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PORTLAND DAILY PRESSPORTLAND, MAINE, WEDNESDAY MOKNINU, OCTOBER 9, 18S9-SUPPLEMENT.ESTABLISHED JUNE 23, 1862-VOL. 28.PRICE 86 A YEAR IN ADVANCE., of the ®ove®“‘0°unt ®f reglmo»t ‘n •“flgnt Inlho Peach Orchard^^ddown woods In front, Is the story 0f some most gallant fighting done iu the bat-“will be published toon In this paper.Seventeenth Maine.explained btprostrate. The dead and wounded clog thebS’BiSiKilS'ft. ».'• 25sr£of the enemy had not been ^eMMivere.^ • Imdnot1 ImnSiSSfl? gxln a ■£» fo£t of•pro’pcJ iiohad. moroover. for some time experienced the effect of a fitful tai mysterious fire : ■ . ■'■.. 1 n. ■ ■i wlt; hi;, th with Coalmu u.. woo lei been detailed as sklrmlaben to extend the left. .. r. r ■■ •SsrK.part of the fight. “General Grant has saidffJSKSSSWEt of appropriate designwitnsagas?SSu.MI{,sdesired to complete it,ITAXany I. who tramped arei imbedded In louses, and wl ng processions ; interest, outcSttorJ ol the Dedieatioa of the lonn-meats Erected By the State.The Sixteenth Maine belonged to Pi Brigade of Robinson's Division of ReyncSffiSSR-uausw xI.. A' W;,-. In . .... ..June for White Oak Churn-. ,n V;:-,Into, l!:e l.;;vhh:,,u,ck They i lb;,' U '! Hi i-ti V.- M:,h. V. ■Orange and Alexandria railroad to Cer•TTVT. iiic ... : , - . ■of tbe afternoon of Jnne27tb. The armlih- I',;,,,,;;,,- !.;111 t!.• ■ n i-A a. i ;■■ t;..i h; ; : .atelj after bi ing withdrawn from picket, Smei. In..in the 1 u tort forced ^mi! il - ■. I ' ■men went at least thirty miles; and at lt;Pennsylvania. arriving at Emmettsl about 4 o’clock that afternoon, tbe 28tV ;..T; T't'-:'AAAA,occupied by IThe assault was most desperate; if auc--i;,i it «..uhi , i1ivctlj across t e^:;,aa'aaaa;aa.Bi bei toon at baj; at Its angle It dlao m i rted the attempts of Anderson; but Kershaw ah.l N, ; i. I, it I’.1 ■ • li tile Fifth Ci tf$ de rrobi land's brigadi pushing ahead in■ hi iih-th.n vmi . Ah.;.-. :Tour of the Maine Veterans Over Great Battlefield.gESSKsiS'SSS‘VtsTttiiziw;itSbWttffVt. .s|.ni!,yivai.i.i. Freaergks-iSSSi I® ■ sanates#b irse’s head! lac mtplouooa In•..'IM hh.in liih \\ iihinw. i.f nj '.a''.;Vinm-.r.''tog tho^terriblocannonade precedl terrors oHhat Julyjilght 30 yeaw nthe presence of a brave and vlgllan crack of rifle and the singing buUet; preparing to fire.Addresses ol Generals Chamberlain, Conner and Smith.July*□near, umne nuu mq11 their swi rda aafM maintaining Its place. deVest*'i a U worse, and* tl expedient, the cold stpartially snceesaful, andi-A'uraa’T'.1;’the withdrawal of Ward's•a 11.11.x,, n.hlnl. ...........tance to the Devil’s Den. a most remarkablethe northwest side. An ancient would have explained the collection of tremendous bowlders In this amphitheatre on the suppositionssn oks In Penasy Ivauhi and hurled them down. ■„ A. \ ^sjSMjtfrss. “..srsteps,i*tr. ,•3BKS'(luie.ut arrived on th ^ Km r.;a i. remained at Emmetsbnrg; morning of Ju|jr lat, getting■ naaiai ithrough' ■ !l H l!. They stood • And offered lb They did theCharles W. I. CliffordComrades and Fellow-Citizens:Sf,1 ,1 I,I.I been described ofl and Confederate1 splendid r comradesyears ago have given to t descriptions of what they*pllslied foreign results of his It, fought, and. swallowed up in the gray main 1 B turn; they flv. And from yonder wall,3s3*,,S£r?“'‘r hundred pursuers, mostly from thetenanl . Hgk of the Forty-seventh, vend lioe officers. Fifty dead of the wmiml.-da great battle Is a great kill-e a battlefield and battle so d be both useless and pre-is enough to say that the re miles around Gettysburg, he battle was fought. Is asufficiently n Maine.SitAAA;^bo deStded^ ^omto Round’ Chamberlain and his devoted folk Itself-ye.I.' a monumented montiA ,MamotMnxi tobeautiful granite shaft, surmounted by Greek cross of tbe Sixth Corps, and ha, the Inscriptions:■fUBBflg'-■Mxtl, i:..rpx.t 'issm*Fifth Maine.from the Sixth. Here Col. Clark ». Ed wa delivered an address, Rev. George Blcknell an oration, and Mrs, Helen Packard a poem. Colonel Edward's addiil w.iitom, i ■! n rei i on the second days5ESSua“tOpositions it charming to the It tbe Con-profitableWhat does Ine Cavalry(11 ........... spoke i.rieilyof the P...-I-tbe^company adJoSnedDto°^Round Tod’aln monument with this Inscription:I,,.'..-;'.:. ■ i;. i'l3o1fIirisoueraT'Se rerinwnt'losV138 a mortally wounded, and 08 wounded, oDumeU, erected by Uio survivors of tbe , A D. 1888, marks very nearly the spot e colors stood.i other side, around tbe Maltese Cross inscribedWashington, Daltlmoradelphia,sS^S'lir,;SS3S|j■II..