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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1913
Page
1
A fifty year Gettysburg reunion features blue and gray veterans bowing to shared history. Women from town sing Rally Round the Flag as veterans weep. Mrs Longstreet praises General Sickles in a formal reading.
The Gettysburg reunion gathered veterans from the 1860s era who shared surprising stories. J D Munsee of Erie, captured at Peachtree Creek, escaped under a fallen guard during a battle. The meal contrasts between 1863 and 1913 contrasted hardtack and beans with varied fare. Chief Clerk George G Thorne recounted a Union veteran confessing to onion theft on the dawn of the fiftieth anniversary.
A. T Dice, vice-president of the Reading railway, recalls two veterans, one in gray and one in blue, who visited Gettysburg. They tour the battlefield monuments and hotels, then part ways, the blue veteran returning to Oregon and the gray to New England.
In a wartime camp a striking coincidence occurred when two men named John Carson from Burlington towns in New Jersey and North Carolina met by chance. The New Jersey Carson, a Union veteran of Gettysburg, greeted the Confederate Carson, and only after several minutes of conversation did they realize they shared both names and hometowns.
Fragmentary text references Francis Scott Key and The Star Spangled Banner indicating a focus on the author of the national anthem and his grandson. No clear event date or location is provided in the readable portion.
James H. Lansberry of St. Louis recounts his capture by Confederates at Gettysburg fifty years earlier. He aided carrying a wounded officer to the seminary, endured days as a prisoner, fled after a 50 mile barefoot trek, and returned to Gettysburg to help shelter the wounded in churches and other buildings.
Unadvertised celebration reunions unfolded in the Confederate camp section as a blue uniform fife and drum corps paraded the streets. They played rousing fanfares before tents, prompting warm handshakes and friendly embraces among occupants. The musical procession lasted hours and drew many visitors to the red tents.
The 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg featured President Woodrow Wilson addressing thousands of veterans and visitors in Gettysburg Pennsylvania. He framed peace and union as the nation's ongoing mission, praising sacrifice and urging continued national unity and effort toward a stronger, more just republic.
Washington reports a dramatic House and Senate lobby committee session featuring David Lamar alias. He alleged forged Union Pacific books worth 82 million dollars in 1901 and implicated Kuhn Loeb & Co Harriman and others while accusing lawmakers of influence via Edward Lauterbach.
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