The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-02
Arrangements Made for
10000, and $4,000
Are Present.
MERCURY OVER
HUNDRED MARK.
Despite Discomferts, There Is
Wild Enthusiasm Among
Grizzled Warriors of North
and South on Opening Day
of Senicentennial of
Historic Battle.

Gettysburg. Pa, July In the pitt
less glare OF sun that sent the mer-
curry bubbling over the hundred mark
and made clothes a burden and bath
only dclusion, the armies of the
North and the South to-day began the
formal exercises set 10 mark the semi
centennial OF GettySburg q
Veterans TO the number of 5000 the
army officers estimated. filed into the
big tent set apart for the exercises,
sat In the haze of heat for two hours,
and shook the camp with their cheers
when the speakers made references to
I n reunited nation. Every seat under
the canvas was taken long before Sec.
retary of War Garrison and Governor
Tcner. the orators OF the day came
chugsing up in their automobiles.
Although the men in gray were far
outnumbered by those in blue, there
were possibly thousand Southerners
in the amphitheatre, and what they
lacked in numbers they made up in
lung power When Governor Tener
finished his speech. General Bennett H. !
Young. commander in chief of the Con-
federate Veterans, rose slowly and
bowed to him
Give Him ..Rebel Yell"
Il can give YOU something that no
one else can give YOU" he said. I'VE
Will now give YOU the rebel yell" 81
Nine famous Confederate generals
and a thousand veterans of the South
gave II SO loudly that it was heard far
back in the camp toward Gettysburg.
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 n tiger"
He took as his keynote the convic-
tion OF each side in tho great struggle
that each fought for principle which
! each believed was the truth. One OF
| his opening statements was that the
Northern soldiers deserved more credit
than the Southerners for the promul-
CATION and successful realization OF the
present great reunion, which he char
acterized as the greatest movement of
Its kind in the world.
This com plimcnt to the Northern vet
erans was greeted with loud cries of
Mo- to which General Young quickly
replied: II know better than you do."
His speech captured the audience. and
he was overwhelmed by handshak kes. IS
Among 200 guests on the platform
were Governors Mann, Virginia; Nc
( Creary. Kentucky. and Eberhardt. Min
nesota; Senator Penrose. of Pennsyl-;
vania. and the following Confederate
generals: Robinson. Texas; West.
Georgia; Thomas j Shafter. Louisiana:
a. D. Williams. Florida: M. Law,
y iud, anu Carr. NOEln carolina.
The Invocation was delivered by the.
Rev. George Edwards Lovejoy, chaps.
lain-in- chief OF the Grand Army OF
the Republic.
The benediction was to have been
said by tho Rev. H NJ. Hamill. chap-e
lain general OF the Confederate vat-t
ernns. who did not appear. KS
Veterans Pour Into Camp.
All through the night the veteraus
DOl-TO into rr ri al nP
what small blessing fate passed out
10 them for few hours and found
permanent quarters when the hard
pressed regular army officers could get
them ready. Late to-day Major Nor
moyle. second in command to Briga,-
dier-Ger al Emmitt, estimated that
more IN $4,000 men are ouartered IN
( a camp i ended 10 hold 10000.
Through persistent efforts, however
every man has been cared for as we'll
as possible Thousands have been
given quarters In the big tent. and
hundreds OF others In smaller tents
used in the day time for speech mak-
ing and reunions. 20 officer cared to
estimate the number OF Southerners
Virginia. end 1t is probable that ona.;
quarter OF the total number is repre-1
scnted by the men from Dixie. fsS
Many veterans got no further thar
one meal in camp and one look at the
crowded tents. and then started rack
home as quickly they could go The
real exodus, however Will not begin.
until Thursday or Friday for thou-
sands who might have left sooner exS
pect TO stay over the Fourth of July,
to see President Wilson,
Before the morning exercises began
and after the veterans quartered in the
big tent made their slim toilets, the
reunions OF regiments and companies
and squadrons began. Confederate
who were in Pickett's charge took keen
delight in marching with fife and drum
tc Spanglers Woods, where the COLI
umns OF Pickett formed on July, 1855
TO begin the charge that marked the
high tide of the Lost Cause. They did
rot charge again like they once din
but they remembered, or thought they
remembered, and nobody said them nav
every stick and stone and even tha
blades of grass in that wide stretsh
where death kept step with then. -Sc Z
fore. ~
Go Over story Of Fight.
On the edge of the Union side OF thn,
camp the veterans OF Meredith's IrnS
brigade and OF Pettigrew's Brigade al
North Carolina, got together TO go over
the story of the fight of the lst of J,tIw
Inc struggle between the regimentAn nfl
the new brigades was the most disaa5
trous In number Of those killed In RI s8
entire three days fighting, and W.
seldom equalled In the whole histor$
oil the war. They met day. many ~
them, for the first time since 6S
The doctors were amazed TODAY NJ
the way the veterans withstood fR
unusual heat. for 1t poured down IN ri
way to Keep men scores OF yea d%1
younger in the house. But thirty vet3439
rams were taken sick In the big ta 3s&
during the exercises, but most Of sr