- I-:: ■ L Ofhaste to UTs ^tomllty.^nnd the field w^alUstlr^wltb^ Division Commander, Gei.V ;■ ; i-'Lbattle,*wereWwn^ijhrongbthe t! wn t' a refuge on Cemetery Ridge; that on thewith a disconnected line thrown out to toe Eramettaburg Bi ad and P«aeh Orchard, there turning at m aril a'tuatt e battle nl tbto day consisted Inthi drlvli ■ In ol this angular line (Sickle’s) In i great battle lat* in the afternoon, and In atUna , m. ,.... i like an Immouc fish hook, tin bend lying on Culps and Cemeterj bUh amfeu?With These loading facts thoroughly underat the reader will be able to anderstom- , .it ’1 •' 1 Tir Main- it A■ 111. o' -' . . - l - '■- I-:... . !i. ime pn phetlc ton iBgenm, anxidne f r th*(Htttoci BaMwia wMabnanawn i ,1s hUtoric field twenty-six year* ago.;o outline tlM history of tbe regiment, srned-ln which It paiilclpated-aodr'nrr.^f a Paw prrnn mhlaih awaad Hng at: u i mereached tho enemy -1 'K Company, belt id Capt. Waldmn ““htahem1- T‘ After flgWtog hetogetherfmn • mStation,plaoatlonI. Tilden. Ool. Tilt e strength of the ene :’ in fr .1,1?“poritlon^Tben C 11 T,i.!.‘n torntog* and immediately galt; position.to Its advance on BoondTop vrith tho other: 1; . • .1, I A :;: ■ : ■SwSas;!passed under the shoulder of tbe hill on Its i aab m slda, nntil N tm had the pelat whan Col. Vincent had directed It to form. In or- '.“.rrgoS? e,Si 'SSS, «S£ “pCU;. %'sztfiss s; 'a xnss %soma re.sou, the Slxteantl, Mlchlg.n mssavitiI-.. I.;.:the battle o! the third day.’the afternoon was IndaeiaTve • was p , mltted to occ ipy RdSi i mdBrigade20th returnedtnd deprived -f the llluatratlon, • place and the occasion liuve giventanlt;aifl|l!7'wbmltWna^Md! when It orosaed the Potomac,, Col meto ofagreed-- , i t :d by tbe two i-,A.'t ri.'i.ithe . xtn me 1...had just been wounded, and took command of the Seventeenth he wei the field, but he was nSSttKiS’a:.Wi'utivntli: tin- tiTH.p.fron'Tat'tbo “Loop'and.-'.vha ;.ATaTV :i,, 1.' . -'''.promptly islngledout to charge thee formed fur the ta-k, vrd Urn following I in. tiiw II il r i Vi- on. II,,.,Third Maine.Driving back along the Hanover road and through the town, the party drove up Ceme-etery Hill, and through tbe National Cemetery, where lie tbe 3587 Union soldiers who fell in the battle and sleep on the field. After listening to explanations of tbe battlefield from Major Long, of Gettysburg, the car-Malvern Util Tbe enemy was repulsed ■. though our loss w« At Harriaon'*Laa, me, reeMtialag tbm m wi re tian steeredground, ii,o„l Hi,I :»i”T,r;.vrspsrs:lsy ..... They w.-io waMti• ■ adt tbereee Tteemfus-- ■Pith bronze and - tat le of the simpler•wounded ootenda wei it tho supply. Twenty ITwentieth to prevent Ita, largely superior force ouptentlon of the enemy, wno fired a ley In our direction. The Reservei (blundering around In the darknes time, and It to not strange that tl to think they had marched»Ke5»jasassfaisfi®, nemj and disappeared.Apprehending that the rebels nto the lower gr :. Inearlto the Peach Orchard. Along this the Peach Orchard is approach! mcnts are very plentiful, for here Sickles’s men fought the great batt Second Day. The Teach Orchard I orchard yet, ana the southwest si closed by an old Virginia fence, as day the Third Maine lormedbehlnssnasEI . ,'»»l!!,'l-:»-i,,! until .1 arrive town, south of tho Potomac, July It had au important skirmish, proti flank of our oolumn- The next d itt MiepardstowD, Ibattl4litk,wM °ever°^engaged’hL**' terminated the Gettysburg munpalSgSSBSWSWXSHut III !■•. nil-- - • 11 lt;I, wall III,. f..r,.)lapponrod In Uli.u in h't ! Iiv i-ion' (nibKSiwMprtt11Sel.0,CB.lrdDweey.f°ssed nelglibur. Whatever Forty-seventh Alabama, n of Its effect on the Tv»opposite toMngMri, ompcnjtcelilu lula most deadly cr m lor eompnny. from this direct1 ■1 across the beautiful field i Peach Orchard^ ^ Th|SS»“«I tbe Inscriptions:ss? Iiy supplied with amtnuulin a,I van. . I ,■ u-i.b-i.i ■■position, wbera tiw» mmrelieved,i t Ma i ...ili^was engaged’ | jtortti^^^o grw^iiglorkmath™ysheds glory enough. It Is also• . • : ; - !■: bailie ' a; u-ai, pi at..,i.sas.'ssr*mt rode to tho old Semlnaiwsaknew at lt;npe i ...;li,-l. lie the prisoners ■i'i! a!ilr '■ 'i ;e ■batteries, too j;-e; -,:i Fifth charge.!; i plain near i lie I• loll.,w MU d..r before. ,h;’W“ ’BSS3*'the place occupied by Battery on the FirstWtS. SB KSBcaptured by Company E. | the heights In tSquare. Straightening 0 ore, the enemy broughttxlne, ourregiment I
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