Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-07-06
REUNION Of BLUE
AND GRAY ENDED
PRACTICALLY EVERY OLD VET
IRA\ HAS LEFT SCENE OF
GREl VI BATTLE.
THE CAMP IS Deserted
At "a Meeting Last Night Plans Were
Launched for a Great Peace
Movement AT Gett, sburg.

GETTYSBURG. July 5.-The re-
union of the blue and the gray, com
memoratinJ the fiftieth anniversary
a. the battle Of Gettysburg. pracu-
oally came to and end today. al
though the camp where more than
$4,000 old soldiers were cared fol
during the week, will not close Of
fiCially until tomorrow.
All day long weary veterans walk
Cd over the dusty roads and streets
t. the railroad stations.
II was the most uncomfortable day
If the week. one old soldier in gray
ficm North Carolina dropped dead
~ the crowd at the town station or
Cne Of the railroads. He was II. II.
Hodges of Union llill, n. {.
Camp Almost Deserted.
Tonight the camp was practically
deserted save for the soldiers and
workmen who have begun the task
of dismantlng it. Two months VIII
Gapse before the ground on which
the camp was pitched will have been
restored TO its original condition,
fences r. built and roads made over.
Tonight the army officers, after
week of hard work, made merry at a
Cinnrr in the big mess tent which
they have used Jointly with '(e news
PAPER correspondents, General lig-
rett presided and all Officers pres
ert were fclictated on the success OF
what has been described as an army
comp that will stand as model for
years to come.
when the weeks program for ten
celebration was tentatively laid out
ffsl ~ o.
thc final feature Of the reunion
should be the laying of corner sion"
Of great peace memorial on the bat
,lefield but the plan for the monu-
ment fell through, Today Colonel
Andrew COwan Of Louisville, Ky.
who was n captain Of the first New
York batte;y, in the battle Of oct
tysburg revived the plan and as re-
suit Of a meeting over which h" pre-
sided, "A committee went to Washing
ton with view to securing the IN
PRODUCTION in congress Of bill pro
v!dlng for the erection of peace
monument and the appropriation oi
Sl,000000.
In addrr ssing the gathering, COL
onei COwan said:
at il hard to control my emotions
when | recall this battlefield fifty
fun retreat and were holding the
glound in the Angle. Beyond the
Emmettsbmg road was thickly strewn
with their dead and wounded and our
own
Looks for General Lee.
lover there on Cemetery Ridge
stands today an equestrian statue OF
General Geo. Meade the great COM
mander of the army Of the Potomac,
facing Seminary Ridge. Does he
look for the peerless leader of the
Southern army"
"Men. Robert f. Lees life like
statute, mounted on his famous war
horse Traveller will soon be placed
or the PEDESTAL already reared by
Virginia on Seminary Ridge to re-
ceive II. The forms of the two great
commanders OF the battlefield OF
Gettysburg will then stand facing
each other while time endures Be
bind us little way, at the clump OF
trees. is a monument which marks
the high tide Of the war on this field.
This grand celebration Of the fiftieth
anniversary OF the battle of Gettvs-
burg marks high tide Of peace -
tween the Eorth and south which
stall never reCede while Americans
lCvc liberty and the Union"
"The cornerstone of monument
will be laid on Put-ln-Bay In com
rtemoration Of the centinnial OF
Perrys victory over the British fleet
on Lake Erie"
Such monuments possess an cdu-
cational value which cannot be meas;
ured by wlat they cost. Teach the
Young Americans that we can have
no fears for the future of our coun-
try"
should not peace monument be
raised on this battlefield Of Gettys-
burg-a monument in commemora-
ti.n Of this union'bctween the soldiers
wbo fought for different principles
and fought hravely from 1861 to 1858, |
~ and through which 1t has been |
forever established that this nation |
under God shall not perish"