Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1925, Page 83

., | MAGAZINE SECTION e he Sunday Sta? [ e Part 5—8 Pages WASHINGTON, D. ¢, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOB V18, 1925 New Meade Memorial [s a Notable Botanic Garden Feature ROM Lincoln’s white-marble | [ hrine, that holds forever in its the hills of Arlington, here sleep the guardians of talions toward this new encounter Presented by State of Pennsylvania, It Takes Its Place Among the Capital's Impressive Monuments to Men Who Have | e teeions arm Sunrt. wi his swift cavalr; the Nation’s integrity, sound i i = o = u‘;‘ns \Lee'“ n\'.; e Served the Country in Its Great Crises—Model Wq,s Madg by the Sculptor. Charles Grafly, and Its Carving Done by the Pic- _l:.','.f?‘,lf‘i;’g“‘,,\.’;:!",,e,“.x}‘:,',:;’,:’,?‘?:,"u:,}.éj‘;, the field of Gettysburg as a sacred memory the Nation's heart. S worous, rhythmical, exalted, the words | we lika the strains of some majestio| (heme in music, a kind of larso whose | warching cadences sweep of under | the beauty of banners beneath the | sun to the steady, measured heat of the tread pf unnumbered hosts of wen noiter the country, and through mis | direction, lost connection with Lee, situation that was to prove costly | before the battie was fought out. | AS the two armies moved forward |into Pennsylvania. each groping for | the other, the final place of collision | was determined not by any precon | ceived plan but by conditions over | which the generals had no control. By carilli Brothers of New York—Meade's Services as a Leader of the Military Forces of the Nation. is for us, the living, rather to be here dedicated 1o the unfinished work they have thus far so nobly | ted on. It is rather for us to be| | June 29 Maj. Gen. Buford was guard ing the northern pproaches to the town of Gettysburg On the 30th brigade “Uinder Pettigrew of Hill's he dedicated to th cat task re-| | Corps was coming toward the tow: maining before us, that from these | from the north for the purpose of lay Bonored dead we take increased de. ling a contribution of shoes on th f votion 1o the cause for which they | town. Overestimating Buford's force: | he withdrew, resolved to attack on the | following day. On the night of the 30th, Meade had his men stationed a little south of iettysburg, while Lee's men lay just a little to the north, neither army determined upon a field of battle, for \ gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that 1he nation shall nder God, have s ew birth of f1 d that the by the peo <hall not ple, and for the perish from the earth neither commander knew the details With what anty of holiness of the terrain in and about the town those words sing themseives from | The field was eventually determinc 1 < shrine. and winz their con by the circumstances that led up e nz wa v e monnu ent to the battle. Washinztor he solid halls of Con When Lee had learned of the | $S, erown th their ethereal sition_ of the Army of the Potom: deme. their echo canght and held, at Frederick City, he began to rec sualized f the eves of men, in his advanced divisions and to concen e and in marble under the shad trate them. their closer grouping cau ow of 1 same spiring dome. For ing a reflex concentration by Mead [ in nie Gardens Gen. Grant After Chancellorsville, Lee had con J d with zr e of avtillery | pletely reorganized his army, dividing and eavalry, imperturhahle essive, it into three corps, each corps beinx determined, in the ageless lovalty of | made up of three divisions, and eact wonze his steac patier glance | corps capable of acting as a comple eping past a new memorial whose | army or_in co-operation with the lushed white marble group commem | others. Longstreet, Ewell, and Hil orates the achievement of a general | | commanded these corps Who made it possible for the conqueror | * * *x x of Vieksburz to defeat the greatest N the morning of July 1, Gen. Bu ford. with two small brigades pre ge. <o that the govern ment should not perish from the carth pared to hold the enemy in check One cannot but wonder whether | should he attempt to enter Gettysburs Charles Grafly, the scuiptor of the resisting stubbornly until Reynold< new memorial. caugh (e throbbing | { could come up with his corps. As the {latter approached the town he h voof the Get urs Address when he conceived the plan for the | the guns of Buford’s cavalry. When up whose commemoration I that he arrived he threw his forces into the of