had time to answer that I did not know, he
resumed, 'No matter, I will give my orders to You, and YOU will see
them executed.' He then gave directions that the troops should be
reformed as soon as practicable, and kept in their places, as the
enemy might be mad enough to attack again, adding, 'IF THE ENEMY DOES
ATTACK, CHARGE HIM IN THE FLANKS AND SWEEP HIM FROM THE FIELD--do you
understand?' The General then, a gratified man, galloped in the
direction of his headquarters."

Of course, General Meade rode back to his headquarters a gratified man.
Had he not just received the information from First Lieutenant Haskell
that the enemy had been "entirely repulsed?" and had not Meade issued an
order to this Wellington of Lee's Waterloo to sweep the enemy from the
field, if he were mad enough to renew the attack, by charging him on the
flanks? General Meade's order to Haskell was so sedately humorous as to
leave us in doubt as to whether the First Lieutenant and his horse alone
were to charge the enemy's flanks, or for Lieutenant Napoleon Wellington
Haskell to order the First, Eleventh and Twelfth Corps to charge his left
flank, and the Third, Fifth and Sixth Corps his right flank, while Haskell
and Dick swept his centre from the field.

And this is the "narrative" that a Loyal Legion and a History Commission
feel honored in publishing. If the object was to prove that they were just
as vainglorious as Haskell, has not this fact been fully established by
their published books? Vaccinated by the Haskell virus of vanity and
venom, the buffoonery of Haskell has been transmitted by a Military Order
of the Loyal Legion, and the History Commission of a great State, to their
admiring friends and the public. Like Haskell, "A great, magnificent
passion came on them that seemingly sublimed every sense and
faculty--when, great heavens! their senses mad," the Battle of Gettysburg,
by Frank Aretas Haskell, First Lieutenant, Sixth Wisconsin Infantry, was
"published under the auspices of the Commandery of the State of
Massachusetts, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
and the Wisconsin History Commission."

General Roy Stone, of Pennsylvania, commanded the Second Brigade, Third
Division, First Corps, at Gettysburg. Upon receiving serious wounds he
was carried from the field, and Colonel Langhorne Wister, of Philadelphia,
commanding the 150th Pennsylvania Regiment, succeeded to the comman