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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 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 ]
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.
In "The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913," John L. Hopkins retrieves this remarkable event. Wooster author recounts Gettysburg reunion of 1913 in new book Skip to main ...
Many of these men made up the 21,000 who arrived at the 1913 Gettysburg reunion at Great Camp on June 29, instead of the 6,000 expected for the 1st day. [38]: 52 1913-07-02 Six American Civil War veterans at the Great Camp of the 1913 Gettysburg reunion died since June 29, due to effects of heat and age. [39] 1913-07-07
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.
Emmor Cope (1834-1927) was an American Civil War officer of the Union Army noted for the "Map of the Battlefield of Gettysburg from the original survey made August to October, 1863", [5] which he researched by horseback as a sergeant [6] after being ordered back to Gettysburg by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade. [7]
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