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 ...
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 ...
The Gettysburg National Military Park will host a series of events in July, honoring the legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg. 2025 marks the 162nd Anniversary of the battle, where on July 1, 1863, ...
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 ...
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to dedicate a cemetery at the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Four months before, about 50,000 soldiers ...
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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