The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-07-02
''Yanks' and "Rebs"
In Opening Exercises
At Gettysburg Reunion
FIRST FORMAL EXERCISES
HELD IN BIG TENT YES
TERDAY.
Blue and Gray Speakers Are
Cheered Lustily by Their
One-Time Opponents.

GETTYSBURG. Pa. July I'm tho
pltllesS glare of a sun that sent the
mercury bubbling over the hundred
mark, and made clothes a burden and
a 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
|ranS TO the number of $4,000. The
army officers estimated. filed into the
big tent set apart for the exercises.
sat in the haze heat for two hours and
shook the camp with their cheers
when the speakers made reference to
a reunited nation. Every seat under
th" canvas was taken long before Sec
retdry Garrison and Governor Tener.
the orators Of the day. came chugging
up in their automobiles. Althugh the
men IN gray We're far outnHmbered by
those IN blue. there We're possibly u
thousand southerners through the am.
phitheater, and what they lacked in
numb ,rS they made up in lung power.
When Governor Tener finished his
speech, General Bennett II. Young.
commanderin-chief of the United Con-
iedcratc Veterans. rose slowly and
bowed 10 him; Il can give you some
thing that no one else can give YOU"
he said. I'VE viii give you the rebel
yell"
Nine famous Confederate generals
and thousand Veterans OF the South
gave II so loudly that il was heard
far back in the camp toward Gettys-
burg.
When General Young stepped for
WARD 20 deliver his address he was
greeted with Wild enthusiasm. the
Union veterans. led by Commander
m-Chief Beers. giving him three lusty
cheers and a "ti-cr"
lie took as his keynote the convic-
ticn ot each sid" I'm the great struggle
that il fought for a principle which IL
believed was the truth One of his
opening statements was that the
northern soldiers deserved more cred
ii than the southorners for the prom
u'Sation and successful realization OF
The present Fl, at reunion. which he
characterized as the greatest move
ment Of it, kind IN the world.
This compliment 10 the Northern
veterans vas greeted with loud cries
cf 40" 70 which General Young
quickly replied. II know better than
yoH do Ills speech captured the an.
oi'"rp. ani %" Was overwhelmed by
haudshIkirg
Governors Of North and South.
Among Tho TWO hundred guests on
rho platform were Governors Mann.
Nircinia: McCrcary. Kentucky, and
tb"rhardt Minnesota: Senator Pen
rose. %; Pennsylvania. and the former
'oH''d"rdt" Generals Robinson. Tex
y~t Nc7' Georgia. Thomas j. Shaner.
Lon. ara. y. IT, Williams. Florida:
W. Jaw. Florida. and Carr. North
Carolina. The invocation was dcliv-
cred hr Row Gcorc" Edwards Love
joy c.ap7Iu iu chief Of tho Grand
Army .. fH" Republic The bcnedic-
itou was delivered by Rcv IT, VI. Ha.
Wi 2 ir piHce of fhe chaplain general
a.. fh" Confederate Veterans. who did
Not show up
Ni t.ros-n tho nieht tho veterans
poured .r'u camp. took Craciouslv
What small bios in-s fate passed out
20 them '0- few hours. and found
permanent quarters when the hard.
pressed regular army officers could
t'' 'i'w ready I1fn today Major
\Wm0y.'. oud Boo command 20 Brig.
i'"r i'rr"tf. estimated that mora
t'1n .''' mon are quartcred IN a
camp intended to hold 10000.
Iarrgch persistent efforts. ho-.ov-
Ccortinued on Seventh Paz0l