colonel Cowan. Among other. In the group are United States Senator. Heyburn and Olive. Governor JVUIson, of Kentucky, and General Grant, who commanded the Hrst Vermont brigade of toe Blxtt (V tk sxtreme left ta General Law. who commanded on Longarreet'a right the second day of the battle and nearly got posaesalon of Little Kmind Top. ... ... , ... . . ,K. . ... .. , M ta eeenthe -High Water Mart" Monument, surmounted by an open book of bronae. on which the namea of aU the federal organlzatlona that took part In the repulse of Ixugs treat's aaaaolt are laacnhed en eae ef Ue pages god tha names of ail the Coafed- aea arranlsatlona on the opposite page. The background Is the famnue copse of trees. , - . . The eld time -ambrotjpe" ei Golonej Oowan waa taken ka Wiahington la January, 1888. after the rernrn of the batteries ef the Sixth Corps from the Shenandoah Valley campaign. . .