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Show The Little Girl at Gettysburg. A story that Gen. Hancock told me I recall with distinctness still. It was of an incident at Gettysburg, just before the famous charge. Passing near the outskirts out-skirts of his lines he came upon a child, only 'a half dozen years of age, - and hardly yet old enough to speak plainly. . She somehow had strayed near to the Union pickets, bringing an old nfle heavier heav-ier than she could well carry without showing that she was overburdened. When she saw Gen. Hancock; she held, the load in her arms a little higher and fairly ran into his arms, crying: H "My papa's dead, but here's niy papa s There was something like a, tear in Gen. Hancock's eye as he recited the heroic 1 little incident. "I .never recall that brave chit of a child's offering to our cause," he said, "without feelings of deepest reverence. Her half-lisped words forced a sentiment that was sublime. Hahton in New York Times. |