Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-07-06
Great Reunion of Blue and
Gray Comes to an End and
Old Soldiers Start to Their
Homes,
CAMP PRACTICALLY
DESERTED BY VETERANS
Two Months is Expected to
EIaps6 Before Little City is
Restored TO Normal Condi-
tiOnS,
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iay aoHRra iouaHAL SPECIAL trAuto wiari
Getyshurg, July a. great review
of the blue and the gray commem-
Grating the ffticth anniversary Of the
battle OF Gettysburg practically came
Ia an end today. although the camp
where more than 10000 old soldiers
were cared for during the week will
not officially close until tomorrow.
An day long weary veterans walk
ed over the dusty roads and streets
TO the railroad stations In the big
camp and In the town Of Gettysburg
ana stood or sat around under the
rays OF scorchlng sun while the
trains TO take them home we're being
prepared.
There were no flying banners,
bands or marching columns. The vet
erans came to the stations and wait
ed patiently for the announcements
with big megaphone to tell them
their trains were made up. Usually
about twelve coaches constituted a
train and the railroad people faced
the biggest problem Of the week In
getting loaded trains away.
II WAS the sultriest and most un-
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 lie was II. II. Hodges Of
Union Hnl. y. G.
Tonight the camp was practically
deserted. The electric lights In the
Islxty-two streets In the camp were
burning brightly. but the streets
themselves were deserted save for
tine hurrying back and eorth of sol
diera and workmen who have already
begun the task of dismantllng the
camp. Two months will elapse ne-
fore the ground on which the camp
was pitched will have been restored
to It's original condition, fences re-
built and reads made over.
Tonight the army officers, after Il
week of the hardest sort of work,
made merry in the big mess tent
which they have used jointly with
the newspaper correspondents. Gen
eral Llggett presided aud all the Of
flccrs present were fellcitated over
the wonderful success Of what has
been described as an army camp tha
win stand as a model To- all lie
countries oi the world for years to
come.
when he weeks program Tor u
celebration was tenau ~ aid upi
some time ago. it vas ARRANGED that
the final feature Of the reunion
should be- the laying OF cornerstone
Of great peace memorial on the
.raulcrcld. but the plan for the mon
umcnt ten through. TuduN Colonel
Andrew Conuu. of Louisville KY
who was captain of the FIRST New
York battery In the battle of Gettya-
burs received the plan ana as re-
suit of "a meeting over which he pre-
sided n committee went to Wash
jpgtou with view 10 securing the
introduction in congress OF a bill
providing for the erection of peace
monument and the appropriation OF
81. 5000 therefor
I'm addressing the gathering, Colo
rel CuWan said.
1T is hard to control my emotions
when I recall this battlefield titty
vcars ago. Pickett's brave men were
in full rctr at and we were holding
thc ground in the angle, Beyond, the
Emmcttsburg road was thiekly
g.rewn WITH their dead and wounded
and our men.
"Over there on Cemetery ridge
stands today an equestrian statue OF
General George G. Meade, the great
of the ARMY of the Poto-
mae facing Seminary ridge. Does he
look for Hilrs ten thousand brave
men and Pickctts five thousand gal-
liant Virginians to return, or does ne
look for the peerless leader OF the
southern army?
General Robert Il. Lees lifelike
statue mounted on his famous war
horse. Traveller. VIII soon be placed
on the pedestal already reared by
virginia on Seminary ridge to re-
ceive il. The forms of the two great
on the battlefield OF
Gettysburg will then stand facing
each other while time cndures.
behind us a little way at the
clump of trees is % monument which
marks the high tide of the war on
this field This grand celebration OF
the flftieth anniversary Of the battle
of Gettysburg marks high TIDE oi
peace between the north and SOUTH
which shall never recede while Amer
leans love liberty and the union
should not a peace monument be
raised on this battlefield of Gettys-
burg: monument in oommemora-
tion Of this union between the sol
diers who fought for different prin-
ciples and fought hravely from 1861
TO 1865, by which peace mas
been forever established that this ma
ton under God shall not perish? The