The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-07-04
VETERANS DROP IN
GETTYSBURG HEAT.
Many Frustrated and Four
Deaths Result.
GARRISON GREETS HOSTS

Secretary of War and General Wood,
Chief of staff, on Ground-Embrao-
ing, Reunioning and Reminiscing Are
the Orders of the Day.
Gettysburg, Pa, July 2.-Field hos
pital ambulances began racing over
the battlefield, picking up the veterans
who dropped under the fierce sun as
they went on their way to the great
tent where Secretary of War Garrison
formally opened the memorial ceremo-
MES.
The ambulances were arriving at the
hospitals every few minutes loaded
often with as many as four of the aged
warriors. Just how many We're knock
ed out by the heat is not known. II
would not be surprising If the number
ran into the hundreds.
Secretary Garrison and General
Wood, chief of staff, motored here
from Baltimore. They were escorted
to General Liggett's headquarters by a
squadron of cavalry.
The assemblage at the tent was an
inspiring sight. 1t is great amphi-
theater, easily accommodating more
than 5000. Every seat was taken, and
many Of the veterans were standing
without the tent walls, which were
raised to permit the circulation Of air.
Perhaps there were 5000 veterans,
rebels and Yankees side by side, pre-
senting the picture of a vast field of
white hair. Secretary Garrison deliv-
cred stirring speech of welcome.
The vanguard and the rear guard of
veteran hosts have arrived. The de-
tenders and the would have been dis
rupters Of the Union are here in each
others arms. Tears and laughter,
shouts of "You d Yank" and "You
Johnny Reb' are seen and heard ev-
erywhere. Embracing. reunioning and
reminiscing are the orders of the day.
There will never be another civil war.
Hobson's Uncle Talks.
The uncle of Richmond Pearson Hob.
son, who was wounded and captured at
Uppersville, says that. He was of Com.
pany II Of the Fifth North Carolina,
and he ought to know. Following the
steps of his nephew. the uncle, while
denying that Richmond P. ever kissed
anybody on the Chicago platform but
his married cousin and her children
and somebody else's children, declares
that if he and his fellow tar heels had
only brought their wives along they
would never go back. It's a loving
host, as Uncle Hank says, and also as
Uncle Hank says: 1--WE came up here
expecting you to hold us in your arms.
But we like It; oh, we like it." That's
the note today. Get together, boys!
All over the field the drums are roll
ing The drummers Of the vets brought
their drums with them, and for exer-
else that would kill Muldoon and that
beats dumbbell exercises all hollow,
lust start the drums to rolling. The
heads along the company streets come
out and peer about and pretty soon the
rhythm of the finest music in the world
gets in its intoxicating work and stiff
ness flies away and the dance of the
gray haired boys is on with all the fer
vor and ginger Of the totem pole bri-
gade, than which there is but the vet
erans' dance more gingery.
Fight It All Over Again.
Across the railroad tracks near where
~ Pickett made his charge and Pettigrew
got shot in the hand so he could not
write report and get for North Caro-
mans due credit for their participa-
ion, came the Johnny Rebs on their
l. ssault. The long faced North Caro-
inans were in the lead, followed by
Alabama "Yellow Hammers" and the
flaming among themselves how it all
~ appened and cautioning each other
ot to advance any claim to the effect
= hat Pickett's charge wasn't so much
is as Pettigrew's. There really is a
~ PIT In the contention, you know, be-
ause the North Carolinans went on
Prough the war after that charge ex-
ecdng to rest on their laurels when
hey got back home. But they found
+ hat the Richmond reporters had Civ.
the credit to the Virginians, and
peir faces dropped That's why Rich,
ond P.'s Uncle Henry's claims to
lving the longest face on the North
merican continent are pretty good.
ncle Hank was awfully disappointed
pout that charge, and he'll take YOU
ght up to General Carr's tent and
low you by figures that more men
ere killed in Petigrew's command
an were killed in Pickett's whole di.
sion.
The assault" was simply an early
art of the Johnny Rebs to get in a
II day of jaw cracking with their
Ring foes, the d Yanks." The
bells claim that the vital forces of
r old men were exhausted in the
ctory at Gettysburg.