The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-03
VETERA
GETTYSBURG /
PROGRAM Ofrhtu
5000 More Visitors
Than the Outside
Estimate.
NIGHT OUT DOORS
Army Unable t
House Thousands Until
Daylight Today.

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Gus efforts of the regular army to do
impossible things, thousands of vet
erans spent the night on Gettysburg
with nothing between them
and the stars but clothes and cour-
age, and nothing between them and
the earth but a little of the same
thing.
1t was not the fault of the veterans
nor the regulars, but train after train
expected early, came crawling IN
near midnight and afterwards. Major
Normoyle, of the quartermaster's de-
partment of the regular army, spent
the entire night trying to give the
veterans places but was unable to
care for many. The major declared
that probably $4,000 veterans will be
on the field by night, 5000 more
than he expected. He expects to care
for all.
First of Program.
This is the first formal day of the
semi-centennial celebration. Although
Buford and Wheeler had skirmisnea
fifty years ago yesterday, it was July
l that the battle began which forced
the Union troops out of Gettysburg
back toward Cemetery Ridge.
Col. j.. M. Shoemaker, chairman
OF the Pennsylvania Gettysburg com
mission, was the presiding officer at
today's meeting and Secretary of War
Garrison, Governor Tenor of Pennsyl-
vania, Commander Alfred j. Beers of
the Grand Army and Commander
Bennett Fl. Young of the United Con-
federate Veterans, were scheduled to
speak.
DR.. Samuel Dixon of the Pennsyl-
vania health department, continues
his efforts to have the sale of liquor
in the town of Gettysburg brought to
an end.
Wants Pension for Southerners
Young in his address discussed the
question of government pensions for
soldiers still alive who fought under
the stars and bars. Suggestions late
ly put into form to give the confeder-
ate soldiers the same privilege in the
national soldiers home as federal
soldiers he said may lead to the es-
t~ablishment of this right.
HONeTlOT IuIl1GI MSlCOIlcQ DOtil
the blue and the gray survivors of
the great hosts of brave men who SO
years ago wrote upon the pages of
the worlds martial history the en-
during fame and glory of the Amer
can soldier" He spoke of the slgnl-
ficance of the reunion.
at is through pain that we attain
anything of value; it was through
pain that this nation found itself;
and, upon the great foundation thus
secured and established, proceeded to
advance with giant strides to the
forefront of the nations of the earth.
Can we not today, penetrated as
we are by the deep spiritual mean
ing of this impressive gathering sure
lily say that it was worth it all; that
those silent martyrs lying forever
enshrined upon the field, did not die
in vain, that you who at the front
bore the storm and stress of that
great conflict, and those who waited
in trembling anxiety at home and
: bore the woe and agony of suspense
and uncertainty, did not suffer in
vain? Can we not truly say hat UNI
til this people had withstood some
such stress as this, there was assur-
ance Thai this first great experiment
if the ability of men to govern them
selves was surely successful? Shrink
from the facts as we may. do they not
! prove their case? Would we within,
or those who stood doubling without,
ever have felt the assurance which is
now felt? Do we want to know that
those who the God of Nations hath
Joined together, no mar can put as
under?
Apart from the deep significance
which your meeting has, and from
the important page which it will fill
in history, is it not good for you as
individuals to be here today? Your
last memories of this field will over
lay the earlier ones. 1t will no long
er picture itself in your memories
as a field of carnage and suffering
and woe, but a field of smiling faces
and happy hearts and great joys. And
so the picture will go forth to the
nation, and it will rejoice with you.
and the whole world will realize that
not only has government of the peo-
pie, by the people, and for the people
not persisted from the earth, but that