Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-07-11
GRAY H0N0RS BLUE
GEN. YOUNG. CONFEDERATE.
GIVES CREDIT OF WAR TO
NORTHERN MEN.
is GREETED WITH CHEERS
Pickett's Survivors Go Over Ground
Where Famous Charge Was Made
FIFTY Years Aso-Two Old Soldiers
Die.

Gettysburg. Pa, July 3.-While the
sun poured down a terrific blast OF
heat, the armies of the north and
the semi-centennial Of Gettysburg
Tuesday.
Veterans to the number OF $4,000
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 reference to a reunited nation.
Every seat under the canvas was
taken long before Secretary of War
Garrison and Governor Tener, the ora
tors Of the day. arrived. Although the
men in gray we're far outnumbered by
those In blue, there were possibly a
thousand southerners through the am
p%itheater, and what they lacked in
numbers they made up in lung power.
When Governor Tener finished his
speech Gen, Bennett H. Young, COM
mander-in-chief Of the United Confed-
crate Veterans, rose slowly and bowed
to him.
Il can give you something that no
one else can give you" he said. I'VE
will now give you the rebel YELL"
Nine famous Confederate generals
and a thousand veterans of the south
gave it SO loudly that 1t 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 COMMANDMENTS
Chief Beers. giving him three lusty
cheers and q tiger"
He tool as his keynote the convic-
ti9n Of each side in the great struggle
that 1t fought for a principle, which
1t believed was the truth. One OF his
opening statements was that the north
ern soldiers deserved more credit than
the s~outherners for the PRONUNCIATION
and successful realization Of the pres
emit great reunion, which he character
lied as the greatest movement OF its
kind In the world.
His speech captured the audience.
and he was overwhelmed by hand
shakes.
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 keen delight in marching with
fife and drum to Spangler's woods.
where the columns OF Pickett formed
on July 8, 1863, to begin the charge
that marked the high tide OF the lost
cause.
They didn't charge again like they
once did, but they remembered, or
thought they remembered, and nobody
said them nay, every stick and stone
and even the blades Of grass in that
wide stretch where death kept step
with them before.
On the edge Of the Union side Of
the camp the veterans OF Meredith's
Iron brigade and Of Pettigrew's bril-
gade Of North Carolina got together
to go over the story Of the fight OF the
first OF July.
The first death of a veteran In the
town Of Gettysburg occurred. The vic
tim was y. ID. Albert Of Washington,
about seventy years old. He 10 said to
have been prominently connected with
the United States pension office.
Death was due to q stroke Of paralyis.
The NTH death reported in camp
was that Of Christopher Yates, aged
seventy. Z veteran from Latrobe. Pa,
who died a. q result Of heat prostra-
ton: