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Picturesque n View nm Is to be Had fromAny Point In Pennsylvania*The spires of Emmetts ours, Maryland, ten milesaway, are plainly risible. One can see into twoStates and live counties by an easy view fromRound Top. This looming the sky was clear andthe sun shone brightly upon the blue haze, which, In its appearance upon the far away gentle uplands and downs, was similar to a Vista of the fretted waters of the deep. One cau gaze in every direction as far as the eye can reach from tlds elevation. The sight is complete and unsurpassed in grandeur and picturesqueness. On both Round Top and Little Round Top are huge bowlders of dark gray granite. Many are of the most fantastic shape, and some beetle and menace as if they would fall upon and reduce one to a pulp in an instant. The stone breastworks of the Union soldiers on this mountain are the same as tne.v were the days of the battle. At a wild point among these bowlders is a little marble tombstone which marks the spot wheie fell General Strong Vincent of the first division ot the Third Corps. Little granite and marble stones can be seen at many points over the held to indicate the place where some gallant fellow went down. I walked over the blood-sodaen ground where l’ickeft made his famous charge. He made a bold move toward Hancock's line with a force of 18,000 men, mostly Virginia veteians. 'I he Union batteries opened their r«*d throats and spat forth flame ami ball that mowed the Confederates down like grass. Undaunted, they closed up the line and continuedthe charge. When within 800 feet, Hancock's line, which had reserved its fire, now poured out a terrible shower of leaden hail. The halls felled the advancing hosts like a monstrous sickle of mortality. Confusion seized the Pickett veterans, and they tied in wild disorder. Twelve thousand of the eighteen lay upon the held dead or wounded. It was in giving the order to tiro on this trying occasion that
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Boston Sunday Globe
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Sun, Oct 30, 1881
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