Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-30
POTS AND PANS
RATTLE REPLACES
MUSKETRY OF '63
Xxi vi" of Johnny Reb" and
Yanks' Cry Only War Re-
minder at Gettysburg.
MESS TENTS ARE READY
FOR 10000 WARRIORS
Thirty-five Governors Start for
Scene of Reunion-Seven
Gray-Haired Nurses Attend.

twenty-five thousand veterans IN
blue and gray. the biggest army of
its kind that has been gathered to-
gether in fifty years, woke today on
the field of Gettysburg to the call Of
reveille and the warlike rattle of pots
and pans in a score of mess tents. .
Veterans who sat about campfires
until late at night were up long be-
fore the sun climbed over the hills of
the Blue Ridge. Before the electric
lights of this modern camp were
turned out to make way for the sun
the veterans were singing the songs
of wartime, and the wide streets of
vi" of the Johnny Reb' and the
hoarser yell of his Yankee brother
from the North.
The regular army men in charge
of the camp expected $4,000 veterans
to come into Gettysburg today and
by night they will be prepared to tent
and mess the more than 10000 men
without hitch or delay. There was
no set program today, and the vetcr-
ans were left free to look up OLD
friends and old enemies. swap stories
of '6S and enjoy themselves ip am
way they saw fit.
Just as soon as the rations of bacon
and eggs and coffee, fruit in season, =
fresh bread and butter, were disposed
of in the way all good soldiers dis
pose Of them, the real inspection OF
the battlefield and the retelling of the
story of Gettysburg began. with all
the pointed criticism that the private
soldier knows so well how to tell.
II amt seen a reb yet who didn't
charge Round Top and take it all by
himself" said lanlxy Southerner as
he wandered into the quarters of the
Pennsylvania contingent
mo, and I amt seen a Yank who
didn't break up Pickett's charge by
his own SELF said a smiling Penn-
lsylvanian as they shook hands
Saw Gray Army First.
The. only set event today was ths
| joint reception by the survivors soi
General Bufords cavalry and the
Southerners of General Wheeler's
cavalry to the citizens of Gettysburg
|
! Gray army advancing on Gettysburg
on the morning of July 1 fifty years
ago, and the picket VINO first saw the
scouts of Lee swinging up the Cham
bersburg pike fired the first shot OF
the greatest battle of the war. II
was Buford who stubbornly fought
the advance of General Heth's di-
| vision of the Third Confederate corps
on the July morning until General
Reynolds arrived and took command
and Wheeler's men helped TO make
that joint affair warm one.
| Relatives of General Meade, Gen
eral Longstreet, General Pickett and
General Hill arrived today and were
given quarters in the town. Colonel
j. M. Schoonmaker, chairman of the
Pennsylvania commission, announced
| today that thirty-five governors had
accepted invitations to be present
some time during the week.
Brigadier- General Hunter Liggett
assumed command of the veterans
camp today and Major Normoyle, OF
| the quartermasters' corps, who has
been working pretty nearly twenty
three hours each day for the last
| two weeks, gave up the reins of Of
flee. General Liggett appointed as his
adjutant Lieutenant Simon Bolivar
Buckner, son of the Confederate gen.
eral.
The Wisconsin veterans arrived on
their special train early today. They
were accompanied by Governor Nc
Govern, F. C. Winclkler. Colonel w.
J. Cronyn and Major G. E. Leaman,
of Milwaukee, and Adjutant Attor-
ney General Salzman.
Governor McGovern reported that
although the train was delayed, the
veterans stood the journey we'll and
were in fine spirits.
Gray Haired Nurses Arrive.
Gathered upon a quiet little street
of the town were seven gray-haired
women who, fifty years ago. acted
as volunteer nurses for Union and
Confederate veterans alike, when the
the laundering guns of battle were
piling up gruesome total of killed
and wounded. Perhaps to no one of
the seven are the recollections of
that time more vivid than they are
to Mrs. Salome M. Stewart, a native
of Gettysburg, who except for an
interval of a few years, has lived in
the same house that was used as an
emergency hospital during the fa-
nous battle.
At Mrs. Stewards home has been
established the headquarters for the
surviving nurses of the war between
the States. One arrival yesterday
was Mrs. Clarissa S. Dye, of Phila-
delphla, who was among the first
to respond when the news of Gettys-
burg filtered in over the wires The
other aged nurses expected to par
ticipate in the anniversary are Miss
Cornelia Hancock. Philadelphia; Mrs.
Margaret Hamilton, Wakefield,
Mass; Mrs. Mary Stevens, Peabody,
Mass. Mrs. Annie Irving, Newburg,
N. Y, and Mrs. Helen Cole, Sheboy-
gan Falls. Wis.
Among the notable arrivals at the