New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-01


and she said to me, Soldier, let me PIN
this ribbon on you so that you can
wear il in your next fight
: .'Oh, I guess we won't nave nsH''
said.
: Lob. YES. YOU WILL said she. There
are thousands Of rebels over there
.,.v. never seen her since, but have
n,t Of purple ribbon yet at my
home In Aurora Ill
rha old man paused then and looked
about. hoping that the girl OF his mem
arx might rise in the assemoiase u
80. him once more. but none re-
sponded. .r
81 euess she's with the army above
said the veteran.
Another old veteran arose. he "iS,i'u
90 announce. he said, that the oth
Illinois Cavalry did not open the oa'-
tie of Gettysburg. He said BACK NOME
ne was known as the fghtihg Qu"N0'
~ conshohoeken and the hero of Get
tvsburr. and he wanted it thoroughis
,,,asrs,ood that Bufords Cavalry hao
started that fight.
Woman Stops Dispute.
Tho argument was beginning to raise
the Temperature of the tent "heh M"
TOR Wheeler ventured the remark thd'
nrohablv no man living knew VINO
started the battle. Mrs. stewart so'
nm 10 help dissipate the disu'e' II
was q little while before the WarIlhe
factions could be made to reahze '"a'
a woman wished to speak. but eVehtu-
ally they Gained themselves ana MIS-
Steward proceeded to change the SUI
ject.
She had been asked, Mrs. steward
cold why the girls of Gettysours
dressed up in white on that nlSht "
sing TOR the Union cavalry boys lhe
Friday before the battle, she eNpiaireu'
small force of rebels had occu-
niea the village They departed sat
nedav morning. and all Saturday ana
SUNDAY she and her fellow ci'izehs'
old and young. were nearly crazy
with suspense. They didn't kno"
wnom 10 expect. the boys in blue OF
their brothers in gray.
When finally on Monday they spleu
Buford's troopers trotting in a clouu
>of dust down the pike the girls nearly
went wild with joy That was why
they dressed in their best, pelted those
poor. tired soldier boys with posiVN
and sang them the songs they loVeu.
Mrs. Rupp called the tall Nirginian
who had almost ripped the tent win MS
rebel we'll over to her and told him she
was one Of the girls who brought water
10 the wounded men OF Archer
Brigade. Mrs. Steward joined in to tell
him that her parents house was turned
-. hospital in which the Con-
l<dsrate wounded received as much at
,ention as their battered enemies. she
told every one that she had passed
back and forth through the lines on
those three days and nights and had
never heard a single disrespectful Woro
on either side.
Five Governors Arrive,
AS many as five governors entered
camp to-day TO the Accompaniment OF
saiutes. but none made more OF a sur
than did Governor William Hodges
Mann of Virginia. himself an old Con
sederate veteran. clad in gray. Dixie
WAS played for him, and the rebel yen
caused the leaves 10 hutter in Span
eler's woods those same woods which
trembied with that yell when P,cketts
division formed there and began It's
famous and disastrous charge
The Virginia Governor bowled IN
over the macadamized Confederate
avenue about o'clock. To say that
the old gray clad men of Robert E. Lee
Camp No. 1. of Richmond, were glad
Ia see him is putting it too ziildly.
Their feelings were compounded of in
tense patriotism and infinite relief.
The Governor mad been scheduled TO
arrive in his automobile at 3 o'clock,
and they had stood in the road, ready
and faithful, for an hour
There were not more IMAM lilii y Nv =
of them in line, thin. bent, wabbling
little line that seemed 100 light 10 sup
port the three brave banners extend
in gfrom it's middleton the left the
fag of Virginia, in the middle the Stars
and Stripes and on the right the ban
ner of the post. This latter carried the
Stars and Bars on one side and on the
other o gilt inscription on white face.
The color bearers grumbled little
more even than their comrades at the
way in which their adJutant, ]. Taylor
stratton, pestered them. drilling them
AGAINST the coming of the common
wealth's Chief Executive. He bullied
them Just like any drill sergeant with
q squad Of raw recruits, for he appar-
entlv had remembered how to right
about face" how to dress" how TO
form in columns of four. from those
old days, and most OF them hadn't.
They stumbled about in the dust, they
turned the wrong way, they counted
wrong, and they endured the jibes of
their terribly busy comrade who had
an appreciative audience in the other
oid vets and the visitors seated COM
fortably in the shade on the stone wall.
gwen the members Of the band were
- ~ e,roaa orfpp ming annrp-