The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-05-10
THE GETTYSBURG
ANNIVERSARY
Memorial Hall, Chicago, III,
March 18th. 1912.
Lieut.. Gen. c. Irvine Walker,
Commander in Chief, United Con-
federate Veterans,
Charleston, S. C.
Charleston, S. C.

0HdItSStOls ~
Dear General / have read your
General orders No. with very great
Soleasure. From it learn that you are
fully advised of the action taken b.
.he state OF Pennsylvania, and the
plans already we'll under way for the
celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary
of the Battle of Gettysburg on July /,
2, 3, 4, 1913, and that you also know
that the CO omission, created by that
state has requested all surviving sol
diers of the 'ivil War, north and south,
tc participate therein as officially in
vitedk CHESTS, to be provided with seats
in body at all official functions dur
ing the celebration, under the joint
direction of the commander-in-ehief of
the Grand Army of the Republic and
United Confederate Veterans, subject,
of course, to the approval of the COM
mission.
IF this event might mark the final
and complete reconciliation between
those of the opposing armies of fifty
years ago, and the permanent estab-
lishment of harmonious and fraternal
relations between the north and south,
it would certainly gladden. the hearts
of all our countrymen.
ITO that end, voicing, as he believes,
the common sentiment of his COM
rades, and speaking for them in that
behalf, the commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, extends
to you and your comrades of the Unit
ed Confederate Veterans most cordial
greetings and sincerely requests that
you and your comrades, in numbers
as great as possible, join with the Vet
Grams of tht Grand Army of the Re
public in the celebration of the semi
centennial anniversary of the Battle
of Gettysburg.
Let us assemble there, and meet
and greet each other hand to hand and
heart to heart in the spirit of true
friendship and Brotherhood born out
of love for the flag and devotion to
our common country. Thus will all
the wounds of our former strife be
healed, as they must some time be,
that this people, as a united and vital
force, may effectively and nightly
solve the problems of our Nations
destiny in world affairs and human pro-
gress.
Let us assemble there, and inaug-
urate a great peace monument under
which shall be entombed forever any
lingering prejudices and bitterness
that may have survived the ebbing
tides of passion through half CEN
tury of peace, to symbolic to all our
people and to the generations yet to
be. that even out of the dead dust and
ashes of war, under the sunlight of
our Christian civilization. the fragrant
flowers of peace and amity may grow
and bloom.
Let us assemble there, where so
many comrades of the Blue and the
Gray found common sepulture on that
historic field made immortal in the
worlds memory by their unexcelled
heroism, and there in that sacred pres
ence, mutually pledge to each other
our constant fealty to a reunited and
indissoluble American Republic.
with this invitation goes the out
stretched hand of friendship which
feel will surely be accepted in the
spirit in which it is extended.
Fraternally and sincerely yours.
H. H. TRIMBLE,
Commander in Chief Grand Army OF
the Rannhlic