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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-04
Description Of Historic Flag.

The great historic banner measures
81 feet 6 inches by 80 feet 10 inches,
and is much faded and torn. It's nj
teen stripes and stars are still to be
seen, and mark IT 4, as distinctive i u
this respect. 1t is one of the very rev, few
OF the national flags having fifteen
bars as we'll as, fifteen stars, being
issued at a time just preceding the
STANDARDIZATION Of the number OF
stripes as thirteen, with the addition
Of star in case of each new state.
This flag has been on exhibition In
the older National Museum building,
where 1t was deposited in 1907, as
loan by It's owner, Mr.. Eben Appleton
LOT New York, grandson of Col. George
Armistead, the heroic officer in charge
of Fort McHenry during this battle,
but in 1912 II was officially presented
Ito the government and left in the mu-
scum where It may still be seen In
the same case there is photograph OF
| painting OF Key at the age OF IL. by
Charles Wilson Peale; a copy OF
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-04
WIN Marry il CHICAGO.

4 On Wednesday July 8, at the Hotel
Del Toronto, Chicago, will occur the
marriage OF Miss Katherine Walters
Of Keokuk to Mr.. Frank Sutton Of
Tulsa, Okla. The ceremony will be per
formed at noon and will be attended
by only the family, followed by a
luncheon at the hotel On their we'd
ding trip the couple will go to Yellow
stone Park and then to the coast.
They will be home at Tulsa after Sep.
tember l. Mr.. Sutton is lawyer.
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w ant Column
WANTED.

WANTED Girls or young women in
cutting department to do skiving.
Steady employment, good pay. In
quire Huiskamp Bros. Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-04
Planning for Next Year.

The program committee Of the Civic
League is planning the program for
the year. One of the attractive fea-
lures will be three special meetings to
be known as directors meetings, the
committee for the day being five of
the members Of the board of directors.
Each of these meetings will be differ
emit Some will be parlor meetings
with a lecture on some civic topic.
Tea will be served at the close of the
meeting and social hour enjoyed.
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William c. Smith Married.

William c. Smith Married.
Miss Helen O'Hare Of Quincy and
Mr.. William G. Smith, formerly Of
Keokuk, were married at st. Peters
church in Quincy yesterday afternoon
at $50 o'clock. Mr. Smith is son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. G. N. Smith, 72S Morgan
street this city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-04
Country Club Party.

The regular fortnightly bridge party
will be given at three o'clock on the
porch at the country club tomorrow af-
ternoon. The usual Saturday night
dancing party will be given tomorrow.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-07-01

the morning OF July I. He dispatched
a courier to Meade saying that the
high ground above Gettysburg was
the proper place TO meet ohe enemy
Not long after this message was sent
to Meade General Reynolds who dis
patched II, was killed. He was on
horseback near patch Of woods with
his force confronting a large detach-
ment Of Confederate troops which was
coming toward them. These troops OF
the enemy were dispersed by the
Union batteries and Reynolds was
watching the successful solid shot
and shrapnel onset when bullet
struck him in the head killing him In
stantly.
General Abner Doubleday succeeded
Reynolds In command of the troops
at that point of the field A brigade
of Confederates, a Mississippi organi-
zation, charged the Union forces,
broke their organization and succeed.
ed In making prisoners OF a large part
OF a New York regiment. Later these
men we're recaptured and the Missis-
sippi brigade was driven back a por-
ton Of it surrendering. In the fight
on the first day at this point of the
field or near 1t. one Union regiment.
the 151st Pennsylvania, lost IL killed
and wounded 337 men out of a total
Of 446 In little more than a quarter
OF an hours fight.
General Doubleday fell back to Sem
mary Ridge and extended his line.
The forces employed against him
here we're greater than his own, and
after hard fighting Seminary Ridge
was given up. The first days battle
was in effect and in truth a victory
for the Southern arms. On the night
of July l General Hancock arrived
and succeeded in rallying the Union
forces and putting new heart into the
men. General Meade on that night
ordered the entire army to Gettys-
burg.
Victory Not Followed Up.
For some reason or other perhaps
unknown to this day, what was virtu-
ally a Confederate victory on the first
of July was not followed up by Cen
eral Lee early on the next morning.
General Meade therefore succeeded In
Strengthening his lines and in pre-
pairing for the greater conflict One
end of the Union line was some dis
lance east of Cemetery Hill on Rock
Creek, another end was at Round Top
something more than two miles be-
yond Cemetery Hill to the south. The
Confederate line confronting 1t was
somewhat longer
1t is impossible in a brief sketch of
this battle to give the names of the
brigade and the regimental comman-
ders and the names of the regiments
which were engaged on both sides in
this great battle. Meade, Hancock,
Howard, Slocum and Sickles with
their men were confronting Lee.
Longstreet, Hill, Ewell and the other
great commanders of the South with
their men. The line Of battle with the
spaces in between the different COM
mands was nearly ten miles. 1t was
the Confederate generals intention to
attack at the extreme right and left
and at the center simultaneously. IL
was to be General Longstreet's duty
to turn the left flank of the Union
army and to break it," Longstreet's
intended movement was discovered In
time to have it met valiantly. The
battle of the second day really be-
gan with Longstreet's advance. The
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-07-01
STORY OF FAMOUS
CIVIL WAR FIGHT
Battle Of Gettysburg Which
Brought Credit to Both
Blue and Gray.
TURNING POINT OF CONFLICT
Total Losses on Both Sides In Three
Days Fighting Over 5oooo-sev.
ersI Generals Killed and
Wounded.
BY EDWARD q. CLARK.


