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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 1913, a popular Frederick bottler named William H. Shipley pulled out his old Army uniform, dusted it off, and prepared for a trip to Pennsylvania. He was heading to Gettysburg to join fellow ...
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 ...
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