The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-07-03
NORTH AND SOUTH
B|V0UAC IN PEACE
Veterans Pay Tribune to Stars
and Stripes at Gettysburg.
sIckLEs GREETED BY GRAY
Aged Women Of Pennsylvania Village,
Who strew Flowers Before victo-
rlous Blue Army, Attend Re-
union on Battlefield.

Gettysburg, Pa, July lover the
field OF Gettysburg, where 10000 men,
In Blue and Gray fought fifty years ago
the soldiers Of peace from the north
and south, the east and the west,
trooped to the tented city, where they
will live in the four days Of semi-cen-
tennial celebration.
1t was an army united in sentiment
and united In fact. The Blue linked
arms with the Gray and marched the
dusty road together from the village.
They sat down at the same mess ia
bles and talked over the war before
the same campfires tonight
Officials of the regular army in
charge Of the camp estimated that
nearly $4,000 veterans came in during
the day, bringing the total close to
10000, probably the greatest army
that ever assembled ON Gettysburg
field after Lee and Meade left 1t to
glory and history.
Breeze Brings Vigor.
The sun blazed just as fiercely as
ever, but down from the Blue Ridge
tumbled lively little breeze, carry
ing vigor to the tired veterans. In
consequence Of this relief there were
fewer prostrations.
There was a reception by survivors
of Buford's division of Meade's army
and Wheeler's division of Lees. The
meeting began fifty years to the hour
from, tho TINA uhor tho Nrct shot xra
ceding the battle was fired. The gray
cavalrymen, who fought the skirm-
ishes that led up to the three days.
fight pledged themselves In the shad-
ows of the Stars and Stripes to for
get" and their brothers in blue swore
by the Stars and Bars that the fight
was over for all time
There were several women from the
village at the meeting tent. and six
of them, gray-haired and aged, sang
Rally Round the Flag, Boys" The
women who sang the battle song were
among those who thronged the streets
Of Gettysburg after the advance guard
Of the southern army left it fifty years
ago.
Greeted Soldiers as Girls.
On that night, when Buford's men
came riding into the village on the
heels of Wheeler's men in gray maid
ems strewed flowers along the streets
and bells in the churches pealed out
the new of the coming of the blue,
and the town went wild. OF all the
scores of girls who welcomed the van
guard of Meade only half dozen
could be found, and they stood. white
haired, with tears in their eyes, on q
platform In the big tent and sang to
the weeping soldiers in the seats be-
low.
Four Governors Arrive.
Four governors came into camp
Governor McGovern Of Wisconsin was
the first arrival, Governor Tener Of
Pennsylvania was close on his heels
and Governors Mann of Virginia and
McCreary of Kentucky arrived later.
General Sickles, the only corps COM
mander of the Union army on the
field. was the center of attraction of
hundreds of. men in gray. He sat on
the porch of the Rogers house on the
field near the spot where he was shot,
shaking hands with hundreds.
Before the southerners left the Rog-
ers house they shouldered the general,
carried him out into the battlefield and
stood him up before the camera fire
and moving picture machines.