Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-07-11

ed up and down the streets OF the con-
federate part Of the city of tents.
The.Y stopped before the tents, plav.
ed such fanfare as only drums and
flies can make, summoned forth the
occupants and shook hands, threw
their arms about the gray shoulders
and in a dozen other ways showed
their feelings of friendship.
They kept it up for hours and Wis.
tied practically every "reb" tent
Their reception was as warm as their
greeting
A remarkable coincidence of the
camp was the meeting of two men of
exactly the same name, coming from
towns of the same name, but IN differ-a
ent states One fought on the union
side in the battle of Gettysburg, and
the other with the confederates.
These two men are John Carson of
Burlington, N j., and John Carson of
Burlington, N. G.
They met by the merest chance
The Jersey Carson was walking along
gray. Just to be friendly, the Jersey
man stopped him and gave him a
greeting. 1t was not until they had
talked for several minutes that they
discovered their names were identical,
as well as the names of their towns.
One bearded veteran Of an Illinois
regiment told of an incident that hap
pened so years ago.
LAS we rode through Gettysburg
that last time" he said, II remember
q little girl stopped my horse and said
she wanted to give me bouquet. /
got down and she pinned ribbon-a
little purple ribbon to my coat. Wear
that in the next battle you go into
she said.
"'We're not going to have any more
battles around here / told her
Eyes, you are she insisted Those
hills back there are full of rebels
81 wore that purple ribbon through
the battle. l never saw the girl after
ward, but I've kept that ribbon, ano
it's back at home in Illinois today
A striking contrast is seen in the
menu provided for the soldiers fifty
years ago and what they enjoyed this
year:
Breakfast Hardtack, bacon
beans and coffee.
Dinner-Bacon, beans, bareback and
coffee.
supper-Beans. bareback, bacon
and coffee.
1913 Breakfast-Puffed rice, fried
eggs, fried bacon, cream potatoes,
fresh bread, hard bread, butter and
coffee.
Dinner = Fricassee chicken, peas,
corn, ice cream, cake, cigars, fresh
bread, hard bread, butter. coffee, iced
tea
Supper Salmon salad, macaronf
and cheese, fresh bread, butter and
coffee
When the house of representatives
recently undertook to name a commit
tee of its members to represent it at
the reunion of the blue and gray at
Gettysburg it was found that not a
veteran of the Civil war sat on the Re
publican side of that body. The only
Union veterans In the house, three in
number, are all Democrats, and six
veterans of the Confederate army also
sit on that side. In the senate, how
ever, there are six Confederate veter-
ans on the Democratic side and six
Union veterans on the Republican side
AS indicating the passage of time, it
is a remarkable fact that there are
today in congress more veterans of
the Spanish-American war than of the
Civil war Nineteen members Of the
senate are veterans of the war with
Spain One member OF the house, who
has not seen war service at all, served
FIVE years in the signal corps of the
army as a private, and Delegate
Quezon of the Philippines was staff
officer under Aguinaldo during the
Philippine rebellion.
My heart beats faster tonight, said
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles. The throng
ing hordes who have motored and
walked and trolleyed to my camp to-
day have swept their hats off and hail
ed it as "Sickles Day
1t was on this day half century
ago that God gave me strength to
serve my country and my maker bet
ter than ever had been able to serve
them before.
1t was upon this day in '63 that
lost my leg and did my little part by
the mercy Of God to preserve the
Union.
July 2, 1863, broke hot and clear
Just as in the early hours today mol
ten sun poured out of a sky but
tribe overloaded. had retired
shortly after midnight the previous
evening and slept the quiet, dreamless
sleep that is generally attribute to
babes.