Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-06-10

they fought. Little Round Top. Oak
Ridge, Cemetery Hill, Culp'e E!ll.
| 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
dlers 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 viii go to the
place where Meade had his headauar-
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
I 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 yari-
Gus commands which took part IN the
fight and which is laid out in approved
park fashion, with fine drives and
hao Full
two camps, known as No. l and No. 9.
No. 1 will cover 149 acres and No. 2
will cover Al 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 &C, 1000 visitors
5000 tents will be required to give
quarters to the visiting hosts.
The quartermaster general in a re-
port says: 1T 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 for
short periods; that is, by having each
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 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 1t 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, 1t Is expected
that there will be sickness, but the
United States government and the
state Of Pennsylvania are preparing
for a hospital service which shall be
adequate to any contingency There
viii be hospital corps detachments
present ready to render first cid 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 great national park, in which
is included a cemetery where thou
sands of soldier dead are buried. The
United States government and the leg
islature of Pennsylvania worked to-
gether to make park of the battle
field and to mark accurately every
point in 1t 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 a national park at Gettysburg
and gave the secretary of war author
ity to name commission ito superin-
tend the opening of additional roads,
mark the boundaries, ascertain ard
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-
tant typographical features of the bat
tlefield"
When the Union and the Confeder-
ate veterans reach Gettysburg on June
30 next they will find on the scene of
the old conflict between five and six
hundred memorials raised in common
Grafton of the deeds of their com.
mands on the great fields of the Penn
sylvania battlefield. There are, more
over, 1000 markers placed to desig-
nate historic spots There are great
towers built upon the field by the gov
eminent so that bird's-eye views can
be obtained of the entire scene of the
battle. Fine roads have been con-
structed and everywhere attention has
been paid to every detail CT the least
Importance In setting forth the history
of one of the greatest battles ever
known to warfare.
1t is expected that much good Will
come from the reunion of the Blue and
the Gray on the battlefield of Gettys-
burg Time has healed many wounds,
The old soldiers have forgotten their
animosities more readily than have
the civilians. II is thought that this
great coming together in peace OF two
once conflicting hosts will mark the
passing of the last trace of the bitter
ness OF the war between the states
OF this great Union.