Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-07-04
NOW At GETTYSBURG
FORMER PARTICIPANTS IN GREAT
EST BATTLE OF CIVIL WAR
MEET IN REUNION.
BLUES AND GREYS GUESTS OF NATION
Every Arrangement Made for Their
Comfort During Encampment-
Many Joys as Well as Sorrows
Recalled.

years backward Sunday and looked
again upon an army of blue and an
army of gray meeting at her doorstep.
From early morning until long after
shutdown the veterans in blue and gray
trooped into the little town which has
slept peacefully among its hills since
Lee and Meade turned their legions
southwark long ago.
More than 80 special trains came
into the village and thousands of vet
Grams who tramped up from the Shen-
andoah on their former visit rode in
comfort from everywhere. Instead of
the roar of guns that greeted them in
the others days they entered in the
quiet Sunday calm of a country town.
Only the flags flying from every win
dow, the city of tents in the distance
and the crowds told that Gettysburg
had come cut of The usual into the ex-
traordinAry once more.
Sew raj Succumb to Heat.
From the station of the two rail
roads that enter the village is long
mile to the camp of 5000 tents where
the veterans are housed. Thousands
shouldered suit cases and walked I'M
der a sccrching, cloudless sky, a
brassy sun beating down. A number
succumbed, one from Maine dying, be-
fore they found their tents. There
was no complaining, however.
Every possible arrangement for the
comfort of the united armies has been
mad The camp of brown army tents
is under the direction of officers of the
regular army. The streets of Gettys-
burg are under the scrutiny of the
Pennsylvania constabulary and for the
care of the sick the Red Cross has
made extensive preparations.
The camp itself lies on ground that
has been baked as hard as a brick and
dried into dust by winds that sweep
the hills, but its sanitation, its water
supply and its plan for the feeding of
thousands of men have been made
with the utmost care.
The tent fall westward with the
slope from the Emmettsburg road to
the point on Seminary ridge where the
immortal charge of Pickett started on
the third day of he fight. They cover
the peach orchard and the wheat
field" where thousands of men died
and part of the ground over which
Pickett charged, but they do not reach
to the Bloody Angle" or to the base
of Cemetery ridge, from whose heights
Meade's artillery poured out its rain OF
grape and canister that cut to pieces
the legions of Pickett.
The formal exercises Will be held in
a big tent near Emmettsburg road, but
they will last only two hours each day
and the rest of the time the veterans
will spend as they please.
Monday on the Field.
Gettysburg.-Ov the field of Get
tysburg, where 10000 men in blue
and gray fought with the weapons Of
war so years ago, the sons of peace
from the north and south, the east anC
the west, trooped Monday to the tent
ed city, where they will live during the
four days of semi-centennial celebra
ton.
The blue linked arms with the gray
They marched the dusty roads togeth
er from the village; they sat down a
the same mess tables and talked ovel
the war before the same campfires to
night If there was any rancor in an.
heart it did not come to the surface.
Over the broad expanse of the city
reunions of those who won and thos'
who lost mt ON hour after hour OF
ficers of the regular army in charge 0
the camp estimated tonight that near
ly $4,000 veterans came in during tn
h,.s,, fn
The sun blazed just as fiercely a
ever.
Tuesday at Gettysburg.
Gettysburg, July In the glare o
a sun that sent the mercury over tn
100 mark and made clothes burden
the armies of the north and the sout
Tuesday began the formal exercise
SGT to mark the semi-centennial of Gel
tysburg.
Veterans to the number of 1900
had filled every seat under the canva
before Secretary of War Garrison an
Governor Tener, the orators of tn
day, appeared.
When Governor Tener finished hi
speech General Bennett H. YOUNG
commander in chief of the United Coz
federate Veterans, rose slowly an
bowed to him Il can give you sons
thing that no one else can give you,
he said I'VE will now give you tn
rebel yell"
Thousands Join in Yell.
Nine famous confederate general
and thousand veterans of the sout
gave it so loudly that it was heard ia
back in the camp toward Gettysburg
When General Young stepped 70
ward to deliver his address the Unio
veterans, led by Commander in Chi
Beers, gave him three lusty cheers an
a tiger" His speech captured II
audience and he was overwhelmed |
handshakes.
Among the 200 guests on the pla
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