Gen. George Gordon Meade, the | conflict with vigor, only to be shot and irst commander urn the hitherto killed in the very beginning of the struggle. His loss was irreparable to indomitable forees of the famed A tlant | North Meade, whose eves and ears and brain ern Virginia, in orsanized retreat he was in places where Meade was the hottest fizhting and in the absent. Before his death he had dis rtant of the - Civil | patched a rider to his chief with the For Dor raphly. whose | | information that the enemy was ad nterpretation of the svmbolic f vancing in strong force and would ks in ‘the, group Wwe are UsIng, ehas | probably occupy the heights bevond he seription and 1tion with Gettysburg before Reynolds could. he sinzular words mmand is | That message crystallized the move \ orward o y | ments of Meade, who made every effort S.incoln said “the unfinished work | to reach the town and to occupy it ey have thus far so nobly carried on' | although even then unaware of ths d “the great task remaining before | Strategic positions it afforded us.” The group of fizures but echoes Hancock, sent to replace Reynolds, those words of progress. that moving | found the troops in confusion. He re forward from the wreckage of war| organized the men and established into future of constructive acheive- . them on Cemetery Hill, directly south ments in the very essence of civiliza of the town. About midnight of tha slon AL }“’“‘""”‘“"“- - DETAIL STUDY OF LOYALTY (AT LEFT). “WHOSE LENDID DETAIL STUDY OF FAME. SHE IS DRAWING ENERGY AWAY GROUP AT THE LEFT OF MEADE. CHIVALRY DRAWS THE CLOAK day Meade himself rode into the Lhar oblisntory ffoie ot the el YOUTH 1S ALL ADORATION FOR HIS GREAT CHIEF. FROM THE SUPPORT OF WAR. FAMES URGE OF WAR FROM THE GENERAL. PROGRESS “GLOWS WITH THE | Scene of the battle of the morrow. the i m\\' A :I‘"‘ 4;‘1\- e \H'l'l"‘ ‘r A o ',’f“""" aphs by Charles Grafly, Gloucester. Mass AND ON TO THINGS NOT YET ACHIEVED. FLAME OF LAW AND ORDER. NNt ‘Ridze) The'nist Ay ”f‘\’!"; Battle had ple, that Periclean nition of g E g success fo “on- eEnment that Dhs hovis Te On the right of the victor of Gettys I ashness, was a plaything in the hands | heao o cided. success for the Cor neveribel fimoe vl mpEn burg, in the center, stands théMigure of Lee at Fredericksburg, and Hooker | (n the afternoon the 2d of et of Fame, straining up and beyond | proved utterly incompetent at Chancel- | july, hoth sides had all thelr forces , {in a joyous hope to see the future. |Iorsville, his” army suffering tremen-|in the feld Lee's numbering about WHETHER by aceident or design | A unquenchable thirat for things not | dous loses under his chaotic direction | 70000 and Meade-s ahont 63,080, Fhe the sculptor gave his group the| Yot achleved gives her the unrest of of loyal men. armies lay about a mile apart, the full wnd exquisite harmony of Lin. | ceaseless striving, the ubattained | More than once during the three|(onfederate troops occupying a com coln's sonorons hymn. we (6 Aot Know, | Teach of :things:not yet grasped. days' terrific fighting at Chancellors- | cave line along Seminary Ridge direct- Bepithis e G0 Kiow - his Evonp it So passionate for achievement is {ville Hooker was in such a nervous||y gpnosite the Federal forces whose ) SOy thene: 50 her mood that the figure of Ener ! tate that he was unfitted for com-|convex lines were formed on Cem Jans 1. It 1 118 ‘concord Axa 10 change | that stands ion-her Fght; | mand. |tery Hill and Round Top. The Con Hhis. fiolire. Of oisch Hes it e | draws his arm from that of W | Stonewall Jackson, that consum-|feqerates bent their lines to cu e e e e 20 K redcnes Torened o sopnins mate master of the flanking move- | pocirSo PEOG LN 3 they thus en et eee o Aot o b S | lioat Tttt ngste aputnnt | ment, swung around Hooker's ArmY | gangered Meade's right. the DIcCET Drothers, whe | @ stalwart vouth drawin | and, ‘finding the famous 11th Corps | “‘Meade desired to fight on the de : e e | cloak from ‘the shoulders of Meade | unstipported by cavalry, doubled it|gensive. Longstreet urged Lee to R e Ent | with one hand. and with the other up, the men fleeing as in a panic.|swing around Meade's left and get he On a round pedestal of two medulat. | JIfting above the general's head the | Gaps in the lines gave the enemy the | (\ceen him and Washington, in order inz members ale oot Cuare | commemorating standard of wreath | opening it needed, for only a part of | {5 compel him to ascume the offensive T s e foot <aunr® |and garlands, like a nimbus ahout a the Army was fighting, and that with- | 1n “the absence of Stuart. swith his Tial tn & rare blending of the sym.