Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-06-04


who viii accompany them. Hospital
fty is 10 mark the days. Fifty years
aso 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 in welcome
to the MN wearing the gray. Enter
tainments CT various kinds viii be Of
fered the visiting veterans, bit Il is
pretty well understood that their deep
interest in revisiting the scenes where
they fought, Little Round Top. Oak
Ridge. Cemetery Hill. Culps Hill.
/ Rock Creek. the Stone Wall and other
placts will hold them largely to the
/ plsasCaes and to the Sc Issscs OF per
sOnal "reminiscences. -, with
the Union soldiers tn onfeC "a sol
1 diers win retramp IT, battleg ID.
They will look over the field of ok.
ett's desperate charge They viii 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 a
great celebration of peace of this fif.
tieth anniversary of what probably
was the decisive battle of the war. al.
though 1t was fought nearly two years
before the war ended. Other states
win 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 we're
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 yari-
GUS commands which took part 10 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. l and No. 2.
No. ] viii cover 149 acres and No.
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.
The quartermaster general in re-
| port says: 1T Is assumed that the
meals win be served to the visitors
in manner similar to that used by
the regular troops when in camp for
short periods: that is, by having each
man so to the kitchen with his mess
kit to be served there and dining in his
tent or other convenient places.
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 tho
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 a hospital service which shall be
adequate TO any contingency. There
will be hospital corps attachments
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 that 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 a 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 or
defeat 10 one Of the immediate com
mands engaged
II was In 1895 that congress estab-
lished a national park at Gettysburg
and gave the secretary of war author
ity to name a commission ito 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
we're occupied by infantry, cavalry and
lands as the secretary of war may
deem necessary to preserve the impor-
tant typographical features OF the bat.
tIefleId."
When the Union and the Confeder-
ate veterans reach Gettysburg on June
80 next they will find on the scene OF
the old conflict between five and six
hundred memorials raised in cominem-
Grafton of the deeds of their COM
mands on the great fields OF the Penn
sylvania battlefield There are, more
over, Loco markers placed to desig-
nate historic spots There are great
towers built upon the field by the gov
eminent so that bird's-eye views can
be obtained Of the entire scene of the