The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-06-28
Soldiers of North Welcome
Foes Of Fifty Years Ago on
Scene of Conflict.
LAST MUSTER FOR SOME.
Sadness Mingled With Good
Fellowship Because Many
Realize II Is Final Meeting.

Days Of memories have begun 70
dawn over Cemetery Ridge. and the
presence OF things that are long
past come out Of the golden wheat
Of Bloody Angle and the green
copses Of Peach Orchard to be with
the vanguard Of the $1,000 old fight.
Ing men who are gathering here for
the reunion next week ct the halt.
century anniversary Of tho battle of
0ettysburg.
They are coming-ths veterans OF
Msade's army Of the North and Lees
army Of the south-from the four points
Of the compass. Every train brings It's
quota Of gray haired old men who went
through the hrs here nifty years ago In
the glory OF their youth and now re-
visit the scene OF victory and defeat
equally siorious-wtth the pressing
weight Of ysars bowling down their
shoulders.
Already hundreds are settled In the
long streets Of the tents. stretched on the
green sward over which the youngsters
Of n older day battlsd sleriousiy. and
BY Tuesday the whole army Of the wi.
liant. whose only strength 10 the strength
Of memory. will be bivouacksd on the
battisasld.
oRgATGor OF ALL oGTrve.
SUMO GNcAMPMGNro.
Though the veterans Of the North ana
the veterans Of the South hall each
other ehssrily - comrades and many .
back b slapped Ia jovisi greeting and
there 10 . jaunty air Of csmsradsPis ".
ssywhsrs. every old soldier who comes
here knows IN his heart that this viii
probably b the last, though the great.
est Of all the Gettysburg encampmsnts.
Time he's ct bis seal on these 1900 who
come 10 tramp In fraternity over the
bloody ground Of . half century gone.
No other year In future can call %
many 70 . last muster.
There 80 An undsrcurrsnt OF sadness
beneath al the oiu6 hsartinsss Of the
vsterans' dsmsanor. The note Of finaiity
of the inevitabisnsas Of fats-carries
IT, minor part through Ill the superficial
sxtsrnsis Of the great sncampmsnt.
Not since the great triumphal review
down Psnnsy1vania avenue at the close
Of the war between the States have %
many veterans Of the Union armies been
gathered toSsthss - will b By tho
tine the anniversary Of the first days
dGhtlng swings around on Tuesday, the
"a soldisrs cay. No sncampmsnt Of the
0rays has called % many Of the old.
timsrs from South Of the Line a. this
one Ten thousand Of ths hosts mat WI
b assembled here In the next three
days are veterans Of the Lost Cause:
the remainder ssorsssne the army Of
victory.
SOUTH sgMos rHovsAMps TO
| MEET OLD fogo.
What Was originally designed - .
comparatively modest celebration on
the part Of the q. A. r. hes widsnsd
through the snthusiasm Of the old SOL
disrs Of the North and South to the
present really remarkable gathering OF
citissns. Throughout the South the
ardos Of the old fellows has been no
less high than In the North and West.
Virginia 10 sending 1,s57 veterans: North
Carolina. l.ai6. and 0eorEia . round
thousand. Pennsyivania has the great.
est outpourinE Of all. naturally; she
will be represented by 1880 New York
II n0xt with s.ess and New Jersey Il
third on the list with her 1850. Even
from far.away Oregon eighty-ons ere
, coming and Idaho sends . valiant band
Of thirty.hvs.
This army Of the elder day come q
the guests OF the reunited nation. Tn,
Federail Government. which most .
them fought to preserve from tn
others destruction. has provided shell
ter. food and every care that watchfu
consideration can dictate. For the boy
OF twenty-five who slept In bos,
, tramped weary stretches on heav
roads and finally threw every ounce Il
their glorious young bodies into tn
cructble Of the battle here. come bac
, as men In the seventies. Though the
Will not admit II. those old men ar
frail and the tragedy OF age has settle
upon their backs and touched thei
brows. They must be tsnderiy care
for by their host.
TRAGEDY LuRks OVER TIL
GREAT REUNION OF SOLDIERS.
. These old men who are coming her
In the hot impulse Of enthusiasm 'recko
not on the certainty that some OF ther
, inevitably will never depart. and this
they win lie side by side with the con
1 rades whose faces they have not see
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. ness Of this reunion: here 10 the iurkin
Z tragedy.
But tho watchful Government 10 tai
Ing every possible provision against N
ints' ention OF death. There are ~
large neld hospitals. with accommods
: lions for 1850 seriously III. These al
supplemented by three reglmental ho
pita'A fourteen Red Gross stations IA
Itwntv euau Arst-sid citations whel
thoss vho 0Ay b. overcome by the nsl
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