The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1913-07-11
PEACE SHAFT
PLAN Revived
As Civil War Veterans
Reunion Closes.
Big Camp At Gettysburg Battle
field Is Now De-
serted.

| oCtts July a SANs~~
union of the Blue and the Gray COM
memorating the fiftieth anniversary
of the battle of Gettysburg, practically
came to an end today alth0 the camp
where more than $4,000 old soldiers
we're cared for during the week will
not officially close until tomorrow.
All day long weary veterans walk
ed over the dusty roads and streets
to the railroad stations in the camp
and in the town of Gettysburg and
stood or sat under the rays of a
scorching sun while the trains to take
them were being prepared.
There were no flying banners.
blaring bands nor marching columns.
The veterans came to the stations
and waited patiently for the announc-
err with his big megaphone to tell
them their trains were made up. Usu-
ally about twelve coaches constituted
train and the railroad people faced
the biggest problem of the week in
getting loaded trains away.
1t was the sultriest and most I'M
comfortable day of the week. One
old soldier in gray from North Caro-
lima, dropped dead in the crowd at
the town station of one OF the rail-
roads. He was II. Fl. Hodges, OF
Union Hill, n. C..
Tonight the camp was practically
deserted. The electric lights in the
sixty-two streets in the camp were
burning brightly but the streets
themselves were deserted save for
the hurrying back and forth of SOL
iiers and workmen who have already
begun the task of dismantling 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 a
week of the hardest sort of work,
made merry at a dinner in the big
mess tent which they have used joint
ly with the newspaper correspond
ents. Gen. Ligett presided and all Of
ficers present were felicitated over
the wonderful success of what has
been described as an army camp that
will stand as a model for all the
countries of the world for years to
come!
When the weeks program for the
celebration was tentatively laid ou'
some time ago, 1t was arranged that
the final feature OF the reunion
should be the laying OF cornerstone
of great peace memorial on the
battlefield, but the plan for the monu
ment fell thru.
Today Col. Andrew Cowan, OF Lou
isville, KY, who was captain o.
the First New York Battery In the
battle of Gettysburg, revived the piar
and as a result of a meeting ovel
which he presided. a committee wen
to Washington with a view to secur
ing the introduction in Congress o
a bill providing for the erection o
a peace monument and the appro
priation of 81, 100000.
In addressing the gathering. Col
Cowen said:
1T is hard to control my emotions
when recall this battlefield fit.
years ago. Pickett's brave men wer
In full retreat and We were. holding
the ground in the Angle. Beyond tn
Emmetsburg Road the plain wa
thickly strewn with their dead AM
wounded and our own.
lover there on Cemetery Ridg
stands today an equestrian statue o
Gen. George G. Meade, the grea
commander of the Army OF the Po
Itomac, facing Seminary Ridge. Doe
he look for the peerless leader o