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Show t VETERANS lEf" H GETTYSBURG FIFTEEN THOUSAND OLD SOLDIERS SOL-DIERS CELEBRATE SEMICENTENNIAL SEMICEN-TENNIAL OF BATTLE. Secretary Garrieon and Governor Tener the Ortore at Opening See-don, See-don, Confederate Veteran Creetlng Speaker With Fa-moui Fa-moui Rebel Yell. Otttaburu la. In .the rltlless clnre of a aim that sent the mercury Luhbline; over the hundred iirk. tha armies of the north and the south on , T'teailny beean the formV etsi-cli'or srt to maik the semicentennial of Gettysburg. Veteran to the number of 15,000, the army offleera estimated, filed Into the bljj tent set apart for the exercises, ant In the hae of beat for two hours and shook the camp with their rheera when the speaker! mnde reference to a reunited nation. Every seat under the canvaa wua taken lonjr before Secretary of War Garrieon and Governor Tener. the or-atora or-atora of the day, arrived. Although the men In ray were far outnumbered outnum-bered by thoae In blue, there wrre possibly 1.000 southernera throujfb the amphitheater and what they lacked n number they made up In lun power. When Governor Tener finished his speech. General Dennett II. Young, commander-in-chief of the United Con-federate Con-federate Veterana rose alowly and bowed to him. "1 ran Rive you something some-thing that no one else can give you." he said. "Wo will now give you the rebel yell." Nine famous confederate generals and 1.000 veterans of the south gave It so loudly that It was heard far back In the camp toward Gettysburg. When General Young stepped for ward to deliver his address he wss greeted with wild enthuftlnsm. the union veterana led by Commander-ln Chief Beera, giving him three luaty cheers and a "tliicr." He took as his keynote the convlo tlon of each side in the great strutul that It fought for a principle, which It believed was the truth. One of hi opening sttaemenU was that the northern soldiers deserved more credit than the southerners for the promulgation and successful reallxa lion of the present great reunion which he characterized aa the greatest great-est movement of Its kind In the world. Among the 200 guesta on the plat form were Governors Mann, Virginia; McCreary, Kentucky, and Eberhart. Minnesota; Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, and the following confederate confeder-ate generals: Robinson. Texas; Went Georgia; Thomas J. Shaffer, Ioula-Una; Ioula-Una; A. D. Williams. Florida; E. M. Lw, Florida, add Carr, North Caro Una The Invocation waa delivered by the Rev. George Edwards IoveJoy, chaplain ln-chlef of the Grand Army of the Republic. |