| saint, for, if ever worship glowed in | out a supreme head. The enemy’s ar-| vaiuable information. Lee dared not il with the obvious. Gen.| ¥es. the eves of Lovalty ate turned | | tillery, on the final day of the battle. | tzke such a risk and he replied: “The The dominatine fisnie in 1he | in_pure adoration upon his chief. ‘ | perfectly commanded the position and | enemy s there and I am going to at Iiformed and barehend | . That group of three figures on | | poured "an enfilading fire into the| ek him." Lk nf . lipping from his | Meade's right is one of marked beau- | Union forces (e iet e oni stveet o dnave to ders into,the hands of thoas wwlio] 1 I0T sqianuch ','{ youth, its :xfr | Hooker was appealed to again and| hi¢ right and ,,;\,;," The Unitn Joft e in him the embodiment of their | iess and its fire, is there, as wéll as | again for reinforcements and ammuni- | grdering Johnston at the same time to own virtues. He is a valiant fizure, | the, enchanting loveliness of _wunr;} tion, vet neither was sent forward.|,track the enemy's right when he Bat heraeting cimebavon | hoales: | Meade and Reynolds begged Hooker | heird Longstreet's guns on the left. o Tt is as thoush he were putting it | e for permission to throw their fresh |y nggtreet delaved until late in the aside for somethinz larzer. something | ()N the opposite side, the central fis troops against the enemy, but they | .fternoon, giving as an excuse that nobler, for he is siepping out from ure is Progress, less passionate | were kept on the defensive. When | pis forces were insufficient. His de- heneath its shadow as he <teps out | than Fame. but more steady, more | the order for retreat came, those| |\ cost Lee the battle. from his cloak, faci he future in| certain of its own latent power, there generals withdrew 30,000 eager troops | = \yhile Meade strengthened his lines seri hopefuiness, as though sum re dynamic and self-nurtured, the ! who had no part in the struggle. It anq awaited the onslaught of the moned by the = prozress away | eves lighted with the flame of law | | is needless to say that the retreat|(onfederates, he learned that his from the 1t destroys. Heland der. Indeed. the face of| | was as disorganized and as undirected | whole left flank was unprotected, Bu v uniformed. and sloved, | Progress seems set like a beacon on | | as the battle had been. | ford's cavalry being withdrawn and but he is hatless “ his interest | the grim shore whose troubled waters | { * x % ¥ | none taking its place. It was too late HOW s In incace fand not {in) wac| swechiiont and away in the .w»lel | WHEN Lincoln heard of the loss of| o_correct that mistake when It was his splendid courage written in | wings of War. | o el a 5 vith. | discovered. he gloved hands are in |gvith Ghivalry, that at his vight drawa = fed | to have occupfed the wrong position, ‘et with the cloak of war, |the cloak of war from the shoulder side of the Rappahannock, he cried | ;. "y o being too far in advance of h they realize \UH’ they must [(\|B'\Ai There is, somehow, a wist out: “AyiGod! ' My God NI Al lh>e Dll‘;e! fre h his sition v 5 must | of Meade. ere is, v . 8 - the country say. What will the coun-| < 8 Irom. Wom: 8 Dosicon. new structure out of the | ful pity in her face, ennobled as it is ie N et Tiooler was not | separated him. The enemy had al- fragments of the old, for nothing is| with the courtesy of the strong for | s bk on 1t fol ready begun a bombardment, and atiite" 5o vital ng fhe past, nothine)| e removed from command, but followed | g yies haq to stand his ground i ¥ vital as the past, nothingithe weak. o e i g Lee up the Shenandoah, keeping his | n el S L e quite <o determining of the present. | To the left of Progress stands ir Ay hetween Lee and Washington, | that exposed outpost. Terriflc fight- It is & masteriv porteait of Meade, | determined strength the stalwart fig- | for the seat of the government must |in€ followed, both armies losing its literalness so combined with ithe | ure of Military Courage, his arm | be' covered at all odds. heavily. , symbolical that it is inherently a part | drawn through the arm of War, with | At Frederick City, Md., he asked |, hen night quleted the tumult, of the imaginary mroun thai sweeps | no intention of relinquishing the hold, | Hotteon oK the T "10.000 inactive | Meade called a council of his corps i : : from his rvight | although Progress would draw him = A ® | commanders and it was decided to re- in a complete circle from his right | rog] Y e troops that had left Harpers Ferry 3 S hand. to his left: | away to things of the futur is oo Gt of the path of Lee. His|MAIn where they were and fight it Diametrically onpasite Meade iz a | gaze away from War is but Falf- 0 & vas refused and he straight.