The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-07-15
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GETTYSBURG, July G.-The rough rid.
ers are out once more, but to-day the
men in grey or the men in blue do not
blanch the cheeks of women nor make
the blood of men fame with passion
The "Johnnies" and the "Yanks" are
raiding at Gettysburg again, but this
time it is peace they bring, not war. No
Burgess sits in dread at the town council
expecting 10 Lear the order TO suck the
village. The past days have been the
infantry's. "Go!" and they are all gone
or are going, full to the neck with patri.
otism, at least.
Gen. Wade Hampton, Of the Confed.
crate side, is already on the ground. The
blue and the grey cayalrymen will meet
and mingle 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 impet-
uosity of embattled charges will not make
the earth shake or mar the beauty OF
nature in this loveliest of valley land
scapes, where morrow's sun brings to.
gether men whose names are renowned
and historic from their participation in
the Civil War.
1t 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 intent. On these fields of
their fiercest onsets and most fercely In
famed exploits they will join hands and
break bread. When Col. Briggs, of
the old 7th Michigan, and Boiling, of the
14th Virginia Cavalry, ride together,
while Mcintosh, Of Pennsylvania, and
Gen. Munford, Of Virginia, Blackford
and Mcclellan, Of ]. E. B. Stuart's
staff, wet their lips from the same stirrup
cup, do we not know that peace has In.
deed come to stay7 The countrywide is
already swarming with the dashing cav.
alrymen of the Army of Northern Vir.
.ginia.
About one hundred well-known cayal.
:rymen and officers from south of the Po.
tomac will ride out to. morrow with hun.
dreds of those who in the Army of the
Potomac crossed ssbres and met them in
ali the shock of war. "Boots and sad.
dies" 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 Sd
day Of July, 1868, Gen. Stuart's cavalry
dashed out on the Hanover road in sup
port of Pickett's famous charge and were
met and baf1ed by the trough 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 we'll as by
the character and fame Of those who are
in attendance or will be when the line of
march isstaken up. It's subject of
very general regret that Governor Fitz..
hugh Lee, of Virginia, will not be pres.
enk. He sends word that the dangerous
illness with scarlet fever of one of his
children renders his leaving home i'm.
possible. He has sent as his representa-.
tive Col. Lewis, a member Of of his staff.
FEATURES OF THE GATHERING.
AS q dramatic, or, I might say, sensa-
tional, feature of these reunions, nothing
yet has equalled the gathering now in
progress. More distinguished Confeder.
ate officers will join in the cavalry re-.
union than have been upon this field
since the battle was fought here. Gen.
Wade Hampton came up on the evening
train from Washington. With him was
Capt. J. w. Moore, of Hampton, S. O.,
who was the adjntant of the Black Horse
Legion, with which Hampton's name
was first made famous at Bull Run.
Capt. Gary, of South Carolina, who was
also an officer with Hampton in this
fight, is in the party. Col. E. e. Boil
ing, who commanded the 18th Virginia
in this cavalry charge, came up from
+ 5Danville, Va. Ger. Munford, also of
Virginia, is spending the night at Car.
.lisle with the Yankee captain against
whom he contended twenty. three years
ago.
There is strange and interesting
group tonight on the porch of the Get
.tysburg Springs Hotel. Here is Wade
Hampton and Major Met Clellan,. =. p. B.
Stuart's adjutant general and historian,
with Capts. Gary and Moore, of the
Hampton Legion, entirely surrounded
and in a state of siege by Gen. Mcintosh,
who commanded brigade of Gregg's
cavalry, and the four distinguished rep
resentatives of Clusters old command.
All Of them have wonderfully changed
lin twenty three years. The faces that
we're then young and the hair and whis.
kers that were then black are now fur.
rowed by years and streaked with gray.
There are crow-foots at the corner of the
eyes, but the laughter on their lips is
hearty and gay. It has that touch of
youthfulness in it which belongs to old
soldiers when renewing the ,"hostilities"
of the occasion.
a REMARKABLE PICTURE.