Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-04
War and Peace Blend
on Gettysburg Field

GETTYSBURG, Pa, July A. The
Gettysburg Centennial Press Asso-
citation was formed here today. the
membership including every one Of the
zoo correspondents. moving picture men
and photographers In camp. Bylaws
of the association call for meeting
on the battlefield fifty years hence.
Thirty or forty photographs of the
group were taken and officers were
elected. Col. William D. Mann OF Town
Topics. and a veteran of the first day 8
cavalry fight, was elected president.
He Is the only surviving colonel of the
7th Michigan Cavalry. Gen. Hunter
Liggett Of Washington, in command of
the camp. was elected honorary presi-
dent. Maj. James e. Normoyle, the idol
or every man In camp. was made vice
president; Lieut.. Simon Bolivar Buck
,ner, U. 8. A.. who has acted as chap
eron for the correspondents. was made
second vice president; Lieut.. e. H.
Saunders. who has acted as nurse for
the helpless newspaper men. was made
Weekly. assistant secretary. charged
with the duty of sending out notices
for the reunion in 1868.
If Daniel Kiligan of the Washington
delegation had not been hit with two
bullets and q shell all at once at Chan
cellorsville. he might have been in the
fight at Gettysburg. AS it happens. he
ate surgeons. after he had been captured,
wounded, risked their professional repu-
tations several times day on the
prophecy that Killigan would not live
another hour.
Kiiiigan enlisted in washington, D. c.,
April Is. 1851. in Capt. John McDermott's
Independent company. called the Jackson
Guards. and served for ninety days. After
that he enlisted again in g Company,
37th New York Volunteers. then en-
hot fighting. and was laid up in the hos
pital for a while after he was wounded
in the ankle while charging the enemy
at williamsburg. Va. May 5. 1852. 1t
shot to pieces at Charlottesville. A
shell burst over him, a fragment break
Ing his skull. a bullet went through his
left lung. smashing three ribs en- route
and another bullet went through his
ankle.
Lying wounded on the field. he was
taken prisoner. He says that he re-
ceived almost no care TOR fifteen days,
as he was thought to be dead most Of
United States fort at Pohick, May 10.
1868. and sent from there to the hospital
at Aqua creek. Even there he was
given up for dead. He says. in telling
ribs and things from I him every cry day for
months. From Aqua creek ne was trans
ferred to the old Armory Square Hos
pital IN washington. under the personal
care Of DR.. D. w: Bliss. who was Presi-
dent Garfields physician. and Surgeon
General Joseph Barnes. U. s. A. The
wonderful stamina Of the man, shot to
bits almost. was one Of the marvels Of
the day. and his case attracted wide at
heard OF him in February. 1864, before he
was fully recovered. and appointed him
Immediately to a position in that depart
ment. He Is there yet. claiming to be the
only employe Of the department appoint
ed from the field.
The losses at Gettysburg are something
frightful.
rams are two of them who are doing all
this reunion work minus their teeth. Two
complete sets of these necessary articles
have been found upon the field here and
turned In at the lost and found station.
Not only are false teeth being lost. but
railroad tickets are being lost by the
veterans by the dozen every day. The
army has established the lost and found
bureau for just such cases. At present
umbrellas and coats which have been mis-
laid by the comrades. Railroad tickets
have been lost by veterans who have to
60 as far west as San Francisco. The
loss OF pension papers and army dis
charge papers cuts the owners to the
heart. for In many cases they were the
owners proudest possessions.
Most Of the hand baggage is lost be-
cause the veterans. tired of carrying it,
place Il in some ones tent, intending to
return for it. Then they go off and it
10 impossible for them to find the tent
again. All of them look alike, and there
are tents for 5000 here.
The lost and found department has
gathered In Endorsed checks to the value
Of $500 and a considerable sum of money.
On q street car in the town OF Gettys-
burg a man In blue shouted to a man
In gray:
What regiment do you belong to.
comrade?"
'Fifteenth Georgia. What do YOU be-
long to-"
Island"
Great Scott"
Old Bill Hammacksr, from Mount Ram,
Pennsylvania, Is jolly old vet, IL there
ever was one. He wears q little gray
beard on his chin. and clothes himself
In a uniform fitted only for an arctic
exposition. Then. with the Thermometer
ct no, he sits in the sun with bass
vol resting on his right knee, and with
4 violin under his chin, with sleigh bells
on his wrists and some other jinglasome
contraption on his ankles. Then, with
one bow. he plays both bass VOL and