The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-07-01
10000 NOW IN
VETERANS CAMP
Sulzer and Six Other Gov.
ernOrs Greet Gettys-
burg Survivors.
FEW HEAT VICTIMS
Confederates Carry Gen.
Sickles to Spot Where
He Lost leg.
GENERAL LIGGETT ARRIVES
Philadelphia Veteran Meets
"Rebcl" Who Cut OFF
His Arm.

GsrTysBuRG. June 3O.-The Gettys-
burg veterans have been busy every
minute ever since salute OF nine
guns this morning announced the ar
rival of Brig. Gen. Hunter Ligge,t who
assumed command of the reunion(
camp.
a second salute announced the ar
rival Of the Governor Of Pennsylvania,
and then followed six Other Governors.
who came tO pay their respects and
the respects Of their States to the Blue
and the Gray veterans. Governors :.
Mann Of Virginia. McGovern Of Wis
consin. Clark of Iowa, Ralston of In
diana. Hanna of North Dakota ami
Sulzer OF New York all entered the
camp and inspected their State sections.
The men from Virginia. including
Pickett's seventy-three survivors. gave
their Governor an especially enthusi-
astic welcome and passed in review
before him under the Stars and Stripes,
the Stars and Bars and the Virginia
State flag.
Then a body Of Confederate veterans
stormed the tent OF Gen. Sickles and
carried the only surviving Federal
Corps commander on their shoulders
to the monument erected at the spot
where Sickles lost his leg in the second
days battle. The invalid General was
greatly moved by the affectionate
Reorganization rendered him by his old
foemen.
Baford's Cavsrlymen Assemble.
In the afternoon Buford Cavalry sur.
vivors Of New York gave q reception 70
all cavalrymen in the camp and to all
citizens Of Gettysburg. Bufords Cav
airy got into Gettysburg fifty years ago
to-day and was bombarded with flowers
by the citizens Of the little town. Bu-
ford's survivors returned the compli-
ment to-day in the monster reunion hall
Of the camp. three ring circus tent.
Later in the day children and grand
children Of Confederate and Federal
corps commanders arrived. The chill.
dren and grandchildren Of Meade and
Grant and OF Hill. LonHstreet and
Pickett are housed together in tho
seminary, and wherever they went
through the camp sections, searching
for particular commands which had
taken past in the historic deeds Of their
fathers, they aroused anew the vete.
The camp is filling up. About 10000
| veterans are under tents tonight and
| before 2 o'clock tomorrow all Gettys-
! burg survivors are expected to be hers
| to answer the roll call when, LtpAley
NJ. Garrison. the Secretary 20. Var.
comes here to deliver the otq(nthkicApp
| address.
Gel. sehOonnaker to PresidsSSs
Col. J. M. Schoonmaker. chairman OH
| the Pennsylvapia commission, will pre-
side at the first official meeting Of the
| veterans camp. Prayers will be offered
by the Rev. George Edwards l.Ovejoy.
chaplain In chief Of the Grand Army.
| After Secretary Garrisons address Gov.
| Tener will deliver the address Of wei.
come.
Gen. Alfred b. Beers, commander in
chief OF the Grand Army. and Gen.
Bennett II. Young, commander in chief
Of the United Confederated Veterans.
will then deliver their addresses to the
veterans. and the Rev. H. NJ. Hamill.
chaplain general OF the United Confed.
prayer.
Before the ofIicial programme Of
Veterans Day" tomorrow. the big re.
union tent will be the scene Of meet.
ings Of survivors associations assigned
to different sections In the tent.
The survivors meeting tomorrow are
the Tenth New York Cavalry Veterans.
the Army and Navy Medal Of Honor
Legion. the Sixth Pennsylvania Re-
serves. the 121st Pennsylvania Volub-,
teers. Third Pennsylvania Cavalry.
l04th New York Regiment, Second
Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. 143d
Pennsylvania Volunteers. 10Th Ohio
Volunteers. Tenth Michigan Infantry.
Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry. Third
Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. 1ssth
Pennsylvania Regiment. 163d Pennsyl-
vania Infantry. l2lst New York Volun.
teers, Forty eighth Pennsylvania Vol
unteers, National Association OF Naval
Veterans, Sixth New York Cavalry.
Knapp's Battery. Twenty-eighth Penn.
sylvania Volunteers. 147th Pennsylvania
Volunteers and the Prisoners Of War.
Heat Finds Few Victims.
Though the veterans Of both sides 70
day kept up their tireless search tor
former foemen, there were fewer caD6e
Of prostrations to-day than on Sunday.
mainly due to the fact that the camp
all day was swept by pleasant, cooling
breeze.
The third death In the camp was re-
ported tonight when Edgar Bigsby, %
years, OF Waukesha, Wis. u member OF
Walker Post Of Milwaukee. died from
exhaustion following an attack OF heart
failure after he had been overcome by
the heat.
}, August j. Washburn. a Philadelphia
, veteran, to-day met the rebel" who cut
, IN his right arm at the hl9hWat0r