The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1913-07-04

VETERANS GATHER
ON BATTLEFIELD
Men Who Fifty Years Ago
Engaged In Struggle.
Twenty-Five Thousand Already
on Hand, and Thousands
More on the Way.

Gettysburg. Pa. June 30.-Twenty-
five thousand veterans in blue and
gray. the biggest army of its kind
that has been gathered to-
gether in fifty years. woke today on
the field Of Gettysburg to the call
of reveille and the warlike rattle Of
pJts and pans in a score Of mess
tents.
Veterans who sat up until late at
night exchanging "reminiscences were
up long before the sun climbed over
the hills Of the Blue Ridge. Before
the electric lights of this modern camp
were turned out to make way for the
sun, the veterans were singing the
songs OF war time, and the wide
streets OF the tented city echoed with
the "ki-yi" OF Johnny Reb" and the
hoarser yell OF his Yankee brother
from the North.
The regular army men in char &c
of the camp expected $4,000 veterans
to come into Gettysburg today. and
by tonight they will be prepared to
tent and mess more than 10000 men
without hitch or delay. There was no
set program today and the veterans
were left free to look up old friends
and old enemies, swap stories Of 63
and enjoy themselvs in any way they
saw fit.
Just as soon as the rations Of bacon
and eggs and coffee. fruit In sea-
son." fresh bread and butter, were
disposed OF in the way all good SOL
diers dispose of them. the real in
spection of the battlefield and the
retelling OF the story Of Gettysburg
began, with all the pointed criticism
shat the private soldier knows 80 we'll
how to make.
81 amt sene a Reb yet who didn't
charge Round Top and take 1t all by
himself said a lanky Southerner as
he wandered into the quarters Of the
Pennsylvania contingent.
mo, and | amt seen Yank who
didn't break up Pickett's charge by
his own SELF" said q smiling Penn
sylvanian as they shook hands.
The only set event today was the
joint reception by the survivors OF
Gen. Buford's Cavalry and the South
erners OF Gen. Wheeler's Cavalry to
the citizens of Gettysburg. 1t was
Buford who discovered the gray army
advancing on Gettysburg on the
morning of July 1. fifty years ago.
and the picket who first saw the
scouts of Lee swinging up the Chamb-
ersburg pike fired the first shot OF
the greatest battle of the war. 1t was
Buford who stubbornly fought the
advance of Gen. Heth's division OF
the Third Confederate Corps on the
July morning until Gen. Reynolds ar
lived and took command. and Wheel
er's men helped to make that joint
affair a warm one.
Relatives Of Gen. Meade. Gen.
Longstreet, Gen. Pickett and Gen.
Hill arrived today and were given
quarters in the town. Col. ]. M.
Schoonmaker, chairman of the Penn
sylvania Commission, announced to-
day that thirty-five Governors had
accepted invitations to be present
some time during the week.
While Thousands of veterans OF
both sides are here and other thou
sands are ON their way to participate
I'm the great anniversary encamp-
ment commemorating the Battle OF
Gettysburg, there are gathering upon
a quiet little street Of the town
seven gray-haired women who. fifty
years ago, acted as volunteer nurses
for Union and Confederate VETERANS
alike, when the laundering guns OF
battle were piling up gruesome total
of killed and wounded. Perhaps to no
one Of the seven are the recollec-
lions of that time more vivid than
they are to Mrs. SalOme NJ. Stewart
who. with the exception OF an In
4. teryal of q few years.. has lived In the
same house that was used as an
senergsncy hospital during the famous
battle.
Among the notable arrivals at the
veterans camp yesterday was Gen.
Daniel sickles. who declined hotel
quarters in favor of a tent pitched
mon the site where he lost his leg