THE LAST CONFEDERATE GUN AT GETTYSBURG-ON LONGSTREET'S RIGHT, OPPOSITE ROUND TOP.

LEE'S RIGHT WING AT GETTYSBURG.
BY JAMES LONGSTREET, LIEUTENANT-GENERAL, C. S. A.

GETTYSBURG lies partly between Seminary Ridge on the west and Cemetery Ridge on the south- east, a distance of about fourteen hundred yards dividing the crests of the two ridges. As General Lee rod to the summit of seminary Ridge and looked down upon the town he saw the Federals in full retreat and concentrating on the rock-ribbed hill that served as a burying-ground for the city. He sent orders to Ewell to follow up the success if he found it practicable and to occupy the hill on which the enemy was concentrating. As the order was not positive, but left discretion with General Ewell, the latter thought it better to give his troops a little rest and wait for more definite instructions. I was following Hill's Corps as fast as possible, and as soon as I got possession of the road went rapidly forward to join General Lee. I found him on the summit of Seminary Ridge watching the enemy concentrate on the opposite hill. He pointed out their position to me. I took my glasses and made as careful a urvey as I could from that point. After five or ten minutes I turned to General Lee and said: "If we could have chosen a point to meet our plans of operation, I do not thing we could have found a better one than that upon which they are now concentrating. All we have to do is to throw our army around by their left, and we shad interpose between the Federal army and Washington. We can get a strong position and wait, and if they fail to attack us we shall have everything in condition to move back to-morrow night in the direction of Washington, selecting beforehand a odd position into which we can place our troops to receive battle next day. Finding our object is Washington or that army, the Federals will be sure to attack us. When they attack, we shall beat them, as we proposed to do before we left Fredericksburg, and the probabilities are that the fruits of our success will be great."
"No," said General Lee; "the enemy is there, and I am going to attack him there." I suggested that such a move as I proposed would give us control of the road s leading to Washington and Baltimore, and reminded General Lee of