Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-05-30


The old soldiers are to be supplied
with fresh meat directly from refrig-
orator cars drawn upon the field. They
will be given fresh vegetables and spe-
cial bread with the best coffee and tea
which the market affords. For them it
will not be a case of bareback, bootleg
and poor bacon.
The Battle of Gettysburg commits
sion of the state of Pennsylvania has
large sum of money at its disposal
for the entertainment of the visiting
veterans, and thethousands of persons
who will accompany them. Hospital
ity is to mark the days. Fifty years
repelling the visitors from the south.
In early July next the same state will
have its arms wide open in welcome
to the men wearing the gray. Enter
tainments of various kinds will be Of
fered the visiting veterans, but it is
pretty we'll understood that their deep
interest In revisiting the scenes where
they fought, Little Round Top, Oak
Ridge, Cemetery Hill, Culp's Hill,
Rock Creek, the Stone Wall and other,
places will hold them largely to the
pleasures and to the sadnesses of per-
sona "reminiscences. Arm in arm with
the Union soldiers the Confederate SOL
diers will retramp the battle-ground
They will look over the field of Pick
ett's desperate charge. They will re-
trace the marching steps of Long
streets corps. They will go to the
place where Meade had his headquar-
tiers and to the place from which Lee
directed his southern forces in battle
Pennsylvania Is going to make a
great celebration of peace Of this If
tieth anniversary of what probably
was the decisive battle of the war, al
though it was fought nearly two years
before the war ended. Other states
will help Pennsylvania in it's work, and
from every section of the country,
north, east, south and west, the vet
Grams will assemble, most of them
probably to see for the last time in
life the field upon which they were
willing to die for the sake of their re-
spective causes.
The veterans will not be directly en-
camped in the Gettysburg park, which
Is dotted with monuments to the vari-
Gus commands which took part In the
fight and which is laid out in approved
park fashion, with fine drives and
beautifully kept lawns. There will be
two camps, known as No. 1 and No. 2.
No. 1 will cover 149 acres and No. 2
will cover A acres. The layouts of
these camps are based on the use Of
conical tents, each of which will, with
out crowding, accommodate eight per-
sons. Inasmuch as accommodations
are to be furnished for 10000 visitors
5000 tents will be required to give
quarters to the visiting hosts.
Visitors to Be Cared For.
| Every possible care Is to be taken
Of the visitors. The sanitary arrange
ments which have been made are said
to be the best that are possible and
they are the result of careful study by
medical officers of the service. All the
experience of the past has been drawn
upon to make it certain that the health
of the veterans will be conserved while
they are in camp.
With so many thousands of old sol
diers in attendance, and taking into
consideration the probability that the
weather will be warm, it is expected
that there will be sickness, but the
United States government and the
state of Pennsylvania are preparing
for hospital service which shall be
adequate to any contingency. There
will be hospital corps detachments
present ready to render first aid to
the injured, and there will be many
field hospitals with surgeons in at
tendance, where the sick can receive
instant attendance.
1t is said that this contemplated re-
union has induced more interest
among the old soldiers of the north
and the south than any event which
has happened since the day that the
war closed. There is today at Gettys-
burg a great national park, in which
Is included cemetery where thou
sands Of soldier dead are buried. The
United States government and the leg
islature of Pennsylvania worked to-
gether to make a park of the battle
field and to mark accurately every
point in it which has historic interest.
When one goes to the field he can tell
just where this brigade or that bri-
gade was engaged, just where this
charge or that charge was made and
just where the desperate defenses of
positions were maintained until the
tide Of battle brought either victory or
defeat to one of the immediate COM
mands engaged.
1t was in 1895 that congress estab-
lished national park at Gettysburg
and gave the secretary of war author
ity to name a commission Ito superin-
tend the opening of additional roads,
mark the boundaries, ascertain and
definitely mark the lines of battle of
troops engaged, to acquire lands which
were occupied by infantry, cavalry and
artillery, and such other adjacent
lands as the secretary of war may
deem necessary to preserve the impor-
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