The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-07-02
HEAR REBEL YELL.
BY DIXIE'S MEN
Reply 10 GOV. TGnGr's Wei
come 10 Gettysburg,
The CAMP IS 0VERCR0WDED

Many Veterans Return Home, While
Thousands Get Temporary Quarters
/ In Tents Used For Reunions.
/ Gettysburg, Pa, July 2.-ln the pitt
j less glare of sun that sent the mer
curry bubbling over the loo mark, made
/ clothes burden and bath only a
! delusion, the armies OF the north and
! the. south began the formal exercises
1 to mark the semi-centennial Of Get
tysburg.
Veterans to the number Of 10000.
the army officers estimated, filed into
+ the big tent set apart for the eXer
scises, sat in the haze OF heat for two
iShours and shook the camp with their
cheers when the speakers made refer
/ ence TO a reunited nation.
Every seaT under the canvas was
/ taken Ions before Secretary OF War
Garrison and Governor Tener, the ora
| tors OF the DAY, came chugging up in
| their automob les.
Althou gh the men in gray were far
outnumbol ed by those in blue, there
were possibly thousand southerners
through the amphitheater, and what
| they lacked in numbers they made up
in lung power. When Governor Tener
finished his speech, General Bennett
| II. Young, commander-in-ch chief of the
! United Confederate Veterans, rose
slowly and bowed to him.
I can give you something that no
one else can give you," he said. We
will now give you the rebel yell"
Nine famous Confederate generals
I and thousand veterans of the south
i gave it SO loudly that it was heard far
in camp towards. Gettysburg.
When General Young stepped for
| greeted with wild enthusiasm, the
/ Union veterans, led by Commander
{ Eein-Ghief Beers, giving him three lusty
Ecleers and a tiger.
/ He took as his keynote the convic-
&tIon of each side in the great struggle
<thet it fought for principle which it
belieyed was the truth. One of his
Eppening statements was that the
1 northern soldiers deserved more
I credit than the. southerners for their
! promul cation and successful realiza-
I ton Of the present great reunion.
Uaiish she characterized as the great
movement of its kind in the world.
then discussed the question of
- xeTnaAe Aent pensions for the soldiers
ssisI aifff who fought under the Stars
( and Bars.
Among the 200 guests on the plat
/ form were Governors Mann, of Vir.
/ ginia, McCreary, of Kentucky, and
/ Eberhardt, of Minnesota; Senator
/ Penrose, of Pennsylvania, and the fol
lowing Confederate generals: Robin
/ son, Texas; West, Georgia; Thomas
/ J. Shaffer, Louisiana; A. D. Williams,
! Florida; E. M. Law, Florida, and Carr,
North Carolina.
The invocation was delivered by
Rev. George Edwards Lovejoy, chap
| lain-in-chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic. The benediction was to have
been delivered by Rev H. NJ. Hamill,
chaplain general of the Confederate
Veterans, who didn't show up.
| The veterans poured into camp, took
| graciously what small blessings fate
passed out to them for a few hours
I and found permanent quarters when
| the hard pressed regular army officers
could get them ready. Major Nor
moyle, second in command to Briga-
dier General Liggett, estimated that
more than $4,000 men are quartered in
camp intended to hold only 10000
men.
Through persistent effort, however,
every man has been cared for as well
as possible. Thousands have been
given quarters in the big tent and
hundreds of others in smaller tents,
used in the daytime for speechmaking
and reunions. No officer cared to esti.
mate the number of southerners. 1t is
probable one-quarter of the total num-
Der is represented by the men from
Dixie.
| Many veterans got no further than
one meal in camp and one look at the
crowded tents, and then started back
for home as quickly as they could go.
The real exodus, however, will not
begin until Thursday or Friday, fol
thousands who might have left sooner
expect to stay over the Fourth to see
President Wilson.
/ Before the exercises began, and al.
ter the veterans quarered there had
made their slim toilets, the reunions
of regiments and companies and
squadrons began. Confederates who
were in Pickett's charge took keen
| delight in marching with fife and drum
to Spangler's woods, where the col
umns of Pickett formed on July
1853, to begin the charge that marked
the high tide of the Lost Cause
On the edge of the Union side OF
| the camp the veterans of Meredit's
Iron brigade and of Pettigrew's bri
gade of North Carolina got together
to go over the story of the fight of the
llst of July. The struggle between the
s.. giments of these two brigades was
the most disastrous in number of those
killed in the entire three days oil
fighting and was seldom equailed in
the whole history of the war. They
met, many of them, for the first time
since 1868
The doctors were amazed at the
way the veterans withstood the I'm
usual heat, for ii poured down in
way to keep men scores of years