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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]
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
The June 29 – July 4 gathering of 53,407 veterans (about 8,750 Confederate) [1] was the largest Civil War veteran reunion. [2] All honorably-discharged veterans in the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans were invited, and veterans from 46 of the 48 states attended [3] (all except Nevada and Wyoming). [4] [5]
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A World War II veteran reunited with a Holocaust survivor whom he freed from a Nazi death camp 71 years ago, and the incredible moment was captured on camera.
Left is a monument to the unit recently erected by its veterans. The 20th Maine Infantry Regiment was a volunteer regiment of the United States Army ( Union Army ) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), most famous for its defense of Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania , July 1–3, 1863.
The museum near Choctaw Stadium will be a national institution dedicated to telling the stories of America’s more than 3,500 recipients of the highest military decoration for valor in combat.
While many state chapters of both the United Confederate Veterans and the Grand Army of the Republic held reunions in the 1930s, the last major Civil War reunion again occurred at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in July 1938, that battle's 75th anniversary and two years after successful organization of Manassas National Battlefield Park and the re ...