WOMAN SURVIVOR OF BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
That woman played a prominent part in the greatest battle of the
Civil war that was fought just fifty years ago. is apt to be forgotten until
a mute reminder such as is seen in the photograph is brought to our at
tention. Fifty years back is a long time to remember, yet here one of those
who fought under the stars and bars, five decades ago, is greeting one
of the women nurses and one of the few remaining ones whose husband
was the comrade in arms of the grizzled old veteran.
SIDELIGHTS OF GETTYSBURG
The great reunion of the blue and
the gray on the battlefield of Gettys
burg has passed Into history. It was
In all respects the most unique gath
ering of the soldiers of the 60's ever
held. Men who fought each other
fifty years ago this year fraternized
as long-separated brothers. Naturally
such a gathering would be productive
of many incidents, both pathetic and
humorous. As many stories were
floating about as there were veterans
at the reunion.
The camp is full of unexpected
meetings. Every day brings forth nu
merous meetings between men who
have not seen one another for many
years. Many are commonplace, but
some are extraordinary. For in
stance, here is one:
I. D. Munsee of Erie county. Penn
sylvania. a soldier in the IX 1th Penn
sylvania, was captured by the con
federates at Peachtree Creek, Ga..
when he was one of Sherman’s army
on the celebrated march to the sea.
He was being conveyed to the rear
by a confederate soldier when the
union batteries opened fire upon the
party among whom he was a pris
oner. The man who was guarding
Munsee was hit and fell, knocking
Munsee down and lying on top of
him.
Seeing Ms chance of escape, Mnn
see lay very still under the uncon
scious confederate while Xhe battle
raged around them. That night he
slipped from under the body and es
caped to the union lines.
”1 thought that fellow was dead,"
said Munsee, "but I saw him today.
Poor fellow, hts mind’s bad, and he
didn’t recognise mo. tut I was sure of
him. I couldn’t eren get bis name, but
I'm goin over later to the Georgia
camp aDd try to find out who he is.”
Here ia a story which was told by
A. T. Dice, vice-president of the Read
ing railway:
Once irpon a time there were a vet
eran in gray and a veteran 1n blue.
They came to Gettysburg and in the
course of events and visits to hotels
they happened to meet. They looked
over the sights of Gettysburg and the
monuments of the field. But they
found they must part.
The one In blue lived in Oregon:
the one In gray in New Orleans. They
went weeping together to their sta
tion and passed by train after train,
deferring the parting that must come.
Just what they said, just how they
reached the final grand idea of the
meeting. Mr. Dice did not know.
But, however, yesterday they finally
decided that the time for parting had
come. The one from Oregon could
not figure how to reach home via New'
Orleans and his gray comrade, while
willing to see the west, didn’t have
the money for a ticket.
They lined upon on the platform as
their trains stood waiting and then
before the crowd, they slowly stripped
ofT their uniforms and exchanged
them there while the curious flocked
to see them.
The Oregonian who came proudly to
town with a coat of blue, w^ent as
proudly away with one of gray and
the veteran from Louisiana who boast
ed the gray of the south sat with
swelling chest in his new uniform of
blue.
' Wearing a tattered uniform of
gray, Alexander Hunt of Virginia was
the central point of interest on the
streets of the town. Mr. Hunter was
wearing the Identical suit and hat
which he wore at Gettysburg fifty
years ago.
The suit was in rags and has a bullet
hole throiigh one of the sleeves. He
carried all his accoutrements used at
Gettysburg and wore a union belt
taken from a foe here. Mr. Hunter
was a member of the Black Horse cav
alry.
A striking contrast is seen in the j
menu provided for the soldiers fifty
, years ago and what they enjoyed this
year: * •
1863—Breakfast—Hardtack, bacon,
beans and coffee.
Dinner—Bacon, beans, hardtack and
coffee.
Supper—Beans, hardtack, bacon ,
and coffee.
1913—Breakfast—Puffed rice, fried :
eggs, fried bacon, cream potatoes. 1
fresh bread, hard bread, butter and
coffee.
Dinner—Fricassee chicken, peas,
corn, ice cream, cake, cigars, fresh I
bread, hard bread, butter, coffee, iced
tea. 1 !
Supper — Salmon salad, macaroni ;
and cheese, fresh bread, butter and
coffee.
