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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 ]
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
The Battle of Gettysburg is a 1913 American silent war film directed by Charles Giblyn and Thomas H. Ince. The Battle of Gettysburg is based on the American Civil War battle of the same name . The film is now considered to be lost , [ 1 ] although some battlefield footage was used by Mack Sennett in his comedy Cohen Saves the Flag , which was ...
In "The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913," John L. Hopkins retrieves this remarkable event.
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.
The inaugural Gettysburg Film Festival, screening the work of Ken Burns, is being held from Friday, April 5, to Sunday, April 7. Ken Burns, actors Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston to headline new ...
The End of the Civil War (2009, History Channel): a collection of four separately produced and aired films sold as a single title: Sherman's March (2007), April 1865 (2003), The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth (2007), and Stealing Lincoln's Body (2009). The collection is also known as The Last Days of the Civil War. Gettysburg (broadcast on History ...
The first major re-enactment took place at the 1913 Gettysburg reunion. [52] A century later at the Battle of Gettysburg 150th anniversary commemoration from June 28, 2013, to July 7, 2013, came the largest historical reenactment in the United States.