The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1913-07-02
TWO DEATHS AT
VETS REUNION
Heat Takes Lives on Old Battle
field at Gettysburg
SEVERAL ARE KNOCKED OUT
Blue and Gray Warriors MingIe ano
Swap Stories Of the Days of '63
$4,000 Veterans Are on the Scene

$4,000 Veterans Are on the Scene
Two deaths in the camp marred the
opening ceremonies of the great re
union at Gettysburg, Pa.
John H. Erynolds, sixty-nine years
Old of Port Chester, n. Y, died OF
heart disease in the camp hospital
overcome 10y the heat.
Augustus D.. Brown Of Livermore
Falls, Me-, was the other veteran to
die on the battlefield He was taken
suddenly i'll and died just as an army
surgeon reached his side
Scores of the old veterans dropped
everywhere from sheer exhaustion and
the ambulances were kept busy hurry
ing them to the field hospitals. Most
of the exhausted veterans are on the
road to recovery.
The medical authorities refuse to
give out the list of veterans overcome.
Colonel Bradley, surgeon in chief, and
the officers commanding the field hos
pitals, all declare that the patients
handled by them were all suffering
with minor ailments.
All attendance records were broken
when $4,000 old soldiers entered
Gettysburg. Thirty-fve governors will
be on the ground during the week.
Among the notable arrivals in camp
is General Daniel Sickles, who de-
clined hotel quarters in favor of tent
at the place where he lost his leg.
General SicKles was escorted to his
camp tent by a cavalry detail and was
cheered Justify by both blue and gray
as he proceeded through the center
of the camp to his quarters in the ex-
treme southern camp limits
General Sickles' decision to share
camp life has been followed by other
of the officers. General Felix Robert
son of Dallas, Tex, and General A. j..
West of Atlanta, for whom the Penn
sylvania state commission had re-
served quarters at the seminary, fiat
ly refused the offer and insisted on
being shown to the regular camp sec
ton of the Confederate veterans.
Perhaps the most striking illustra-
tion of the genuinely fraternal spirit
between old veterans is the fact that
the Union veterans on arrival
searched eagerly for a display of "The
Stars and Bars and the Confederate
veterans were just as reluctant about
displaying it as the Union men were
to see it.
This thing isn't right until the boys
in gray have their flag on Seminary
ridge; it ought to be there" insisted
several Pennsylvanians and New York
ers.
"They ought to have it, let us get
one up" declared Lucien w. Lyman
of the Eighty-third Pennsylvania and
all other Union visitors to the Con
federate section voiced the same
opinion. But the sentiment which pre-.
vailed was
mo, the war is over, it's one coun-
try now, one flag; we fought for what
we thought was right, but let's all for
get it now"
Men in blue and men in gray walk
around the battlefield; together they
visited the cemetery and the park, to-
gether they find thousand things of
common memory. Arm in arm they
stand before the monuments erected
in commemoration of deeds and rev.
erently discuss the causes that led
to the mighty conflict.
One of the most Interesting and con
spicuous figures in Gettysburg is Sam
uel S. Marks, who has been chief OF
police of Stevensville, Mont, in the
Bitter Root valley, as he carefully ex-
plains it, for the past five years. Chief
Marks was one of the twenty men ap-
pointed by Governor George V. Stew
art of Montana to come to Harrisburg
Chief Marks stands six feet four in
his stocking feet is OF slight figure,
wears whiskers and glasses, a Con
federate gray suit and rebel hat.
Across his chest is large printed
streamer giving the name and number
of his regiment. Almost every vet
eran of north or south halts Chief
Marks and asks him his story.
In the newspaper camp are corre-
spondents from Maine to California.
More than thirty tents quarter the
writer's.
Every few blocks along the streets
a boy scout Is stationed and the little
fellows prove most efficient and
courteous guides. No service is too
great or too small for them to render
painstakingly and they guide the old
carefully through the ma2es of ropes
and Of unmarked thOrOnghiares.