It was the largest gathering of Union and Confederate veterans ever held − 53,000 old comrades and former foes reunited on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg − and front-page news ...
On Memorial Day 1884, 19 years after the end of the Civil War, future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. reminisced about the conflict. Wounded in battle three times, haunted for the ...
Do you know who Gen. Robert Edward Lee, Major Gen. George Edward Pickett and Major Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain were? Are children still taught about these men and all those who met on the famous ...
The Preserve Talbot History coalition has been conducting research into our county’s Civil War history and that of the Talbot Boys monument. To further understand both Talbot’s and our monument’s ...
Union and Confederate veterans shake hands at a reunion to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division) In advocating that ...
Local resident Cindy Robinson submitted these photos of a souvenir of the 1913 reunion of Civil War veterans in Gettysburg, Pa. The item was brought back from the reunion by one of her husband s ...
El Dorado Hills, Ca.: Savas Beatie, 2023. Pp. xii,196. Illus., append., notes, biblio., index. $32.95. ISBN:1611216842 The 50 th Anniversary Gettysburg Veterans ...
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