Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-07-02
Many Frustrated and Seve-
raj Deaths In Camp on
Gettysburg Battlefield
GARRISON Is WELCOMED
BY THE HOSTS
Secretary of War and Gen.
eraI Wood, Chief of Staff
Is on Ground.

Gettysburg, Pa, July 2.-Field hos
pftal ambulances began racing over
the battlefield, picking up the veterans
who dropped under the fierce sun as
they went on their way to the great
tent where Secretary of War Garrison
formally opened the memorial ceremo-
MES.
The ambulances were arriving at the
hospitals every few minutes loaded
Often with as many as four of the aged
warriors. Just how many were knock.
ed out by the heat is not known. II
would not be surprising if the number
ran into the hundreds.
Secretary Garrison and General
Wood, chief of staff, motored here
from Baltimore. They were escorted
to General Liggetts headquarters by a
squadron of cavalry.
The assemblage at the tent was an
inspiring sight. 1t is great amphi-
theater, easily accommodating more
than 5000. Every seat was taken, and
many of the veterans were standing
without the tent walls, which were
raised to permit the circulation Of air.
Perhaps there were 5000 veterans,
rebels and Yankees side by side, pre-
sent1ng the picture Of a vast field of
white hair. Secretary Garrison deliY.
cred a stirring speech of welcome.
The vanguard and the rear guard of
veteran hosts have arrived The de-
nd ba
rupters of the Union are here In each
others arms. Tears and laughter,
shouts of "You d Yank" and "You
Johnny Reb" are seen and heard ev-
erywhere. Embracing, reunioning and
reminiscing are the orders of the day
There will never be another civil war.
Hobson's Uncle Talks.
The uncle Of Richmond Pearson Hob
son, who was wounded and captured at
Uppersville, says that, He was of Com
pany II of the Fifth North Carolina,
and he ought to know. Following the
steps of his nephew, the uncle, while
denying that Richmond p. ever kissed
anybody on the Chicago platform but
his married cousin and her children
and somebody else's children, declares
that If he and his fellow tar heels had
only brought their wives along they
would never go back. It's a loving
host. as Uncle Hank says, and also as
Uncle Hank says: 1--WE came up here
expecting you to hold us In your arms.
But we like 1t; oh, we like it." That's
the note today. Get together, boys!
All over the field the drums are roll
Ing. The drummers of the vets brought
their drums with them, and for exer-
else that would kill Muldoon and that
beats dumbbell exercises all hollow,
just start the drums to rolling. The
heads along the company streets come
out and peer about and pretty soon the
rhythm of the finest music in the world
gets In its intoxicating work and stiff
ness files away and the dance of the
gray haired boys Is on with all the fer
vor and ginger of the totem pole bri-
gade, than which there Is but the vet
Grams dance more gingery.
Fight 1t All Over Again.
Across the railroad tracks near where
Pickett made his charge and Pettigrew
got shot In the hand so he could not
write report and get for North Caro-
linans due credit for their participa-
ton, came the Johnny Rebs on their
assault. The long faced North Caro-
linans were in the lead, followed by
Alabama yellow Hammers" and the
Georgia "Goober Grabbers" and ex-
planning among themselves how 1t all
happened and cautioning each other
not to advance any claim to the effect
that Pickett's charge wasn't so much
his as Pettigrew's. There really is a
ot In the contention, you know, be-
cause the North Carolinans went on
through the war after that charge ex-
)ecting to rest on their laurels when
.hey got back home. But they found
hat the Richmond reporters had Civ.
IN the credit to the Yirginians, and
heir faces dropped. That's why Rich
nond P.'s Uncle Henry's claims to
having the longest face on the North
American continent are pretty good.
Uncle Hank was awfully disappointed
bout that charge. and he'll take you
light up to General Cars tent and |
how you by figures that more men
we're killed in Pettigrew's command |
han were killed in Picketts whole d. |
'ision.
The assault was simply an early |
tart of the Johnny Rebs to get in q |
ull day OF Jaw cracking with their
airing Toes, the ID Yanks" The |
ebels claim that the vital forces of
ur old men were exhausted In the |
'ictory at Gettysburg.