The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-02
SUN IS SCORCH|NG
I. ON BATTLEFIELD.
Great Suffering Among Aged
Soldiers Who Pack
Tented City.
OFFICIALS VERY ANXIOUS
Inability OF Railroads to Handle
j; tremendous Throng Partly
Responsible.
OFFICIALS VERY ANXIOUS
ny WILLIAM HOSTER.

Gettysburg. Pa. July 1.-The army Of
more than 10000 veterans gathered
here for the aftieth anniversary Of the
battle OF Gettysburg wilted to-day
Under the scorching July sun which
beat down on the historic battlefield
Fifteen thousand packed the huge tent
in which the first memorial services
were held this afternoon. and scores
If the veterans were carried from the
'ent after they had been Frustrated by
] he sitting heat, while hundreds Of
,thers were forced to leave before the
ceremonies were concluded 10 avoid
Drostration
The intense neat. combined with the
act that thousands more veterans are
already encamped on the battlefield
.han the War Department had pro
vided fo!. is causing the army and
'ennsylvnnia health department Off :
,als considerable anxiety tonight.
Zach train that arrived late this after
noon and evening brought hundreds OF
additional veterans, and the question
Il sheltering and feeding the extra
thousands is pressing problem.
The maximum estimated attendance
furnished the War Department BY the
O. a. K. and the Confederate Veterans
Association was placed at $4,000 Ac-
cordinely a tent city and commissary
FOR that number was provided. The
unexpected arrival Of several thousand
others forced many OF the late arriv-
ais last night 10 sleep in the open. and
many suffered from lack OF food Dur
ng the afternoon hundreds or the vet
Grams. especially those who spent the
night in the open. left for their homes.
large portion Of the Inconvenience
VAS due TO the inability Of the rail-
Dads TO handle the tremendous crowd
,hich has been pouring in here for the
asst twenty four hours
In the Bloody Angle OF Gettysburg
lid to-day. at the point where Pick
IT'S charge then in its desperate fury,
Jroke through the Union lines on the
third day, y. G. Smith. Confederate
veteran. claspcd hands with Albert y.
hamilton. of the Union forces who
fifty years ago carried Smith from the
iring line after he had been danger
Iusly wounded. and thereby saved his
life. II was the most dramatic meet :
ing OF this fftieth anniversary of Get :
tysburg.
Smith, with a party of former Con
federates. had trudgcd over TO the
point where Pickctts charge went TO
pieces against the stone wall of Fed =
erals Gathered about the Angle
through which Armistead and a few
other Southerners scrambled at the
height OF the charge. was also n group
OF eX-Yankees.
Right here Smith cried. I'VE
leaped across. 1 had reached n yard
beyond the wall. / guess about there
when ] was hit and fell | remember
only that man in blue came toward
me five minutes later. when our army
had broken in retreat and, lifting me
up. gave me n drink of water and car
ried me off on his shoulders. When
returned to consciousness. was in a
Yankee field hospital, and my pre-
server had gone"
ing to the story of the Confederate AT
this moment led his own party over to
the Angle.
They got about to here" he ex-
planned, and then we beat them back
And it must have been right about
here that n Johnny fell, almost into
my arms. I lifted him up and gave