New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-02


over Mrs. Longstreet's inability to find
suitable lodging.
Didn't you get the telegram l sent
your" he asked
why. no." said Mrs. Longstreet.
why. I sent you a telegram telling
you that you could have tent belong
ing to Carr's brigade, on the grounds
OF the house here" replied General
Sickles, who called Captain Isaac
Gregg, secretary Of the Cars Brigade
Association. and had him take Mrs.
Longstreet to see the tent. She will re-
move her belongings to it and hence
forth be adequately provided for within
earshot of her husbands famous enemy
and on the edge Of that battlefield
where the two fought it out.
After inspecting the tent Mrs. Long
street strolled over to the pump to get
a drink Of water and there encountered
a Confederate veteran belonging TO a
Mississippi regiment. one of the few
old fellows on the ground who had
neglected to gather about her when she
read her Sickles eulogy. Without re-
vealing her identity at first, she learned
that the old man had fought under
Longstreet right where they were
standing.
Aren't you glad it was settled the
way it was?" Mrs. Longstreet asked
Eyes, am, am" he replied. That
ys, if you mean the whole war"
The veteran showed her the badge OF
a PENNSYLVANIA Grand Army post
which he wore on his breast. He ha1
exchanged ii, he said, with Union
veteran who now wore his Confederate
emblem.
The Southerner went on TO say how
embittered the days of reconstruction
had left the South for some time, and
when she assured him she knew all
about it because she was General Long
streets wife, he bowed, expressed his
pleasure at meeting her, and then
picking UP the thread of the converse
ton again, told her that he had been a
member of the Ku Klux Khan, which,
he declared, had saved the South to the
White man.
Reunions in Sweltering Heat.
The formal wholesale reunions began
to-day in the big tent as the official
thermometer in the shade registered "
degrees. A battalion Of regular infan-
try detailed to relief duty carried ont
Of the tent on stretchers at the helgn'
Of the ceremonies twenty-five veterans
overcome by the heat. Yet most OF
these survivors Of a four-year test VI
health and strength that mercllessly
eliminated the weaker are standing the
racket here wonderfully well. AS COM
pared with the five thousand other oid
men who sat through the exercises anf
whooped and yelled like youngsters as
their emotions were played upon by the
different speakers, the little squad OF
twenty-five removed to the rear ap-
pears rather insignificant.
Secretary Garrison of the War De-
partment was the central figure Of the
gathering, but the man who reused the
greatest interest and provoked the
widest applause was General Bennett
II. Young, commander in chief Of me
United Confederate Veterans. When
Governor John K. Tener Of Pennsyl-
vania had spoken to the accompani-
rnent OF cheers, General Young, who
sat behind the chairman on the plat-
form, jumped up.
Il can give you. sir" he announced
something that nobody else can givc
you. And in recognition of tie splen-
did hospitality extended to us by the
Governor Of Pennsylvania l propose
that we give you the rebel yell "
The I'VE" referred TO little group OF
gray clad. sweet faced. like the general
himself, old men. with the snow white
hair and boards which old men grow in
the South on their tanned cheeks
They were seated together just behind
the chairman, and together they lose
to their feet and let out such wild
whoop, three times repeated, as t.
startle the Governor, facing them
while the great audience Of veterans
lairly went crazy with Joy.
These were the Confederates who
paid Governor Tener this unique
ronor: General Young. General An
drew ]. West, of Atlanta; Major Gen.
eral William c. Harrison. Of Los An
geles: Colonel c. X. Henderson, OF
Aiken, S. c.; Major General B. H
Tague, Of Aiken; General c. irwin
Walker, honorary commander in chief
Of the United Confederate Veterans
Charleston. S. c.; Colonel w. b
Woody, Of Rockdale, Tex; Colonel L
II Marraro. of New Orleans: Genera
A. NJ. williams. Of Jacksonville; Cap
tain James Dinkins. of New Orleans
and General James MacGill. One