Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-07-04
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IN GREAT
EST BATTLE OF CIVIL WAR
MEET IN REUNION.
BLUES and CREYS GUESTS OF NATION
Every Arrangement Made for Their
Comfort During Encamrment-
Many Joys as Well as Sorrows
Recalled.

army of gray meeting at her doorstep.
From early morning until long after
shutdown the veterans in blue and gray
trooped into the little town which has
slept peacefully among it's hills since
Lee and Meade turned their legions
southwark long ago.
More than 80 special trains came
into the village and thousands of vet
Grams who tramped up from the Shen-
andoah on their former visit rode in
comfort from everywhere. Instead of
the roar of guns that greeted them in
the others days they entered in the
quiet Sunday calm of a country town.
Only the flags flying from every win
dow, the city of tents in the distance
and the crowds told that Gettysburg
had come cut of The usual into the ex-
traordinary once more.
Several Succumb to Heat.
From the station of the two rail-
roads that enter the village is a long
mile to the camp OF 5000 tents where
the veterans are housed. Thousands
shouldered suit cases and walked un-
der a searching, cloudless sky, a
brassy sun beating down. A number
succumbed, IN from Maine dying, be-
fore they found their tents. There
was no complaining. however.
Every possible arrangement for the
comfort of the united armies has been
mad The camp of brown army tents
Is under the direction of officers of the
regular army. The streets of Gettys-
burg are under the scrutiny of the
Pennsylvania constabulary and for the
care of the sick the Red Cross has
made extensive preparations.
The camp itself lies on ground that
has been baked as hard as a brick and
dried into lust by winds that sweep
the hills, but its sanitation, its water
supply and its plan for the feeding of
thousands of men have been made
with the utmost care.
The tent fall westward with the
slope from the Emmettsburg road to
the point on Seminary ridge where the
immortal charge of Pickett started on
the third day of the fight. They cover
the peach orchard and the wheat
field" wnere thousands of men died
and part of the ground over which
Pickett charged, but they do not reach
to the Bloody Angle" or to the base
of Cemetery ridge, from whose heights
Meade's artillery poured out it's rain of
grape and canister that cut to pieces
the legions of Pickett.
The formal exercises Will be held in
a big tent near Emmettsburg road, but
they will last only two hours each day
and the rest of the time the veterans
will spend as they please.
Monday on the Field.
Gettysburg.-Oyer the field of Get.
tysburg, where 10000 men in blue
and gray fought with the weapons OF
war SO years ago, the sons of peace
from the north and south, the east and
the west, trooped Monday to the tent
ed city, where they will live during the
four days of semi-centennial celebra,
tion.
The blue linked arms with the gray
They marched the dusty roads togeth
er from the village; they sat down al
the same mess tables and talked over
the wal before the anne campfires to
night. If there was any rancor in any
heart it did not come to the surface.
Over the broad eXpanse of the city
; reunions of those who won and those
who lost went on hour after hour. OF
ficers of the regular army in charge OF
the camp estimated tonight that near
ly $4,000 veterans came in during the
day, bringing the total close to 40, 900
The sun blazed just as fieEcely as
: ever. ,'' Z, ,...
Tuesday at Gettysburg.
Gettysburg, July LIN the glare O
a SUI that e II the mercury over the
100 mark and made clothes a burden
> the armies of the north and the soutf
. Tuesday began the formal exercise:
set to mark the semi-centennial of Get
tysburg.
Veterans to the number of 800
had filled every seat under the canvas
!, before Secretary of Wal Garrison an
: Governor Tener, the orators of thu
day, appeared.
When Governor Tener finished hi!
speech Genefal Bennett II. 1Ouns
commander in chief OF the United Con
federate Veterans, rose slowly ant
: bowed to him. 81 can give you some
= thing that no one else a give you,
he said. We will nov give you thu
, rebel yell"
:. Thousands Join in Yell.
Nine famous confederate generals
land a thousand veterans of the soutl
gave 1t SO loudly that 1t was heard ia
back in the camp toward Gettysburg
al When General Young stepped for
ward to deliver mis-, address the .Uniol
4 veterans, led by Commander in Chic
Beers, gave him three lusty cheers ant
a tiger" His speech captured- thu
audience and he was overwhelmed b.
Ihandshakes.
III Among the 200 guests on the plat
form were Governors Mann, Virginia
,fl McCreary, Kentucky, and Eberhart
n Minnaea.a. SauatOr penroae of Penn