| OUt in spite of the day’s loss of 20,000 evim fisure whose sk and ominous | hearted, and he does not areet th ’?‘19’;‘ a& "9 l\:i =l ;\,"_f.rh men. Meade claimed the victory, but 2 Wings In mighty steensth sweep re.| unknown with a smile. He seems as | Y anuiokly necepteqrom: WHCH| his council of war made that claim W lentlessly above the peads of those | loyal, almost, to War as Loyalty | as as quickly : o ax 83| omevhat tenuous. e who link with Meade this symbol of | to the commanding general of the On the morning of June 28, 1863,| I Lee had a fault, it was his too \ war. There is a1 superh grandeur in | Army of the Potomac at Gettysbur General George Gordon Meade was| great patience with the laggard move- i e 8 hiike architactinal fitre riboss Out of war came the plangent appointed commander of the Army,{ments of Longstreet (a great fighter | Ak Ymown mo | qualities of loyalty, fame, enerzy the change being made actually on|when once in ction). Lee lost his i SyErott ) Al of hic destruc, | chivalry, progress and military cour- the eve of a great battle. Revnolds | wonted calm while walting for Lons- tic \th “trong hands are | age, and vet they renounce their | and Couch had been sounded out for| street’s action but he still waited. In i Ty < as they nold in | origin_ wholly or in part to support | the command. but each had refused | the meantime. the arrival of the fth their unshaken wrasp two emorial [ the virtues that lea:‘| the |;\‘!)| d "\;pfiii\'}’f}fin l:x‘eomxuv‘ly‘lf_\';'ri\rs‘:m‘r‘vy\‘lllr?'!;ii (‘orpl.«‘lflon’lh-!PNlernldsnde m;\].IeLu im- ablate th < twoedged sword hang- | forward out of destructive conditions v o 2 “E GOR. s re s E possible for Lee to drive the Union tabletx | s twoedeed sword hang: | forwarduGutie (CeeoNE S0 T o e OF THE MEMORIAL. GEN. GEORGE GOR 3 R Y ek 3 each had recommended Meade for the | forces before him. ing between m a_symbol_of{ fnto- constiuctive. 'DawSc s Some, 000 G FROM WAR TO THE ARTS OF PEACE. A DETAIL STUDY OF THE BRUTAL FIGURE OF WAR. THROUGH | sach Bn e e ard. | [ ey betore i ind after the war g death jiacll ascms o clalnt Tor e own. | That. clsnisafiohicomEsBriBingiin ion EPS. FROM THE CLOAK OF WAR INTO THE PATH OF WHOSE ARM THE FIGURE OF MILITARY COURAGE (CENTER) | ous exp.dx‘e‘m. this shifting of com-|“Had I had Stonewall Jackson at mouth. i fhe low bridie of the nose, | a gun carriage. Emerson would have | HAS BEEN DRAWN IN AEMOST LOYAL SUPPORT. | manders at so crucial a time. The T should have won that in the crael eves and in the low brow, | it that: | T S e < event, however, was to justify the “rederick Maurice is of there is sheer Drite power in the thick | “[n the mud and scum of things, | same shadow- of the Capitol's lofty | land and France, and no lonzer hope | forces of Lee were pouring into Penn- | the final scene in the long drama of | choice. & the same opinion. short neck (hat sweeps int) ihe great | Something aly alway sings dome stand today in eternal comrade-| of a smashing victory on Northern| sylvania, with Hooker in disfavor | the war. % The everanxious Lincoln felt some | St shoulder muscles with the sure g : hip the marvelous memorials to|soil. The edifice of the-Confederacy | with Halleck, who directed from | Gettyshurg was the culmination of | doubt concerning Hooker's ability, al-| ~¢ (no morning of the 3d of July, strensth 4vin resses neainst 4| Hence a dualism is felt as one gazes | Grant and to Meade, a stupendous | w idready crumbling, and was even | Washington the movements of the|a 10-month struggie hetween the |though he had been partial to that| B SPEoll T Akttt it N wall. mmu able Clee< wrim. it is|at the marvelous group—the dualism | commemoration of more stupendous | then past repair, although few wera| Federal troops: “How much depends | Army of the Potomac and the Army of [ commander, for he said on June | stz fo* attacis the enemy s | canter N T i it he st With the same | that is felt in all nature—the eternal | victories. =0 overwhelming in- their | aware of it. i militars matters on_one master | Northern Virginia. and so dreary was [“We cannot heip beating them if we | %0ing 1o attack the enemyis center imtensity (hae Meade looks into the | warring of the forces that make for| ynited strength as to prove to be R mind,” smarting as he was under the | the list of disasters for the former | have the man. How much depends in | feven «s Meade had predicted that future. Its massive grandeur i« the | peace and for war. ‘The mind is|the turning point of the Civil War e E 4 4 constant change of generals after-each | that a thousand men left the ranks a | military matters on one master mind!