New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-04
BLUE AND GRAY ACT
P|CKETT'S CHARGE
lettering "RebeIs" Charge
Across Wheat Field. To Be
Received at Bloody Angle
with Open Arms.
ALL TOOK PART BEFORE

Success, with Speeches by
Marshall, Clark, Sulzer,
Cox and Others.
lFrom STAFF Correspondent OF The Tribune. J
Gettysburg Battlefield, July 3.-One
hundred and fifty old men in gray
formed in line over on Seminary Ridge
this afternoon, plodded slowly. with
irregular step. through the fields OF
wheat and timothy. carrying on high
the Stars and Bars. crossed the En-
mitsburg Road and penetrated 10 the
Bloody Angle. There $50 old men in
blue. waiting for them behind the stone
wall with the Stars and Stripes. met
them and embraced them. They
checked the confident advance even
more effectively than they had fifty
years before almost to'the minute.
This and some appropriate exercises
constituted Picketts charge Of 1913.
All the veterans on both sides had
taken part in Pickett's charge and its
terrible repulse on July 3. 1863. on
the Northern side they comprised the
remnants OF the Philadelphia Brigade,
commanded by General Alexander
Webb. and on the Southern side they
constituted the remnants of Pickett's
division.
1t was about 8 o'clock in the after
noon that the two armies met fifty
years ago. This afternoon about 2.3O
o'clock the big crowd which had as
sembed with the Pennsylvania vet
Grams at the Bloody Angle TO help
greet the old boys in gray saw them
leaving their tents across the valley
and gathering in thin line TO proceed
first through a section of the Union en-
oampment Some OF them carried their
coats on their arms. some walked with
sticks and others under umbrellas. for
il was Internally hot. AS they strag-
gled by the Union tents, the old boys in
blue poured forth TO delay them by
shaking them by the hand and patting
them on the back They did not
neglect to chaff them, either. and they
got in return as good as they gave.
Union Soldiers Hold Fire.
once over the Emmitsburg road
field of timothy nearly swallowed the
old re- als. b., on they came guided by
Kesnech's Municipal Band, Of Rich
mond. As they neared the stone wall
il was all the o Union soldiers could
do 10 wait for them, but they did wait.
just as in 1862 they had held their fire.
and then the rebels arriyed-and it was
all over.
The first men 10 shake hands over
the Wall--it is only half as high to-day
as il was half century ago-Were
Mark D. L. Boone. seventy-eight years
old. OF the 57th Virginia. Armistead's
Brigade, who hales from Boone Mill.
Va, and j. l.. Rockwell, seNenty-tWo
years old, OF the 1O6th Pennsylvania.
The engagement immediately became
general all along the line. The Union
boys helped the Johnnies ever the wall
and more OF them got over than in that
far-off fight.
Major W. w. Bentley, who, as cap
tain. had commanded a company IN the
oath Virginia, Kemper's division When
Pickett charged. led Picketts rem
nants. He was wounded three times
in the charge. but to-day he walks as
erect and steps as firmly as he did be-
fore the Union bullets found him. He
still lives in Pulaski County, Va.
Some Of Those Who Charged.
His aid was Major T. c. Holland OF
the 2Sth Virginia, who now lives IN 81
Louis. and his adjutant. Charles l.
I.oebr, OF Richmond. Some OF his men
were p. c. Aliff. OF Roanoke, Va, who
lost his arm on the field on July s.
1868: s. w. Poulott. Of the 18th Vir-
einia: Duhal Porter, OF the 44th Nir-
einia: w. II. Turpin, OF the ood
Virginia. d. b. Easley, OF Scottsburg,
Halifax County. Va, a member OF the
14th Virginia; S. II. Jones. Charlottes-
vile Va. a member Of tn 9th Vir-
oinia. CAPTAIN X. w. Dowthat, OF the
1tth Virginia, and V. j. Smith, OF
prunevick County. Va. Thomas II.
o.Rrien. of the 5Tth Virginia, carried
the old flag.
The remnants OF the Philadelphia
Brigade, comprising the Goth. list, I'D
and 1O6th Pennsylvania, were COM
nanded by Major Robert Stokes,
u,bose adiutant was John Frazer. The
bovs in blue had with them an old
Dag OF Hancocks Cd Corps, 10 which
thew belonged, containing white
c,over leaf on triangular field OF blue
with a red vert. cal bar paralleiing the
flagstaff. II did not contain as many
bullet holes as the Pickett standard,
but as easily matched It in age. And
they now held aloft. too, brand new
American flag OF silk containing the
fortv-eiRht stars Of a copper riveted
union. The old rebels carried THIS
away with thei fpttering beside the
old Stars and Bars. when they re-
turned.
Confederates Receive Medals.
But a lot OF things happened before
the retreat. To begin with, Colonel
y. NJ schoonmaker, chairman OF the
PENNSYLVANIA Commission, presented