Pennsylvania at Gettysburg : ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Major General George G Meade, Major General Winfield S Hancock, Major General John F Reynolds and to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle . union. It will also, asa special feature, reproduce in their order the letters written fiftyyears ago from the field of battle by its former editor, Mr. WhitelawReid, then serving as a correspondent for The Cincinnati Gazette andusing the worn de plume Agate. These letters will revive in a strik-ing mann
Pennsylvania at Gettysburg : ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Major General George G Meade, Major General Winfield S Hancock, Major General John F Reynolds and to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle . union. It will also, asa special feature, reproduce in their order the letters written fiftyyears ago from the field of battle by its former editor, Mr. WhitelawReid, then serving as a correspondent for The Cincinnati Gazette andusing the worn de plume Agate. These letters will revive in a strik-ing manner the immediate contemporary view of the great battle andemphasize the contrast between those bloody days and the fraternity,harmony and good-fellowship which now rule there after fifty years. MARYLAND. The Baltimore American. June 30th, 1913. GETTYSBURG—A PEACE MEET. Never before in world history has there been anything like the an-niversary celebration which is being held this week on the field ofthe great battle, or series of battles, which marked the climax In thewar waged for the dissolution of the Union. Fifty years after thesanguinary event the veterans of the two contending armies meet atGettysburg, go into camp slopes where the three-day battle ^ ,His i- . -mf. IVMM l: Si, Kii- Uh mmn,. 111 Ills ,rAliTt:lis Wmmm mi lli-i. l!..i,i ii r In Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 193 raged and review the scene of the awful struggle with sentiments ofmutual regard. The human-interest phase of the Gettysburg Reuniondominates all else. It is a peace gathering of fighting men. General Daniel E. Sickles, now ninety-three years old, the only Sur-viving general who commanded an army corps at Gettysburg, and wholost a leg there, expressed the sentiment of the rank and file of theUnion veterans the other day when he remarked There will be a lotof Johnny Rebs at the anniversary and I want to shake the hand ofevery one of them. Swapping stories of the three-day ba
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