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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 ]
Attendance for the memorial's dedication at the 1938 Gettysburg reunion on July 3 was 250,000; a further 100,000 attempted to attend but failed to arrive due to congested roads. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived at a temporary platform on his special train via the Reading Railroad from the North after leaving Springwood at Hyde Park NY ...
The Gettysburg National Military Park protects and interprets the landscape of the Battle of Gettysburg, fought over three days between July 1 and July 3, 1863, during the American Civil War. The park, in the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania area, is managed by the National Park Service . [ 4 ]
Federal law (29 Stat. 120) approved use of national parks for military camps [23]: 86 after the Gettysburg National Military Park had been designated in 1895. 1898-09-28 Camp Snyder on the west of Seminary Ridge and south of the Fairfield Road was the 2nd WV Regiment encampment for the dedication of 4 West Virginia monuments. [24]
Just in time for the historic anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a major site on the battlefield has reopened after two years of construction. 'Protecting hallowed ground': historic Little ...
The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 19, 1975. [7] Most of the contributing elements of the Gettysburg Battlefield are on the protected federal property within the smaller Gettysburg National Military Park. Historic structures include the Battle of Gettysburg monuments and memorials.
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his horse Traveller are depicted on the Virginia Memorial that stands 41 feet high in Gettysburg National Military Park. Overall, more than 1,300 monuments ...
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