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VOLJME 14.MANY MANSAT. General Robertson .Makes a Speech at Ceremonies Before General ; .Wells* Monument. . . .-■.t Gettysburg, Pa., July 3—The .120!i ./Texans wlio are participating in tbe:‘ •! ■ Gettysburg semi-centennial flocked to-’i ^•..tiay to. the unveiling of a luoviuniant. t to'General Weils of Vermont to hear if address in behalf of Pickett's men . hy General Felix H. . Robertson of //Crawford. who Ih the Texas member ji ; iif the Gctiylmrg semi-centennial -com* \ r! iihiBsion. /•’. •• \ V -^'Gwieial Robertson delivered a / speech full of good humor, rind he made : .t4ie boys iu blue cheer and roar with , ' laugh tor.\;- :IIe took occasion to eulogize Jeff *•: payis/’ He called the president of the Confederacy a great and good man., . I know yon Yrnil-.poG don't he !{ilicvo thiit but it's so. said be afterj0 laughing heartily. Trembly old Union!11 BUldiera indicated Llmt they fully. agreed wLLh Texas; • |nGeneral Felix II. Robertson is a rem-1 e;I•live of the into Ceuernl Jerome E. Rob-.(liertson or Austin, who commanded Uio!ri11-First. Fourth and Fifth Texas and 111 'Third Arknusas rogliiionts of Infantry, ■11 which were or I bo right flunk of Lee's • army in the engagements heie fifty | years ago today. \1Ly’This brigade played havoc with vv Xorlhem cavalry near Round Top iylillo Pickett’s men were being mown •flmvn by canister and sharpncli at,15 ■Bloody Angle. . j p;Judgo C. Cummings of Fort Worth.!01 formerly of Tdb-.rdrr.ippi, who wns of ^Piukctl's brigade and who lost his left ;31 nrni while he charged Webb's division ’lsc [with his brothers in gray, will speak j,V[ tomorrow in one of the Northern, Stcamps, ,There Imp been no serious illness.*1* -nmnnr fhp Ti»vnn« !1U!
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Daily Advocate
Victoria, Texas, US
Sat, Jul 05, 1913
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