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.
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