YYYAsHTNGToN-It is posi-
AH bic, some people would say
WV probable. that the Battle OF
Gettysburg changed utterly
the course Of American his.
tory. II was a great fight between
armies OF Americans, for probably
fully ninety per cent. OF the men who
fought on the two sides we're born
natives to the American soil. The
bravery shown at Gettysburg was OF
the order which Americans have
shown on every field and which re-
fleets credit upon the hardy and
heroic ancestry Of the men engaged,
no matter from what race they may
have sprung.
At Gettysburg there was nothing to
choose between the valor OF the North
and the South. The South lost the
fight, but 1t lost it honorably and
with the prestige of its soldiery I'M
field have gone down into history as
assaults made under conditions which
every man felt might mean death at
the end. The defenses made at Gettys-
burg were of the kind which 1t takes
iron in the blood to make perfect. At
Gettysburg Northerners and South
erners replenished their store of re-
spect for their antagonists. The bat
tie marked the high tide Of the war
between the states. After 1t the
South largely was on the defensive,
but its defense was maintained with
tortitude and in the face of privations
which could not chill the blood of
men fighting for what they thought
was the right
The Northern armies we're persis-
tent in their attacks through the cam
paigns which after a few months were
started aginst the objective point,
Richmond. Brave men here and brave
men there. and after the end came it
was the qualities which keep COM
pany with bravery which made the
soldiers of the North and South so
ready TO forget and to forgive and to
work again for the good of a COM
mon country.
The great battle of Charlottesville
was fought not long before the oppos-
ing Union and Confederate forces met
on the field Of Gettysburg Chancel-
louisville was a Confederate victory.
The Southern government believed
that the victory should be followed up
by an invasion of the North for. &C
cording to its reasoning. If an import
ant engagement could be won upon
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which has gone into history as one
OF the most heroic assaults OF all
time. II was forlorn hope but 1t was
grasped and the men of George Ed
ward Pickett, Confederate soldier.
went loyalty and with full hearts to
their death across a shrapnel and rife
swept field.
When the third days fighting open
ed II began with an artillery duel.
hundreds of guns belching forth shot
and death from the batteries Of both
contending forces. 1t is said that this
was the greatest duel engaged in by
field pieces during the four years OF
the war between the states.
The Union guns at one time ceased
firing, and II Is said that the southern
commander thought they had been
silenced. and then IL was that Long
streets men made an assault and
Picketts men made their charge. The
former generals objective was Big
Round Top. but his forces were driv-
en- back Picket formed his division
In brigade columns and they moved
directly across the fields over fiat
ground. They had no cover and they
had no sooner come into effective
range than they we're met by such a
storm OF shot as never before swept
over a field Of battle.
They went on and on, and on clos
ing in their depleted ranks and NOV
ing steadily forward to their death.
Those OF Pickett's men who reached
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their destination had a short hand-to-
hand encounter with the northern sol.
diers. 1t was soon over and Pickett's
charge. glorious for all time in his
tory, was a failure In that which it
attempted to do, but was q success as
helping to show the heroism of Amer
lean soldiers.
The losses at Gettysburg on both
sides were enormous. The Union
army lost Generals Zook, Farnsworth,
Weed and Reynolds, killed; while Ora
ham, Barnes. Gibbon, Warren, Double
day, Barlow, Sickles, Butterfield and
Hancock were wounded. The total
casualties killed wounded, captured
or missing on the Union side num-
bered nearly $4,000 men. On the Con-
federate side Generals Semmes, Pen
der, Garnet. Armistead. and Banks
dale were killed, and Generals Kemp
err. Kimbal. Hood, Heth. johnson and
Trimble were wounded. The entire
Confederate loss is estimated to have
been nearly 10000 men.
The third days fight at Gettysburg
was a victory for northern arms. but
1t was a hard won fight and the con-
flict reflects luster today upon the
north and the south. Lee led his
army back southwark, later to con.
front Grant in the campaigns which
finally ended at Appomattox.
Forces Engaged and Losses.
The forces engaged at the Battle OF
Gettysburg we're:
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to official
accounts the Army of North Virginia,
on the 31st of May. numbered 74.46S,
The detachments which joined mum.
bered 6,400. making S0.S6S. Deducting
the attachments left in Virginia
Jankins' brigade. Pickett's division,
1880; Corse's brigade, Pickett's divi.
sion, LOO; attachments from Second
corps and cavalry. 1900. in all $500
leaves an aggregate of 1865.
Understanding to the reports OF
the Both Of June. and making allowance
for detachments that joined in the in.
term In time to take part In the bat
tie, the grand aggregate was 100000
officers and men.
The casualties we're:
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-07-01
OK'S U.P.DISSOLUTION
President Approves Plan to Dis
solve Combine.
G. p. Todd Of Department Of Justice
Goes to st. Paul to Give Court
Agreement.

