Description Union and Confederate veterans meet at Gettysburg on the 50th anniversary of the battle This June 29-July 4 Reunion drew over 55,000 official attendees plus thousands more who descended upon a town of 4,000 during the scorching summer of 1913, with the promise of little more than a cot and two blankets, military fare, and the presence of countless adversaries from a horrific war.
Most were revisiting a time and place in their personal history that involved.
Description Union and Confederate veterans meet at Gettysburg on the 50th anniversary of the battle This June 29-July 4 Reunion drew over 55,000 official attendees plus thousands more who descended upon a town of 4,000 during the scorching summer of 1913, with the promise of little more than a cot and two blankets, military fare, and the presence of countless adversaries from a horrific war