The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-04-25
Will NOT RETURN
TO BATTLE-GROUND
II. 3. Rogers Only Copper Country
Gettysburg Survivor

| Forty thousand SufEiNOrs OF tiet-
tysburg win camp from June 80 To
July on the scene Of that great bat
tie, Ia celebrate Its flftleth anniver-
sary. The various states VIII pay the
expenses of their respective survivors.
Final plans viii be made at a meet
! ing of representatives OF the C. A Il.
and the United Confederate veterans
Of each state and territory soon. The
Michigan representative is Capt. John
Allen Bigelow. OF Birmingham. and
the @. A. Y. representative from
Michigan. Gen. James II. Kidd. OF
! Ionla.
The camp site comprises $50 acres
on the scene OF the first days battle
Pennsylvania will provide all rations
during the encampment and furnish
tents for 10000 men.
Each veteran must have his creden-
war and must have his railroad fare
provided.
The program thus far arranged fol-
lows; July !, Veterans day; July >.
Military day; July 3. Civic day: July
1. National day, On the fourth. the
chief justice will preside over the cere-
monies and the president will deliver
an address. Al noon, the cornerstone
Of the peace monument will be laid,
and In the evening there will be a dis
play of fireworks.
One Copper Country Survivor.
The copper country's sole survivor
OF the battle OF Gettysburg. the most
decisive and bloodiest battle OF tho
war, is III. y. Rogers Of Hancock but
he Will not attend tho reunion. While
still possessed of all faculties. and hale
and hearty, Mr.. Rogers has no desire
to return Ia the scene OF the conflict.
After three days Of continuous
fighting, MIR. Rogers escaped from the
battle UNNAMED, only To be seriously
wounded four days later at Boons-
boro in Q skirmish with q brigade Of
The rAtreatine army al General Lee a
shot from ambush felled him. He was
shot through the right eye ana was
numbered among the dead. Upon his
discharge. ne returned TO Michigan
and seven years ago came to Hancock
Mr.. Rogers enlisted under Colonel
KellogK. former congressman. at Ian
sing, In the Sixth Michigan Cavalry In
1862 He was member of Clusters
Brigade. which history records as one
OF the most daring divisions that par
ticipated in the battle.
The conflict. in which the Union lost
23,lS7 men, of which l6.5+3 were killed
and wounded, and the South $1,000,
killed wounded and missing. began
July / between the Union army under
General Meade and the Confederate
the armies law fronting each other
upon the Rappaha and early in
jane. Lee began his movement for the
inva sion Of tho Pennsylvania. crossing
the Potomac June ID and %. The
Union army under General Hooker,
moved In the same direction, but
Hooker was relieved on the 2Sth ny
Meade. In order to prevent his com
munications from being severed Lee
turned toward Gettysburg to give bat
tie. Meade intended 10 open battle
several miles from Gettysburg, near
which was a small portion Of his army.
The collision occurred about noon
July /. and with the arrival Of greater
forces. the battle increased in intensity
until il ragged unrelcntlessly for three
days. In the fray during the last
day Of the conflict men fought hand
to hand.
To have escaped death in this bat
tie only To he wounded III a skirmish
when tees fragment ot 2n army was
retreating, was the lot OF Mr.. Rogers.
So far as known hut one other sur
yivor of the battle ever resided in the
copper country, a Henry w. Langley,
employed at the old Ripley smelling
works mere than a score of years ago.