. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . t of dem had to takewater. Matthews, of the Eighty-second, is now one of the Yan-kees, residing at New Haven,Connecticut. He was accom-panied by his son, and waswarmly greeted by his old jas. fullerton, comrades. corporai co. h. James Tate, the celebrated detective of Philadelphia,served with honor in the Twenty-third Pennsylvania Volun-teers. He was on the trip, and took good care that none of thecrooked people were on the train to work the pilgrims. John Hende
. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . t of dem had to takewater. Matthews, of the Eighty-second, is now one of the Yan-kees, residing at New Haven,Connecticut. He was accom-panied by his son, and waswarmly greeted by his old jas. fullerton, comrades. corporai co. h. James Tate, the celebrated detective of Philadelphia,served with honor in the Twenty-third Pennsylvania Volun-teers. He was on the trip, and took good care that none of thecrooked people were on the train to work the pilgrims. John Henderson, Geo. Boyer and William Bartley, withthe stalwart policeman of the town, were a good team in chargeof the door at the Ball. While the hotels, with the numerous boarding-houses atGettysburg, manage to provide quarters for all who visit thebattlefield, would it not pay for the Pennsylvania Railroad orsome other enterprising company to erect a first-class hotel,for the accommodation of four or five hundred guests. Whynot the cidzens of the old town size up to the occasion. Thereport shows the visitations are larger each 372 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT REVIEW OF THE REUNION. BY GENERAL ALEX. SHALER. It is difficult to convey to the mind of an absent comrade thedegree of enjoyment experienced by those who attended this memor-able meeting ; much more difficult is it to describe the scenes in suchterms as will enable one who has not had campaign and battlefieldexperience to appreciate the cordiality with which old soldiers greeteach other after years of separation. Army life, in war times, is oneof almost constant privations, and of frequent sufferings. The greatmass of the men composing an army are on an equality. Their com-forts and discomforts are the same. Their pleasures and their painsare the same, and the longer they serve together, the more theybecome like brothers to each other. When the war is over, and theorganization is disbanded, the men return to the
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