The Civil War Veterans' Gettysburg Reunion

Battlefield dead awaiting burial. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. July 1863.

In 1913, on the fifty-year anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, over 53,400 Civil War veterans, from 46 of the 48 states, attended a five-day reunion on the Gettysburg battlefield. They ranged in age from 61 to 112 years old.