The following statement, made by a Union officer who served in the Eleventh Corps at the battle of Gettysburg, is taken from Mr. Francis F. Browne’s “Bugle Echoes”:--“During the first day’s fight an old man, in a swallow-tailed coat and battered cylinder hat, came stalking across the fields from the town, and made his appearance at Colonel Stone’s position. With a musket in his hand, and ammunition in his pocket, this venerable citizen asked Colonel Wister’s permission to fight. Wister directed him to go over to the Iron Brigade, where he would be sheltered by the woods; but the old man insisted on going forward to the skirmish line. He was allowed to do so, and continued firing until the skirmishers retired, when he was the last man to leave. He afterward fought with the Iron Brigade, where he was three times wounded. This patriotic and heroic citizen was Constable John Burns, of Gettysburg.” The battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1, 2, and 3, 1863. =Line 11.= =Lee.= See “Barbara Frietchie.” =l. 14.= =Meade= (George Gordon, 1815-1872), the commander of the Union army at Gettysburg. He served in the Mexican and Seminole Wars, and distinguished himself at Antietam and Fredericksburg. He was at the head of various military departments after the war. =l. 100.= =Navarre.= See Macaulay’s ballad, “Ivry.” 36. HIGH TIDE AT GETTYSBURG. By Will Henry Thompson. Will Henry Thompson (brother of Maurice Thompson; see “An Incident of War,” and “The Ballad of a Little Fun”), a lawyer and poet residing in Seattle, Washington, was born in Calhoun county, Georgia, March 10, 1848. Mr. Thompson was a Confederate soldier, and his “High Tide at Gettysburg” is one of the finest poems inspired by the Civil War. “High Tide at Gettysburg,” the day of Pickett’s charge, was the last day of that memorable battle, July 3, 1863. =Stanza 2.= =Lee.= See “Barbara Frietchie.” =Pickett.= See “Greencastle Jenny.” =Stanza 3.= =Shiloh.= See “Johnston at Shiloh.” =Chickamauga.= See “Thomas at Chickamauga.” =Stanza 4.= =Pettigrew=, (James Johnson) a Confederate brigadier-general who was mortally wounded in Pickett’s charge. He was a native of North Carolina (1828-1863). =Waterloo.= June 18, 1815. =Stanza 5.= =Kemper= (James Lamson, 1823-), a Confederate brigadier-general, severely wounded and captured at Gettysburg. He has been governor of Virginia. =Garnett= (Richard Brooke, 1819-1863), a Confederate brigadier-general who fell at Gettysburg. =Armistead= (Lewis Addison, 1817-1863), a Confederate brigadier-general in Pickett’s division, who was mortally wounded in the famous charge. =Stanza 7.= =Doubleday= (Abner, 1819-1893), a Federal major-general of volunteers, whose division was active in repulsing Pickett’s charge. It was he who fired the first gun in defense of Fort Sumter. For another rendering of this battle in verse see Edmund Clarence Stedman’s “Gettysburg” (Complete Poems.).