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Fourth DAVIS Exercises.

With reveille the troops were up and stir.
ring, and all day long there was constant
movement Of troops in and around Gettys-
burg, celebrating in various ways the last
day Of the reunion. The monuments OF the
Third, Thirteenth and B batteries of New
York artillery, Fifth New York cavalry,
Forty.sscond and Sixty-seventh New York
and Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania infantry
were dedicated during the day.
General Russell A. Alger, OF Michigan,
with party arrived in the morning. and re-
inforced by the veterans Of the Sixth United
States (regular) cavalry visited the battle
field on which they were engaged, near the
Runnells House. At two o'clock, at the re-
union of the Sixth, General Alger made a
touching address
The Society of the Army of the Potomac,
escorted by all the military of the town, held
their public exercises in the cemetery during
the afternoon. They left the Springs at two
p. NJ, the procession marching into town
Through Reynolds grove, over Seminary
Ridge and to the edge of the town the line
maintained the rout step. Thence to the
music Of the band they paraded through the
town to the National Cemetery.
Promptly at three o'clock the procession
entered the cemetery and proceeded to the
rostrum, Colonel Gibson, the ranking officer
present, leading.
leaning heavily on his crutches, requested
Rev. Twitchell, of Hartford, Conn.,, to open
the days reunion exercises with prayer. AT
the conclusion of the invocation it was an
nounced that the poet Of the occasion, Geo.
Parsons Lathrop, was unable to be present,
but part of his poem was read by General
Horatio c. King, the Secretary OF the So
ciety Of the Army of the Potomac, and was
received by the audience with much applause
When the orator, George William Curtis,
was presented, three cheers were called LOT
by General Sharpe, and he was greeted with
hearty applause. The oration delivered by
him was full Of burning eloquence. The
passages, which perhaps produced tha great,
est effect, were those in which ho described
the growth of the new South. There was
cheering as Mr.. Curtis concluded his eloquent
grafton. In the evening reception and col
lation were given at the Springs Hotel in lieu
of the usual banquet:
Probably the most interesting feature OF
the days proceedings was the reception held
by Generals Longstreet, Sickles, Butterfeld,
Slocum and Carr, on Little Round Top The
gentlemen escorted by a detachment OF
New Jersey troopers rode over the field,
and when they reached that spot the
many hundreds Of veterans desired TO
shake hands with them. A line was
formed, and in a few minutes they were
passing, shaking hands and exchanging com.
pliments. After their reception the site OF
the Rogers house was visited, and the oven
in which bread was baked for the Union
men while the battle was going on was
inspected. The house was General
Carrs headquarters during the bat
tie. the First Massachusetts, in.
fantry fighting from and beside it. Eleven
men were killed in the house during the
second days battle. General slocum then
took charge of the party and escorted them
over Culps Hill and Cemetery Hill. exp ain,
ing the battle waged there during the second
and third days OF ,July 1863