Chief Clerk George G. Thorne of
the state department at Harrisburg
told of the call made by a Union vet
eran early on the morning of the fif
tieth anniversary- of the start of the
battle, who related that his conscience ,
troubled him because of the fact that I
on that fateful morning many years
ago he had succumbed to temptation
and stolen a quantity of onions from j
the Thorne garden, which was located j
near the historic Seminary ridge. He ■
told Thorne that he desired, at this !
late day to pay for the onions and !
thus relieve his conscience.
Needless to say, his offer of money
was refused, but the Thornes would
like to learn the identity of the sol
diers who upset eight beehives in the |
dead cf night and appropriated all the
honey they contained.
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A remarkable coincidence of the
camp was the meeting of two men of
exactly the same name, coming from
towns of tho same name, but in differ
ent state*. One fought on the union |
side in the battle of Gettysburg, and j
the other with the confederates.
These two tnen are John Carson of
Burlington. N. J., and John Carson of I
Burlington, X. C.
They met by the merest chance.
The Jersey Carson was walking along
one of the streets, and saw a man in ;
gray. Just to be friendly, the Jersey i
man stopped him and gave him a 1
greeting. It was not until they had
talked for several minutes that they
discovered their names were identical, j
as well aa the names of their towns.
A grandson of Francis Scott Key.
composer1 of "The Star-Spangled Ban
ner,” Is here. He is John Francis Key.
age* eighty-two, of Pikeville. Md.. and
he is a veteran of the Second Mary
land infantry of the confederate army.
Wearing a suit of gray. Key came j
into town, weak and almost dropping.
He has been in failing health, but de
clared he was “going to see Gettys
burg on this occasion or die.”
—
One of the oldest veterans in the ■
big camp is Captain W. H. Fleig of
Houston. Texas, who was ninety years
of age on his last birthday, February '
23. During the war he served with 1
distinction in the marine department !
of the confederate navy. Captain
Fleig is one of the best preserved
men in camp and is more active than
many of the other veterans a score of
years less advanced.
Gen. "Tom” Stewart of Pennsylva
nia is telling an amusing story of a
“runaway vet” he came across in the
big camp. The veteran is eighty-five
years old. and his son at home an
nounced that under no circumstances
should his aged parent go to Gettys
burg. The desire to be here and meet j
his termer comrades was so strong in
the heart of the old gentleman that he
climbed out of a window of his home
:-.nd ran away, turning up here In good
shape. He is now happy and well
cared tor.
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Fifty years to the hoar fro» the
time when the first shot preceding the
battle was fired a reunion meeting of
the blue and the gray was held in the
big tent- Tbe gray cavalry men who
fought the skirmishes that led up to
the threa days’ fight pledged them
selves in the shadows of the stars and
stripes to ' forget" and their brother,
in blue swore by the stars and bars
that the fight was over for all time.
There were several-women from tta^
village in the tent and six one-time
schoolgirls, gray-haired and aged now.
sang "Rally ’Round the Flag, Boys,"
w hile the veterans wept like boys, but
with pride. The six women who sang
the battle song were amoug those who
thronged the streets of Gettysburg
after the advance guard of the south
ern army left it 50 years ago. On the
night when Buford’s men came rid
ing into the village on the heals of
Wheeler's men in gray, maidens strew
ed flowers along the streets and bells
in the churches pealed out the news of
the coming of the blue and the town
went wild.
Of all the scores of girls who wel
comed the vanguard of Meade, only a
half dozen could be found, and they
stood, white-haired with tears in their
eyes on a platform in the big tent and
sang to the weeping soldiers in the
seats below.
"I'm afraid we* can’t sing like we
sang 50 years ago." said the ma
tronly woman who acted as leader as
she led the way up the steps to the
platform.
"We don't care; just sing again,”
shouted the veterans. As the first
notes of the war-time melody came
from them in quavering tones, the vet
erans both of the north and of the
;ou'h sat quiet with eyes fixed upon
the singers. The hum of the chorus
came from every side, and the old men
wt.pl openly.
Aside- from the old roldiers them
selves, an interesting figure is Mrs.
Longstreet, widow of the commander
at the from of the Confederate lines
in the third day's battle. Mrs. Long
street walked a mile through the
broiling sun out to the old Rogers
house to interview General Sickles.
Some time ago Mrs. Longstreet sent
a long telegram as representing the
southern veterans in protest against
the old Union veteran being thrown in
jail in New York because of some
financial affairs. It was said that
Sickles misunderstood the spirit and
his pride was so hurt that their meet
ing today would not be cordial.
• General, I have written an article
about yon for publication,” said Mrs.
Ixmgstreet at the meeting, and she
read several pages of the highest trib
ute to the old corps leader, whom she
characterized as having come hack
and beitag once again in the saddle.
