The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-10
Half Will Have Left
Field by Night
fall.
TROOPS TO STAY
Until Last Veteran Has Gone
and Then Spot Will be
Deserted.

From Saturdays Daily
Gettysburg, Pa.-Over the Emmett
tesburg road ir the heat of u July
sun, the veterans of the armies of
today, tired by the four days of the
reunion, thousands began the home
ward match after the fast exchange
of Greetings with the new comrades
found here. and before night half of
the $4,000 probably will have gone
and tomorrow the remainder will be
camp. All the tents probably Will
stand until next week.
The regulars will stay until the
last of the veterans go. Some time
before the end of the month, the
brown city army will return to other
tasks and leave the field of Gettys-
burg to memory.
The five provisional field hospi-
tails maintained by the government
i'll the great camp here and now about
to close. Only a few patients are left,
who. the physicians said. would be
sufficiently recovered to go home to-
morrow. IL. III, Hodge, of Union Hill,
Mo-, died at the station here as he
was preparing to start for home. He
was dressed in the gray of the Con-
%federates. His death brought the
total deaths during the reunion to
nine.
Gettysburg, Pa.-FolIowing is
President Wilson's address TO the
veterans here yesterdays:
"Friends and Fellow Citizens: L
need not tell you what the battle of
Gettysburg meant. These gallant men
in blue and gray sit all about us here.
Many of them met here upon this
ground in grim and deadly struggle.
Upon these famous fields and hill
sides their comrades died about
them. In their presence it were an
impertinence to discourse upon how
the battle went, how it ended. what
it signifiedl But so yea rs have gone
by since then. and l crave the priv
ilege of speaking to o for a few
minutes Of what those so years have
meant.
What have they meant? They
have meant peace and union and
vigor, and the maturity and might OF
a great nation. How wholesome and
healing the peace has BEEN We have
found one another again Us brothers
and comrades in arms, en- emieS no
longer, generous friends rather, our
battles long past, the quarrel for
gotten-eXcept that We shall not for
get the splendid v%alour, the manly
devotion of the men then arrayed
against m another, now graspine
hands and smiling into each others
eyes. How complete the union has be
come and how dear to all of us, now
unquestioned, how benign ard ma
%jestic. as State after State has beer
added to this our great fam.liy o.
free men, How handsome the Vigour
the maturity, the might of the grea'
Nation we owe with undivided
hearts; how full of large and con
fident promise that a life Will be
wrought out that will crown it,
strength with gracious justice ant
with a happy welfare that will toucf
all alike with deep contentment. W.
are debtors to those crowded years
they have made us heirs to a might.
heritage.
But do we deem the Natbon com
plete and finished? These We nerabl'
men %crowding here to this famous
field have set us a great example o
devotion and utter sacrifice The.
were willing to die that the peopl
might live. But their task is done
Their day is turned into evening
They look to us to perfect what the.
established. Their work is hande'
on to us, to be done in another wa.
but not in another spirit. Our day !
I not over; it is upon us in full tide.
Need Sacrifice and Cleansing.
"Have affairs paused? Does tn
Nation stand still? Is what the o.
years have wrought since those day
of battle finished, rounded out, am
: completed? Here is a great people
' great with every force that has eve
, beaten il the lifeblood of mankind
{ And it is secure. There is no on
within its borders, there is no powe
among the nations of the earth, t
e make it afraid. But has it yet squar
! ed itself with it's own great stand
r ards set up at it's birth, when it mad
that first noble. naive appeal to tn
!. moral Judgment of mankind to TAX
notice that a government had DO'
S at last been established which was t
d serve men, not masters? 1t Is secur
e in everything except the satisfactlol
that its life is right, adjusted to tn
uttermost to the standards of right
eousness and humanity. The days o
sacrifice and cleansing are not clos
A ed. We have harder things 10 u
. than were done in the heroic day
OF war, because harder to see clearly
requiring more vision, more cali
n balance of judgment, a more candi
searching of the very springs @
right.
Look around you upon the ficl
l. of Gettysburg! Picture the array, til
It fierce heats and agony of battie
e column hurled against column, bat
IS terry believing to battery! Valour
Is Yes, Greater no man shall see /
l. war; and self-sacrifice. and loss t
the uttermost; the high ~recklessres
!, of exalted devotion which dos nc
al count the cost. We are made BY thas
le tragic, epic things to know what
" costs to make a nation-the bloc
and sacrifice of m%ultitudes of I'll