WOUNDS HEALED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1, 2 September 1913, Page 4

WOUNDS HEALED.

Writing editorially “Life” says:—lt' is pleasant to record one more instance of the deep wounds of a great war being healed during the lifetime; of the mmi who fought. Fifty years ago the Battle of Gettysburg—which practically decided the great conflict betwixt North and South, that rent the United States—was fought. The battle lasted three days; it was marked by splendid valour on both sides, the crisis being the fight for Century Hill, when Pickett’s stubborn blue lines repulsed the fiery onfall of Lee’s grey regiments. It was the bloodiest and most important battle of the war; and on its fiftieth anniversary the survivors of both armies met, withj all hitter memories cancelled, and a common flag flying above them toi which both are loyal. President Wilson delivered an admirable speech, and he is the first Southern-horn President since the war. When, fifty years ago, night fell on that field, sterewn with the dead and dying, and Lee’s broken army, hitter with the sense of defeat, was falling back, who could have guessed that within half a. century the survivors of both armies would meet as friends on the very scene of the fight, and a son of the beaten South would he the ruler of both North and South!