Half a hundred old Sickles' men gath
ered on the lawn and the reading be
came dramatic. General Sickles lean
ed back in his big chair, closed his
eyes, and looked back to meeting with
Longstreet.
Here his widow was praising to the
world the valor which she claimed had
gone unrecognized by the government.
Tears flowed down the Sickles cheeks
now tanned by his ninety-third sum
mer. and his old followers doffed their
hats and mingled their tears with
those of their old leader, wetting the
ground upon which long ago had been
soaked by their blood.
James H. Lansberry of St. Louis,
Mo., who enlisted in the Third Indiana
cavalry from Madison, Ind., recited to
his comrades the details of his cap
ture in the town of Gettysburg by
Confederates 50 years ago. Following
the skirmish just outside of town
which marked the opening of what
was to be a world-famed engagement
he had been detailed to assist in car
rying a wounded officer to the old
seminary in Gettysburg. While In
town frantic women flocked about him
and begged that he tell of the battle.
He remained to tell the story, with the
result that he had to spend several
days In following the Confederate
army as a prisoner. After tramping
50 miles over rough country without
shoes he succeeded in escaping and
finally made his way back to Gettys
burg, where he remained till August
in assisting in the care of the wound
ed. which were housed in the semln
nary, churches, barns and public build
ings
One of the unadvertised reunions of
the celebration occured in the con
federate section of the camp. A fife
and drum corps of men in blue tramp
ed up and down the streets of the con
federate part of the city of tents.
They stopped before the tents, play
ed such a fanfare as only drums and
fifes can make, summoned forth the
occupants and shook hands, threw
their aim* about the gray shoulders
and in a dozen other ways showed
their feelings of friendship.
They kept it up for hours and vis
ited practically every “reb” tent
Their reception was as warm as their
greeting.
One of the most interesting places
in camp was the lost and found bu
reau. located under the benches in the
big tent. Everything found on the
grounds was brought there and thou
sands applied every day for missing
articles.
There were at least 100 crutches
piled up in the bureau, dozen or so ap
plicants having called for them. Those
who come to redeem their lost
crutches seldom can recognize them
and most of them go away with some
body else’s.
There was one wooden leg also ly
ing unclaimed. It was brought in by.
a Boy Scout, who had found it under
a tree.
Several sets of false teeth were
found.
I
One of the big events was the
“charge” of the survivors of Picketts'
division on the “bloody angle.”
Under the hot sun the men in gray
inarched across the fldld that had not
seen anything more warlike than a
tlacksnake in 50 years, up to the walls
that form the angle. The "enemy” in
blue was waiting with weapons ready,
and when they met across the wail
they shook hands. Afterward they
looked over the ground for the site of
a $250,000 monument they hope to
have congress erect there.
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More than once I have heard a tired
boy exclaim: "Gee whiz! I didn't
think that it was that much work to
sharpen an ax.”.
Few city boys know the names of
the common trees at sight, much less
are they able to distinguish between
pine, spruce and hemlock boards. Un
less they see the fruit on the trees ■
HKN a boy has spent a sea
son at a good summer camp
it leaves an impression on
his mind that time will not
eradicate. At the close of
the season he has had the fun that
he wanted to hq,ve. he has taken his
part in the games and contests, he has
climbed mountains and sailed on lakes
and Streams, he has cruised with the
fellows and shared their pleasures and
hardships, and he has returned home
filled with the memories of gorgeous
feasts, of midnight pranks, of adven
tures on sea and on land, of encoun
ters with friend and with foe, and of
moments when the success or failure
of a battle depended solely on his
strength, his skill and his valor.
The influence left on a child’s char
acter by a summer thus spent cannot
but be important. In the first place
the child is away from his parents,
away from those to whom he is accus
tomed to go for sympathy and advice.
He is placed on his own resources in
a manner quite new and strange.
A camp is not at all like a boarding
school, where there arc regular duties
and a fixed routine for each activity of
the day. The summer camp means
fun, freedom, frolic and a chance to do
nothing if one wishes. The bearding
school means order, discipline, re
straint and hard work at all times.
Therefore, when a boy finds himself at
a camp for the first time in his life he
is often at a loss to know what to do,
because he Is often left to his own
choice.
lie has many new problems which
must be thought out alone. He has
come to camp to have a barrel of fun,
and he means to have It. His first im
pulse is to make friends with every
body, atid ^especially with the coun
sellors. It is quite right that he should
do this. And it is the especial duty of
the counsellors to have a watchful eye
out for the new boys, to see that they
do not get homesick or tire of the
camp because of inactivity.
