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Show VETERAfJSTO MEET Oil BJIERELD Big Reunion of Survivors of Civil War at Gettysburg on July 1. ' 40,000 EXPECTED TO ATTEND Man Who Wore the Blue and Gray to Again Gather on Ground Made Memorable by Historic His-toric Conflict By EDWtD B. CLARK. WASH I. ION. During the first four days of July the battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa., will again be tbe scene of a meeting of tbe lllue and the Gray, but this time they will meet in amity and affection. A half-century will have passed since last these men of two great American artnlea met on this northern field. Then they were face to face In deadly conflict, for tbe Issue, It waa well understood to both contending con-tending forces, waa tbe success of the southern cause, or the beginning of Its dofeat, to be followed by the restoration restora-tion of tbe Union as It had been before the first shot waa fired at Fort Sumter. Sum-ter. The United States government and the government of nearly every state In the Union have combined to make the Gettysburg reunion of the soldiers of the north and south one of thegrest peace event of tbe century. The state of Pennsylvania some time ago appointed ap-pointed a "Fiftieth Annlverssry of the Rattle of Gettysburg commission" to make preparations for the four days' reunion, at which Pennsylvania aa a state waa to act aa host to the veterans vet-erans of tbe wsr between the states and to the thousands of visitors who would follow their march to the field of battle, and appropriated (160.000 for 1 the purpose of entertaining tbe veterans. vet-erans. ! 40,000 Vtterana Expected. It la expected that 40,000 veterans of the war, not all of them, however, survivors of the Gettysburg battle, will j be found encamped upon the field ( when reveille sound on the morning , of July 1. It will be a different re- ' velll than that which tbe fife and ( drum corpa of the two great armies sounded fifty yeara ago. The cat) to awakening will be a call to a peaceful celebration while the call to the awakening awak-ening In July, 18S3, waa a call of , armies to conflict and, to thousands of men, a call to death. (or years the. veterans have been looking forward to this reunion. It la probable that there will be present ' many thousands of survivors of the J battle. The United States government ! under an act of congres has appropriated appro-priated money for the preparation of 1 the camps and for the messing of the ' soldier visitors. The average age of ' the men engaged In the Civil war was j nly eighteen years, but fifty years have passed sine these soldier boys (ought at Gettysburg, and so If tbe ' computation of age waa a true one the ( iverag years of the veteran who will 1 meet in Pennsylvania In July will be ' ibout sixty-eight years. Many of them. f course, will be much older and a 1 ood many of them, men who entered ' it ages ranging from fourteen to sev- 1 inteen years, will b younger, but all 1 sill be old men as the world views 1 ige. 1 Many of the states of the Union, lorth aa well as south, have mad ap- 1 proprtatlons to send their veterans to ' Jie Gettysburg reunion and to pay all ther expense. The battle of Getty a- urg is recognised aa the turning point f the war between the states. It has een called time and again one of the fc leclslv battlea of the world. Gener- illy It Is recognised that Gettysburg b Inclded the great conflict, helped In he decision probably by the fall of ITIcksburg on tbe Mississippi, which 1 ook plsce virtually at the moment hat the conflict on the Pennsylvania leld waa decided In favor of the north- fl rn arms. P The preparations which the govern- V nent I msklng to cars for tbe voter- J ins at Gettysburg are intereatlng. K rbey have been under the charge of c fames B. Aleshlre, quartermaster gen- J' ral of tbe United States army, and P lenry O. Sharp, commissary general tl if the United State army. Two years d igo last Msrth 14.000 regular troop vers gathered In camp at Texas. The lealth of the soldiers throughout the II rexaa encampment waa almost per a ect. made so by the plan which had It een carefully laid to see that perfect t anttatlon waa maintained. The Unit- tr d Statea army was taught a lesson d y tbe Spanish war, when lack of ti roper sanitary precautions and nnpre- w aredness la other ways cost the gov- a rnraent the lives of more men than li rer sacrificed to the bullets of the d Ipanlard. ti The estimates of the commissary U nd quartermaster authorities are aatd upon an attendance of 40.000 vet. a1 raus. U probably will cost the gov- Si rnraent about 1360,000 to act In part tl a host to the survivors of the battle h ad other veteran who attend the oi lettysbarg reunion. rr Big Tssk to reed Men. s The survivors of the wsr from the o onh and south who will be present, n, elng old men. must be cared for In tc way which would not have been neo ei ssary fifty yeara ago. The messing of b lie veterans will require 400 army bi sages. 1 great field bakery, 40.000 st teas kits. 100 cooks. 