Show i VETERANS TO MEET ON battlefield BATTLE REID reunion of blue and gray armies to oo do held at gettysburg july 1 12 2 3 EXPECTED TO ATTEND stat of extends invitation S to all soldiers who fought in conflict fifty years ago ABO good time assured all pa veterans ot of the civil war both blue and gray will again met meet utter after fifty years yeara on the abe battlefield at gettysburg pa on july 1 this time it will be b a reunion and past differences will bo be but a memory em the state ot of on way may 13 1909 created a commission to consider and arrange for or a proper and fitting recognition and observance at gettysburg ettya burg ot of the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of 0 gettysburg to invite the cooperation of the tha congress a 0 the united states and of other states rud and commonwealths dennec denned the commissions duties and and made an appropriation on for preliminary expenses text of invitation to veterans Vet erana the invitation la Is as follows pennsylvania Byl vanla by its ita commission formally invites the congress of the united states and her bar ster states and commonwealths mon to accept this invitation from the commonwealth upon whose soil the battle of gettysburg was fought to share ebare la in this important anniversary niver sary and to help make it an event worthy of its historical significance and an occasion creditable and impressive to our great and united reunited re nation and likewise invites the tha cooperation and participation of the grand army ot of the republic and ot of the united confederate Conte veterans state will act as host pennsylvania she providing ill all entertainment at gettysburg during july 1 2 2 3 and 4 1913 tor for forty thousand honorably discharged veterans of the civil war and she and the national government together as provided by the act of at congress of august 26 1912 2912 by each paying for the war department with the totals total to create mud and maintain a great cs camp p around the battlefield tle field camp accommodations the amp some two hundred ind and contiguous acres starting about two hundred yards from the high water mark monument on the battlefield ind and lying to the southwest of the town and partly upon the scene of the first days fight consists of tents teats regularly bold ing twelve men each but now to hold but bat eight veterans each veteran being supplied with a separate cot the Pennsyl pennsylvania rania commission having charge of the order of 0 exercises during daring the celebration the physical control of the camp sad and grounds and the move movements meata of troops and marching bodies therein to be in charge of the secretary of 0 war under such auch officers as he may detail tor for that purpose free transportation to and F from ram gettysburg Getty burg W with each commonwealth state and territory rests resta absolutely the dei determination i as each deems best to what veterans of the civil war it will issue free transportation pennsyl invitation being that to such honorably discharged Tet veterans erans of the civil war as come to gettysburg for or the above celebration either upon tree free transportation or at their own expense and present proper credentials proving them to be such veterans she will provide food shelter and entertainment during daring that period but she ehe furnishes tree free transportation to no one save only to her own vet erans or Tet veterans erans now resident within her borders and to them only under legislative direction which Is now pending in her gip general ueral assembly the national government furnishing no free transportation at all the trunk lino line ras passenger association in n whose territory gettysburg Is has granted a one and three fifths round trip excursion rate good going june 25 and returning to original starting point by july 15 a twenty day ticket good only on en same came route going and coming and costing two cents per mile but each state roust must make its own arrangements with the similar associations covering the territory from that state to pennsyl vanla the railroads at gettysburg refuse because of lack of room to park or accommodate there any cars on side tracks program for four days da the program lor for the four days exercises and entertainment Is not yet perfected in detail but the tentative suggestions are july I 1 veterans day appropriate exercises under the joint alree tion of at the pennsylvania commission and the commender ln la ahlet ot of the grand army ot of tho th republic and the me confederate veterans july military tary day under the direction of the eblet of at staff of the united states slates artay army special detachments men is of each arm ana of the regular service to participate as directed july a 3 alc day under the direction of the tha governor of at the commonwealth mon wealth of pennsylvania presiding and ana participated in by the tsegay govi ernora ot at the he several states orations sermon and music july 4 national day the olef ahlet ju justice stace ot of the united states inc forenoon oration by the president t or of the united states high noon hp to lay the cornerstone of a great peace memorial Ere evening aing Am fireworks works to hold reunion in great tent A great tent seating beating between ten cn thousand and fifteen thousand veterans will be erected immediately adjoining the tha camp and therein will occur the above exercises excepting the military parada d and fireworks and therein save tor to the hours set apart tor for the above abote exercises the veterans may hold bold all reunions they may desire the tent being arranged to be subdivided into numerous separate en enclosures all veterans of the civil ivr north and south mouth axe are urged to ww their army corps division brigade and society baag badges as aa a means of identification to their comrades in like commands ramanda co in the expectation that it will assist in imparting Wor information matlon as to where and where their different lions meet and la in bringing together comrades who would otherwise by reason ot of lapse of tine time fall fail to nize each other 40 veterans expected it is expected that veterans veteran of ct the war not all of them however ao no wever survivors of the gettysburg b battle a atle will be found encamped upon t the bs field when reveille sounds on the morning of july 1 it will be a different reveille than that which the fife and drum dram corps of at the two great armies sounded itty fifty years ago the call to awakening will be a call to a Pea peaceful cefI celebration while the call to the awak enang in july 1963 was a call 0 armies to conflict and to thousands ds a 0 men a call to death abr years the veterans have bare been feben looking forward to this reunion it la Is probable that there will be present many thousands ot at ct cf the tha battle many of the states of the union north as well as aa south sooth nave have rands made appropriation to send their veterans to the gettysburg reunion and to pay all other expenses the battle ot of gettysburg Is recognized as the turning of the war between the states it has been called time and again one of the deci decisive alve battles of tha world generally itkis xe r that getta decided the great con conflict filet helped tn in the decision probably by the fall of vicksburg on the which took place virtually at the moment that the conflict on an the pennsylvania field celd was decided in favor of at the northern arms large sum for entertainment the battle of gettysburg commission a of the state of at pennsylvania has bas a large sum of money at its disposal for the entertainment of the visiting veterans and the thousands of persons persona who will accompany them hospital ity Is to mark the days filly fifty years ago a co pennsylvania aided in the work of at repelling the visitors from the south in early july next the same bame state will have its arms wide open in welcome to the men wearing the gray entertainments ta tain ments of Tar various liFus kinds will be ot of the visiting veterans but it Is pretty well understood that their deep interest in revisiting tle tha scenes where they fought little round top oak ridge cemetery hill gulps culps hill rock creek the stone wall and other places will hold bold them largely to tho the pleasures and to the sad nesses of personal reminiscences arm in arm with the union soldiers the confederate soldiers will the battleground they will look over the field of at picketts desperate charge they will retrace the marching steps of long streets streeta corps they will go to the place where meade had his head bead and to the place from which lee directed his southern forces la in battle it Is said that this contemplated has induced more interest among the old soldiers of the north and the south than any event which has happened since the day that the war closed there to Is today at gettysburg a great national park in which la Is included a cemetery where thousands of soldier dead are ara buried the united states government and the legislature la of pennsylvania worked together to make a park of the battlefield and to lo mark accurately every point in it which has historic interest it Is expected that much good will come from the reunion of the blue and the gray on the battlefield of gettysburg has healed beaded many wounds the old iol soldiers diers have lor forgotten gotten their animosities more readily than have the civilians it Is thought that this great coming together in peace of two once conflicting hosts will mark maik the passing of the last trace of the th bitter nesa of the war between the states of this great |