The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 18, 1886, Page 2

1*, mye | £ £ * correct MEADE ON SICKLES. | —_+ 0-2 0+ —— | Re- How the Commander at Gettysbarg garded the Corps Officer's Acts. eo Philadelpma, Pa.,JAug. 10.—The | following letter, hitherto unpublish- ed, written by General George G. Meade, commander of the army of j the Potomac, in relation to his vic- tory at,Gettysburg, which, with com- } ments by Colonel Benedict of Bur lington, Vt., will be published to morrow, holds General Sickles re- sponsible tor crippling the army of the Potomac, gives the entirely new evidence of General Ewell (Cor erate) in support of the wisdom of the creck order, and explains why Gen- sometimes misconstrued Pipe eral Butterfield, General Hooker’s chief of staff, happened to be retain- ed temporarily by Genera! Meade. Headquarters Military Division of the Atlantic, Philadeiphia, March 16, 1870.—Private G. G. Benedict, Burlington, Vt.—Dear Sir: I receipt of letter of the instant, as also the copies ot the Free Press, with evidence and comments on the address of Colonel Grout be- in 3th am your tore the officers’ society and legisla- ture ot the State. I have caretully read your articles and feel person- under ally great obligations to you column of attack and | Cemetery mdge, when | an order from General Lee direc’ 1 ¢ patel |} him to assume the defensive an a aral to adyance; that he sent to General Lee urging to be permitted to ad his reserves, but vance with ply was a reiter ation of the aera order. To my inquiry why Lee hi ad coming up (Slocum’s) were visible and Lee was under the impression the greater part of my was on the ground and deemed it prudential army e rest of his, as you quote Culp’s hill and our brave soldiers had been compelled to evacuate Cemetery ridge and w ithdraw oa the roads to y Creek order have ie so very > That order was referred much out of place to meet the very cc to tingency here in A elmed by superior num question, wit: part ot army overwh bers co line of battle tormed to the rear ot my most advanced position thus ne- cessitated. As to his advance General Sickles having by brought on an attack and thus compelled the battle which and conclusive manner the nothing to tor the clear in which have vindicated truth ot history. 1 find statement except a vou m your fact you mention which 1s a misap- prehension. I did not invite Gener- al Humphreys to be my chiet of staff until after the battle, I did not see him after assuming command because until I met him on the field, and be- sides I relied on bios as a mainstay in handling the Third corps and did not want to withdraw him from that position. I did ask General Wil- liams to assume the duties in addi- tion to those of adjutant generat, but he dechned. I asked General War- ren, then my chief ot engine to act temporarily as chiet of staff, but he additional duties. also declined taking on himself Under these cir- cumstances I asked General Butter- fiela to remain till Thad time to make permanent arrangements. On the third day General Butterfield, hav- ing been disabled by bemg struck with a fragment ot a spent shell, left the 1 army, and afew d atterward General Humphreys ays accepted my invitation. My defense agamst the charges and insinuations of General Sickles and Butterfield is to be found in my the committee on war, I testimony betare the avoided any controversy with either conduct of the have of these officers, although both have allowed no opportunity to pass un- improved which permitted them to circulate their exparte statements and, as vou justly say. to distort his- tory for their tectly my antebattle order referring to Pipe Clay creek; purposes. Both per- understand what [ meant by also my instructions to decided the war you have complete- ly answered—and it is a very fayor- able theory with the partisans of this officer. But these gentlemen ignore the fact that of 18,oco men killed and wounded on the field during the whole battle more than two-thirds y and but Fifth were jost on the second da for the timely advance of the corps portion to Top, where they Round 1 my | and the prompt sending of a on the aagee of | | fe: | efficie ; Wi !tage—to be so cnppled | yaaa ot aces niect=— 1 a | i s | without attaining any objec restrained him, he said our ee ps t : | contess I cannot see It. to awa » EF we' trom his report. But suppose L-we-!, with 20,000 men, had occupied | We received word frox Moun- j 'tain Meadows that Captain Sam, tiet ot the Indians at Pioche, had | | cluding his aunts | his cousins, are down at Mountain | Meadows on some s | jam} or It old Sam was walking armed, and probably upon the wickedness ot white brother, and not looking where he | was going, he walked into the arms is ribs, but on looking up and get- Mrs. Bruin’s long ino overed his error, and | hke atrue knight, at once his | was the best man. me 1 wee and sp »s th ition. ‘ circumstances, over which Sickles } had neither knowledge or control, | the enemy would have secured Round Top, planted his artillery there commanding the whole battle field, and what the rest Id have been I leave you to judge. Now, when I wrote my report of the battle I honestly believed General Sickles did not know where I wished go, and that his error arose trom a misapprehension of my orders, but | have recently learned from Geary, who had the day sent by Hancock to hold t ind who in doing so had seen the grea Apna of Round Top and posi- ed a brigade on it, that on the morn ing of the 2nd when he received my order that he would be relieved by the Third corps and on being re- lieved- would rejoin his own corps (the Twelfth) on the right, waiting for some time to be relieved to General Sickles a staff offi cer with instructions to explain the position and importance