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The Acts just passed by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, regarding the great Gettysburg Reunion celebration at Gettysburg, Penna., July 1-4, next, were immediately approved by Gov. Tener and the one appropriating $165,000.00 for the Pa. Commission to provide free transportation to Gettysburg and return makes the following five classes of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of the Civil War eligible to such transportation, provided the war record of each applicant is first proven to be correct by the Pa. Commission: Class A—All honorably discharged soldiers who enlisted from this Commonwealth and served in a Pa. Regt. or any unit of Pa. Vols., of any period during the Civil War, including commands of the Pa. Vol. Mil. (Emergency Regiments) and independent companies, batteries and troops, who are now living in Pa. as citizens of this Commonwealth. Class B—Any of the above who are now living in other states, but Pa. provides these free transportation to Gettysburg, and return only from the railroad station on the border of Pa. which is nearest to their present residence, also, Class C. To any soldier either Union or Confederate, born upon the rolls of any other state as a Civil War Veteran, but now living within Pa., as a citizen of this commonwealth, such transportation may be issued: likewise Class D, to U.S. Regulars, Soldiers of the Civil War now living within Pa. as citizens of this commonwealth; and in addition: Class E, To U.S. Sailors and Marines, Veterans of the Civil War, now living in Pa. as citizens of the commonwealth. All applications therefor must be made, and before June 1st, and the earlier the better to the Pa. Gettysburg Commission, at the Capitol, Harrisburg, Pa. and upon application blanks now procurable from said commission, wherein must be stated explicitly the War record, etc., of each applicant, who must, in applying for such application blank, state what class he comes under. © Copyright 2008 by Mifflinburg Telegraph Weekly Newspaper Top of Page |
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