The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-05-14
known" The number of identified interments
from each State is as follows:

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Rhode Island II
Connecticut. -
New ooa
New Jersey Is
PennSy wanna ooI
West Nirginla...- IL
Ohio 13t
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Regular 10y
The whole number of Union regiments en-
gagged at Gettysburg was $50 of infantry. 81 of
cavalry and 56 batteries of artillery. Pennsyl-
vania had more regiments present than any
other State-77. New York was good second
with ~ These two great States furnished
more than half the troops that fought the bat
tie.
The Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Asso-
ciation," which was organized some years ago to
perpctuate the memories of the battle by pre-
serving, as far as possible, without change, the
most important points that mark the ebb and
flow of the tide of battle. individual contri-
buttons aud State appropriations have enabled
the association TO purchase already nearly 300
acres, aud more is being negotiated for. Private
dTivewayS connecting various points have been
built and the stone walls. earthworks and
other objects connected with the struggle are
being carefully kept they were at the time
of the battle. Monuments and memorial tab
lets of enduring marble and granite are being
erected year by year upon the ground occupied
by various brigadeS and regiments. Among
the regiments thus commemorated are the I'd
Mass, 14th and 18th Conn, l2ith N. Y, and
9th, I'D, SSth, 9lst. ODD. 106th, l1Sth and 153d
Pa, and Battery b, 1st Pa. l.. A. There are
also stones erected to the memory of several
prominent officers who fell. During this Sum-
mer large number of additional stones will be
set up, including memorials tor the NlasSachu-
sets regiments engaged. The association IS re.
doubling its efforts to carry out its objects so
well begun. Under its fostering care. aided by
the National Government, the Gettysburg bat
tlefied will be during all the years to come
place of the greatest historic interest to all the
people of the country, North and South.
GETTYSBURG
is to-day the same dull, sleepy town that it
always has been. 1t looks as if it had never
been fairly awake but once in its life, and that
was when the guns of Meade and Lee Numbered
in its ears. 1t has scarcely yet recovered from
the fright it had during those hot July days in
49, when half the people took to the woods and
the other half sought refuge in cellars and
wells from bullet and screaming shell. The
town would always have remained in its former
obscurty had it not been made famous by the
mighty death struggle between two great
armies.
Gettysburg appears now to have no visible
means of support except its historic battlefield
For % years it has been trading upon the men,
cries of the past. and is as briskly engaged in
this business now as ever The people are
chiefly divided into two classes, one of which
drives tourists over the field in carriages,
hacks, and all sorts Of crazy vehicles, and the
other labors with great assiduity to sell them
at fabulous prices battered bullets rusty frag-
ments of shells, old bayonets, canteens, belt
plates and other relics of the battle. You find
these in almost every store and on every street
corner. The trade is carried on by persons of
both sexes and of all ages, from the gray haired
sire to the lisping urchin in pinaiores who
meets you on the street, draws from his pocket
half dozen bullets or piece of shell, which
he says you can have for s. 80 thenth." Nearly
quarter of century has not exhausted the
supply of these mementoes of the struggle.
They are growing scarcer year by year, and
their market price correspondingy increases.
Scores OF children follow every pillow that fur
rows the field, looking for these relics. Rain
falling upon freshly plowed field brings them
to view on all sides. Tons and tons of this lead
and iron, that was hurled from musket and
cannon have been gathered and sold, bringing
many dollars to the pockets of the thrifty
townsfolk. 1t is likely that these things will
continue to be sold there for so years to come.
When the genuine can no longer be found they
buys will never know the difference, happy in
the belief that he has relic of Gettysburg. 1t
was so with the apples in Gen. Garfeld's Or
chard at Mentor during the Presidential cam
pagn of 1850. After the multitude of pilgrims
had stripped the trees of their fruit, the neigh
boring farmers, it is said, used to haul in few
loads every morning and scatter them about
upon the ground.
THE OLD MEN ABOUT TOWN
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their experiences. The Confederate forces oc-
cupied the greater portion of the town in the
evening Of July ], and held possession during
the remaining two days.
hight here in this square," said patri-
archal citizen, lone of the rebel brass band
stood and played Dixie at o'clock the first
evening l tell We, stranger, it made us feel
mighty queer. Them was warm days for US,
though guess it was a good deal wuss for the
solgers on both sides. OF course, we had no
guns to fight with, and when there was fighin'
goin' on all we could do was to hide around in
the safest places we could find. | was down in
my well a good part of the time. | reckon if
a shell had come down thar I'd have been a
goner, sure At night, and whenever they
stopped shootin', we came out and did what we
could for the wounded,-a there was lots of
EN- poor fellows Every house was full. Of
course. it didn't make any difference which
side man belonged to. If he was wounded
and wanted water or something to eat we gave
it to him. There didn't anybody do much
sleepin' durin' them three or four days and
nights. can tell We. For days and days after
the fight thousands of people came from every
where to look at the battlefield. don't think
very many of 'em cared ever to see another.
Its sartain, stranger, that don't ever want any
more war. had enough good many of the
people who lived here left town entirely when
the fightin' began, and didn't show up again
till it was all over. Those who stayed were
pretty badly frightened, but most of 'em did
what they could for the sufferin' sogers."
"GRAPEvINE" STORIES
Two very trifing incidents of the Presidcr-
tial trip illustrate the rapid growth of rumors,
or "grapevines," as the boys used to call them
in the army. On the way to Gettysburg some
thing about the engine was found to be out of
order when at Hanover, and another locomo-
tive was substituted. Within an hour wild
rumors were flying about Washington that a
terrible accident had occurred to the train.
Imagination soon placed many members of the
Presidents party on the list of killed and in
jured. In the evening" when the train ap-
preached Hanover, large crowd of people had
gathered to get sight at the President There
was the usual amount Of cheering, which served
as safety valve 70 the public enthusiasm. AS
the train was slowly moving a boy held pistol
in the air above his head and fred two or three
times while his companions yelled like mad.
That is all there was of it, for the writer sat
directly at the car window, not six feet from
where it occurred and plainly saw the whole
of IL Rut IL was mt long till WASHINGTON WAS