Ten weks of camp life cannot but
have its effect on the character of lads
who arp just beginning to feel the first
impulses to do things that they have
read about in books. There are no
boys so bad that there is not some
good in them, and there are no boys
in camp so good that there is no bad
in them, and some -of it is pretty sure
to crop out before summer is over In
many boys this ..adness has been lurk
ing for years. It lias not shown itself
because of lack of opportunity.' The
boys’ camp is one of the places where
the inherent badness in a lad has an
opportunity to unbottle itself without
serious injury to the boy.
But camp life is of such a nature
that these unbottlings are not of fre>
quent occurrence. Before a bad habit
ha3 been fixed on the boy he is
brought to a halt and having been
shown that he has been doing wrong
he learns a valuable lesson.
The average summer camp Is not a
Sunday school. It is not intended for
such. On the other hand the directors
of these camps are for the most part
Christian gentlemen, having high
ideals. A proper respect for the Sab
bath day is required not only for the
good of the boys, but also out oj re- j
spect for the felings of the people who
live in the neighborhood. Where pos
sible the children are invited to go to
church, after which they take walks,
go in bathing, read, tell stories, etc.
Usually a song servioe of a more or
less religious nature Is held in the
evening. Often one of the directors
delivers an address in the main hall
of the camp.
Some of the influences that are
brought forcibly to bear upon the
youths are those which put a premium
on honor, truth, patience, generosity,
forgiveness, usefulness, politeness,
sturdiness, pluck and the like. A
camper who is lacking in any of these
qualities is soon made to feel the
need of them, greatly to his benefit
It does a boy a world of good to mix
with a lot oj other boys of his own
age, observing, as he usually will,
their good traits and bad traits.
j ne eaucauonai advantages 01 camp
life are only less important than are
the moral advantages. For the most
part the school books are closed, but
nature iB wide open. Book knowledge
is of great value, but practical knowl
edge is often of more value.
In camp boys often get their first
practical knowledge of money values.
Here first they manage their own al
lowances and learn what it is to go
broke till the next allowance is dis
tributed. They aften compete with
the native boys of the village in their
efforts to earn small sums of money
to tide them over or to enable them
to buy coveted treasures. This is a
very good experience for any boy.
I have noticed, that during the sec
ond year at camp a boy takes better
care of his things than he does daring
the first year. This may be due to
the fact that near the end of the first
season his clothes; especially his
trousers, were in bad condition, due
to carelessness, and as no new ones
were forthcoming, the lad became
more or less self-conscious about his
appearance, greatly to the delight of
his companions. Sometimes a boy’s
shoes go wrong, and the parent, know
ing where the fault Is, makes him get
on the best he can till he reaches
home.
At camp children learn from neces
sity to mend, sew on buttons, sharpen
tools, and best of all they learn how
important it is to keep tools sharp by
practice in turning the grindstone.
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j they do not know the difference be !
| tween a pear and an apple tree. In ;
I moat camps boys learn to make these j
! distinctions.
In camp boys and girl learn to wash
dishes, to be economical with food and
to like food that they would not
previously eat at home. I have known
camp life to change a boy’s appetite
completely, so that on going home he
was glad to eat such wholesome foods
: as boiled rice and Indian meal mush,
I which he would not touch before.
Camping life will not make a child
expert at any particular trade or oc
cupation, but it serves to show'him
how much skill is required in doing
much of the work usually performed
by the laboring classes. Whenever a
boy tries to perform any manual la
bor his respect for It increases. He
has a try at rowring, swimming, sail
ing, fishing, running an engine, re
pairing a boat and sometimes in build
ing 6mall boats. He learns the use of
tools common to country people, who
are more independent of plumbers,
carpenters, masons, etc., than city
people are.
Perhaps one of tne most important
lessons for a child to learn is respect
for labor. When a boy has hoed a
few hills of horn he instinctively re
marks that he would hate to keep
that up all day. If he follows the hay
cart for an hour he realizes that “rak
j ing after" is not all sport. When he
takes a shovel and attempts to assist
1 in digging a trench or drain he sud
denly realizes why those laborers
whom he has seen in the city at the
same kind of work seemed to take
their time about it. After five min
utes of that work he learns just where
his backbone is located.
