The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-07-01
VETERANS AT GETTYSBURG
THOUSANDS AT BATTLEFIELD
General Daniel Sickles Pitches Tent
Upon Site Where He Lost
His Leg During Battle.

Gettysburg, Pa, June 3O.-While
thousands of veterans of the blue
and the gray are here and other
thousands are on their way to par
tlcipate in the great anniversary en-
campment commemorating the bat
tie OF Gettysburg, there are gather
ng upon a quiet little street of the
town seven gray-haired women, who.
6O years ago, acted as volunteer
nurses for Union and Confederate
veterans alike, when the laundering
guns OF battle were piling up a grue-
some total of killed and wounded
Perhaps to no one of the seven are
the recollections of that time more
vivid than they are to Mrs. Salome
M. Stewart, a native of Gettysburg
VINO except for an interval of a few
years, has lived in the same house
that was used as an emergency hos
pital during the famous battle.
AT Mrs. Stewards house has been
established the headquarters for the
surviving nurses of the War Between
the States. One arrival yesterday
was Mrs. Charles +. Dye, of Phila-
delphia, who was among the first to
respond when the news of Gettysburg
Uttered in over the wires. The other
in the anniversary are Miss Cornelia
Hancock, of Philadelphia: Mrs. Mar
garet Hamilton, Wakefield, Miss. {:
Mrs. Mary Stevens, of Peabody, Mass
Mrs. Annie Irving, Newburgh N
and Mrs. Helen Cole, Sheboygan
| Falls, Wis
Among the notable arrivals at
the veterans camp yesterday was
Gen. Daniel Sickles, who declined
hotel quarters in favor Of a tent
pitched upon the site where he lost
his leg during the battle. General
/ Sickles was escorted to his tent by
a cavalry detail and was cheered
Justify by wearers of both the blue
and the gray.
picturesque parsonage who at
tracted much attention was Gen.
Felix H. Robertson of Texas, who
came to town clad in the full uni
form of Confederate general
General Robertson, who is proud of
the fact that he was at Fort Sumter
when the first gun was fired, also
declined to accept the hospitality of
the pennsylvania commission which
had provided a comfortable room
| for him in the dormitory of Penn
sylvania College, saying he preferred
to share the camp life with his men.
Ih1s attitude also was assumed by
Gen. A. j. West of Atlanta, who
! ounked with his comrades on the
/ battlefield.
Among those registered at the
headquarters of the commission on
the campus of Pennsylvania College
are Governor Clarke OF Iowa, Gen.
I1lleton and Col. Herman w. Allen,
OF Vermont, Judge E. M. Gibson,
Oakland, CAL; r. l.. Hawk, a com
/ missioner from Sacramento, Cal. {:
F. w. Castleman, New Orleans: ]
! w. Patterson, n. H. United States
Senator Penrose arrived from Phlia-
delphia late last night and will re-
main until Thursday, when he will
leave for Erie to participate in the
celebration of Commodore Perry s
/ victory Col. Charles II. McCon-
nell is registered from Chicago. He
has brought from that city tent
whlch Will serve as headquarters for
the Iron Brigade and Pettigrew's s
North Carolina brigade. These
brigade fought each other in the
] first days battle and their reunions
are expected to be peculiarly inter
esting for this reason. Colonel
McConnell'S tent is the only one i'm
the camp Eot furnished by the gov
ernment
Other arrivals include Governor
Hanna or Fargo, n. D., accompanied
| by three members OF his stan, and
Gen. A. ID. Williams of Florida, a
distinguished Confederate officer.
! The big trainload of Virginia Con
federate veterans were given an en-
tnusiastic reception at the railroad
/ station in town. Men and women
shouted and cheered and waved
handkerchiefs as the train passed
slowly by and the grizzled veterans
clad in their beloved uniform of
gray, hung far out of the car win
dows and cheered in return.