Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-07-04
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GETTYSBURG REUNION
Fierce Heat Makes Re- Union Quite
Trying.

Fierce Heat Makes Re-Union Quite
Trying.
Gettysburg, Pa, July I'm the pitt
less glare Of sun that sent the mer-
curry bubbling over the hundred mark
and made clothes a burden and bath
only delusion, the armies Of the
north and the south today began the
formal exercises set to mark the semi
centennial Of Gettysburg. Veterans,
to the number of $1,000, the army Of
fcers estimated, filed into the big tent
set apart for the exercises, sat In the
haze of heat for two hours and shook
the camp with their cheers when the
speakers made reference to a reunited
nation. Every seat undlr the canvas
was taken long before Secretary CT.
rison and Gov. Tener, the orators Of
the day, came chugging up in their au-
tomobiles.
Although the men in gray were far
outnumbered by those in blue, there
were possibly 1000 southerners in the
ampitheatre and what they lacked in
numbers they made up in lung power
When Gov. Tener finished his speech,
Gen. Bennett H. Young, commander
in-chief of the Confederate veterans,
rose slowly and bowed to him.
II can give you something that no
one else can give you," he said.
I'VE will now give you the rebel
yell"
Nine famous Confederate generals
and 1000 veterans Of the south gave
It so loudly that it was heard far back
in the camp toward Gettysburg.
When Gen. Young stepped forward
to deliver his address, he was greeted
with wild enthusiasm, the Union vet
Grams, led by Commander Beers, CIV
ing him three lusty cheers and a I'll
ger" ...
He took as his keynote the convic-
ton of each side in the great struggle
that each fought for principle which
each believed was the truth. One OF
his opening statements was that the
northern soldiers deserved more credit
than the southerners for the promul-
CATION and successful realization OF
the present great reunion, which he
characterized as the greatest move.
ment of its kind in the world.
This compliment to the northern vet.
Grams was greeted with loud cries of
mo-" to which Gen. Young quickly
replied: II know better than you do"
His speech captured the audience and
he was overwhelmed by handshakes.
form were Governors Mann, Virginia;
form wer, Governors Mann, Virginia.:
McCreary, Kentucky, and Eberhardt,
Minnesota; Senator Penrose Of Penn
sylvania, and the following Confeder-
ate generals:
Robinson, Texas; West, Georgia; ),
Thomas j. Haffer, Louisiana; A. D.
Williams, Florida; E. M. Law, Flor
ida, and Carr, North Carolina.
The invocation was delivered by the
Rev. George Edwards Lovejoy, chap
lain-in- chief Of the Grand Army OF
the Republic. The benediction was to
have been delivered by the Rev. H. M.
Hamil, chaplain general Of the Con-
federate veterans, who did not appear.
All through the night the veterans
poured into the camp, took graciously
Of what small blessings fate passed
out to them for few hours and found
permanent quarters when the hard
pressed regular army officers could get
them ready Late today Maj. Normoyle,
second in command to Brig. Gen. Lig-
gett, estimated that more than $4,000
men are uuartered in a camp intended
to hold 10000.
Through persistent efforts, however.
every man has been cared for as well
as possible. Thousands have been giv-
en- quarters In the big tent and hum
dreds of others in smaller tents used
in the day time for speech making and
reunions. No officer cared to estimate
are more than 5000 from Virginia and
1t is probable that one-quarter OF the
total number is represented by the
men from Dixie. !
Many veterans got no further than
one meal in camp and one look at the
crowded tents and then started back
home as quickly as they could go. The
real exodus, however, will not begin
until Thursday or Friday for thousands
who might have left sooner expect to
stay over the Fourth to see President
Wilson.
Before the morning exercises began
and after the veterans quartered in the
big tent made their slim toilets, the re-
unions of regiments and companies
and squadrons began. Confederates
who were in Pickett's charge took keen
delight in marching with fife and drum
to Spanglers woods. where the COL
umns of Pickett formed on July 3
1863, to begin the charge that marked
the high tide of the Lost Cause. They
did not charge again as they once did
but they remembered-or thought they
remembered, and nobody said them
nay-every stick and stone and even
the blades of grass In that wide
stretch where death stepped with
them before.
On the edge of the Union side Of the