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Show HEAT DRIVES VETSJOME About Ten Thousand Old Soldiers Unable to Stand Discomforts of Gettysburg Camp Take Their Departure Hundreds of the Old Men Without Bedding or Shelter Gettysburg, Pa.. July 2 The tide of invasion turned back from Gettys burg today and the armies of tho Blue and Gray began to melt awav under un-der the compelling Influence of a torrid tor-rid sun and the discomforts of camp life. General Hunter Liggltt. U o. A., in command of the camp, estimated that more than 6,000 veterans have gone and expressed the opinion that 10,000 might depart before midnight Most of them have looked over the battlefield, shaken hands with com rade6 they knew in other regiments, got another glimpse of the.r friends the "rebels, and left for horns The regular army men were not sorry" to see the thousands go, for the camp was crowded beyond capacity and hundreds of old me-, were being quartered quar-tered in tents that were made for circuses cir-cuses but not for sleeping purposes Scores slept on tho ground and xl though the cooks made strenuous oj forts, the mess tableB did not ROM with food There were no other reasons for army rejoicing today, for all indii a tlon6 pointed to another unusualh ho. day. The sun was not over the hills an hour until the mercury was around i the 90 mark and promised to soar much higher. The veterans have stood the heat in wonderful fashion, but any time there Is a protracts! spell scores of real prostrations mav result This was "military daV in the br. tent with Col Andrew Cowan of Lou I Isvllle presiding Major General John R Brooke of Pennsylvania was the northern orator of th day and Sergeant John C. Scarborough of North Carolina the "siher tonguM ' defender of the eouth. To Barry Buckley of Washington. D C. was glv en the honor of reading Lincoln's Gettysburg Get-tysburg address. One of the unadvertlsed reunions occurred In the federal section of the camp a fife and drum corps In blue tramped up and down the streets of the confederate part of the cit: of tents They stopped before the tent, HlAr,t 8UCh a fanfarc aB onl' drums and fifes can make, summoned forth the occupants and shook hands, threw j lrHriarmBJab0ul the ra' moulders md in a dozen other ways showed LVnt ,,feel,n,g8 wof friendship. They Sftw UP fr. bour8 aD(1 v'ltd Pra:-lm Pra:-lm orVery rebr tonr Their re-option re-option was as warm as their greet oo |