| he wouldy ~“Great God'' sgid Lops grandeur of rehansel cast out of | forced to admit that the ‘very quali-| in America: potent, tov, o break, as| JUIY 4. the Nation's birthday. andinew hattle, the while he kept steady | week, funds grew scarce, and the|Hooker may commit the same fault}Strert —~ ROk Gat (o6 Bl OF high Heaven (o the bottomless pit | ties that make for progress have their | with a magician’s wand, the numbing that which was divided was azin | eyes of true appraisal upon the skillod | State ‘elections indicated that Lincoln’s | as McClellan and lose his chance. We | urmountable diffcuities between GUF helow Thne and time's tide will heat | origin in war. It is, perhaps, one of | spell of depression that had steadily |t be united—was indeed reborn—on |jjeytenant who marshaled lLee’s men | administration was I(mkn(! upon as a | shall soon see. but it appears to me Steen diflis, the tars GP. axtitier; the N inst its impuw into victory. It was Lee and Jackson, | failure. Lee read the Union news.|that he can’t help but win. D 3 3 nable sirength Inl the unsolvable mysteries of this curi-| grown almost to despair with the in-|its own natal day. By all the logic 2 S war . Sre Peders 4 zan | Of re s| n £ heen > 51 Hil apers and made’ his own deductions.| Lincoln’s choice of Meade was for-| fences. the heavy skirmish line. . War is enched o .| ous earth existence. creasing Federal losses that bhegan | of war there should not have Longstreet, Ewell, Hood, the pap s d 7 2 e e e e ili | ©"So far a8 Washington is concerned. | with Bull Run and ended with Chan. | any more fighting after the two SWeeD: | and gallant, dashing Stuart . . . a | If he could, In the hour of greatest de. | tunate, for Meade was liked by the| ~The enemy is there, Gen. Lone; of his armor and ht: giant sword | the Meade Memorial will seem a de-| cellorsville. ing vietories that turned the tide of | jnaster mind surely directing leaders | pression, invade the North and deal|officers and the men, who had come | * ;;'l‘:e“',‘ T fOI"dfl ks The artistey of he. Sculptor has | parture from the usual in ar, for| Qut of that broken darkness rode|war and -poured the enemy back upon|and genuine and faultless and true|the enemy # smashing blow, his cause | to trust his judgment and to admire !:_i n:xl{; ds_que- letermined voice, found a theme by which he binls|nothing in this city of monuments|two generals, one out of the West | his own soil and put him upon the | enough to bind men to him in undying | would be won, for England, and possi- [ his military courage. His new post ol hodes. - W C so great a scale the per- 5 of the East, whose | defensive under the steady pounding | oyalty. bly France, would become his allies| was most difficult, for from Hooker | Again Longstreet was in charge of e with {he jicomblues DI oD RIS P A e o ot O e er areat e, | agsressiveness of Grant. There would | '“Yinsoln's search was for a man ca-|and the North would be forced to|he received no plan of campalgn.|the _attack. ‘end again he deiayed R s ot e rued; it | daring a symbolism (the new Ericsson s from a great foe. Simultane.) have been no more fighting. either, ! pable of conquering a master mind. recognize the independence of the This must be evolved, and much Afler an omBons stfiness of LArC ‘4 za natural a bond though all | group will carry out on a smaller on July 4, 1863, as there fRashed | had Lee's veteran Army of Northern| sfier the victory in the West that |Confederacy. 2 knowledge gained concerning the Siiiing ofsthe Usion hni; the Fed. e figures were likenesses of men |scale a similar treatment). It is|from Lincoln to the people the almost | Virginia been captured bag and bag-|man was found, aggressive, tenacious, | After what proved to be a brilliant | Army. Halleck eased the situation by ‘e’m.s r_“h_m to their 150 guns with whom Meade gathered into his coun- | sculpture of a high order. It is ex- | unbelievable message of the defeat of | Sage after its disccmfiture along Sem-| griving straight ahead to a decisive | campaign In Tennessee, Halleck was | assuring Meade that Washington o "\;r.