Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-07
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with his big megaphone to tell then
their trains were made up. USUALLY
about II coaches constituted a train
and the railroad people faced the big
gest problem of the week in getting
loaded trains away.
1t was the sultriest and most I'M
comfortable day OF the week one DID
soldier in gray from North Carolina
dropped dead in the crowd at the
town station of one of the railroads
He was II. II. Hodges of Union Hill,
N. C.
Tonight the camp was practically
deserted. The electric lights in the
62 streets In the camp were burning
brightly, but the streets themselves
were deserted save for the hurrytnS
back and forth of soldiers and work
men who have already begun the task
of dismantiing the camp. Two months
will elapse before the ground on which
the camp was pitched will have been
restored to its original condition.
fences rebuilt and roads made over.
Tonight, the army officers, after
week of the hardest sort Of work
made merry at a dinner in the big
mess tent which they have uSed
jointly with the newspaper CORE
spondents.
General Liggett presided and all the
officers present were felicitated over
the wonderful success of what has
been described as an army camp that
will stand as model for all the
countries of the world for years TO
come.
When the weeks program for the
celebration was tentatively laid out
some time ago it was arranged that
the final feature of the reunion should
be the laying of a cornerstone of a
great peace memorial on the battle
field, but the plan for the monument
fell through. Today, Colonel Andrew
Cowan of Louisville, KY, who was
captain of the First New York Bat
terry in the battle of Gettysburg. re-
vived the plan. and as result of a
meeting, over which he presided. a
committee went to Washington with
view to securing the introduction in
Congress of bill providing for the
erection of peace monument and the
appropriation of 100000.
In addressing the gathering Colonel
Cowan said:
1T is hard to control my emotions
when l recall this battlefield 80 years
ago. Picketts brave men were in full
retreat and we were holding the
ground in the angle. Beyond the En-
mittsburg road was thickly strewn
with their dead and wounded and our
own.
Over there on Cemetery Ridge
stands, today, an equestrian statue
Of General George G. Meade, the great
commander of the Army of the Poto-
mac. facing Seminary Ridge. Does he
look for Hills 10000 brave men and
Pickett's 500 gallant yirginians to re-
turn, or does he look for the peerless
leader of the Southern army?
General Robert f. Lees lifelike
statue mounted on his famous war
horse Traveller will soon be placed
on the pedestal already reared by Vir-
ginia on Seminary Ridge to receive it.
The forms Of the two great command
ers on the battlefield of Gettysburg
marks high tide of peace between
the North and South. which shall
never recede while Americans love
stone of monument will be laid on
Put-in-Bay Island in commemora-
Ton or the centennial of Perrys vic
tory over the British fleet on Lake
Erie
Such monuments possess an educa
tionai value which cannot be measured
by what they cost Teach the young
Americans to believe that and we ear
have no fears for the future of on,
country
should not peace monument pt
raised on this battlefield of Gettysburg
monument in commemoration of TN.
union between the soldiers who fought
for different principles and fought brave
1y from 1861 to 1866. by and through which
has been forever established that thi.
nation under God shall not perish?
We should fAghly resolve to do al
that In us lies to influence the Congress.
Ind the states to erece peace monu
ment which shall be higher and grandel
than any other now here or hereafte
erected on the battlefield of Gettysburg.
A number of Union and Confederat,
veterans met, today, and recommends,
the formation of an organization OF sol
resolution TO this effect Is signed b,
prominent men who fought at Gettysbur
and Is as follows;
ION the eve of our departure from Get
tysburg we who have been privileged I
participate In the Goth anniversary of til
hattie bear testimony TO the eompiet
success OF the reunion, and to the ric
blessings that have come to US as ind
vidnals and will surely flow in refreshin
streams to every portion of our reunite
country: and that our fellow citizens
all sections OF our country may. kno
that friendship and good will have bee
completely restored between the survi'
ing veterans of the great war, we recon
mend the formation of an organizatif
OF the Blue and the Gray to meet in m
tional convention at least once each Yea
tSigned) ELL TORRANCE,
chairman Of National commissio
g. A. r.
&C. IRVINE WALKER.
.'Chalrman United Confederate Veteran
GEN. FELIX H. Robinson.
"Of Texas
capt. WILLIAM fl. HAkRIEs.
Iron Brigade
MAJOR JOHN BIGELOW,s
.,a..r och Mass Raftefy knowu