Alger At Gettysburg

It ia now a quarter of a century sinc thefiiteof tliia natlon liung suspended bj a tliread on the plaina and heights o Gettysburg. Two mighty hosta that ha( been contendinfr for two days, move( out at dawn of day to engage in one of the bloodiest bfittles known In history. Before niglit thousands of brave men on both sides were to sleep the Bleep that knows no waking. On the issue of that battle depended the question whether the stara and 8tripes were to continue to float as the emblem of a free and unltec natioD, or be tlung in the dust, and the standard of a causelesa and wioked rebellion set up in tueir stead. The flower of the rebel cavalry, led br those brave knights, Stewart, Harapton and Fltzhugh Lee, was massed on the left of the Confedérate line to charge the unlon right, opening the way for the jjray line of infantry to the rear of Meade. By common consent the cavalry of Michigan wa9 given the chief honor of saving the union right. The charge was met hnnd to hand, steel to steel, and repulsed; thus thwarting one of the most desperate atteinpts made on tliat day to break the union line. Three men of Michigan were conspicious for their leaderstii]) in that battle. Two of them have gone over to the Shadowy land, leaving be hind names that will never be erased from the pages of American hiatory. mean Geo. A. Custer and Charles A Town. 'J'he third is still living. He is a soldier - citizen of Michigan, bis adoptei state. He leads the republlcan of his8tate. His name is Kus sell A. Alger, the hero of Gettysbiirg.- [Gen'l J. A. Kidd, in Ionia Sentinel August ao, 1884.]