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The 1913 Gettysburg reunion was a Gettysburg Battlefield encampment of American Civil War veterans for the Battle of Gettysburg's 50th anniversary. The June 29 – July 4 gathering of 53,407 veterans (about 8,750 Confederate) [ 1 ] was the largest Civil War veteran reunion. [ 2 ]
The 1938 Gettysburg reunion was an encampment of American Civil War veterans on the Gettysburg Battlefield for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The gathering included approximately 25 veterans of the battle [ 3 ] : 72 with a further 1,359 Federal and 486 Confederate attendees [ 4 ] out of the 8,000 living veterans of the war. [ 5 ]
Peter S. Carmichael (February 23, 1966 – July 21, 2024) was an American historian at Gettysburg College who served as Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. His research and teaching focused on the American Civil War, the American South and public history. [1]
At the beginning of the American Civil War, most of the student body of the University of Mississippi rallied to the Confederate cause. [1] Some 55 of the students joined the “University Greys” and 17 enlisted with the “Lamar Rifles,” a Lafayette County militia, while others joined with various other state regiments. [2]
Six American Civil War veterans at the Great Camp of the 1913 Gettysburg reunion died since June 29, due to effects of heat and age. [39] 1913-07-07 Following a May 10 Army address to college/university presidents, [40] the War Department's Camp of Instruction began at the Newspaper Row ("Meadeboro") facility of the reunion.
Pennsylvania was the site of the bloodiest battle of the war, the Battle of Gettysburg, which became widely known as one of the turning points of the Civil War. [1] Numerous more minor engagements and skirmishes were also fought in Pennsylvania during the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign , as well as the following year during a Confederate cavalry raid ...
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
Gettysburg National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, created for Union casualties from the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. The Battle of Gettysburg, which was fought between July 1 to 3, 1863, resulted in the largest number of casualties of any Civil War battle but also was considered ...