The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-01
SEVEN GOVERNORS
ARRIVE AND ARE
GIVEN RECEPTION
Virginia Executive Reviews
Gray Line Marching Un-
der Three Flags
GENERAL SICKLES
LOVINGLY ATTACKED
Crippled Union Corps Com
mander Carried By Con-
federates to Spot Where
He Lost His Leg

GETTYSBURG. PA, June So
There has been something doing every
minute for the old veterans ever
since salute OF nine guns this
morning announced the arrival of
Brigadier General Hunter Lggett.
who assumed command OF the re-
union camp.
A second salute announced the ar
rival of the governor OF Pennsylvania,
and then followed six other govern
ors, who came TO pay their respects.
and the respects of their States to
the blue and the gray veterans. Gov
ernor Mann, Of Virginia: Governor
NcGovern. Of Wisconsin: Governor
Clarke. of Iowa: Governor Ralyton, of
Indiana: Governor Hanna of North
Dakota, and Governor Sulzer. Of New
York. all entered the camp and in
spectcd their state sections.
Pickett Survivors and Sickles.
The men from Virginia including
Pickett's Seventy-three survivors. gave
their governor an especially enthus-
iastic welcome. and passed in review
before him under the Stars and
Stripes. and the Stars and Bars. and
the Virginia State flag.
Then a body Of Confederate vet-
Grams stormed the tent OF General
Ssckles and carried the only surviving
shoulders TO the monument erected
at the spot where Sickies lost his leg
in the second days battle. The In
valid general was greatly moved by
the aff~otaonate demonstration ten
dered him by his old foemen-
Return Floral Bomhardment.
In the afternoon Buford cavalry
survivors OF New York rendered a re-
ception to all cavalrymen in the camp,
Ill re - htv
ford's cavalry got into Gettysburg
fifty years got today. and was bonn
barded with flowers by the citizens
of the little town. Buford's survivors
returned the compliment today In the
monster reunion hall OF the camp.
a three ring circus tent
Later In the day children and
grandc hildren OF Confederate and
Federal corps commanders arrived
The children and grandchildren Of
NJ eade, and Grant. and Of Hill. Long
street and Pickett. are housed to-
gesher in the seminary. and wherever
they went through the camp sec
tons, searching for particular COM
mands which had taken part in the
historic deeds OF their fathers. they
aroused anew the veterans ever ready
enthusiasm
Thirty Thousand on Ground.
The camp Is filling UP. About
thirty thousand veterans are under
tents tonight. and before o'clock
tomorrow all Gettysburg survivors
are expected TO be here to answer
the roll call. when Lindiey NJ. Gar
rison, the secretary OF war. comes
here to deliver the opening camp
address.
General Alfred r. Beers. comman-
der-in-chief OF the Grand Army and
General Bennett H. Young. COM
mander-in- chief OF the United Con-
federate Veterans. will then deliver
their addresses.
Before the official program. of
Veterans Day" tomrrow, the big
Runyon tent will be the scene of
survivors associations assigned to diff
ferent sections in the tent.
Though the veterans OF both sides
today kept up their tireless search
for former foemen, there were fewer
cases Of prostrations today than on
former days. mainly due to the fact
that the camp all day was swept by
q cool breeze.
General Sickles' Happiest Day.
Probably no old veteran was more
reminiscent today than General Sick
les, who told hts comrades that he was
happy to be here. and shake the hands
Of the men with whom he had fought.
IT thank God" he said. that I lived
and AZ one OF the boys in gray said to
me today. that enough OF us have