There are many other educational
advantages which are incidental to
camp life, such as practice in singing,
speech making, editorial work on the
camp paper, literary entertainments,
etc. The camp paper though, seldom
more than a simple manuscript, is
often a very ingenious production, in
which the editor, together with the
] camp artist, succeeds in bringing
home to the lads some wonderful bits
of news as well as some healthful
truths. ,
The social advantages of camp life
are^many and varied. The close rela
tion in which boys live at camp in
variably results in the formation of
permanent friendships.
HAVE NO POWER OF FLIGHT;
“Flying Fishes,” So-Called. Said to 3e !
Only Capable of Maintaining Them
selves in the Air.
This much-debated question ia dis
cussed by William Allingham in the
English Nautical Magazine. The or
thodox scientific opinion is that the
“wings'' of the flying fish merely serve
as a parachute, to sustain the fish for
a brief period in the air, after hd has
launched himself out of the water by
a powerful /'screw-like movement of
his tail. According to this view, the
flsh has no power of directing his
flight after he has left the water.
However, Mr. Allingham, who is a
nautical expert attached to the Brit
ish meteorological office, and is in con
stant intercourse with seamen, reports
many observations that tend to con
trovert this opinion. Certain observ
ers claim that the wing-fins are in con
stant rapid vibration, and seem actu
ally to serve the purpose of flight.
One vessel master watched a flsh
that had attained an altitude of 20
feet above, the water and was flying
toward the mizzen rigging of hie ship,
when, apparently noticing the ob
struction, it changed its course about
60 degrees, crossing the vessel’s stern
to regain the water. Many other sim
ilar observations are mentioned. A
series of cinematograph pictures
might solve this question once for all.
Minnesota’s new prison at Stillwater
will cost $2,000,000. It is a "daylight”
prison.
A Tower of Gold. *
According to a law promulgated in
Germany in 1871, the $30,000,000 which
France paid in indemnity to the Prus
sians the previous year was guarded
in the ’‘Tower of July” at Spandau,
the famous fortress situated eight
miles from Berlin. Besides this
amount of money, definitely set aside,
is a quantity of gold in reserve for
commercial panics.
In order to safeguard such a massive
store great precautions have been
taken for the last 42 years. The
money Is kept on two floors of the
fortress and is packed in 1,200 oaken
chests. Each chest contains $25,000
in gold. The inviolability of these
chambers , is secured in the following
manner: They have triple doors with
various locks whose keys are held
by certain officials of the ministry or
war, and these keys each open only
one door, so that no one official is
ever able to enter alone.
The clamps of the chests are sealed
and stamped in such a way that it is
not possible for them to be tampered
without danger of almost instant
discovery. Moreover, the weight of
each sack and chest is registered.—
Harper's Weekly.
Search That Never Ends.
Ignorance may find a,truth on its
doorstep that erudition vdinly seeks in
the stars.
Never Even Tepid.
“Have you hot water in your
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WESTERN CANADA
ARE THE MOST PROMISING FOR
MANY YEARS.
The deepest interest is attached to
the conditiou of the grain crops in
Western Canada, especially among
the thousands in the United States
who are financially interested in lands
in that country. This interest is fully
as great among those who have
friends there following farming and
the growing of grain.
The reports from Canadian govern
ment officials convey the Information
that the area under crop this year in
the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatche
wan and Alberta will probably be no
greater than that of last year. Last
fall the weather was such that there
was not as much fall plowing as had
been hoped for. The getting ready of
land this spring made a considerable
portion of the grain late in seeding.
Notwithstanding this, wheat, oats,
barley and flax were got in in good
shape, although from a week to ten
days later than last year. On the
27th of June the reports regarding
crop conditions generally in Western
Canada were: “Abundant sunshine
with timely and copious rain through
out Western Canada gives every as
surance of generous harvest. Climatic
conditions in recent weeks have been
absolutely ideal. Western correspon
dents agree in predicting every indi
cation of a bumper crop under favor
able' conditions. Wheat should be
headed out in Manitoba between July
10th and 12th, and in Saskatchewan
and Alberta from loth to 17th. The
oat crop is looking well, although late
and rather short in straw.”
This is followed by a report July
5th: “Crop conditions continue in
same satisfactory condition as last
week. Plenteous rains have fallen all
over prairie provinces, followed by
general warm and splendid growing
weather. Experts agree sufficient
moisture for many weeks, while crop
is ten to fifteen days late, prospects
are extremely favorable and condi
tional upon reasonable weather for
next four weeks. Splendid western
crop is assured."
There is, therefore, the best reason
to anticipate most magnificent crops
throughout Western Canada in 1913.—
Advertisemert.
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JOHN L.THOMPSON SUN.S CO-,Troy.N.S.
