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Show VETERANS ARE TO VISIT OLD WARSCENE V M. Bostaph of Ogdcn will be one of a delegation of Utah veterans to attend the fifteenth anniversary celebration of tho Battle of Gettysburg In Pennsylvania. A committee or Grand Army men, appointed at the encampment In Provo last June, in collecting the names of veterans who will go to Gettysburg. The legislature will be asked to make an appropriation for their transportation. transporta-tion. The battle of Gettysburg was fought by the Union army under General George G Mead and tho Confederate forccB under General Robert E Lo? July , 2 and 3, 1SG3 More than fiO,-000 fiO,-000 lives were lost Lending citizens of both north and south have conceived con-ceived the Idea of a great peaco jubilee jubi-lee on the battleground July 1, 2 and 3, 1913. Congress has made an appropriation of ?o,000 Tor preparing the ground for the thousands who will attend. A commission of six distinguished men to hnve charge of the affair, hns been reinforced by a like committee for the Grand Army of the Republic and from the societies of the Confederate soldiers, and also by a member from each state, appointed by the governors. gover-nors. A detail of engineers has made a survey of the ground, laid it oh Into streets and avenues, crentod a water system for the camp and necessary sanitary adjuncts for the gathering of 50.000 men Tents will be provided for the wailing soldiers of both sides, free of cost. There thoy will eat and sleep. |