smote him, and of being the only horse there during the
heat of that battle."

Haskell might, with equal truth and egotism, have written: "To Dick and
his rider belong the honor of meeting and repulsing Pickett's Division,"
and who can say that it would not have been accorded equally as generous
consideration by the Loyal Legion of Massachusetts, and the History
Commission of Wisconsin, as was given to all the other nonsense he wrote
of the Battle of Gettysburg.

It has been said of Pickett's Virginians, that accustomed to handling a
gun, or rifle, from boyhood, any one of them could kill a jay bird at a
distance of 150 yards, but not one of Pickett's Division of 4,000 Veterans
could kill that horse or that first lieutenant, and they the only horse
and man in sight, and not forty yards away, parading between Hancock's
Corps of the Union Army and Longstreet's Corps of the Confederate Army.

Oh! Veterans of Pickett's Division, you who killed or wounded 491 of our
Comrades of the Philadelphia Brigade from the time you began one of the
most desperate charges ever recorded in the history of wars, starting from
Seminary Ridge, one mile distant from the Bloody Angle, until you reached
the culminating point where the intrepid Armistead fell mortally wounded
within the lines of the Philadelphia Brigade. You who made such slaughter
in OUR RANKS AT LONG RANGE could not kill First Lieutenant Frank Aretas
Haskell, or his horse, and they not forty yards distant from your firing
line, and he "the one solitary horseman between the Second Division of
Hancock's Corps and Pickett's Division of Longstreet's Corps." And the
Military Order, Loyal Legion, Commandery of Massachusetts, and the History
Commission of Wisconsin, as late as the year 1908 in expensive
publications confirm the Haskell "Narrative" of his wild "Buffalo Bill"
ride between the Union and Confederate lines, and depicting your skill as
marksmen, with a horse and officer as the inviting target not forty yards
distant--defying the bullets of the most skillful marksmen of the
Confederate Army.

Is there a veteran soldier of the Civil War, or even a thoughtful man in
the United States, who believes this part of Haskell's Narrative "of
riding between the lines the one solitary horseman, and he not forty yards
distant from the enemy?" Do Captains Daniel Hall and Charles Hunt, the
Loyal Legion of Massachusetts, and Wisconsin History Commission,
themselves endorsing it, re