Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-07-08
CAVALRY REUNION.
GENERALS OF THE BLUE AND GRAY
AT GETTYSBURG.
The Remarkable Loye-Feast Being In
dulged In by the Bold Cavaliers
A Cordial Welcome.

A Cordial Welcome.
A Gettysburg letter Of the 9th to the
Philadelphia Times says: Ths rough
riders are out once more, but to-day
the men in gray or the men in blue do
not blanch the cheeks Of women nor make
the blood Of men flame with passion.
The Johnnies' - and the "Yanks"
are raiding at Gettysburg agaiu. but
at this time it is peace they bring,
not war. No Burgess sits in dread at
the Town Council expecting to hear the
order to sack the village. The past
days have been the infantry's. "Go,"
and they are all gone or are going, full
to the neck with patriotism, at least.
Sickles and Crawford, Carr and Tre-
maine, Graham and Barnum, Robinson
and Young, with score Of others and
their commands, have withdrawn in as
good order as they were capable of
maintaining. The early engagement
with Norris and the First army corps
left the Third corps in demoralized
state, but Sickles's various flank move
ments encouraged his men so that they
at least preserved bold front.
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.
The Grand Army have helped to
maintain discipline. General Wade
Hampton, Of the Confederate side, is
already on the ground. The blue and
the gray cayalrymen will meet and
mipgle once more, and now they ride
together. The chicken coops are safe
on this raid and the barns and corn
cribs will not be invaded for forage.
The "bummers " are sent to the rear.
There will be no flashing Of sabres, no
army bugle-calls will cut the air as with
the flash Of swords. The laundering
impetuosity Of embattled charges will
not make the earth shake or mar the
beauty of nature in this loyeliest of val
ley landscapes, where to-morrow's sun
brings together men whose names are
renowned and historic from their parti-
cipstion in civil war.
II will be sight fit for the gods to
see Wade Hampton and Gregg shake
hands on the same battlefield where
they sent their troopers against each
other with most deadly inteat. On
these fields of their fiercest onsets aud
most fiercely-inhamed exploits they will
Join hands and break bread. When Col
onel Briggs, Of the old Seventh Michigan,
and Boulder, Of the Fourteenth Virginia
cavalry, ride together, while Mcintosh,
of Pennsylvania, and General Num-
ford, Of Virginia Blackford and Nc.
Clellan, of j. +. b. Stuart's staff, wet
their lips from the same stirrup-cup, do
we not know that peace has indeed
come to stay? The countryside is
already swarming with the dasling
cavalrymen Of the Army of Northern
Virginia. Many of them are at Carlisle
and other points in that great arc of
fire and war which they made over
twenty-thTee years since. York aud
Chambersburg will bid them welcome
now. ChambeTsburg will see no flames
lighted tonight, except it be by the
"boys in blue" in welcoming amity
and comradeship.
ALL FEELING GOOD.
All this is good and everybody feels
inspired. The concentration OF forces
will be completed in the morning. Sur
geon Tate, Of the old Third Pennsylva.
MIA cavalry, of this place. has been the
busiest man in town, preparing for the
welcome which tomorrow will be freely
accorded to the distinguished visitors.
About one hundred well-known cav
alrymen and officers from south of the
Potomac will ride out tomorrow with
hundreds of those who in the Army of
the Potomac crossed sabres and met
them in all the shock Of war. Boots
and saddles" will be the morning call
again. The hostile encounter will take
place in the woods on or near the Stall
Smith farm, where, on the afternoon of
the third day of July, 1863, General
Stuart's cavalry dashed out on the
Hanover road in support of Pickett's IA
nous charge, and were met and bsf-
lied by the rough riders" Of Gregg
and Custer.
There is to be an ample luncheon laid
out IN that field. The occasion is to be
notable by its hospitality as well as by
the character and fame of those who
are in attendance or will be when the
line Of march is taken up. 1t is sub
ject of very general regret that Gov
ernor Fitzhugh Lee, Of Virginia, will
not he present. lie sends word that
the dangerous illness with scarlet-feyer
of cne of his children renders his leay-
ing home impossible. He has sent as
his representative Colonel Lewis, 4
member Of his staff.
FEATURES OF THE GATHERING.
As dramatic, or, might say, SEN
sational feature Of these reunions, no
thing yet has equalled the gathering
now in progress. More distinguished
Confederate officers will join in the
cavalry reunion than have been upon
this field since the battle was fought
here. General Wade Hampton came
up on the evening train from Washing
ton. Withhim vas Captain j. W. Moore,
of Hampton, S. c., who was the adjutant
of the Black Horse Legion, with which
Hampton's name was first made famous
at Bull Run. Captain Gary, of South
Carolina, who was also an officer with
Hampton in this fight, is in the party.
Colonel Z. E. Boiling, who commanded
the Fourteenth Virginia in this cavalry
charge, came up from Danyille, Va.
General Mumford, also Of Virginia, is
spending the night at Carlisle with the
Yankee captain against whom he con-
tended twenty-three years ago.
Colonel George Gray, of the famous
Sixth Michigan cavalry; Colonel
George Briggs and Major Trowbridge,
Of the gallant Fifth Michigan, are
on the ground. So is Captain
Of the old fighting First
Michigan. These officers represent
Custer's old brigade, that legion of