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MARYLAND 500 STRONG.
Veterans Sleep on Battlefield,
Ready For Anniversary
OF Blue and Gray Arrive.

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Gettysburg, Pa, June 30.-Nearly
500 veterans from Maryland are
sleeping on the battle field tonight
and ready for the opening of the
anniversary exercises tomorrow
morning. More than $50 Union SOL
diers from Baltimore and other
parts of the State marched in at
various times today, half dozen
men in gray registered at the Con-
federate camp, and many more are
expected.
John Francis Key, grandson of
Francis Scott Key, author of the
immortal "The Star-Spangled Ban
ner," arrived on the morning train
FROM Baltimore and was apparently
the happiest man in Gettysburg
when he joined his Pikesville Home
comrades in the camp, for he had
feared disappointment. He said
this evening that it was the event
of his Life. He tramped over por-
ton of the old battle field, unmind-
full of the heat. No one would have
taken him for man 80 years OF
age. Mr. Key served in "Jeb'' Stu
arts cavalry as member OF
Breathed battery from Hagerstown.
He did not get into the fight at
Gettysburg, having arrived here on
the third day from Carlisle.
Il have a dim recollection of my
grandfather" said the veteran, when
asked about the author of THE
Star-Spangled Banner" my aunt
lived on the site of what is now
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Episcopal Church, and Grandfather
Key came to visit us now and then
for a day or so at time. My ia
theirs name was also Francis Scott
Key. I had two brothers in the
Confederate Army. One, William
Maulsley Key, died as a result of
bad treatment in a prison stockade.
He took cold from exposure to all
kinds Ct weather, had congestive
chill, and that was the end of him.
He served with Mosby and was cap
tured by the Yankees. My other
brother, Daniel Murray Key, died
at the Pikesville home a short time
ago."
Gen. John R. King, chairman of
the Maryland Gettysburg Commits
sion, and Gen. Andrew c. Trippe,
the States Confederate Commission
er, came to Gettysburg this evening
by automobile, and met the veterans
in their respective camps. Col. Jas.
C. Mullikin, of Easton, the other
member of the Maryland Commits
sion, has been on the grounds since
Saturday.
Rev. DR.. S. B. Treadway, pastor
of Webster M. P. Church, near
Havre de Grace, reported at the
Maryland camp as Union soldier.
He served in Company D, Third
Maryland Volunteer Infantry, but
did not get into the Gettysburg
campaign. Rev. DR.. Treadway will
sleep on an army cot once more and
declared this evening that he ex-
pected to get considerable pleas
ura out of the experience.
While the new arrivals in the
Maryland camp were registering at
headquarters, 200 Confederate and
Union veterans from West Virginia
marched into an adjoining camp, car
rying a torn and tattered Confeder-
ate flag, which followed "Stonewall''
Jackson and Lee through the war
from the first battle of Manassas to
Antietam. Union veterans marched
behind it as proudly as did the
"Johnnies" in gray. Men along the
road over which the veterans march
ed raised their hats as the old flag
went by. 1t is the only Confederate
flag in camp which was actually I'M
der fire, and it is almost ready to
fall to pieces from bullet rents.
Some of them came from the three
days fight at Gettysburg. The flag
was brought here by Jefferson Coun
ty Camp, No. 1913, United Confeder-
ate Veterans, Charlestown, W. Va,
and is in the custody of the vete-
rams of the county, having been
given them by the State, which Sc
cured Ute flag after the close of
the war.
A delegation of Union veterans
from West Virginia, which arrived
in camp late last night, was quarter
ed temporarily in the Maryland
camp. The rush of old soldiers yes
terday exceeded expectations by 49,
900, and it was impossible for the
camp officers to provide blankets
for all. That is why the West
Virginians had to sleep in vacant
Maryland tents.
you are as welcome as the flow
ers in spring" said Comrade Met
tee, who is in charge of the Con-
federate camp in the Maryland line
and who found the "Yanks" wan
dering about in the darkness look
ing for quarters.
Col. R. P. Chew, Confederate bat
tlefield commissioner from West
Virginia, and a daring cavalry COM
mander under "Jeb" Stuart, is in
camp with the West Virginians.
Veterans on the Confederate side
of the Maryland camp planned to-
night to capture" the Union vete-
rams in the State camp and then,
with combined forces of the Vir-
ginians invade the Pennsylvania and
New York Yankee camps.
I'VE propose to take them by sur
prise just as we did in the sixties,
said John L. Oberndrefre, of the
pibacuilIo Home who conceived the