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 ...

The date was Monday, June 30, 1913, and 21 men from Sussex County were standing in Main Street next to the park in the middle of Newton. These former comrades-in-arms were veterans of the Union Army, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group of gray-haired gentlemen marched briskly into the New York Central Station in Batavia late on Sunday afternoon, June 29, 1913, dressed in their Sunday best. The Batavia City Band accompanied ...

The encampment was prepared for deaths. Fifty coffins were ordered; 200 could be made available if the need came. The Army was expecting 10 deaths a day. After all, the crowd assembled upon the ...

Local resident Cindy Robinson submitted these photos of a souvenir of the 1913 reunion of Civil War veterans in Gettysburg, Pa. The item was brought back from the reunion by one of her husband s ...

The Independence Day holiday commemorates the founding of our nation with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. We celebrate with fireworks and community gatherings, and we also observe ...

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 ...