The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-07-02
REBEL YELL" CAUSE
OF GREAT CHEERING
Despite Humidity Old Sol
diers Hold Out Well, AL
though Five Answer to
Last Rollcall-Discomfort
of Camp Life Endured
Without Murrnur by the
Observation-Disclosures At
tendance Not Quite So
Large as That of Union


pitiless glare of sun that sent the
mercury hubbling over the 100 mark
and made clothes burden and a bath
only a delUsion. the armies OF the
north and the south today began the
formal exercises set to mark the semi
centennial Of Gettysburg.
Veterans to the number of $4,000. tie
army officers estimated, fled into tho
big tent set apart for the exercises, sat
in the haze of heat for two hours and
shook the camp with their cheers when
the speakers made reference to a re-
united nation.
Every seat under the canvas was
taken long before Secretary of War
Garrison and Governor TeneI. the ora
tors Of the day. came chugging up in
their automobiles.
Although the men in gray were far
cutnumbered by those in blue. there
We're possibly ,00o southerners through
the amphitheater. and what they
lacked in numbers they made up in
lung power.
REBEL YELL FOLLOWS SPEECH
When Governor Tener finished his
speech, General Bennett H. Young,
commander in chief of the United Con-
federate Veterans. rose slowly and
bowed to him.
We can give you something that
no one else can give YOU" he said
I'VE will now give you the rebel yen.r
Nine famous confederate generals
and a thousand veterans Of the south
gave it so loudly that it was heard
far back in the camp toward Gettys-
burg.
When General Young stepped for
ward TO deliver his address he was
greeted with wild enthusiasm, the
union veterans led by Commander in
Chief Beers giving him three lusty
cheers and tiger
lie took as his keynote the convic-
ton OF each side in the great struggle
that it 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 pronuigatio and successful reali-
zation OF the present great reunion.
which he characterized as the greatest
movement OF its Kind IN the world
COMPLIMENT TO MEN IN BLUE
This compliment 10 the northern vet
erans was greeted with loud cries OF
mo- to which General Young quickly
replied: Il know better than you do
His speech captured the audience and
he was overwhelmed with handshakes.
Among the 200 guests on the plat
form We're Governors Mann. Virginia;
McCreary, Kentucky and Eberhart.
Minnesota: Senator Penrose of Penn
sylvania, and the following confederate
generals: Robinson. Texas; West,
Georgia; Thomas J. Shaffer Louisiana;
A. D. Williams Florida; F. NJ Law,
Florida. and Carr, North Carolina.
The invocation was delivered by Rev.
George Edwards Lovejoy, chaplain in
chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public
The benediction was to have been
delivered By Rev. Ii. NJ. Hamill, chap
lain general or the Confederate Vet
Grams, but he did not appear.
All through the night the veterans
poured into camp, took graciously what
small blessings fate passed out 10 them
for few hours. and found permanent
quarters when the hard pressed regu-
lar army officers could get them ready.
Late today Major Normoyle. second
in command to Brigadier General Lig-
gett, estimated that more than $4,000
men are quartered in a camp intended
to hold 10000.
CARING FOR OLD SOLDIERS
Through persistent efforts. however.
every man has been cared for as we'll
IS possible. Thousands have been
given quarters in the big tent and
hundreds OF others in smaller tents.
used in the daytime for speech making
and reunions
No officer cared to estimate the num-
ber OF southerners here. There are
more than 5000 from Virginia. and it
is probable that a quarter Of the total