South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-02
REBEL YELL IS
HEARD AGAIN ON
BATTLE FIELD
Nine Famous Confederate Gen.
erals and a Thousand Sold
ierS Repeat Famous Yell at
Gettysburg Reunion.


GETTYSBURG. Pa. July I'm the
pitfless glare OF a sun that sent the
mercury bubbling over the hundred
mark and made clothes "a burden and
a bath only delusion. the armies of
the north and south Tuesday began
the formal exercises set to mark the
semi-centennial OF Gettysburg.
Veterans 10 the number of $1,000,
the army officers estimated. filed into
the big tent set apart for the exer-
cises. sat in the haze OF heat for
two hours and shook the camp with,
their cheers when the speakers made
reference % reunited nation.
Every seat under the canvas was
taken long before Sec. of War CARR
son and Gov. Tener. the orators OF the
day. came chugging up in their auto
mobiles. Although the men in gray
were far outnumbered 10y those in blue
there were possibly "A thousand south
erners through the amphitheatre and
what they lacked in numbers they
made up in lung power.
When Gov Tener finished his
speech. Gen. Bennett IT. Young. com
mander in chief of the United Con-
federate Veterans rose slowly and
bowed To him. 4 can give YOU some
thing that no one else can give YOU"
he said. We viii now give you the
rebel yell"
Give the Rebel Yen.
Nine famous Confederate generals
and n thousand veterans of the south
gave if so loudly that it was heard
far back in the camp toward Gettys-
burg
When Gen. Young stepped forward
10 deliver his address he was greeted
with wild enthusiasm. the Union vet
Grams led by Commander in Chief
Beers giving him three lusty cheers
and a tiger"
he took as his keynote the convic-
tion OF each side in the great strug-
gle that IL fought for a principle
which it believed was the truth. one
OF his opening statements was that
the northern soldiers deserved more
credit than the sOutherners for the
PRONUNCIATION and successful realiza-
ton of the present great reunion
which he characterized as the greatest
movement of its kind i'm the world.
This compliment 10 the northern
veterans was greeted with cries of
Ne, 10 which Gen. Young quickly
replied. Il know better than you do.
His speech captured the audience and
be was overwhelmed with handshakes.
Late Tuesday Maj. Normoyle, sec
end in command TO Brig Gen. Lig
gett. estimated that more than 30, 600
men are quartered in a camp intend
ed 10 hold 10000.
Through persistent efforts. how
ever, every man has been cared for
we'll as possible. Thousands have
been given quarters in the big tent
and hundreds of others in smaller
tents used in the day time for
speechmaking and reunions. No Of
ficer cared TO estimate the number of
southerners here. There are more
than 5000 from Virginia. and it is
probable that one quarter of the
total number is represented by men
I of Dixie.
Get Only One Meal.
Many veterans got no further than
one meal in camp and one look at
the crowded tents and then started
back home as quickly as they could
go. The real exodus. however. will
. not begin until Thursday or Friday
for thousands who might have left
sooner expect to stay over the Fourth
TO see Pres. Wilson.
Before the morning exercises began
and after the veterans CHARTERED in
the big tent made their slim toilets
the reunions of regiments and com
panies and squadrons began. COnfed-
crates who were in Picketts charge
took keen delight in marching with
fife and drum to S0angler's Woods
where the columns of Pickett formed
on July 3. '63 10 begin the charge
that marked the high tide of the Lost
Cause" They didn't charge again
like they once did but they remem-
bered, or thought they remembered,
and nobody said them nay, every
stick and stone and even the blades
Of grass in that wide stretch where
death kent step with them before.
on the edge of the Union side Of
the camp. the veterans of Meredith's
Iron brigade. and OF Pettitgrew's bril-
gade of North Carolina got together
20 go over the story of the fight of
the first of July. The struggle between
the regiments of those killed in the
entire three DAYS lighting and was
seldom eQualled i'm the whole history
OF the war. They met Tuesday. many
OF them. for the first time since SO.
Veterans Withstand Heat.
The doctors were amazed Tuesday
at the way the veterans withstood
the unusual heat for it poured down
In a way TO keep men scores OF years
younger. in the shade. About 90 vet
Grams were taken sick in the big tent
during the exercises. but most of them
were able 10 get upand walk away
from the relief stations 20 which they
were taken after a few minutes rest.
The army ambulances We're fairly
busy during the day and there were
several hundred men who dropped in
at relief stations. got a bit Of medi-
cine. rested for a half hour or 50
and then went back 10 their tents.
Although the army doctors were
not given ~ talking about such mat
tiers. il was evident Tuesday night
that many of the old soldiers would
have been better of If they had not
undertaken the trip here. Two vet
Grams have been found in camp ap-
parently without friends who are to-
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