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Show corps In Meade's trenches, on the southern slope of Culp's hill, within 150 feet of Meade's line of retreat and close to his reserve parked artillery. ar-tillery. There they slept on their arms, little dreaming how close they were to victory, as they settled set-tled down to a fitful slumber. Pickett's Famous Charge. Could they hold their gains on the morrow and drive throughthe hundred hun-dred paces to triumph? At four o'clock the next morning guns boom one their demand for an answer. The battle is on. Artillery fire blasts their front and rakes their flanks. Musket fire throws a deadly dead-ly leaden hail into them from almost al-most every angle. Their position becomes an inferno. They charge into a blinding sheet of all-arms fire ; they reel back, reform, charge, and are hurled back again. Again they reform and charge once more. At last, almost literally blasted from the field, the bugles sound the mournful notes of the retreat and General Meade holds the ground unchallenged. un-challenged. Pickett's charge will ever live in the minds of men as the climactic episode of Gettysburg; but military men agree that in the menace it held, in the fierceness of the assaults as-saults that were made, in the carnage car-nage that was wrought, the attack made by the men whom Stonewall Jackson had led at Bull Run, Antie-tam, Antie-tam, Fredericksburg, and Chancel-lorsville Chancel-lorsville deserves an equal place In the annals of war. That attack lasted last-ed six hours. Pickett's charge moved out at three o'clock, reached high water mark at 3:20, began its retreat at 3:40,' and was off the field a little after four o'clock. As a military spectacle, that concluding con-cluding act has never been excelled. Its prelude was played by 300 guns, as battery answered battery across the gently rolling fields over which the historic charge was to sweep. "Every position seems to have broken out with guns everywhere, and from Round Top to Cemetery Hill is like a blazing volcano," reported re-ported one officer. "The grand roar of nearly the whole artillery of both armies burst in on the silence almost al-most as suddenly as the full notes of an organ would fill a church," wrote another. In an hour and a half the Federals Fed-erals slackened their fire, so that their guns might cool, wrecked batteries bat-teries be replaced, and the atmosphere at-mosphere allowed to clear. "GETTYSBURG IS PILGRIM GOAL Field of Most Famous Battle in United States. Prepared by National Graphic SocletT. Washington. D. o. " EVERY summer thousands or Americans make the pilgrimage to Gettysburg, famous American battle field and locale of one of the most famous speeches ever deliveredAbraham deliv-eredAbraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Gettys-burg address. At Gettysburg, during the first three davs of July, 1SG3, the course of American history, if not indeed the trend of world destiny, trembled trem-bled in the balance. Here American Ameri-can courage and valor reached a high-water mark; here the hopes of the Confederacy attained their flood stage and began the ebb that ended at Appomattox. As one motors along the avenues that mark the battle lines, now puusing in reverence before this and that monument erected on the field; now visiting the earthworks of a famous corps, division, or brigade; now climbing one or another of the five steel observation towers , for a broader sweep of the terrain, he understands un-derstands why this Is the most widely known of all the battle fields of America, attracting more than 800,000 visitors annually. Never did any commander face his problem under greater difficulties difficul-ties than did Gen. George Gordon Meade. At three o'clock on the morning of June 28, less than SO hours before the great battle opened, he was awakened in his tent at the headquarters of the Fifth corps, which he had been commanding. command-ing. An officer from Washington announced that he had come bringing bring-ing trouble. Later, in a letter to his wife, Meade confessed that he thought the officer had come to relieve re-lieve him of his command or to arrest ar-rest him ; but his conscience was clear. And trouble it was that the officer offi-cer brought, though of a vastly different dif-ferent kind. He delivered an order or-der from the War department directing di-recting General Meade to take command com-mand of the Army of the Potomac, concentrate its .scattered forces, break the hold of the Army of Northern Virginia on the Susquehanna, Susque-hanna, protect Baltimore and Wash- Forty-two Confederate regiments move out. Pickett leads them, with his own division in the center. The charge begins with