Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1913-01-31
The Gettysburg Celebration.

.dier General }. Thompson
Brown, Commander of First Bri-
.ade, Virginia Division U. c. V.
las been sent to the Supervisors
IF every county to the Confeder-
ate Camps and to the Chapters of
the Daughters of the Confeder-
acy:
The State of Pennsylvania, by
public enactment of its General
Assembly, decided to make the
approaching fiftieth anniversary
of the battle of Gettysburg. July
1st, End, Bid and 4th. 1913, a joint
celebration of the Veterans of
both the Confederate and Fed
eral armies. and has extended
through the proper officers OF
both armies, to meet on the bat
tle-field July list, 2nd, 3rd and
4th, 1913. as the guests of the
State of Pennsylvania, free of all
costs, after their arrival. To
amply and bountifully provide
for this vast undertaking, free OF
all costs to all Veterans, the
State of Pennsylvania, together
with the Congress of the United
States, have appropriated and set
apart to defray these expenses
over S25O,OOO.OO. Tents, cots,
blankets, commissary, medical
and quarter-master stores, will
be issued free of cost, from mod
ern, up-to-date, Twentieth Cen
fury army departments, super
vised by its own troops. who are
I.now erecting the same upon this
camping ground, including all
the latest modern hygienic COM
forts, in shelter, food, light and
water, amply sufficient in capac.
ity and resources for sixty thous-
and Veterans, rejoicing and cele-
brating the prowess of American
valor, demonstration the like
of which no other Government
under the sun has ever been able
to produce,
Here will be seen on the Vet.
erans' Day (such having been
arranged in the program) Con-
federate, Federal and United
States troops, marching as COM
panions and comrades, to the
public laying of the cornerstone
of the great Peace Monument,
being erected by the United
States government, at great cost,
which stone will be laid by the
President of the United States,
His Excellency Woodrow Wilson,
Virginia's eighth presidential of.
fering to-and popular choice Of
this great American Nation
And it is hoped that the Eques.
trian Statue of our own beloved
General Robert E. Lee, now be.
ing erected on the battlefield OF
Getty sburg, will be ready for un.
" ling ON this occasion, around
which will be gathered the Pres
ident, Senators. Congressman,
Legislators and Veterans of every
State in the Union who, with one
accord, will proclaim to high
Heavens the glory of the valor OF
the American Soldier.
To be present on such an oc-
casion, should be our proudest
ambition, our ardent desire and
our most determined purpose
The world has not and will never
! see the ljke.-The conquered,
but proud and immortal heroes,
| the honored guests of our invinci.
BILE conquering host, celebrating
the Peace Jubilee of a reunited
and indissoluble country-Amer-
lean heroes all
AS July will soon be upon US,
it is very DESTROYS that every
Camp should at once commence
preparations to be present. by
urging its ununiformed members
and all Veterans of their several
jurisdictions, whether camp men,
bers or not, to uniform them
selves at once, and for every
Camp of the respective Counties,
to appeal to the Board of Super
visors to make the appropriation
for the railroad fares of all its
respective County Veterans, so
that every Veteran in each Coun-
ty, uniformed or not, may attend
these glorious four DAYS of
Tenting on the Old Camp
Ground
Let every camp and every Vet
eran resolve now that in the
written history of this grand
and final Reunion of the Blue and
Gray (Which will surely be writ.
ten), that its and his name sh all
be there for future generations