Washington, June 30.-A complete
agreement on the Union Pacific dis
solution plan has been approved by
President Wilson, 1t was learned here.
The president is said to be in thor
ough harmony with the agreement and
G. p Todd of the department OF JUS
tice has gone to st. Paul, Mimi, to
present the plan to the federal court.
The details of the dissolution or agree
ment will probably be made public to-
day.
In connection with the filing OF the
Union Pacific agreement with the fed
eral court the department of justice
will ask the court before handing
down a final decree, to grant a limited
time in which to file objections to any
OF the details that might in the mean
time arise.
1t is understood that the action Of
the department Of justice In asking
that the court leave a loophole for
the filing of possible objections In the
detail of the Union Pacific plan does
not indicate that such objections ex-
list, but was merely to leave the way
open for the government in the fu-
ture to offer suggestions II occasion
seems to warrant. In other words. 1t
is decided that there should notsbe
snap Judgment in final enforcement
of the plan. The Supreme court fire.
quently adds clause to a decision al
lowing parties to a suit to bring an
other action il circumstances war
rant
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Southern general did not succeed in
the plan which he had formed to get
by Big Round Top and to attack the
Third Corps from a position of van
tage in the rear General Sickles de-
Tended Round Top and Longstreet
could not take 1t.
When one visits the battlefield of
Gettysburg he can trace the course
of battle of the second day where II
ragged at Round Top. Peach Orchard.
Cemetery Hill. Culp's Hill. and what
Is known as The Devils Den The
tide of battle ebbed and flowed. Lit
tie Round Top was saved from cap
ture by the timely arrival of brigade
commanded by General Weed that
dragged the guns of a United States
regular battery up to the summit by
hand
At the end OF the second days fight
II was found that the Southern army
had failed TO break the left flank OF
the opposing forces. that it had failed
to capture Round Top and that the
right flank of the Northern army. al
though vigorously attacked. had not
been broken. There was a tremen-
dous loss OF life on both sides and
while in general the day had gone
favorably TO the Northern cause Get
tysburg was still a drawn battle
Charge Of Gen. Pickett.
II was on July 3, the third a, last
day OF the great battle OF GET sburg
that Pickett's men made the Charge
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land from invasion, a condition which
military men say always adds a sub.
tie something to the fighting quality
which Is In any man. Some authori-
ties have said that there we're 100 900
men In the Confederate forces at Get.
tysburg to be confronted by 10000
Union troops. Another authority says
that the Confederate force was $4,000
and the Union force $4,000. As II was
the armies were pretty nearly equally
divided in strength.
In June, 1863, General Robert f.
Lee began to move northward. Lee
concentrated his army at Winchester
Va, and then started for the Potomac
river, which he crossed to reach the
state OF Maryland. He fully expected
to be followed by General Hookers
army and so General Stuart with a
large force of cavalry was ordered by
Lee to keep in front of Hookers army
and to check his pursuit of the Con-
federates IL 1t was attempted.
Late in June the Confederate force
reached Hagerstown, in the state OF
Maryland. 1t was General Lees in.
tention to strike Harrisburg, Pa,
which was great railroad center
and city where Union armies were
recruited and from which all kinds of
supplies were sent out to the soldiers
IN the field. While the Southern COM
mander was on his way with a large
part Of his force to the Pennsylvania
capital another part OF his command
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-07-01
MEXICAN REBELS
STAY OVER 1000
Slaughter Soldiers and Civilians
When Durango Falls Into
Their Hands.
WOMEN TORTURED TO DEATH
Insurrecto Leader villa Establishes
outposts Within Three Miles OF
Juarex-Blq Battle Between
Forces 10 Near.

