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The 1938 Gettysburg reunion was an encampment of American Civil War veterans on the Gettysburg Battlefield for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The gathering included approximately 25 veterans of the battle [ 3 ] : 72 with a further 1,359 Federal and 486 Confederate attendees [ 4 ] out of the 8,000 living veterans of the war. [ 5 ]
The Eternal Light Peace Memorial is a 1938 Gettysburg Battlefield monument dedicated on July 3, 1938, commemorating the 1913 Gettysburg reunion for the 50th anniversary of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1913.
The 1913 Gettysburg reunion was a Gettysburg Battlefield encampment of American Civil War veterans for the Battle of Gettysburg's 50th anniversary. The June 29 – July 4 gathering of 53,407 veterans (about 8,750 Confederate) [ 1 ] was the largest Civil War veteran reunion. [ 2 ]
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Old veterans clasping hands across the Angle at the 1913 Gettysburg reunion.. The Angle [2] (Bloody Angle colloq.) is a Gettysburg Battlefield area which includes the 1863 Copse of Trees used as the target landmark for Pickett's Charge, the 1892 monument that marks the high-water mark of the Confederacy, a rock wall, [3] and several other Battle of Gettysburg monuments.
At the southern coast, the Alabama ports remained open (with Union blockades, but guarded by forts, floating mines, and obstacle paths) for almost 4 years using blockade runners, until the Battle of Mobile Bay (Aug 1864) and the Battle of Fort Blakeley (April 1865) forced Mobile to surrender the last major Confederate port.
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Pennsylvania.
Attorney David McConaughy, a Captain of the "Adams Rifles", [2] organized the first veteran's reunion at Gettysburg, [3]: 105 and distinguished visitors were hosted at the new Springs Hotel which opened June 28. 1872 The G. A. R. reunion for the Pennsylvania division "in the grove adjacent to the Springs Hotel" [4] had only ~200 attendees. [5] 1878