Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-07-02
Fifty Thousand Men Who
Fought on Opposing Sides
in War Of Rebellion Gather
ON Historic Battlefield
WILD ENTHUSIASM IS
FEATURE OF REUNION
Ex-SoIdierS, Averaging Be-
tween Seventy and Eighty
Years of Age, Brave DIHon-
forts with Rare StOicSm

tey soRNipo JousHkt spcelsl trifo "lRs'
Gettysburg, July LIN he pllless
glare of sun that sent ne mercury
bubbline over the hundred mark ana
made clothes burden fid q bath
only "a dolasion, the aunts of the
North and the south todU began the
formal exercises set 20 MIX the semi
centennial Of Gettysbarg Veterans To
the number of fifteen Ehousand ana
the army officers. filef into the big
tent set apart for the exercises, sat IN
the haze of heat for two hours ana
shook tho camp with their cheers
whom the speakers mlde reference 10
"a reunited nation lgory seat under
the canvas was lakcBlong before See
rctarv Of war Garrison and Governor
Tener, the orators Of the day, came
thugging up In thci. automobiles. Al
though the men in gray were far out
numbered 10y those in blue, there were
possibly thousand southerners
through the amphthoater and what
they lacked in numbers they made up
in lung power
When Gotnor Tener faisaed his
speech, Gctcral Bennett II, Young
commander h-chief OF the United Con-
federate Veterans rose slowly ana
bowed 20 hin. Il can give you some
thing that ub one else can give YOU
he said We will now give YOU the
rebel YELL
Nine famous confederate generals
and a thousand veterans of the south
CAV IL @ lbudly thut q was heard
far back in he camp toward Gettys-
burg
When General Young stepped for
ward 10 deliver hs address, he was
greeted with wild enthusiasm, the
union veterans led by Commander-in-
chief Beers giving him three msty
cheers ana q tiger
lie took as his keynote the convic-
tion Of each side in the great struggle
that it fought for principle which J.
believed was the truth one OF his
opening statements was that the
northern soldiers deserved more credit
than the southerners for the promul-
cation and successful realization Of
tho present great reunion, which he
characterized as the greatest move
ment Of its kind in the world.
This compliment to the northern
veterans was greeted with loud cries
of no" to which General Young
quickly replied, Il know better than
ycu do" His speech captured tho an
dience and he was overwhelmed by
handshakes.
Among the two hundred guests on
the platform were Governors Mann,
Virginia; McCreary, Kentucky and
Eberhart, Minnesota; Senator Pen
rose, Of Pennsylvania and the follow
ing confederate generals Robinson,
Texas; West Georgia; Thomas ].
Shaffcr, Louisiana; A. ID. Williams,
Florida; Z. NJ. Law, Florida, and Carr.
North Carolina.
The invocation was delivered b.
Rev. George Edwards Loveloy chap
in-in-chef of the Grand Army of
the Republic, Tho bcnediction was ia
have been delivered by Rev. II. NJ,
Hamill chaplain general of the Con
ioderatc veterans, who did not show
mp Late today Major Normoylc, sec
tnd IN command to Brieadicr General
llggett, estimated that moro than
lIity thousand men are quartercd in 4
camp intended to hold 40. 600
1t is probable that one-quartcr Of
the total number is represented by
the men from Dixie
Many veterans got no further than
one meal in camp and one look at
the crowded tents and then started
hack home. Thousands expect TO
stay over the Fourth to see President
Wilson.
Before the morning exercises be-
gan, the reunions of regiments and
lonpanies and squadrons began. Con-
iederates who were in Pickett s.
charge took keen delight in march
ing with fife and drum to Spang-
lers woods, where the columns of
Pickett formed on July 3, 1863. They
uldnt charge again as they once did.
nut they remembered, or thought
they remembered, and nobody said
them nay every stick and stone in
that wide suretch whore death kept
step with them before.
on the edge Of the union side Of
the camp, the veterans Of Meredith's
IRON brigade ana Of Pettigrew's bri-
sade of North Carolina got together
to go over the story of the fight of
the first of July. The struggle be-
tween the regiments of these two
brigades was the most disastrous in
number Of those killed in the entire
three days fighting
Although the army doctors were
not given to talking about such mat
tcrs, it was evident tonight that
many Of the old soldiers would have
been better off il they had not un-
dertalSen the trip here. Two veter-
ans have been found in camp ap-
parently without friends, who are to-