The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-07-08
CAMP is ABOUT DESERTED
Great Reunion Of Blue and GRAY
Practically Ended Yesterday
and Most of the $4,000
Veterans Who Have Attend
ed Depart
tEy the Associated rre4 ,

% "* AssslAteC Irc-
Gettysburg, Pa, July 5.-The grea,
-eunion Of the Blue and the GRAY.
"cmmemcrating the fiftieth ami
versary of the battle Of Gettysburg,
practically came to an end today, al
though the camp where more than
SO, coo old soldiers we're cared for
during h week will not close Off
cially until tomorrow.
All day long veterans walked over
5ne dusty roads and streets to the
railroad stations in the camp and II
the town OF Gettysburg and stood or
rat under the rays Of a scorching sun
lille the trains 10 take them away
were being prepared.
There were no flying banners, blair
Ing bands or marching columns. The
veterans came TO h stations n
waited patiently for the announcer,
with his big m%egaphone to tell them
Sheir trains were made up. Usually
about twelve coaches constituted y
train n the railroad people faced
the biggest problem of the week in
getting loaded trains away.
Ninth Death in Camp.
1t was the sultriest and most I'M
comfortable day of the week. One
old soldier in gray from North Caro-
dina dropped dead in the crowd at the
town station of n of the railroads.
He was H. H. Hodges, of Union Hill.
~. c. Hodges death brought the to-
tai casualties in camp to nine.
Tonight the camp was practically
deserted. The electric lights in the
sixty-two streets in the camp were
burning brightly but the streets them
selves were deserted save for the u
rying back and forth of soldiers and
worLmen who have already begun the
task of d~ismantling the camp. Two
months will elapse before the ground
an which the camp was pitched vii
have been restored to its original con
dition. fences rebuilt and roads made
over.
Tonight the army officers, after
week of the hardest sort OF work
made merry at d dinner in the bis
naess tent which they have used joint
~ with the newspaper correspond
ents. General Liggett presided ant
all officers present were felicltatet
over the wonderful success Of VIVA
has been described as an army caml
That will stand as a model for all tn
countries OF the world for years t
come.
When the weeks program for tn
celebration was tentatively lald GU
sometime ago. it was ina
the final feature Of the reunion
should lie the laying of a conversion
Of a great peace memorial on the bat
sle,ield. but the plan for the mOnu
mept fell through. To-Day Colonel An
drew Cowan. of Louisville, Ky. Wh
was n captain of the First New lor
Battery in the battle OF IettySOurS
revived the plan and as a result OF
meeting oyer which he presided.
committee went to Washington wit
"a view to securing the !
Congress Of a bill providing for tn
erection Of "A peace monument an
the appropriation of 81, 600. coo.
In addressing the gathering, co
'owan said.
1T is hard TO control my emotion
when ! recall this battlefield fit
years ago. Picketts brave men wei
~ fun retreat and We were nolan
the ground in the Angle. Beyond IN
+m%ittsburg road was thlCkly StreW
with their dead and wounded and OF
own. Over near Cemetery Rlds
stands today an equestrian statue
General George Meade. the %
and Of the Army OF the Potoma
facing Seminary Ridge. Does ne loo
for the peerless leader Of the Soutl
srn army? -.
General Robert r. Lees life ill
statue, mounted on his famous W;
horse Traveller will soOn be place
on the pedestal already reared by Vi
rinia on Seminary Ridge to receive
The forms of the " great comman'
.rs on the battlefield Of GettysbCl
viii then stand facing each 9th
while time endures. Behind US a II
sic way. at the clunp of trees Is
monument which marks the hlGh III
Of the war on this field. This graz
celebration of the 6ftieth anniversa
"f the battle Of Gettysburg marks
hihn tide Of peace between the Nor
And South which shall never Iece'