Watertown Republican

An Incident of Gettysburg.

From the Detroit Tribune.

Angelo Parker is the name of an old German who has been in the employ of John J. Bagley & Co. for a number of years as a porter. During the war he served the land of his adoption as a private in the First Michigan Infantry, participating in numerous engagements, including the Battle of Gettysburg. At the time of the Michigan monument dedication ceremonies Angelo expressed a strong desire to visit the scene of the conflict for many reasons, the especial one being to reclaim a knife and cup which he left on the battlefield the morning the fight commenced, for it seems that while eating breakfast on that morning they were suddenly ordered to "fall in" before the meal was finished, and Angelo placed the cup in the limbs of a tree and the knife he was using was laid on the ground at the bottom of it. In the terrible battle that ensued there was no time to think of the articles, and in the pursuit of the rebels which followed the opportunity never came to reclaim them, although Private Parker still kept them in his memory. He had often declared, in speaking of the circumstance, that if he could revisit the battlefield he could go to the exact spot where they had been left by him.

The firm generously gave him the coveted opportunity by defraying his expenses last June, and upon reaching the scene of the morning breakfast above alluded to the cup was found firmly imbedded in the tree so that it could not be removed except by taking limb and all, and the knife lay just where it was placed twenty-five years ago, a little the worse for wear on account of the ravages of time.