The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-07-04
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At GETTYSBURG, PA.
SUMS RAYS FAIL TO DISPEL EN-
THUSIASM AT REUNION,
HOWEVER.
UNl0NlST AND REBEL CHEER
All Rancor Seems Fled as Old Foes
Re-unite-Pickett's Men Hold a
Meeting Once More and Go
Over Scene of CHARGE.


less glare of a sun that sent the mer-
curry bubbling over the 100 mark, the
armies of the North and the South
went through the formal exercises set
to mark the semi-centennial of Get
tysburg
Veterans to the number of $4,000,
army officers estimated, filed into the
big tent set apart for the exercises,
sat in the haze of the heat for two
cheers when the speakers made ref
erence to reunited nation.
Every Seat Taken.
Every seat under the canvas was
taken long before Secretary of War
Garrison and Governor Tener, the or
ators of the day, came chugging up.
in their automobiles. Although the
men in gray were far outnumbered by
those in blue, there were possibly a
thousand southerners in the amphi-
theater and what they lacked in num-
bers they made up in lung power.
When Governor Tener finished his
speech, General Bennett P Young,
commander-in-chief of the United
Confederate Veterans, rose slowly
and bowed to him. "1 can give YOU
something that no one else can give
you," he said. 1--WE will now give you
the rebel yell.'
Nine famous Confederate generals
and thousand veterans of the South
gave it so loudly that it was heard
far back in the camp toward Gettys-
burg
Young Greeted Enthusiastically.
When General Young stepped for.
ward to deliver his address he was
greeted with wild enthusiasm, the
Union veterans led by Commander
in-Chief Beers, giving him three lusty
cheers and tiger"
He took as his keynote the convic-
ton of each side in the great strug.
gle that it fought for a principle
which it believed was the truth One
of his opening statements was THAI
the northern soldiers deserved more
credit than the southerners for the
PRONUNCIATION and successful realiza.
ton of the present great reunion
which he characterized as the great.
est movement of its kind in the
world.
This compliment to the northern
veterans was greeted with loud cries
of mo-" to which Young quickly re-
piled, Il know better than you do
His speech captured the audience
and he was overwhelmed by hand
shakes.
Notables on Platform.
Among the 200 guests on the plat.
form were Governors Mann of Vir-
ginia, McCreary of Kentucky, Eberhart
of Minnesota, Senator Penrose of
| Pennsylvania and the following Con-
federate generals: Robinson of Texas,
West of Georgia, Thomas ]. Shaffer of
Louisiana, A. d. Williams of Florida,
E. M. Law of Florida and Carr of
North Carolina
The invocation was delivered by
Rev. George Edwards Loejoy, chaplain
in chief of the Grand Army of the Re
public. The benediction was to have
been delivered by Rev. H. NJ Hamill,
chaplain general of the Confederate
Veterans, but who failed to show up.
NShSt dtiS FObf INV SdIIlps
All through the night the veterans
poured into camp, took graciously
what small blessings fate passed out
to them for few hours and found
| permanent quarters when the hard
pressed regular army officers could
get them ready Major Normoyle, Sec
ond in command to Brigadier General
Liggett, estimated that more than
$4,000 men are quartered in camp
intended to hold 10000. No officer
cared to estimate the number of south
erners here. There are more than
5000 from Virginia and it is probable
is represented by the men from Dixie.
Pickett's Men Hold Reunion.
Before the morning exercises began
and after the veterans quartered in
the big tent made their slim toilets,
the reunions of regiments and com.
panies and squadrons began. Confed.
crates who were in Pickett's charge
took delight in marching with fife and
drum to Spanglers woods, where the
columns of Pickett formed on July 3,
1863, to begin the charge that marked
the high tide of the lost cause. They
did not charge again like they once
did, but they remembered, or thought
they remembered, every stick and
stone in that wide stretch where death
kept step with them before.