The Colorado statesman., 1913-06-07

pose or Installing the Held bakery, the
| field ranges and in dismantling, clean
ing. packing and storing material after
| the encampment is over.
The old soldiers are to be supplied
with fresh meat directly from refrig.
orator cars drawn upon the field. They
will he given fresh vegetables and spe
cial bread with the best coffee and tea
which the market affords. For them II
will not be case of hardtack, bootleg
and poor bacon.
The Battle of Gettysburg commits.
sion of the state of Pennsylvania has
large sum of money at it's disposal
for the entertainment of the visiting
veterans, and the thousands of persons
who will accompany them. Hospital
ity is to mark the days. Fifty years
| ago Pennsylvania aided in the work OF
repelling the visitors from the south
In early July next the same state will
| have its arms wide open a. welcome
to the men wearing the gray. Enter
| tainments of various kinds will be of
fered the visiting veterans, but it is
pretty we'll understood that their deer
interest in revisiting the scenes where
|
Ridge, Cemetery Hill, Culps HILL
Rock Creek, the Stone Wall and other
places will hold them largely to the
pleasures and to the sadnesses of per
| sonal "reminiscences. Armfn arm with
the Union soldiers the Confederate sol
| diers 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 will go to the
| place where Meade had his headquar
ters and to the place from which Lee
| directed his southern forces in battle.
Pennsylvania is going to make
great celebration of peace of this fif.
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 its 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 vari-
GUS commands which took part in the
| fight and which is laid out in approved
park fashion, with fine drives and
beautifully kept lawns. There will be
two camps, known as No. and No. 2.
| No. will cover 149 acres and No. 2
will cover A 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 10000 visitors
| 5000 tents will be required to give
quarters to the visiting hosts.
| 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 it 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, it Is expected
that there will be sickness, but the
| United States government and the
state of Pennsylvania are preparing
for hospital service which shall be
adequate to any contingency. There
| will ha o1 lat, ~, 20.
present ready to render first aid 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 tat 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 it 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 OF
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 a commission "to superin.
tend the opening of additional roads
mark the boundaries, ascertain and
definitely mark the lines of battle OF
troops engaged, to acquire lands which