The Washington times., 1913-06-30
BLUE AND GRAY
UNITED IN CAMP
Thirty Thousand Survivors of
Great Battle Assemble on
Gettysburg Field.
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hected In their persons the one-for all
spirit OF the reunited republic.
Reveille sounded at o'clock. but lon :
before that time hundreds of soldiers
were astir, climbing over historic spots
before the LAT should drive them to
the shade. No program and no r,-
Unions were scheduled for today. sS the
veterans of various posts called on
nelgfbors IN three ano fours.
From al over the country the vets
special came from Washington State
and Wisconsin, bearing close tc loo
soldiers. BY night 3,50c more will be
tentinx on the ole camp ground.
Tonlorrow there will be regimental,
or gade, and corps reunions and \
years after the commen cement of the
battle.
Boy Scouts Active.
Detachments of Boy Scouts were on
hand to carry the baggage of the
big hay wagons. and almost every con-
ceivable kind of vehicle on hand to
carry the visitors the long mile along
the dusty pike to the big tent city.
But many of the warriors declined
the conveyances and hiked along the
brown, sun-baked highway on foot. 1t
reminded them of another march. fifty
years ago, when they carried old long
rifles and were heavily weighted down
with powder and ball. and they had
lived over this march too long in their
dreams to be cheated of the realization,
even though the road was long and the
sun hot.
Fortunately, there was a strong
breeze sweeping across the plain today.
tempering the heat of the sun. There
was far less suffering than had been
anticipated. and the long strings of am
balances drawn up near the temporary
hospitals had little to do.
, The veterans had nothing but praise
for the comrnissary to date For break
fast they had breakfast food with
cream, three eggs. country bacon. and
plenty of coffee
decided contrast to sowbelly and
hardtack-and damn little of that-which
was the rule fifty years ago." declared
a grizzled old veteran of Howard's d.
vision as he stumped out of the mess
tent.
keystone Staters In Camp.
with the arrival today of the twelve
sole survivors of the Seventy-third
regiment from Philadel-
phia. Pennsylvania's eontingents of
Union and Confederate armies were
about completed. All morning old sol
diers poured in from all sections of the
country and with less difficulty than
fifty years ago were assigned to their
tents In Pennsylvania section of the
camp. Fifteen thousand veterans OF
this State are now encamped They
prove good forager. most of them gath
ering hay from the fields to make their
cots and tents comfortable.
Two Pennsylvania veterans. Lockhart /
Phillips. of Oakdale. and A. D. Cassidy.
Of Washington. are in emergency hos
pital with attacks of ptomaine poison
Ing. Both men will recover. So far !
twelve Penpsylyania veterans have been |
treated in the camD hospitals.
Gov. Francis z. McGovern. of Wiscon- !
sin. arrived here shortly before noon
with members of his stan. Other State
executives here are Gov. George w.
Clark, of Iowa; Gov. L. B. Hanna, OF
North Dakota: and Gov. Adolph o. Eb-
erhart. of Minnesota.
Governors In Camp.
Gov William H Mann, OF Virginia, !
was expected this morning but did not
appear. He is coming by automobile SO
the time of his arrival is uncertain. In
all twenty-five governors have accept |
ed the invitation or the committee to
attend the semi-centennial celebration, !
but some of them win not arrive until
July 4, when President Wilson will be |
here for a few hours. Within the last |
hours the field hospitals |
have cared for sixty-five cases of heat
but Major Louis Hess an
nounces that none of the patients are
n q serious condition.
Red Cross Nurses Active.
To care for the old soldiers who sue
cumb to the heat, the Red Cross organi- |
zation has spread its tents, just as on |
4 real battlefield. and its white-garbed |
nurses are working busily. Aiding them |
rfly are twenty-five miners from |
the anthracite regions. who have had |
experience in first aid work. Each of
these miners is strong, vigorous man, |
able to handle heat stroke victims, as
the women nurses could not hope to do. |
S Major Robert V. Patterson, Of the |
United States army is in charge of the |
Red Cross relief work. and he has In
mis- charge seventy-one trained nurses
from Philadelphia. and other Pennsyl-
vauia cities, ten doctors from Washing
ton, and a string of motors TO use as
ambulance cars. Two field hospitals
and fourteen relief stations are scat
.ered over the battlefield In the relief
stations heat victims are first treated
md then removed TO the hospitals after
hey have somewhat recovered.
The District vets csmped on the east
I'm top of Seminary Ridge in an old
apple orchayi that affords a grateful |
,hade At midday. They occupy one OF
he choicest spots on the grounds.
Brief Services Held.
With the exception of a brief service
n the chapel there were no exercises
n camp last night and most of the
=. 900 veterans crawled between their
,lankets. II
Two deaths and dozen heat pros
rations marred the first day in camp
housh neither of the deaths were
irectly due to the heat II
Augustus Brown, seventy-two years
Id, of Iivernore Falls. Me, a men,
'er Of Trumbell Post, No. IS g. 4. r.,
led near the tent to which he had
'een assigned, presumably from ex-
John Fl. Reynolds. sixty-nine years
Id. Of Port Chester, n. Y, succumbed
n heart disease a few minutes after
eine taken TO the field hospital. He II
,as member of the Charles Law
ence Post. No. 37s, G. A. r. Brown
cached here yesterday noon and
walked TO camp from the station,
arriving a suit case. This in addi-
ion to the strain of the long journey
royed fatal
ALI Cases Improved.
All Of the cases of heat prostration
we're reported improved this afternoon.
nd in nearly every instance they
we're the result Of travel rather than
he exhaustion of GIMP life.
The most conspicuous arrival yes
erday was Gen. Daniel Sickles. nero