Show at the battle of gettysburg very fey few civilians can rid their minds even when they knew letter better of the idea that anyone any one present at a battle must se 1 the whole or a large part of it or at the least a very large amount of smoke and fighting fi it is marvelous how very little any one individual sees of any one given battle though he may be in the very thick of the fighting or even at the he headquarters of the commander in chief I 1 realized that fully on the present occasion for although standing on one of the most ad advantageous vanta c ous spots to witness a portion of the fight with the valley and town of gettysburg lying below me and the heights beyond in full view I 1 reflected that our line was twelve miles in length of which on even a clear day with no intervening ter figures or smoke I 1 could at least oniey only see about two miles then again I 1 had always supposed as I 1 am sure most other people suppose that the commander in chief always took up a position where field glass in hand ho he could command a view of a large part of the action gen meades headquarters were in a slight depression in a dense wood whence you could see nothing a hundred yards off and yet strange to say en passant secluded as was this spot tho the crebs had ascertained the locality to a nicety and shelled it with such vigor and accuracy that in ten minutes no less than sixteen horses belonging to the staff were killed the officers all escaped unhurt by seating themselves under the friendly shelter of huge bo boulders bowl ders of granite where they laughed and chatted and enjoyed J y 1 ith the e th thing i n as a b big 1 g j joke okee while h i ae t the h a shel shells ln oh shrieked el ke 1 and exploded exploded beyond them frank bellew in new york mail and express |