The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-07-04
IN PITIlESS GLARE
BIG REUNION OPENS
FIERCE HEAT MARS FORMAL
EXERCISES.
More Than $4,000 Veterans Crowd
Big Tent to Listen to Words OF
Cheer, Comfort, Patriotism

Cheer, Comfort, Patriotism
Gettysburg, Pa, July I'm the pitt
less glare of a sun sent the mer-
curry bubbling over the hundred mark
and made clothes a burden and
bath only a delusion, the armies OF
the North and the South today began
the formal exercises set to mark the
semi-centennial of Gettysburg. Vet
erans, to the number of 10000, the
army officers estimated, fled into the
big tent set apart for the exercises
sat in the haze of heat for two hours
and shook the camp with their cheers
when the speakers made reference TO
a reunited nation. Every seat under
the canvass was taken long before
Secretary Garrison and Gov. Tener'
the orators of the day, came cnug-
ging up in their automobiles.
Although the men in gray were lar
outnumbered by those in blue, there
;lWere possibly 1000 southerners IN
the ampitheatre and what they lack
ed in numbers they made up in lung
power. When Gov. Tener finished his
speech, Gen. Bennett H. Young, COM
mander-in-chief of the Confederate
Veterans, rose slowly and bowed to
him.
81 can give you something that no
one else can give you," he said.
1--WE will now gre you the rebel
yell
Heard Far Away.
Nine famous Confederate generals
and 1000 veterans Of the South gave
it so loudly that it was heard far
back in the camp toward Gettysburg.
When Gen. Young stepped forward
to deliver his address, he was greet
ed with wild enthusiasm, the Union
veterans, led by Commander Beers
giving him three lusty cheers and
tiger"
He took as his keynote the convlc-
ton of each side in the great struggle
that each fought for principle when
each believed was the truth. One OF
his opening statements was that the
Northern soldiers deserved more cred
il than the Southerners for the
promulgation and sussessful realiza-
ton of the present great unlon'
which he characterized as the great
est movement of it's kind in the world.
This compliment to the Nort1Grn
veterans was greeted with loud cries
of .No,'' to which Gen. Young quick
ly replied: know better than you
do" His speech captured the audi
ence and he was overwhelmed by
handshakes.
Governors and Generals.
Among the 200 guests on the plat
form were Governors Mann, Virginia;
McCreary, Kentucky, and Eberhardt'
Minnesota; Senator Penrose of Pam
sylvania, and the following Confeder-
ate generals:
Robinson, Texas; West, Georgia;
Thomas ]. Haffer, Louisiana; A. D.
Williams, Florida; E. M. Law, Flor
ida, and Carr, North Carolina.
The invocation was delivered by the
Rev. George Edwards Lovejoy, chap
lain-in-chief of the Grand army OF
the republic. The benediction was to
have been delivered by the Rev. H,
M. Hamill, chaplain general OF the
Confederate Veterans, who did not
appear.
All through the night the veterans
poured into the camp, took graciously
k of what small blessings fate passed
put to them for a rev nours anu
Pound permanent quarters when the
hard pressed regular army officers
could get them ready. Late today
Mai. Normoyle, second in command to
Brig. Gen. Liggett, estimated that
more than $4,000 men are quartered
in a camp intended to hold 10000.
Through persistent efforts, however,
every man has been cared for as we'll
as possible. Thousands have been
given quarters in the big tent and
hundreds of others in smaller tents
ussd in the day time for speech
making and reunions. No officer cared
to estimate the number of Southern
ers here. There are more than 5000
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