Show IJ 1 ElvYSII1J1IG rolloniui the rancorous discussion of the fight at Shiloh which discussion produced l pro-duced mote bid blood and huge than cllnl bo quelled in a lifetime without doing do-ing good 1 In nnvonoionicined in it comes the discussion of the alleged error of Ucnuril Su Ivies lommanding the Third Corps of Meades army at Getl > s burg in udvaming his position on the moinlng of July ld bevond that assigned to him his the ordei of Meade Ihe writer was in the Third Corps at the time though unlike the gentlemen who lire now discussing the miller be torn maniled only a buckandball musket jet dislincll remembers the following Btato of alluirs Thin news of Itejnolds ileath and the order to advance readied Sickles at Immcltslmrg on tho night of the lot of July and the corps took up n trot reaching the ground sixteen miles distant at 4 a in of the M Sickles took a position to our left of Cemetery Hill and held it quietly qui-etly till dalight when ho deplocd l tho command by brigades on open 1111111 recently harvested ground l at a distance of two miles from tho timber where tho enemy were massed The Eleventh Mnhsacbnetls to which the writei belonged be-longed with other men were Bent out to feel the front mid advanced horn tho lines fully two miles before drawing this enemies picket fire General JOB II Can now Secietary of State in New York commanded the brigade and rode out to order a check in the great distance I made by tho skirmishers front the bail line and just then the lines were put ill motion and advanced fully a mile and a half after the skirmishers Sickles rode all over the ground and fully informed himself of his position and if an error bad been committed ho ouldluuo l withdrawn long before Lougstrect massed on his front but no error was seen then either by Meado or Sickles The lay was clear and insufferably hot and tho worst punishment the men received that diy was to be compelled to lie in the torching sun from 0 am until 21 pm without changing positional firing a gun only by the skirmishers It is on iciord that when Meado came on the field he thought poorly of Sickles position but hesitated about dunging it until too late and the pic tin e of Unit open ground ul sundown that night will over bo a reproach to Meados generalship general-ship Iorty thonsmd massed men on a front of one mile fell upon the corps which was in ellen order and drove them back tliey lighting and disputing ovory step of the way until they rctreitedtoa position fully two miles from tho slut and where theii flanks were supported Sickles lost his leg in the mov omcnt nml left the field being thus precluded from pioving how ho meant to work and his absence was taken advantage of to cat blame upon his methods That he began the fight and that bis Corps did some of tlm best work on tho I ground no man denies but as it was lie intent of Mcade to retreat to Washington on the evening of tho 2ntl and as it became known ufltrtlievar something was necessary nec-essary to predieite owl a movement and Sickles lIt of advaming bejond his orders was libel out as theianse It is tlio old time low between Regular ami Volunteer Generals and tan ero no good I pui > oso old > indicting pcisonal animosities on tI lie men engaged 1 111111I all of whom cleave to their own 10111 maudeis and judge m liters as they saw them Them I Is no brighter name in thin grand galaxy of military fun thin that of Daniel Ib I Sickles of the Third 0 rrnv Corps CorpsODD |