‘m:k O“aid o 5\_“ i cils of war while hix armies wer2 in | ecuted with a perfection of detail that | Lee, the est general of the war, | inary Ridge. Its masterly retreat|goa). Not as skilled as his antagonist | called to Washington in July, 1862, to| would not Interfere with his plans, hoavi ieye AirelsHe | Eadk aves the field | Tanks it with the noblest marbles in | at Gettysburg, there came to the war’ | from the scene of that struggle but|in the science of war (Sir Frederick |act as generalin-chiet of the Armies|a promise made good by Stuart’s|heaviest arullery fire he had ever Grafly believes that certain quali-| the eity. It will surrender its hidden |weary but never despairing President | revealed the genius_of the man who| Maurice's “Robert E. Lee” an un-|of the United States and to advise|cavalry cutting all telezraphic com-|¥nown. At the end of two hows T fies Arm essential fo any great gen | meaning only to those who are|the joyous word of the fall of Vicks. | had-led his troops from one victory | hiased study, makes him the greatest |Lircoln and Stanton in matters per- munication with the Union Army on' 2 e e s 3 Tl e o thoss ity e | e Al B ek ch iy it to another, who. defeated, was far|general of his age). but dogged in de- | talning to war. By no stretch of the |and Washington, and Meade was|save ammunition and s« ruse to fool fore, must needs have their origin No _ descriptive Interpretation of| Those generals rvode out of the from being conquered so long as his|termination, moving ever on fearless- | imagination was he a success Iy his| given the 10,000 men desired by Hook- | ’? on “:”‘;? f‘;f“:‘ L3 - i order tn become virtuec i | Grafly's masterpiece would, however, | gloom of their own obscurity as well | loval, ragged yeterans were uncar |1y, with untold numbers to draw upon. | new position, and ‘the ever.watfhitul | er. Thus do the moods of men vary | tveness of their fire. . = a great leader of men. So the domi- | be complete without the historical set-| as out of the dejection of the North, | tured and with wealth aplenty for supplies. | Lee saw in the 10 months that fol-| the fortunes of war. - Jfiwin suceeastulasia dricly Blckel nating figure in »ach side group forms, | (ing that called it forth, so with little [and as they rode they knew them.| It was a far and brave ery from|Too, he had fate on his side; he was |lowed his appomtment four changes in| Lee was confident of victory, for he | Deing ordered, much against the v as it were, the kevstone in this double | or no emphasis upon military tactics | selves crowned with the undying| Gettysburg to Appomattox Court | the favored one of fortune. Without |the commanding generals that op-|had successfully measured swords too i g s g i ol e Teh, giving it svmmetre and | (of interest chiefly to the student of | laurels of a grateful people. From | House, and Lee was in that Interval | bitterness, Lee remarked that he had | posed him. ~Pope lost the second bat- | often with the enemy to doubt his|!roops a fromtal Bitack upop the te ¥ atrength. As the wings of war sweep | war), let us glimpse some of the | thefr exalted height they must have|to accomplish the all but impossible | no luck. He was right. Destiny can| tle of Bull Run; McClellan won An-|strength. Too, he justly underrated | ¢ ) T this massive image of w portrait statue of ilen. Meade. Thel trait work of the sculptor with so| | % - ’ b laklava, for a division of , O Menie. o e e L Wf history that placed Grafiy's | seen the clouds of unfulfilled hope | hefore his exhausted strength would | overthrow a master mind as easily as | tietam but failed to clinch the victory, | the ability of the Union command- | second Ba . ,‘h:“',,'}, Meade. s0 do the ‘Azures of | pages o0 Ip LR N s e as ik he et N | aaTanaereat # mediocre ane, and destiny was set- | for he let the Conféderates slip AwAY | ers. His men were flushed with vic. | Confederates charged a_whole arm @ Sace the future with hinw Shrady " Grant Ben e ol e ihere hope of sucsor from Bng- Said Lincoln when the victorious | ting the stage after Gettysburg for |into Virginia; Burnside, through his!tory and they went like singing bat {Continued on Second Caged i § b : 2 .