The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-07-04
GETTYSBURG STORM SWEPT
BRINGS RELIEF TO THOUSANDS.
Soldier in Blue and One i'm Gray
March to Scent of Picketts
Charge and "Bury Hatchet."

thousands of veterans in Blue and
Gray who have sweltered for four
days in an atmospher dangerous in
the city of $4,000 weary men. For
more than half hour the rain came
pouring down upon sun-cracked and
windswept encampment grounds. 1t
charged with violent laundering
over the ground that Pickett covre-
ed In '63. It's salvoes Of thunder
were like the booming guns OF
Meade and Lee but the thermome-
ter dropped with wonderful agility
and the lightning cleared the air of
its burden of humidity.
The veterans lashed down their
tents and showed they had not for
gotten the old days, for not a tent
was blown over, so far as reports
showed last night and not a veteran
avs injured.
Last night the veterans were real
ly able to enjoy themselves for the
first time since their arrival, al
though the ground was slippery, the
roads a half inch deep in mud.
MILITARY DAY.
Yesterday was military day at the
bfg tent, but comparatively few vet
Grams appeared to listen to the
speech-making and to hear the bands
playing Turkey in the Straw" "Old
Black Joe" and other well known
airs.
Col. Andrew Cowan of Louisville
acted as presiding officer Of the day
and told several stories that
brought smiles to lips of his hear
ers. Colonel Cowan was an officer
in n Union battery which played a
part in the Gettysburg campaign.
"On the third day Of the battle"
~ he said, 1.-TWO OF my officers we're
wounded. / went with them to a
hospital and before ] left a wounded
Confederate officer was brought in.
4 wish you would see to ii that no
reports go out that ! have been
wounded the Confederate said.
My wife is in delicate condition and
I'm afraid II she hears about 1t, IT
might kill her.
"I went to the doctor in charge
and told him the story and he prom
ised to do all he could.
"Twenty-three years later that
Union doctor was sitting in his office
at Plainfleld, N. j., when a boy
walked in.
Doctor he said, L want to
shake your hand. I am going TO
school over at Princeton and my
father told me when / came up here
to look you up. He said you saved
his life
Doctor he continued, I'm the
boy"
Colonel Cowan turned to the navy
and the Japanese situation.
I'VE ought to build two battle
ships for every one laid down by
Japan" he said, and the veterans
cheered again and again. THE peo-
rIn NJ 10
TO be left without protection. We
ought to be prepared to demand
peace"
SCARBOROUGH SPEAKS.
Other speakers of the day were
Major General John r. Brooke OF
Pennsylvania; Sergeant John S.
Scarborough of North Carolina, and
Lieutenant Governor Burchard OF
Rhode Island, representing the
armies OF the North and South.
Parry Bulkley of Washington read
Lincoln's Gettysburg address.
One of the most remarkable fig
ures in camp yesterday was that OF
General Funkhauser of Virginia,
who is 76 years old, but who was
vigorous enough in the hot sun to
hunt up the headquarters tent OF
Brigadier General Hunter Liggett,
and pay his respects. The gray
haired old Confederate general de-
lighted the general OF the newer
army and his subordinat officers with
his stories.
Here is a story that wandered in
to camp today and although the
names are missing 1t seems entirely
believable.
BURY THE HATCHET.
Two veterans, one in Blue and
the other in Gray, met downtown In
Gettysburg. They literally fell in
one another's arms, and after a tour
of the town they walked hand in
hand through the streets to a hard
ware store. bought a hatchet and
tramped mile and a half 10 the bat
tlefield. They hunted up the Bloody
Angle, where Pickett's charge reach
ed its crest, dug a hole in the ground
there and with tears and more en-
braces, "buried the hatchet."
Thousands of veterans have left
the camp and Gettysburg for their
homes, and thousands more prob
ably will leave tomorrow. The
army officers in charge threw a cor
don over the roads leading out and
exsmined the baggage. Many gov
eminent blankets supplied for the
encampment were discovered and re-
moved.
81 So many cases have been report
ed OF veterans losing their return
railroad tickets and the consequent
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