The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-07-03
Veterans Meet Over Wall
Where they Fought Bloody
Battle Fifty Years Ago.
GOVERNORS DAY
AT. THE REUNION
Men OF the Blue and Gray Act Like
Lot of School Boys-March to Fife
and Drum Long Before Sun Arises
No Seeming Change in Crowd.

Gettysburg, July 3.-Although thou
sands Of veterans have left the uncer-
tain Joys Of camp life and have started
home, their going has made little diff
ference in the appearance of the bat
others are present to participate in the
exercises Of governors day.
The veterans acted like lot OF
school boys whose vacation is only a
few days away. Long before the sun
was up they began parading the camp
to the music Of the Streets Of Cairo
played on flies and drums.
Clasp Hands Where They Fought.
One of the events today is the
charge Of the Survivors Picketts di-
vision on bloody angle" held by rem
nants Of the Philadelphia brigade.
Under the hot sun men in gray
walls that form an angle, the enemy
in blue was waiting with weapons
ready and when they met across the
wall, they shook hands. Afterwards
they looked over the ground for the
site Of the $250,000 monument they
hope to have congress erect there.
The schedule today called for
Pennsylvania, McCreary of Kentucky
and sulzer Of New York. Provisions
were made for q place on the plat
form with the generals and governors
for Vice President Marshall and big
congressional delegation from Wash
ington.
Confederates Give Thanks
At the meeting of the confederates.
resolutions were adopted thanking
Pennsylvania for initiating the reunion
movement; thanking the government
for forwarding the movement and CIV
ing thanks that the union had not dis
severed.
Veterans Go Home.
Veterans continued to wend their
way homeward in large numbers to-
day. The railroad people estimated
up to midnight last night that twenty
hve per. cent of those who attended
the great encampment, had departed.
Today.sF,. specials OF sstwetve aears
each. sent out at short intervals. were
all filled with old men who had satis-
scene Of the battle and were ready to
60 to their homes. Hundreds are still
arriving, however. for the Independ-
ence day exercises when President
Wilson will be here and speak.
Victims May Recover.
All victims Of w. B. Henry OF
Philadelphia. who ran amuck in a
Gettysburg hotel last night. are re-
ported doing well. Charles Ensor, the
most dangerously injured, Is still in q
serious condition.
Wanted to Pay for Onions.
Many stories are being related Of
interesting happenings connected with
the reunion. Chief Clerk George q.
Thorne of the state department at
Harrisburg told Of the call made by
q union veteran early on the morning
Of the fiftieth anniversary Of the start
Of the battle who related that his con-
science troubled him because Of the
fact that on that fateful morning
many years ago he had succumbed
to temptation and stolen q quantity
of onions from the Thorne garden,
which was located near the historic
Seminary Ridge. He told Thorne that
he desired at this late day to pay for
the onions and thus relieve his con-
science. Needless to say his offer Of
money was refused, but the Thornes
would like to learn the identity Of the
soldiers who upset eight bee hives in
the dead Of night and appropriated all
the honey they contained.
Romance in Camp.
A romance developed in camp when
John Goodwin Of New York, q veter-
an, and Margaret Murphy Of Chicago
were united in marriage by Squire
Harnish. Forty-six years ago the two
were engaged, but they subsequently
married. They became widower and
widow. the old fame was rekindled
and they agreed to come to Gettys-
burg on the fiftieth anniversary of the
battle and marry. The happy pair