The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-07-08
VETERANS REPEA CHARGE.
Survivors of Pickett's Famous DiSi-
sion Repeat Charge Upon The
"BloOdy Angle"

uncertain joys of camp life behind and
started for home, their going made
little difference in the appearance OF
the battlefield camp today, for thou
sands of others we're on hand to par
ticipate in the exercises Of Governors
Day. On both sides of Confederate
avenue the tents we're still alive with
veterans and the lines before the cook
tents did not seem to the cooks to
have lost an inch, although the num-
Der that has left was estimated at
close to 10000.
The veterans acted today like lot
of school boys whose vacation is only
a few days away. Long bsfore sunup
they began parading the camp to the
music of "The Streets of Cairo play
ed on flies and drums. The paraders
were hard workers and the band had
powerful lungs and hands, for they
kept it up until mess call.
Many of the men who expect to
leave tomorrow paid their farewell
calls today on the men of the other
army they have come to know.
In the days they have been here the
feeling was the best. There was no
doubt in the minds of those who saw,
that so far as these men who have
gathered here are concerned the war
has ceased to be a source of hatred
and rancor.
One of the events of today was the
charge of the survivors of .Pickett's
division on the Bloody Angle held
by the remnants of the Philadelphia
brigade. Under a hot sun the men in
gray marched across the field that has
not seen anything more warlike than
a black snake in so years, up to the
walls that form the angle. The "ene-
N.Y. in blue was waiting with weapons
ready and when they met across the
wall they shook hands. Afterwards
they looked over the ground for the
site for a $25O,OOO monument they
hope to have congress erect there.
At a meeting of Confederates ne
following resolutions were unanimous
ly adopted:
Resolved, by the ex-Confederates
at Gettysburg assembled that our
thanks are due and are hereby ten
dered to the State of Pennsylvania for
initiating the movement which has
made it possible for the survivors OF
the two great armies which fought in
this illustrious field so years ago, to
meet in friendship here today and
plant a monument of peace, a mopu-
ment which shall stand as the symbol
of American valor, manhood and
brotherhood.
Resolved, that we thank the gov
ernment of the United States for the
and munifcent manner in
which it has-secondsd the efforts OF
the State of Pennsylvania ~ carrying
forward this great work of peace AID
fraternity between the blue and gray;
and without any establishment
whatsoever, we desire to reafirm and
pledge not only ourselves but all our
brother ex1Confederates and all the
people of our loved Southland to the
utmost loyalty to the government OF
the United States and to the flag of
our country.
"Resolved, that we take pride in
the fact that to the armies of the
Confederacy is due the credit of dem
onstrating the utter impossibility of
the dismemberment of the Union.
When we consider that 100000 men
of the very flower of chivalry, as good
material as was ever organized in a
fighting force, and directed by such
commanders as our beloved Robert E.
Lee and his liuetenants, inspired by a
sectional devotion such as has not
elsewhere been known in history,
failed to separate the States, we see
that the demonstration was complete,
that the thing was not to be done, and
our failure must give pause to those
who in the future would contemplate
such an undertaking.
Wn,SONsS rs NO HOO DOO.