Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-01
Picketfs Charge
So Re.enacted TOdaY


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iuns will announce the arrival Of the
President. Concerts and aircraft dem
astralions will be held in honor of the
President. During the evening the Chief
Executive will greet scores Of guests at
the camp white House." Senator INepA
per will be one of the many distin-
Suished men to pay his respects to the
President. Tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock the President will review the
entire Fourth Brigade Of the Marine
Corps. Early In the afternoon he will
leave for his home in Marion, Ohio,
probably going by motor over the Lin
coin Highway.
Today and Monday the marines, who
are members of the East Coast Marine
Expeditionary Forces, will advance
a:ross the mile of open field southwest
q Gettysburg In the exact manner as
did the Civil War veterans fifty mine
years ago. Tuesday they will conduct
/ a"World War Pickett Charge" using
machine guns. airplanes. balloons, radio
GSnaling apparatus and all other i'm.
Elements of modern warfare.
. Hundreds of Civil War veterans from
ne Eastern part Of the country who
ssve been invited as the special guests
General Smedley Butler will on Mon
gay live again those memorable hours of
ueir careers when, as wearers of the
oue, they helped rcpulsc the deter.
Pickett. -
Veterans Of '63 to BE Present
Iottering and bent by the weight Of
years, these heroes of the days of "G3"
ga nght no more. They will be merely
ectators. but the most enthusiastic Of
as thousands of people who will sur.
.ound the field to see the wonderful
'psctacle presented by the marines.
c. LIS possible that one or two of the
Eheaerate Eohserate veterans who served under
4. 49, ay may be here also Monday, but
81, hep'ahce from any of them has as
~ we" received by General Butler.
W." greatest feature of the "Civil
Al, n. '%marscs is that the movements of
ne confederate generals who tool,
~ IN the advance will be dupIicoteI
I" .ne minutest detail. ''''
vnSt skett started his charge from n
Co~s Cs bordering what is now West
so.teuerate son.t avenue. running north md
onon m on the western edge of n buyo
m nela across the field. one miie
: Tn,an' Is Hancock avenue. where thr
sfto. fvh iihe repulsed the Pickett mon
HAL u nerce hand-to hand struggle nj
(, v,n ,HnM OF that woods This oftcrroon
4 c"mh @ march Lieutenant Colonel Tracev
Msrinnder Mi,ander of the Fifth Regiment oi
B XWans; representing General pickett
n snS aaVancing 800 Yards he will stor
4 SS pw pview the progress of tbe fight n.
msnd,I adGkeit' General TrimbIe. who com ~ a..
h"asa the Confederate Left fiank vii
N.wssp represented by Major c. r. MAJ.
nv, commander of the Sixth Reri.
lssi. q Marines. Not far from RIoad, hood
q, tne only general kilIoI a,.;
ID roE .'u was General Pettiprew Iii
4 cemm.ni w,.i be depicted by Major JIpsbnr
TI,E of the first battalion nf III.
Il H. regiment of Marines To man' '
H Ma Ssaths' and the swoundin.s', ~
MI dncers and men more reai;sti'
h nd beet VIII be furnished BY boiled
M Major A. c. Pratt vii, .,+ =, . 80 :,
" aee and watch Tho VIII slt on a raj
N q Gs"I I,ongstreet. second is comromt mo nv
S,SSss SSfnercl Lee, The Confcderntn d. ga%Mame c"M
Y ssnstsd m m.chef, Lee, 'i viii h" im"or r"n.
n tho Fu FOuoy oy Colonel Fred I,ra%mnm pcr =,
Il dxht ourth ou IN Brigade. who will Watch III, ~
\ ied.rstsIs .rrssttashoat a. the Fighting" tho Gan,
ss 9s NJ soldiers by t'sSShsS hs. Sraossa f,Sm IL
III, %s leavinerir Their gray stockings rolled evs S",
uensral Butler In Charge
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aGe as,diee.d detachment encamned a. q .n, tn,
q h.,o oi the entire Ie prod"ctio, LOT IN, sI,,
Sssisr.a witnessing rehe%arsalS % fro% matie' .s,
tss S aid Of thadiSs other otsee,s togss Sss am. and
= sosss. ~ ~ utmost to make % liz "as cs.s, Dee,
W rItsS., ss, tent for consrcssmsp 0fs,eis Rns's,
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