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•as In j V nwvu fetiW a«*tu^auof (be position was discovered ? It Is a singular fact that Gen. Lea's usual sagacity deserted him on this occasion at Gettysburg. Now, there may be some, who will in their veneration for our favorite General) condemn this expression ml a conviction, bnt that Ehonld not deter any one from doing a duty. There lay thof; rocky side of a mountain crowned with artillery and lined from bottom to summit with mtanie muskets, presenting an impregnable sad dee-tractive front, against wbieh.our army was hurled again and again in perfect madness.— Nothing was equal to the lolly nnless lt was the sublime and unequaled bravery of the Southern sol die . Was that the only way to Baltimore, or was there no other battle field on the wide extent of Pennsylvania?. Was Gen. Lee’s military lore wanting, to discover what was next to be done ? At any rate the strength of the army was spent against those rocky mountain sides, the enemy was driven to his stronghold and stormed at until it was useless to storm any more, then it was withdrawn and nothing accomplished. ’Tis true the enemy was badly cripled and many of his dead and wonnded strewed the ground, bnt what was that when he is left to recruit and come again in fntnre. It is an earnest conviction that be may bave been cut to pieces and totally destroyed If a ground had been selected in which it was possible for an army to do it in equal combat. Every man, it seemed, was de* termined to accomplish this end. Onr officers went forward in a recklessness that astonished even the old veterans that knew what waa true bravery, and the mortality among them has no where been eqnaled in any battle of this dread ful struggle. Hundreds of the best blood of the South flowed, and men went down to rise no more who would have honored any nation ever born; bnt nothing -came of all this. The enemy, in perfect desperation on his own soil, held his ground to the last, and onr army mas forced to leave the ground which Gen Lee had cnoeen to give him battle. ’Twas just as much his choice as that of the enemy, and any time he may have withdrawn. What General ever makes a battle without understanding the ground ? Gen. Lee must have been deceived, and to that extent was greatly culpable. Probably this may cause other correspondents and veneratore of the General to annihilate this exposition, bnt it may go forth in defiance, for onr convictions are honest.1 of 1 des stes VtomunTi130cie.clostmo:ladi and to 3 T Cap boa visi T Cap fror on t witlTponsayiAcamdealnerMidWCDhe imetsee,andgearOniwastlondelitwicHe ihis-cideprolt;» .Tsonday.
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Savannah Republican
Savannah, Georgia, US
Thu, Jul 23, 1863
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