and to ask it troops couid not be sent to him; that General would send he sent its relieye one of Butterfield on the morning ot the 2d, which he pers for sts in calling an order of all my fact that I did not retreat when I could have done the face acts and of the f retreat, in other so with pertect ease at any moment. Le military sense; it was the step I fear- ed L meet which was the object of my instruc- tions to Butterfield, which he has so misrepresented. street's advice to Lee was sound would take, and to Now, let me teil you’another his- torical fact. Lieutenant General Ewell, in a conve on had with me shortly after the war, asked what would have been the effect if at 4 p. m. on the rst he had occupied Culp’s bill and batteries. I told him that in my judgment, inthe then condition of the Eleventh and First corps, with their morals affect- ed by their withdrawal to Cemetery ndge with the loss of over half of their number in killed, wounded and missing (of the 6,000 prisoners we lost on the field nearly allcame from these corps on the first day), his oc- cupation of Cuip’s hill, with batter- jes commanding the whole of Cem- etery mdge, would have produced the evacuation of that ridge and the withdrawal of the troops there by | the Baltimore pike and Taneytown and Emmetsburg road. He then in- formed me that at 4 p. m. on the rst established on their arrival. reply that General Sickles would at- tend to it in due time. or troops nd, after vaiting until his patience was exhausted, General Geary vy ew and joined his corps. Now, General Sickles we Twelfth corps d and occupy their position. he k Geary’s could have known, and yet failed to Occupy it. Furthermore, when he came to my headquarters at about noon and evidence t sition division, ; the p occupied by or said he did where to go I answered not know “why, you were to relieve the Twelfth He said they had no position—they were massed awaiting events. Then it was I told him his right was to be Hancock’s teft and his lefton Round Top, which I pointed out. Now, his mght was three-quarters of a mile in front of Hancock’s left and his lett one quarter of a mile in tront of the base of Round Top, leaving that key point unoccupied, which ought to have been occupied by Longstreet corps, betore we could get there with the | Fifth corps. Sicklesg movement practically de- stroyed his own corps—the Third— him to atter Sickles | his staff to see | the ground and to place troops there He received for | No officer | | | drenching 1am. caused a loss of 50 per cent in the | Fifth corps, and very heavily dam-! ore, producing 66 - per cent of 03 wl and . Sean loss of the | moving on Culp’s hill, ee me was cnc 2 he was ordered to hold and second day « morals of ency and and prevented my having ti he offense tha tT mig 1. [f this i sae battle Pardon but your | my much prolixity, 1 r eba writing so generous defense an you have taken of t der as far. me to wan GE A Battle With ‘Bears. Record. yours, aving 4 very narrow escape trom bz w¢ Mech eet into the inside of s his flesh get into the inside o } al bears his tamil id his uncles and ot an old she bear, who at once ly and tightly pressed motherly boso The embrace of the loving Mrs, Bruin being rather ardent, it aroused Sam from his first he most | ive mood, and at medit. likely thought that 1t was Mrs. Sam en love, was endeavoring to squeeze in ; Mrs } and starte Bruin m around } in doing a little hugging on his own hook. They hugged and freee and tusseled to determine which one The bear a] ed and Sam hov . The noise attention of the Another bear d of both parties two large cubs came to the aid of the old and started she bear, vd chawing T! lowned the oe Ima re i dly making away his - When two of Sam’s sons, Jim in sight, and see 10ve the old warrior was about soon to disappear, went to his res- cue. They killed the four bears, The meet lett remaming on Sam’s bones is terribly lacerated. It he recovers, the next time the old war- rior tackles a she bear in a hugging contest he will be lable to first look round and see that no grown cubs There is consider- in bear cubs, are lurking by. able They hug th buman = nature Gon’t like tor strange men to eir mother Hair € ut t by Lightning. During a violent thunder-storm which recently broke over a country town im France a curious incident happened in A young woman caught the ward, storm was hastening home- sheltering herself as best she could beneath an umbrella from the Suddenly she ex- perienced a sensation, Strange and alarming being simultan- eous wit! light- y vivid tlash of ning. She felt **quite upset, greatly alarmed,”’ ed but nevertheless proceed on her way, and it was only on reaching her residence that she dis- covered what had had. On removing her bonnet sbe tound that her hair had been lit- erally cut off, her head presenting, as the hair fell, the same appearance a narrow escape she as though it had been shavec The effect mind of the discovery was so great that she has been confined to her bed ever since the day of the storm. It 1s not the loss ot her hair that affects her, but the recollection of the nar- row escape she had has so entirely upset her nervous system that the medical men attending her express 1with a razor. upon the girl’s the opinion that it will be some | weeks before she recoyers trom the shock.—London Standard. In the case ot a lady of rheumatic con- dition and a chronic sufferer trom dys- menorrhea, driven almost to the verSe of insanity by ber monthly suffering, the action ‘of Tongaline has been satisfacto- | ry. It relieved her promptly and sha is onw wasses tle much dreader periods he had his corps, 20,000 strong, in| aged the Second oul as said be- | ee. litlle discomfort- F. Frazer, M. 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