the precision of dress parade. A murmur of admiration admira-tion sweeps the Union line. And then its artillery opens again with every ounce of its reinforced power. Presently torn by shot and shell the charging host comes within rifle range. They press on. They are within 150 yards of their goal, facing fac-ing death in a thousand forms. End of the Bloody Fight. Pickett's men melt like snow on a hot day, but a second and a third wave sweeps on. They face double canister at ten paces, but they si- lence the guns that fire them. Into Webb's rifle pits they leap and over the barricade. Armistead and his men vault over the stone wall. He falls mortally wounded. The momentum mo-mentum of the charge wanes and. dies. Raked with fire and cross-fire, there is nothing to do but fall back! But they return across the sanguinary sanguin-ary field In such fashion that the repulse re-pulse does not become a rout. Out of the 4.S00 men of Pickett's division, divi-sion, Cot more than 1,000 return. Of the 15 field officers and four generals, gen-erals, only Pickett and one lieutenant lieuten-ant colonel escape unscathed. The Battle of Gettysburg is ended. end-ed. As one walks over the scene and tries to ' measure the courage of the men who fought here, he conies to understand why there is pride in every American heart that the battle field is now a military mili-tary park, and that it was dedicated in immortal words by Abraham Lincoln. Lin-coln. The fine generosity of the Federal government, that knows no North and no South in the marking of these hallowed acres, cements in the firmest bonds of history the sons and daughters of those whose bravery and courage made the field the sacred spot it Is. First established by the Gettysburg Gettys-burg Battle Field Memorial association associa-tion in 1S04, taken over by the gov- n7e2Vn 1S95' more l,uatelv marked by the Gettysburg National Park commission, the park now consists con-sists of 2,530 acres of government-owned government-owned land. It has 22 miles of avenues, in addition to the slate and county highways that traverse ":,," t,,ere are 83 statues, in addition to nearly 800 other nionu-nt8 nionu-nt8 Thee are also-1,410 hrX and iron tablets and 323 granite markers on pedestals, while 410 mounted cannon, caissons and 11m- sr t,,e n,'iuw-v iw",t,n f As n roeent army report declares : buJ'? f" W" SflU' t,,:,t P"V8-buR P"V8-buR was In n measure the Ann rl-jn rl-jn soldle, s hame, . ba.Uo of n'e K a struggle of American an "I':' ('m"nK, of "inline and te;,clty, of b and unselfish devotion, ,,,-Ust ,,,-Ust of Anienean manhood." They Fought at Gettysburg. ington, bring the invaders to battle, and cause them to retreat to their ovi n soil. General Lee, too, was 'in straits. Stuart's dash around Hooker's army had deprived the Southern leader of the only eyes an army could have before dirigibles and airplanes came into being. In those three last days of June both commanders were at a disadvantageMeade disad-vantageMeade because he had had thrust upon him a Herculean task and must get his hands on the reins, and Lee because his cavalry was beyond his reach. Two Great Battles. Few visitors who go to Gettysburg realize that there were two battle bat-tle fields In that historic struggle The battle of the first day was fought to the north and west of the town. Not a single federal soldier was left on that field when the fignt ended In mid-afternoon. How complete com-plete was the Confederate victory on that day was disclosed after the war by General Meade, who said that If General Lee had followed and placed his batteries on Culp's hill that evening the federal army would have been forced to withdraw. with-draw. One need only climb the observation observa-tion tower near the site of General Meade s headquarters and from that vantage point view the second bat-tie bat-tie field to appreciate the tremendous tremen-dous price the Confederates were destined to pay on the second and third for their victory of the first For here Nature had provided Gen eral Meade with a veritable citadel ready for fortification, in which to await an attack, and events hnd given the Army of the on time to occnp, this position ami en- i trench Itself. en Here the legions of Lee endenv ored to overpower their gaUant 00s" of many a Virginia battle Ma Here they waded through hlo, I Hie Peach Orchard anTt, e ' y ne a; here they faced the most with erlng blasts that war at II, hn, " could bring upon then 7 struggled for possessio "of no rl Den and the rocky heighu of u Hound Top, where the tZ T on the quick eye of c.ene nMv B anj . the matter of a few mi, T" ihrice victory oludi.,i n the fig,,,- t P (1:'.V. 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