Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-29

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veterans, and the thousands Of persons
vic viii accompany .aem. Hospital
ity is to mark the days. Fifty years
ago Pennsylvania aicrd In the work Of
repeIling the visitors from the south.
In early July next the same stato 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
sonal "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 so to the
place where Meade had his headquaF-
ters 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 ff-
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 its 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 we're
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 IL the
park fashion, with fine drives and
beautifully kept lawns. There will be
two camps, known as MOI and No. 2.
No. l 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 100000 visitors
5000 tents will be required to give
quarters to the visiting hosts.
The quartermaster general in a re
port says: ut is assumed that the
meals will be served to the visitors
in a manner similar to that used by
the regular troops when in camp fol
short periods; that is, by having eacf
man go to the kitchen with his mess
kit to be served there and dining in his
tent or other convenient places"
Visitors to Be Cared For.
Every possible care is to be taker
Of the visitors. The sanitary arrange
ments which have been made are sale
to be the best that are possible ant
they are the result of careful study b!
medical officers of the service. All thu
experience of the past has been draw
upon to, make it certain that the healtl
of the veterans will be conserved Will,
they are in camp.
With SO many thousands of old sol
diers in attendance, and taking int
> consideration the probability that tn
weather will be warm, it is expects
) that there will be sickness, but tn
United States government and tn
state of Pennsylvania are preparin
, for a hospital service which shall b
. adequate to any contingency. Their
, will be hospital corps detachment
/, present ready to render first aid t
the injured, and there will be man
field hospitals with surgeons in a
tendance, where the sick can receiv
1 instant attendance.
1t is said that this contemplated r.
union has induced more interes
S among the old soldiers Of the mort
and the south than any event whic
has happened since the day that tn
y war closed. There is today at Getty
o burg a great national park, in whic
is included a cemetery where tho
sands of soldier dead are buried. TT
It United States government and the lie
8 islature of Pennsylvania worked t
e gether to make a park Of the battl
r. field and to mark accurately evel
e point in it which has historic interes
n When one goes to the field he a te
just where this brigade or that bl
h gade was engaged, just where tn
charge or that charge vas made al
Just where the desperate defenses
b. positions were maintained until Il
tide Of battle brought either victory
n defeat to one of the immediate col
r mands engaged.
g. 1t was in 1895 that congress esta
Of lished a national park at Gettysbu
n and gave the secretary of war autht
ID ity to name a commission ito superi
al tend the opening of additional road
rs mark the boundaries, ascertain al
ps definitely mark the linSJ Of battle
ne troops engaged, to acquire lands viii
ne were occupied by infantry, cavalry a
II. artillery, and such other adjace
lands al the secretary OF war m
ct deem necessary to preserve the imp
it. tant Typographical features of the b
On tlefeld."
of When the Union and the Confed
re- ate veterans reach Gettysburg on Ju
W 30 next they will find OF the scene
an the old conflict between FIVE and
he hundred memorials raised in CONNIE
grafton of the deeds of their co
ry mands on the great fields Of the Pei
re sylvania battlefield. There are, mo
over, 1000 markers placed to des
" nate historic spots. There are gr'
lrt towers built upon the field by the g
tie eminent SO that bird's-eye views {
he be obtained Of the entire scene OF
battle. Fine roads have been G
-t,,otad apd ouarvIvbora offanttnn I