Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-07-03
Big Welcome Awaits Him at
Gettysburg Tomorrow Gov
ernor's Day Observed.
HEAT THINS THE RANKS
Six Thousand Veterans Leave
for Home Unable to En-
durs the Strain.
Special by United fres. vzr-

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dent Wilson will be given rousing
welcome when he arrives here for
the celebration tomorrow. The fact
that he is the first southern born
president to visit the battlefield has
made thousands of Johnny Reds
feel that they ought to outdo them
selves in the reception, and they
plan to greet him with the famous
rebel yell.
Today was Governors day and
fourteen state executives with their
military staff and a large congre-
sional delegation headed by Vice
President Marshall, occupied the
platform in the encampment during
the exercises. Governor Tener was
the host and introduced number OF
speakers, among them Governor
Sulzer of New York. Governor
Fielder, of New Jersey, was one of
the governors accompanied by his
whole staff.
General Hunter Light estimated
that more than 5000 Of the veterans
had been driven from the field by the
torr1d sun and expressed the opinion
that before night shuts In again 1000
more will have followed them.
The departure of some of the old
fellows will furnish certain sort of
relief as the camp was crowded far
beyond its capacity,
With the coming of the day the
boys" in blue and gray swarmed out
to the cemetery back Of the field,
where are the graves of those who
fell In the fight. On crutch and cane
they went from headstone to head
stone of the 1864 known graves,
searching for the name of lost COM
rade-and sometimes finding it.
One old man sat on the grass beside
grave.
"He's Under There" He Said.
Hes under there" he said. when
I get home I'm going to tell them to
try and put me beside him when
the time He hesitated. broke off,
stopped, His head sunk down on
bis chest. He toppled over and lay
there on his side. They came and
carried him away to the hospital tent.
Over where the two stone walls
join In the Bloody Angle on Cemetery
ridge, William Marston Of the Fifty
sixth Virginia limped up the slope
along which fifty years ago he had
charged with Pickett. Slowly he work
ed his way to the gray stone barrier
which once was red and looked over.
Standing behind the wall looking
out, was Arthur Applegate of the Sew.
enty-second Pennsylvania. The eyes
OF the man In blue and the man in
gray met not five feet apart Suddenly
recognition leaped to Marston's face.
"You are the man l shot behind the
field gun just as you turned US back"
he gasped.
Applegate stared. Slowly recollec-
ton came into his face.
A Clasp Of tho Hand.
mo" he said; ut was my brother
Fred. We were twins. I remember
you had rag with blood on 1t around
your head, and you shot With
"a pistol" Marston said quickly.
"I"-
But before he could go on the Union
wall The Confederate grasped it.
Never mind" Applegate said. May
be | shot your brother-if you lost
one"
Union veteran called on Chief
Clerk George G. Thornton of the state
department at Harrisburg He said
that on the fateful morning of the
opening Of the battle fifty years ago he
had succumbed to temptation and had
stolen quantity of onions from the
Thornton garden, which was located
near Seminary ridge. He told Thorn
ton that his conscience troubled him
ever since and that after half century
be had now come to make restitution
Needless to say the proffer was refused
Reunion Of Nurses.
One of he interesting sidelights La
the reuni, of the civil war nurses.
which is being held in a house on the
main street of the town. Thirty aged
women who tended the sick and dying
on the field after the battle and in the
hospitals In this vicinity sit on the
porch OF the house all day and wave as
the bluecoats and graybacks march by.
They have been given quarters by the
Pennsylvania commission, but they
have taken no part In the general cele-
bration.
Governor Philip Lee Goldsborough
5f Maryland and party arrived at the
camp by automobile, With the COVER
nor were Adjutant General Charles F.
Mackiin, General William D. Gill and
Colonel Bladen Lowndes.
Yesterday was military day" In the
big tent. with Colonel Andrew Cowen
of Louisville presiding. Major Gen
eral John r. Brooke of Pennsylvania
was the northern orator Of the day and
Sergeant John G. Scarborough of North
Carolina, the silver tongued defender
Of the south. To Barry Buckley of
Washington was given the honor of
reading Lincoln's Gettysburg address.