100 kitchen help- tx rs and 130 baker. Thla helping per- lo Dnnal will be required to be la camp ol r at least ssven days, and many of ki aawMaaaaaaanaBaaaaaaaaaaaaBBaaaBBaaaBaBBaBaaaaai them for a longer period, for tbe purpose pur-pose of Installing the field bakery, th field ranges and In dismantling, clean-log, clean-log, packing and storing material after the encampment la over. The old soldiers ar to be supplied with fresh meat directly from refrta erator cars drawn upon th field. They will be given fresi vegetables and special spe-cial bread with the beat coffee and tea which the market affords. For them It will not be a caae of hardtack, bootleg and poor bacon. The liattle of Gettysburg commission commis-sion of tbe stat of Pennsylvania has a large sum of money at Ita disposal for the entertainment of the visiting veterans, and the thousands of persons who will accompany tbem. Hospitality Hospital-ity la to mark tbe days. Fifty yeara ago Pennsylvania aided In the work of repelling the visitors from tbe south. In esrly July next the same stato will have Its arms wide open In welcome to tbe men wearing the gray. Entertainments Enter-tainments of various kinds will be offered of-fered tbe visiting veterans, but it Is pretty well understood that their deep interest in revisiting the scenes where they fought. Little Hound Top, Oak Ridge. Cemetery Hill. Culpa Hill, Hock Creek, th Stone Wall and other places will hold them largely to the pleasures and to tbe sadnesses of peril per-il on si reminiscences. Arm In arm with the Union soldiers the Confederate soldier sol-dier will retramp tbe battleground. They will look over the field of Pick-ett's Pick-ett's desperate charge. They will retrace re-trace the marching steps of Long-street' Long-street' corps. They will go to the place where Meade bad bis headquarters headquar-ters and to the place from which Lea directed his southern forces In battle. Pennsylvania Is going to make a great celebration of peace of this fiftieth fif-tieth anniversary of what probably was the decisive battle of tbe war, although al-though It was fought nearly two years before the war ended. Other atates will help Pennsylvania In Its work, and from every section of the country, north, esst, eouth and west, the vet-erans vet-erans will assemble, most of them probably to see for the laat time In life tbe field upon which they were willing to die for the sake of their respective re-spective causes. Tlie veterans will not be directly encamped en-camped In th Gettysburg park, which Is dotted with aionuroents to the various vari-ous commands which took part In th flght and which la laid out in approved park fashion, with fine drive and beautifully kept lawns. There will be two camps, known aa No. 1 and No. 2. No. 1 will cover 149 acres and No. 2 will cover 44 acres. The layouts of these camps ar based on the use of sonlcal tents, each of which will, without with-out crowding, accommodate eight .persons. .per-sons. Inasmuch as accommodations ire to be furnished for 40,000 visitor 5,000 tents will be required to give quarters to th visiting hosts. Visitors , to Bs Cared For. Every possible car Is to be taken it th visitors. The sanitary arrangements arrange-ments which have been made are said to be the beet that are possible and hey are the result of careful study by medical officers of the service. All th. sxperlence of th past has been draws, ipon to make It certain that the Lealth f the veterans will be conserved while hey are in camp. With so many thousands of old sol-Hers sol-Hers In attendance, and taking Into onslderatlon th probability that tbe veatber will be warm, It Is expected hat there will be sickness, but th I Jnlted Statea government and the tate of Pennsylvania ar preparing i or a hospital service which shall b i idequat to any contingency. There i vlll be jospltal corps detachments I iresent ready to render first aid t I ho injured, and there will be many I leld hospitals wit surgeons In at- i ondance, where the sick can receive i natant attendance. It la atd that this contemplated re- nlon has Induced more Interest ( .niong th old soldiers of the north i .nd th south than any event which las happened sine the day that tbe rar closed. There Is today at Oettys-iurg Oettys-iurg a great national park. In which s Included a cemetery where ibou- 1 anda of soldier dead ar burled. Tbe t Jnlted Statea government and the leg- ilature of Pennsylvania worked to- ether to make a park of the battle- t eld and to mark accurately every ' olnt In It which ha historic interest V'hen one goes to the field he can tell 1 list where this brigade or that bri- I ado was engaged, just where this I harge or that charge waa made and ' list where tbe desperate defenses of osltlona were maintained until th c Ids of battle brought either victory or efeat to one of th Immediate com- s lands engaged. t It was In 1895 that congress estab- abed a national park at Gettysburg I nd gave the secretary of war author- :y to name a commission "to superin- und th opening of additional roads, lark the boundaries, ascertain and 1 efinltely mark tbe lines of battle of roopa engaged, to acquire lands which r ere occupied by infantry, cavalry and V rtlllery, and such other adjacent f inda as the secretary of war may a eem necessary to preserve tbe Impor- H tnt topographical feature of the bat- d efleld." I; When tbe Union and th Confeder- P te veteran reach Gettysburg on Jan 1 9 next they will find Ion th seen of " i old conflict between flv snd six 0 undred memorials raised la com mem- ration of the deeds of their com- tands on the great fields of the Penn- tl rlvanla battlefield. There are, more- f rer, 1.000 markers placed to deslg- b ate historic spots. There ar great 11 were built upon tbe field by the gov a mment so that bird's-eye views can h s obtained of tbe entlr seen of the ml. Fin road have been ooa-mcted ooa-mcted and everywhere attention has i ten paid to every detail or the least " aportanc In setting forth the history s r on of the greatest battles v tr sown to warfare. |