It was the largest gathering of Union and Confederate veterans ever held − 53,000 old comrades and former foes reunited on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg − and front-page news ...
On Memorial Day 1884, 19 years after the end of the Civil War, future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. reminisced about the conflict. Wounded in battle three times, haunted for the ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Photos depicting amicable veterans that will be displayed during the 150th anniversary of Civil War events this summer at Gettysburg don't accurately represent how many felt ...
James K. Lightner, a career professional photographer who in 1938 took pictures of the last reunion of Union and Confederate veterans, died Feb. 7 of pneumonia at the University of Maryland St. Joseph ...
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Fifty years after the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest of the U.S. Civil War, a survivor of that fight marched 200 miles from Pittsburgh to the site of the battle for a ...
Do you know who Gen. Robert Edward Lee, Major Gen. George Edward Pickett and Major Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain were? Are children still taught about these men and all those who met on the famous ...
El Dorado Hills, Ca.: Savas Beatie, 2023. Pp. xii,196. Illus., append., notes, biblio., index. $32.95. ISBN:1611216842 The 50 th Anniversary Gettysburg Veterans ...
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