{"id":"01KG8AKA6JDH1776NW3AE6SBJP","cid":"bafkreibgn47gebnhwsk4bv2gm7d6vz2blq3wp4uvomrwvyx45zgc4fr2vy","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":5116,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:58.829Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 2","source_file":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","start_line":5045,"text":"On the 4th of July 1865, the Gettysburg National Cemetery, on the same\r\nheight with the original burial-ground, was consecrated, and the\r\ncorner-stone laid of a commemorative pile.\r\n\r\n9. “I dare not write the horrible and inconceivable atrocities\r\ncommitted,” says Froissart, in alluding to the remarkable sedition in\r\nFrance during his time. The like may be hinted of some proceedings of\r\nthe draft-rioters.\r\n\r\n10. Although the month was November, the day was in character an October\r\none--cool, clear, bright, intoxicatingly invigorating; one of those days\r\npeculiar to the ripest hours of our American Autumn. This weather must\r\nhave had much to do with the spontaneous enthusiasm which seized the\r\ntroops--and enthusiasm aided, doubtless, by glad thoughts of the victory\r\nof Look-out Mountain won the day previous, and also by the elation\r\nattending the capture, after a fierce struggle, of the long ranges of\r\nrifle-pits at the mountain’s base, where orders for the time should have\r\nstopped the advance. But there and then it was that the army took the\r\nbit between its teeth, and ran away with the generals to the victory\r\ncommemorated. General Grant, at Culpepper, a few weeks prior to crossing\r\nthe Rapidan for the Wilderness, expressed to a visitor his impression of\r\nthe impulse and the spectacle: Said he: “I never saw any thing like it:”\r\nlanguage which seems curiously undertoned, considering its application;\r\nbut from the taciturn Commander it was equivalent to a superlative or\r\nhyperbole from the talkative.\r\n\r\nThe height of the Ridge, according to the account at hand, varies along\r\nits length from six to seven hundred feet above the plain; it slopes at\r\nan angle of about forty-five degrees.\r\n\r\n11. The great Parrott gun, planted in the marshes of James Island, and\r\nemployed in the prolonged, though at times intermitted bombardment of\r\nCharleston, was known among our soldiers as the Swamp Angel.\r\n\r\nSt. Michael’s, characterized by its venerable tower, was the historic\r\nand aristrocratic church of the town.\r\n\r\n12. Among the Northwestern regiments there would seem to have been more\r\nthan one which carried a living eagle as an added ensign. The bird\r\ncommemorated here was, according the the account, borne aloft on a perch\r\nbeside the standard; went through successive battles and campaigns; was\r\nmore than once under the surgeon’s hands; and at the close of the\r\ncontest found honorable repose in the capital of Wisconsin, from which\r\nstate he had gone to the wars.\r\n\r\n13. The late Major General McPherson, commanding the Army of the\r\nTennessee, a major of Ohio and a West Pointer, was one of the foremost\r\nspirits of the war. Young, though a veteran; hardy, intrepid, sensitive\r\nin honor, full of engaging qualities, with manly beauty; possessed of\r\ngenius, a favorite with the army, and with Grant and Sherman. Both\r\nGenerals have generously acknowledged their professional obligiations to\r\nthe able engineer and admirable soldier, their subordinate and junior.\r\n\r\nIn an informal account written by the Achilles to this Sarpedon, he\r\nsays: “On that day we avenged his death. Near twenty-two hundred of the\r\nenemy’s dead remained on the ground when night closed upon the scene of\r\naction.”\r\n\r\nIt is significant of the scale on which the war was waged, that the\r\nengagement thus written of goes solely (so far as can be learned) under\r\nthe vague designation of one of the battles before Atlanta.\r\n\r\n14. The piece was written while yet the reports were coming North of\r\nSherman’s homeward advance from Savannah. It is needless to point out\r\nits purely dramatic character.\r\n\r\nThough the sentiment ascribed in the beginning of the second stanza\r\nmust, in the present reading, suggest the historic tragedy of the 14th\r\nof April, nevertheless, as intimated, it was written prior to that\r\nevent, and without any distinct application in the writer’s mind. After\r\nconsideration, it is allowed to remain.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 2"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJS1YZ9QWGH80MPQQXFZK","peer_type":"backmatter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKA6CQRX9DW5V9DHFBFCY","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AKA6F4KPRFV0XCNBGS53M","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:00.210Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:02.705Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}