The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-16
gHE SALT LAKE HERALD MONDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1885,

twenty-ffftf anniversary takes rank as
a formal demonstration of amity re-
stored. The Society of the Potomac
met there by special invitation the sur
vivors of the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia. Upon the rostrum in the Ma
tional cemetery where General Sickles
spoke a striking and historic group
was presented. BY the side of Sickles
sat his old antagonist, Longstreet. and
by the side of Slocum, General Gordon,
whose corps had opposed Slocum's in
| the heavy lighting on CUPS hill. Thus
face to face were the leaders respec
lively of the right and left wings of
both armies. Sickles was the first or
| ator of the reunion and spoke words
that could have been born on no other
occasion. Said he: This assembly
marks an epoch. You are the survf
vors of two great armies. You and
your comrades fought here the de-
cisive battle of a long and terrible
civil war. Twenty-Five years have
passed, and now the combatants of
1863 come together again on your old
| Held of battle to unite in pledges of
love and devotion to one constitution
and one union and one flag. Today
there are no victors and no vanquish-
! ed. Gallant Buford, who began the
battle, and brave Pickett, who closed
the struggle, fifty represent the intrep-
id hosts that for three days rivalled
each other in titles to marital renown.
Among the hundreds of memorial
structures on this field there is not one
bearing an inscription that wounds the
susceptibilfties of an honorable and
gallant foe" Gordon followed Sickles,
and opened with this glowing tribute
| to the Potomac veterans whom he
1icalled "My fellow countrymen of the
north: ''Of all the martial virtues"
said he, ''the one which is perhaps
more characteristic of the truly brave
Is the virtue of magnanimity.
| My fairest earldom would [ give
To bid Clan Alpine's chieftain live,
was the noble sentiment attributed to
Scotland's monarch, as he stood gaz-
| ing into the face of his slain antagon-
list. That sentiment, imnortalized by
Scott in musical and martial verse,
will associate for all time the name of
Scotland's king with those of the great
| spirits of the past. How grand the ex-
hibitions Of the same generous i'm
! pulses that characterize the victors up
on this memorable field"
| Southerners Charging With Extern
ded Arms.
SoOul StlIIlllS SIilluSldSlly COup1CQ
with fraternity and patriotism, have
also marked the reunions Of the blue
and gray at Gettysburg. But the most
noteworthy of these occasions was
when Pickett's veterans, led by Mrs.
! Pickett, shook hands with the survi-
vors Of the Philadelphia brigade, the
! year before the great anniversary. The
| line was formed in the evening just as
| the last train arrived from the south
Throngs of people, who had been on
! the Qui YiYe for hours, welcomed the
spectacle with a ceaseless clapping of
| hands and the waving of handker-
! chiefs. The Yankees and southerners
marched with all the distance which
the street allowed between them, to
represent the Bloody Chasm." In the
public square the column halted, with
! files opposite. At the orders Right
facer' and LEFT tacev' the lines
wheeled half about, the men looking
into each others eyes. A blaze of fire.
works lit up the square, and at the
word "Advance!' there was a charge
| of the southern line to the inspiring
airs of Dixie and hands were clasp
ed by men who had never met before
nearer than on that day when they
crossed bayonets along the stone wall
| of the bloody angle
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| Chicamauga, like that of seven years
ago at Gettysburg, marks an epoch. 1t
! is satisfaction to the veterans to re-
member that, although this will be the
first occasion when the national voice
| has spoken its summons to blue and
gray alike, it does not open an era of
experimental friendliness. Rather, it
is the. arrival of that future of which
the past gave an earnest, the future
/ foreshadowed when Massachusetts
shook hands with Virginia at York
town fourteen years ago; when Boston
| and Baltimore and Richmond resound-
] ed with mingled cheers and yells;
when those dread heights of destiny
at Gettysburg looked down upon the
| fraternal hand clasp, even when Grant
at Appomattox closed four years of
strife with the invocation, Let us
have peace"