New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-30
CAUGHT by tho "Yanks.'

Cauaht by tho "Yanks.'
Those trees weren't there then" said
Frank F. Wise, color bearer OF the otn
Alabama. but there were some bushes
there with .Yanks behind them. They
caught me-"
Hoy long did they hold you?' he
was asked.
"Only over night" and he smiled ten
derby. Il escaped the next morning
But the next day they turned our flank
right over there near the fence and we
.ouldn't go 10 Picketts ed.
Between the crest of Seminary Ridge
and the Emmitsburg Road ten thou
sand aged men are reminiscing TO-
,,ght under brown covered army tents.
Are lights illuminate the avenues OF
tits Unprecedented encampment and
railroad track carves its way through
the heart Of il. These are the only up
,o-datc touches 10 account for the
Iassage of fifty years, unless there he
included the utter peace which reigns
over the historic soil.
Nature could have bestowed no more
perfect benedictiOn on the reunion Oh
these old fighters than the gorgeous
glow of the sunset which spread fan
wise from directly over the middle OF
ire Blue Ridge, whose pale wall eX-
tended UP from Dixie to form a back
ground for this sacred scene. Ihe
smoke of campfres. built for the IN
,jneration Of rubbish, footed up from
every part of the camp, mixing with
The evening miStS. to pause like halo
over this the graveyard Of thousands.
Even this tottering army of veterans
has had nothing TO fear so FAR from
the rough discomforts of camp life: and
vet AT least two of them joined to-day
the ranks Of those comrades who sank
10 earth here so many years ago.
Augustus D. Brown. Of Kimball Post,
Livermore Falls, Me-, dropped dead
while chatting his old chums in the line
waiting for food before the mess tent.
He had sho unusual animation IN
the journey to Gettysburg and in his
conversation at the tent during the al
ternoon.
John II. Reynolds, sixty-nine years
old. Of Port Chester, n. Y. member
Of Charles Lawrence Post, No. 31S,
followed his comrade from Maine an
hour later He. too, dropped dead
without warning.
New Workers Receive To-day
To-morrow's feature of the encamp-
mcnt is 10 he a reception in the big
tent under the direction Of the 9th New
York Cavalry. William Muldoon is on
the committee. Bill did not fight
With the 9th, or, for that matter, with
any command in the Civil War. but his
brother did, and so Bill is an honor
airy member.
Another member Of the committee is
Colonel r. @. Easton. of Worcester,
Mass who was adjutant of the 9Th.
He and Muldoon swept into camp this
afternoon and announced that Buford's
cavalry were going TO celebrate the If
tieth anniversary Of their arrival at
gettysburg on June 80, 1868.
We invite to the reception" said
Colonel Easton. not only all those still
living who fought in the cavalry Of the
Union Army Of the Potomac and the
n Confederate Army of Northern Nir-
u ginia. but all the survivors among those
y citizens Of Gettysburg who welcomed
US on that day. And they certainly did
welcome US continued the colonel,
with a little smile. They strewed
flowers under our horses feet as we
rode down the Emmitsburg Road.
They sure were tickled TO see US"
Bufords Cavalry the day following
their arrival. opened the battle Of Get
tvsburg. The reception VIII take place
at o'clock in the afternoon. 1t is
hoped that by that time the major por-