Mexico City, June 30.-One thou
sand soldiers and civilians were
slaughtered by rebels when the city
of Durango, capital OF the state Of
the same name. fell into the insurg-
ents hands, according to word re-
ceived here from that city. Many OF
the victims we're members Of promi-
nent families.
Men and women we're tortured to
death when they did not produce
wealth at the bidding of the rebels.
Fighting between federals and in
surgents Is going on at Uruapam In
the state of Michocan. Cuquio, In the
state of Jalisco, was taken by rebels
yesterday and the garrison put to the
sword.
Big Battle at Juarez 10 Near.
Ell Paso, Tex, June 30.-During the
darkness early today Pancho Villa,
the Mexican rebel leader, who has an
nounced his intention OF taking Juarez
and executing Gen. Salazar, COM
mander of the garrison, In the bull
ring, established outposts within
three miles Of that town. The main
body Of Villas men Is at Flores ranch.
five miles from Juarez. A bunch OF
vaqueros who rode into Juarez to Of
fer their services to General Salazar.
said that Villas men had raided a
number of ranches near Guzman, 80
miles southwest of Juarez, driving of
over 100 cattle. The vaqueros had a
brush with a detachment of Villas
men and a number of shots were ex-
changed, but there were no casualties.
Rebels to Cooperate In Attack.
Ortega, another rebel leader, who
has 500 men, may cooperate with
villa In an attack on Juarez, as he Is
at Guadalupe, within striking distance
OF the town.
II Juarez falls 1t will remove the
most important Mexican port Of entry
on the United States border from the
hands of the Huerta administration.
and may eventually result in the down.
fall OF the Huerta government. The
national railway has moved much of
Its equipment, to this side of the Rio
Grande. Refugees declare that Sala-
Ear has moved all his artillery to the
southern side of the town and that
he has strengthened the old intrench.
ments. Salazar has four cannon. two
mountain batteries and eight machine
guns.
Deny Road Receivership.
London, June 30.-The London fiscal
agents OF the National Railway System
OF Mexico today received cablegrom
from President Brown Of that railway
denying published reports that re-
ceiver had been appointed for the
road.
Mobilize RoumanIan Troops.
Bucharest, Roumania. June 30.-The
government ceased granting fur
loughs to Roumanian soldiers. All OFF,
GERS and troops absent on leave have
been ordered to report to the colors.
The war office is making all prepare,
tions for complete mobilization of
the army.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-07-01
HENRY C. WARD IN RETREAT
MuItimiIIionaire lumberman Is Sent
to Sanitarlum by Wfe-in-
sanity 10 Charged.

Asheville. N, c., June 30.-Henry
Clay Ward, a multimillionaire lumber
man Of Pontiac, Mich. was arrested
on an insanity warrant sworn out by
his wife, adjudged insane at hearing
before the clerk Of the superior court
and ordered confined in a local pri-
vate sanitarium. A. j. Trip and Rem
bert Kent, two Pontiac court officers
who have had charge Of Mr.. Ward
since his arrival attempted vainly to
intervene. Mr.. Ward. whose fortune
is estimated at 100000. came to
Asheville about three months ago. the
two Michigan officers accompanying
him. Mrs. Ward arrived in Asheville
Thursday and instituted the proceed
ings.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-07-01
PERRY FLAG FIGHT ON
Battle OF Lake Erie of 1873 Is
Being Refought.
Director Of Toledo Museum VIII Not
Give Emblem Into Hands Of
Ensign Lowry.

