The National tribune., 1882-07-29


charges at some of the boarding houses has
created considerable irritation among the visit
ing Posts. The hotel keepers of course re-
ceived a hint to be as discreet as possible
nevertheless, on Sunday afternoon an alarm
ing rumOr prevailed that the boys had drunk
all the beer ia the town. This proved to be a
fact, so far as most of the saloons were con-
cerned, and yet there was little or no drunken
ness, the alternative of whiskey being very
generally declined.
The arrivals this year have been more nu-
merous than in any preceding one, and the
stOrekcepers, especially the vendors of ice
creams and curiosities, have been doing an i'm
mense trade. The proprietor of the Battle
Field Museum remarked to your correspondent A:
" I'm sold out Of 400 canes since Saturday
morning and could sell 400 more" These canes
are mostly cut from Pickett's front, and it is
computed that in the last ten years not less
than 1000 of them have been disposed of.
NOTES AND INCIDENTS.
A great rendezvous for the Grand Army
boys is the Battlefield Hotel, about 100 yards
from the camp and on the outskirts of the
town, at the junction of the Emmittsburg
road and Baltimore pike. 1T was the outer post
of the Union sharp-shooters during the battle,
and bears visible evidences of the prominent
position it occupied The landlord, Peter Thorn,
is himsclfa Grand Army man, serving with the
One Hundred and Thirty eighth Pennsylvania,
Sixth Army Corps, throughout the campaign till
wounded at Opequan in 1864. This regiment,
be 1t noted, lost more men than any reg ment
in the service from this State. In the town
itself the Eagle Hotel and the Mcclellan
House are already quite full.
Among the visitors is Col. Rankin, of the
War Department, and formerly of Gen. G.. q.
Meade's staff at the battle of Gettysburg. The
colonel is staying at the Eagle Hotel and is
engaged with Capts. Nye and Nightingale in
investigating the border damage claims and
compensation claims for materials used in the
army hospitals.
The following is n full list of the officers
now present or expected to be present at the
encampment: J. NJ. Vanderslice, Post ?, Phil
adclphia, Commander; w. n. Jones, Post 81,
WilliamspOrt, Senior Vice Commander; ThOs
J. Stuart, Post II, Norristown, Assistant Ad-
jutant-General Jas. NJ. Gibbs, Post %, Dan
vile, Junior Vice Commander; II. G. Williams,
Post 5, Philadelphia, Assistant Quartermaster-
General; p. G. Christy, Post IS, Allegheny
City, Judge Advocate; w. NJ. D. Hall, NJ. D.,
Post 81, Altoona, Medical Director; IhOs
Monroe Post 90 Hazelton, Medical Inspector :;
Rev. J. w. Sayers, Post IS, Reading Chaplain,
with the following members of the Council of
Administrations Z. G. Sellars, Post s, Phila-
delpha; VIM. f. Aull, Post III, Pittsburgh;
A. J. Sellars, Post l, Philadelphia; p. J. Don
nelly Post 63, Philadelphia; l.. W. Schengle,
Post %, Philadelphia. The past Department
Commanders expected to attend are Messrs
Louis Wagner, John Taylor and Charles T.
Hull.
The artesiOn we'll on Cemetery Hill has been
reached in the granite at depth of 100 feet.
The flow is from thirty five to forty-fve gal
Ions per minute.
SUNDAY ON THE CAMP GROUND.
Cemetery Hill, the location of the Grand
Army of the Republic Eucampment, presented
lively scene Sunday. Over sixty Posts have
reported, among them Posts from Philadelphia,
Harrisburg, Pittsburg Altoona, Chester, Johns
town, Remove, Williamsport, Erie Middle
town, Lancaster, Bellefonte, Columbia, Ale
gheny City, West Chester, Clearield Norris
town, Lewiston, Catawissa, Curwensville, Rey-
noldsville, Lykens, and various other points
throughout the State.
This morning Chaplain Sayers, of Reading,
delivered a very appropriate sermon from the
rOstrum in the National Cemetery to a large
audience assembled under the delightful shade
trees The weather is charming and many
visitors are looking over the always interesting
battlefield. Besides the Grand Army boys
there are several thousand visitors here enjoy
ing Gettysburg's gala week. This evening the
men in camp turned out for dress parade, which
was followed by religious services in the Ma
tional Cemetery and sacred concert by the
Weccacoe Band. The exercises were enjoyed
by vast throng of citizens and visitors.
DEDICATION OF THE ZOOX MONUMENT
On Tuesday morning about 10 o'clock, there
was a general movement to the celebrated
wheat-feld, about two miles south of the town,
on the Emmittsburg road, where General look
was killed in the second days fight There
was very large concourse of Grand Army
boys and VISITORS among them Mr.. T. 5. Zook,
of Philadelphia, brother of the deceased
General. General Samuel X. Zook was born in
Chester county, Pa, in 1872 and at the time of
his death was IL years of age. He first enlisted
for service with the Sixth New York militia and
recruited the Fifty-scvcnth New
York, of which he became Colonel. This rcgi-
ment went through the Peninsula campaign,
Colonel ZoOk finally commanding n brigade Of
the Second Corps. He WAS on furlough ut the
time Antietam was fought but rcjoincd his
command at the end of September. He was
present at Fredericksburg and characteristics
being wounded in the former engagement. In
June, 1858, he accompanied General Meade in
the northward march of the Army of the Poto-
mae, being still attached to the Second Corps
which went into position on the night Of the
LIST of July on the left of the First Corps On
the second day, about o'clock in the afternoon,
by Longstrcct's furious assault on Sickles's adj
vanccd position, the latter General sent Major
Tremaine, of his staff, for reinforcement Ire
maine met General Zook at the head of his
brigade and requested him to advance and take
up the position indicated by General SickelSs
order Zook did not wait for an order from
his own division or corps, but acted on the or
der of General Sicklcs, and himself assumed
the responsibility and moved his brigade right
into the breach, i'll the very whirlwind of the
battle. Longstreet had been ordered by Lee to
carry the position at any cost, but the arrival
Of ZoOk at the very moment of emergency vir-
yually prevented the realization of the project
l l.