Wilson Visits Gettysburg Aboasts Big Camp Address
President Woodrow Wilson arrived in Gettysburg at eleven and was greeted with a large ovation. He spoke from the big tent to veterans, urged unity, peace, and enduring national duty, and warned harder tasks lie ahead for the nation.
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Woodrow Wilson
Gettysburg
Maryland
Governor Tener
Carlisle
Baltimore
John C. Groome
Mr. Wilson
staation
Battery D
3d Field Artillery
Wilson
Philadelphia
zimmer
New Hampshire
Battery 10
Union
wen
bines
gray
Eight stabbed at Hotel Gettysburg during quarrel over Lincoln
W B Henry, a Philadelphia attorney claiming kin to a Virginia general, sparked a melee at Hotel Gettysburg while locals and visitors watched eight people hurt. Injured included J B Wineman and Charles Ensor. Henry was arrested by State Constabulary and later bailed. Henry claims innocence and cites self defense after a stabbing at Griffith. The case draws attention in Gettysburg and Virginia gatherings surrounding Major R R Henry and family.
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Abraham Lincoln
W. B. Henry
Philadelphia
R. R. Henry
Taswell
Virginia
Hotel Gettysburg
State Constabulary
Henry
J. B. Wineman
Carlisle street
Charles Ensor
Fairview
Hayden Reinecker
Gettysburg
Edward J. Carroll
H. N. Baker
Alexandria
Lincoln
Baker
Charles S. White
York
county
A. Goldthwaite
Salem
Mass
Malcolm Griffith
Griffith
Seimneh
herors
Squire Hill
Farber
Swope
Mann
Templeton
Williams
Griffin
Major Henry
Tazewell
William Byrd Henry
Camden
N. J
New York
March on Rebl Union Veterans Parade at Seminary Ridge
Union veterans from Pennsylvania and Massachusetts joined Northern camps in a joint march at Seminary Ridge. Confederate Johnnies welcomed the veterans as parades and camp fires of Blue and Gray followed the joint display of symbols and endurance.
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Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Seminary Ridge
Maryland
Virginia
Mississippi
West Virginia
South Carolina
Silver loving cup presented to General West
In front of the Bloody Angle Judge Hilyer of Atlanta presented a silver loving cup to General Andrew J. West of Atlanta with Mrs Lucy Hill MacGill and grandchildren of famed generals watching. West bears a forehead scar from battle as veterans from both armies gave a ovation.
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Hilyer
Atlanta
Andrew J. West
General West
Lucy Hill MacGill
A. P. Hill
Meade
Fickett
Longstreet
Great Tent Exercises Open Governors Day Program
Keynote speeches centered on patriotism and reunification. Governor Cox urged turning the National Soldiers Home at Johnson City Tennessee over to Confederate veterans, drawing loud applause from the audience. Vice President Marshall and others praised American unity and the memory of Civil War-era leaders.
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Ohio
Johnson City
Tenn
Marshall
America
Bob’ Taylor
Speaker Clark
England
Oliver Cromwell
McCreary
Kentucky
Suizer
New York
Mann
Virginia
Baldwin
Connecticut
Hanna
North Dakota
Miller
Delaware
Haines
Maine
Ralston
Indiana
Eberhardt
Minnesota
Senate
Clark
House
Tener
Commonwealth of Virginia
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Pickett
Veteran brings Gettysburg soil home in two suitcases
Jefferson Sefton a Dubuque Iowa veteran traveled from Iowa to Gettysburg to the site of the second day fight and collected enough ground to fill two suitcases. He plans to make a garden box with the soil because it is more precious to him than anything else.
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Gettysburg
calurnn
Jefferson Sefton
Dubuque
Towa
Sefton
Pennsylvania to pay veterans return rail fare
Governor Tener announced that Pennsylvania will cover the return fare for veterans who lost their railroad tickets, regardless of their location in the United States. Rev. Prof. Oscar G. Kunger has accepted a call to serve as pastor of the Lutheran church in Lehighton.
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Tener
Liggett
United States Army
Pennsylvania
United States
Oscar G. Kunger
Lehighton High School
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John H. Leathers
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