Toledo, o., June 30.-The battle Of
Lake Erie of 1913 is practically be-
ing refought as a part Of the centen-
NAL celebration here. as the result OF
the contest for possession of Commo-
dore Perry's Don't give up the ship"
battle flag.
Director George Stevens OF the To-
ledo museum OF art remained stead
fast In his determination not to
relinquish to Ensign George M. Lowry
of the navy the relic which was
loaned as the center OF an elaborate
display. Lowry has orders to take
the flag to Erie and place 1t on Perry's
rebuilt flagship. the Niagara. Lowry
refused the emblem. is working with
United States District Attorney u. q.
Denman In an effort to use legal
means to obtain possession.
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Northern soil the chances of foreign
Intervention or at least foreign aid to
The Southern cause, would be forth
coming.
General Robert E. Lee late In the
spring of 1863. made his preparations
20 conduct his campaign Northward
into the state of Pennsylvania. He
had under his command three corps
General James Longstreet command
ing the First, General Richard s.
Ewell commanding the Second, and
General A. p. Hill commanding the
Third. In the Union army which aft
erward confronted Lee at Gettysburg
there were seven corps, but the num-
Der OF men in each was much less
than that in Confederate corps. the
military composition of each being
different. The Union corps comman-
ders who under Meade were at Get
tysburg. were Generals John F. Rey-
nolds. w. s. Hancock. Daniel Il.
Sickles. George Sykes. John Sedgwick.
o. o. Howard and II. w. Slocum.
Forces Almost Evenly Matched.
II never has been determined be
yond the point OF all dispute just how
many men were engaged on each side
In the battle OF Gettysburg. II is
known that the armies were very
nearly equal in strength. the proba-
bilicies being that the Confederate
force was a few thousand men strong
er than the Union force. a difference
which was balanced perhaps by the
fact that the Union armies az Gettys-
burg were fighting In defense Of their
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was ordered to make its way into the
Susquehanna Valley through the town
Of Gettysburg and then to turn in its
course after destroying railroads and
gathering in supplies. and to meet the
Confederate commander with the main
army at Harrisburg.
1t was General Jubal A. Early of
General Lees command, who reached
Gettysburg after a long hard march
on June rs. From there he went to
the town Of York and from thence to
Wrightsville. At this place he was
ordered by General Lee to retrace his
steps and to bring his detachment
back to camp near Gettysburg.
When Early aid obeyed Lees order
and had reached a point near Gettys-
burg he found the entire Southern
force was camped within easy strik-
ing distance of the now historic town.
In the meantime things we're hap
in command of the Union army which
had been depleted at Charlottesville,
had succeeded in out-maneuvering
General Stuart in command OF Lees
cavalry, had got around Stuart's COM
mand in a way to prevent the South
ern general from forming junction
with the forces of his chief comman-
der. Lee gave over the proposed
movement on Harrisburg when he
heard of Hooker's approach and
brought the different parts of his
army together.
-Four days before the Gettysburg
fight began General Hooker resigned
as commander of the Union army.
Hooker and General Hallock dis
agreed upon matter concerning
which strategists today say that Gen.
eral Hooker was right. Three days
before the battle began. that is, June
2S, 1868. General George Gordan
er's successor in charge of the North
ern army. General Meade at once
went into the field and esta blished
his headquarters at point ten OF
twelve miles south of the town OF
Gettysburg.
II seems that General Lee on hear
ing that Stuart had not succeeded in
checking the Union army's advance
had made up his mind to turn south
ward to meet the force of Hooker, or
as II turned out the force Of Meade.
Lee with his force had advanced
north beyond Gettysburg, while Meade
with his force was south of the town.
The fields near the Pennsylvania viii
lage had not been picked as place OF
battle, but there II was that the two
great armies came together and for
three days struggled for the mas
terry.
On the last day OF June. the day
before the real battle OF Gettysburg
began, General Reynolds. a corps
commander OF the Union army, went
forward to feel out the enemy. He
reached Gettysburg by nightfall. His
corps. the First. together with the
Third and the Eleventh Infantry
Corps with a division OF cavalry, com
posed the Union army's left wing.
The Fifth Army Corps was sent to
Hanover. southeast OF Gettysburg,
and the Twelfth Corps was immedi-
ately south OF Gettysburg at a dis
lance OF height or nine miles. This
was on June 80 and the Union forces
were fairly well separted. but they
were converging and Gettysburg was
their objective.
General Reynolds OF the Union
forces arrived at Gettysburg early on